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Bryan Christopher Kohberger’s recent trial took us back to the gruesome, cold-blooded murder of four students studying at the University of Idaho that still haunts our dreams, aka the 2022 Idaho Murders.

In the early hours of November 13, Kohberger entered the victims’ off-campus home clad in black clothing and a mask that covered half of his face. One by one, he took their lives in a brutal manner, while 2 other roommates thankfully survived. The victims are believed to have been asleep when they were attacked.

The students who were killed by Kohberger that night: Ethan Chapin (20), Kaylee Gonclaves (21), Xana Kernodle (20), and Madison Mogen (21). Just like everyone at this age, they also had dreams, hopes, and aspirations – and were pursuing their desired degrees until one man decided their fate for them. According to ABC News, Kernodle had 50< stab wounds on her body and Gonclaves had 20<.

This case has kept me up...

Bryan Kohberger, now infamous as the man behind the 2022 quadruple homicide at the University of Idaho, was sentenced on July 23, 2025, to spend the rest of his life behind bars. The brutal midnight attack in the college town of Moscow ended the lives of four students who were stabbed in their off-campus home on November 13, 2022 (per The Independent).

Two roommates survived, Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen, delivering emotional testimony during Kohberger’s sentencing hearing. For months after the tragedy, details were scarce, leaving the community grasping for answers. Then came Kohberger’s arrest in December 2022, following raids on his Pennsylvania apartment, workplace, and family home.

Though he initially maintained his innocence throughout a lengthy pre-trial period, Kohberger revealed the scary truth: he planned the murders months in advance, yet had no known connection to the victims. His guilty plea eliminated any chance of appeal and sealed his fate with four consecutive...

Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students in November 2022.

Kohberger accepted the plea deal earlier this month, copping to four counts of first-degree murder and an additional count of burglary. As part of the deal, Kohberger avoided the death penalty. A letter previously sent to the families of the four victims regarding the deal stated that Kohberger would be sentenced to four consecutive life sentences and would waive all right to appeal.

“The time has now come to end Mr.

Idaho College Murders Fuel New Wave Of True Crime Hits On Peacock, Hulu, Prime Video (Photo Credit – Prime Video)

The infamous Idaho College murders pushed their way back into headlines once again, not through courtrooms this time, but through streaming charts. According to Flixpatrol, three separate documentaries about the brutal 2022 killings of four University of Idaho students have taken over platforms like Peacock, Hulu, and Prime Video, all within days of the killer’s guilty plea on July 2.

Peacock, Hulu, and Prime Video Release Competing True Crime Documentaries

Peacock jumped the gun first by dropping The Idaho Student Murders on July 3, 2025. Then, just a couple of days later, Hulu followed with Idaho College Murders and by July 11, Prime Video joined in with One Night in Idaho: The College Murders. Each one circled around the same horrific case but chose their own path in how the story was told.

Bryan Kohberger...

The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy (Little, Brown) by James Patterson and Vicky Ward, out July 14, tells the story of the college murders that took place in Moscow, Idaho in November 2022. As the title suggests, the book takes the reader into the lives of the four victims: Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. It also gives what the New York Post has called “the clearest account” yet of the motives driving Bryan Kohberger, the criminology PhD student who pleaded guilty to the crimes this month thus escaping...

Spoiler Alert !!!The following article contains spoilers for One Night in Idaho: The College Murders!

Have you ever come across a crime so gruesome that it has sent shivers down your spine? No? Then, perhaps there’s a high possibility that you have not come across the University of Idaho Killings in 2022. Four first-degree murders with a military-style Ka-Bar knife and one question that followed the community: “Why were they murdered?” The question has been looming far too long, and Prime Video’s 4-episode docuseries, One Night in Idaho: The College Murders, finally showcases the chilling details that led to the off-campus house, a grim reminder of a merciless act of violence.

Unlike Netflix’s Dahmer, Prime Video does justice to the incident, where it does not limit itself to interviews. Instead, it takes us on a narrative journey, creating a cognitive understanding of Bryan Kohberger’s actions.

One Night...

Two can be a crowd when it comes to documentaries, and that proves true when analyzing the horrific 2022 University of Idaho killings.

On Thursday, July 3, Peacock released its feature-length documentary The Idaho Student Murders. Eight days later, on Friday, Amazon’s Prime Video released all four episodes of its documentary series One Night in Idaho: The College Murders. The two projects cover the same awful incident — in which Washington State University Ph.D in criminology candidate Bryan Kohberger brutally murdered Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin with a knife — but in pretty different ways. Notice I didn’t say in “disparate” ways, because I am definitely about to compare and contrast these docs.

For starters, one is a 90-minute, continuous documentary film and the other is 172 minutes cut four ways — no one on either side of the competing projects can take issue with that observation.

One Night in Idaho: The College Murders takes us back to the fateful day when a horrific incident shook the entire United States of America. Four students were found murdered in an apartment, and nobody had any clue who the perpetrator could be. I would like to say here that apart from the testimonies of the parents, the docuseries didn’t present anything of value in addition to the already existing information on the internet. There was no point in creating a 4-episode docuseries when they could easily have summed it all up, and quite effectively so, in much less time. That said, let’s find out what happened on that fateful day and what recent developments have been made.

What happened in Idaho?

On 13th November 2022, the lives of four families were turned upside down when they got the news that their children, who were staying around the University of Idaho campus,...

The world has been inundated with documentaries in the years since November 13, 2022, the day four University of Idaho students — Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin — were brutally murdered in an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho, by Bryan Kohberger. But One Night in Idaho: The College Murders is different. The four-part documentary series centers around the families and friends of the victims, with Mogen and Chapin’s parents sitting down for the first time to speak in-depth about the murders, the aftermath, and their grief. Key figures in the lives of the victims, including Hunter Johnson, a friend of the victims who discovered Kernodle and Chapin, as well as Chapin’s siblings, Mazie and Hunter, also shed insight into the horrific tragedy. Directors Liz Garbus and Matthew Galkin spoke with TV Insider about tackling the case that’s shocked the world, the impact of social media, and their...

The stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students on November 13, 2022, represent one of those seismic moments when the perceived safety of American college towns crumbles. Madison Mogen (21), Kaylee Goncalves (21), Xana Kernodle (20), and Ethan Chapin (20) became household names not for their achievements or dreams, but for their brutal deaths in an off-campus house at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho.

Prime Video’s four-part documentary series “One Night in Idaho: The College Murders” arrives at a particularly poignant moment—just weeks after Bryan Kohberger’s guilty plea in July 2024, mere days before his trial was scheduled to begin. Directors Liz Garbus and Matthew Galkin have crafted something rare in the true crime landscape: a documentary that refuses to sensationalize violence while still examining its devastating aftermath.

The series’ central strength lies in its radical empathy, choosing to center the victims and their families rather than feed our cultural fascination with killers.

As documentaries gain greater reach through streaming platforms, true-crime documentaries continue to reign supreme. They generally tell the stories of murders, kidnappings, or other horrifying events that take place in real-world communities. These documentaries used to air on TV channels, but they have since found greater prominence through streaming.

Netflix, Max, and other streaming giants have developed documentaries of their own that are designed to attract viewers. These include coverage of well-known crimes, current events, and even decades-old mysteries that have never been resolved. It remains a relatively low-cost production that interests a wide swathe of viewers.

While most of these documentaries focus on older events, Peacock's latest hit focuses on events that occurred just three years before its release. The documentary went into development before the suspect even pleaded guilty, and it was released just one day after the official plea. Its timeliness ensured that it is one of Peacock's most-viewed shows right now.

Bryan Kohberger accepted a deal to avoid trial and pleaded guilty in the murder of four college students at the University of Idaho, sparing him the death penalty.

At a hearing Wednesday, Kohberger — speaking in court for the first time — told the court he was pleading guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and an additional count of burglary in connection with the November 2022 murders that shook the college town.

Prosecutors also outlined the evidence against Kohberger at the hearing, revealing that it was DNA from a knife sheath accidentally...

The family of the Idaho murder victim, Kaylee Goncalves, has expressed their disgust with Bryan Kohberger’s guilty plea deal.

In November 2022, Kohberger stabbed four off-campus Idaho students – Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Ethan Chapin – to death. He was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary that December. In May 2023, he was indicted by a grand jury, following which a judge entered not-guilty pleas on his behalf, as he remained silent during his arraignment. In August 2023, the case was delayed indefinitely, and the trial was pushed to August 2025.

Last month it was announced by the Goncalves family via Facebook that prosecutors had introduced a plea deal “without seeking our input.” When the family made their opposition clear, they received an email saying the deal would be moving forward regardless.

The plea deal would allow Kohberger to escape the death penalty.

In an NBC...

Prime Video’s four-part documentary series One Night in Idaho: The College Murders explores the shocking deaths of four college students in Moscow, Idaho. Featuring new interviews with friends and families of the victims, including the parents of Ethan Chapin and Madison Mogen, One Night in Idaho premieres on July 11, 2025 with the release of all four episodes.

Liz Garbus (I’ll Be Gone in the Dark) and Matthew Galkin (Murder in the Bayou) direct the docuseries and serve as executive producers. Additional executive producers include Katie A. King, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Matt Thunell, Dan Cogan, Jon Bardin, Kate Barry, Mala Chapple, James Patterson, Bill Robinson, and Patrick Santa.

Prime Video offers this description of the documentary series:

“On November 13th, 2022—in the still of the night—four University of Idaho students are brutally stabbed to death in an off-campus house in the quiet college town of Moscow, Idaho. Within the...

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The CBS true crime program “48 Hours” will launch a weekly video podcast that provides real-time coverage of the Bryan Kohberger murder trial.

Peter Van Sant is set to host “Inside the Bryan Kohberger Trial: The Idaho Student Murders,” debuting July 26 with three background episodes in anticipation of the trial. After the trial starts, the show will release one episode a week to detail what’s happening in court, including exclusive reporting as well as analysis. The podcast can also be found on streaming services like Pluto TV, as well as on YouTube.

The trial centers on the fatal stabbings of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen at their off-campus housing in Moscow, Idaho in Nov. 2022. Kohberger has been accused of killing the students.

In the early morning of Nov. 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their off campus home. Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were all members of the school’s Greek life and beloved by their campus community, which turned the weeks after their murders into a frenzy of national media attention and online speculation surrounding one topic: The Idaho Murders.

Despite releasing little information about the investigative process, police in Moscow, Idaho eventually arrested primary suspect Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old criminology graduate student at Washington State University.

This Friday, May 9, 2025, at 9/8c, Dateline NBC presents “The Terrible Night on King Road”, a gripping investigation into the shocking 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students—Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, and Kaylee Goncalves—in Moscow, Idaho. Keith Morrison reports on this case, with new insights and interviews that shed light on the chilling details of that tragic night.

The episode will delve into new information surrounding the accused, Bryan Kohberger, a 30-year-old criminology student at Washington State University, just across the border from Idaho. Kohberger, who is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary, is alleged to have brutally killed the students in their off-campus home. Dateline will feature interviews with former classmates of Kohberger, including one who recalls his peculiar behavior at a pool party, and a conversation with the mother of one of the victims’ best friends.

Dateline will...

This Friday, May 9, 2025, at 9/8c, Dateline NBC presents “The Terrible Night on King Road”, a new investigation into the chilling Idaho murders that have captivated the nation. Correspondent Keith Morrison reports on the brutal slayings of four University of Idaho students in November 2022, and the man charged with their deaths, Bryan Kohberger.

The episode will reveal new details about the case, including interviews with former classmates who interacted with Kohberger when he was a graduate student at Washington State University. Former graduate student Holly recounts her interactions with Kohberger at a pool party and the strange text message she received afterward, with Kohberger’s peculiar and overly formal wording about hiking. This insight into Kohberger’s behavior prior to the murders raises chilling questions about what he might have been planning.

Kohberger, who was studying criminal justice and criminology at the time of the murders, faces four counts of first-degree...

NBC’s Dateline is taking a deep dive into the murders of University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin during the “The Terrible Night on King Road” two-hour special airing on Friday, May 9, 2025 at 9pm Et/Pt. The special will include new details on the investigation, including an interview with former college students who had encounters with accused murderer Bryan Kohberger.

Per NBC: “The special features never-before-reported evidence, including video, photographic, and digital materials that investigators say track accused killer Bryan Kohberger’s movements. During the two-hour broadcast, former students also open up to correspondent Keith Morrison for the first time about their interactions with Kohberger. Former graduate student Holly tells Dateline that after meeting Kohberger at a pool party and telling him about a hiking group she was a part of, they exchanged phone numbers. The next day, she received a text from...

Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, can still face the death penalty if convicted, despite a recent autism diagnosis, a judge has ruled.

In documents unsealed last month, it was revealed that Kohberger’s attorneys had filed a request to remove the death penalty as an option during potential sentencing, saying it would constitute cruel and unusual punishment. They claimed that Kohberger’s autism spectrum disorder (Asd) “reduces his culpability, negates the retributive and deterrent purposes of capital punishment, and exposes him to...

Judge Steven Hippler, overseeing the case in which Bryan Kohberger is accused of murdering four University of Idaho students, has issued a warning to defense attorneys and prosecutors on the case against the excessive filing of sealed documents. “This runs counter to the public’s First Amendment rights to know what is going on in its courts,” Hippler said, per Associated Press. One recently unsealed document, for example, revealed Kohberger’s request to remove the death penalty as an option during potential sentencing, citing his autism diagnosis as the reason.

A docuseries about the murders of four University of Idaho students has been picked up by Amazon with the streamer also planning a scripted version.

Bryan Christopher Kohberger was charged with four counts of murder after Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were found stabbed to death in their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho in 2022. A trial date has been set for June 2025.

The untitled docuseries will be produced by Skydance Television and Liz Garbus’s Story Syndicate with the I’ll Be Gone in the Dark filmmaker directing the series with Murder in the Bayou’s Matthew Galkin.

This comes a year after Skydance optioned a book by James Patterson and Vicky Ward about the murders.

The docuseries will feature the support from the family of victim Ethan Chapin and victim Maddie Mogen’s mother and stepfather. It will launch on Prime Video.

David Ellison, Dana Goldberg,...

Prime Video is taking a big step into true crime.

The Amazon-owned streamer has ordered a documentary series about the 2022 University of Idaho murders and the investigation, arrest and upcoming trial of Bryan Kohberger in connection with the case. The series, from Skydance Television and Story Syndicate, is based on an upcoming nonfiction book by best-selling author James Patterson and journalist Vicky Ward.

Liz Garbus (Lost Girls, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark) and Matthew Galkin (Murder in the Bayou) are set to co-direct the docuseries. Amazon MGM Studios, Skydance and Story Syndicate are also developing a scripted series based on the case, with Garbus attached to helm the first episode.

The series will also feature interviews with the mother and stepfather of victim Madison Mogen and the family of Ethan Chapin. Mogen, Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves and Xana Kernodle were killed in an apartment in Moscow, Idaho, in November...

Exclusive: When the Night Comes Falling, written by Howard Blum, tells the inside story of the mysterious murders of the four University of Idaho students. It is now being developed as a scripted series.

Village Roadshow Television is working up the project after acquiring the rights to Blum’s book, which is set to be published by HarperCollins on June 25. The producer also optioned the rights to Blum’s seven-part AirMail Weekly series that led to the creation of the book.

Bryan Christopher Kohberger has been charged with four counts of murder after Kaylee Concalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were found stabbed to death in their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho in 2022. No trial date has been set.

Blum has been covering the case from the start and the story will see him go behind the scenes of the police manhunt that uncovered not only the suspected killer,...

The legal team for Bryan Kohberger, the suspect accused of the murder of four University of Idaho students, has doubled down on their claim that the 28-year-old was out driving alone at the time of the murders — and now say they have an expert who can prove it.

Kohberger was arrested in December 2022 as the sole suspect in the stabbing deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20 — four University of Idaho students who were killed in their off-campus apartment on Nov. 13, 2022. Kohberger, who was a graduate...

Paramount+ documentary series, #Cybersleuths: The Idaho Murders, as the names suggests, focuses on the Idaho murder case involving the deaths of four university students that took place on the fateful night of November 13, 2022. This three-part documentary not only delves deeper into the murder mystery and sheds light on the real culprit, but also brings forth the changes in modern crime investigation with so many common people using social media to seize the opportunity to become famous. The documentary deals with these cybersleuths and TikTok influencers who took it as a mission to identify the perpetrator of the crime, but at the end of the day, the authorities came up with their prime suspect, Bryan Kohberger, who was later charged with four counts of murder and a felony burglary charge. Apart from the actual highlight of the series, which is the cybersleuths and their independent investigations, let’s talk about Bryan...

It’s been over a year since four students at the University of Idaho were violently killed in their home, but the passing of time has not fatigued the public’s interest in the case. Quite the opposite. In the last 12 months, there have been several television documentaries devoted to the case dubbed the “Moscow Murders.” In May, James Patterson and investigative journalist Vicky Ward announced that they are working on a nonfiction book about the tragic deaths of students Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Kaylee Goncalves, which will eventually become a docuseries.

On Feb. 6, Paramount + is releasing “#Cybersleuths: The Idaho Murders,” a three-part docuseries about internet sleuths on TikTok who try and find the Idaho college killer. The absence of any solid leads in the case created an information vacuum that the TikTokers were eager to fill. The docuseries follows several so-called sleuths who attempt to...

When small-town police are unable to come up with any credible leads following the horrific murders of four college students, a community of online investigators rallies to the case with hopes of discovering clues — and finding a killer — that had otherwise escaped local law enforcement. In the new, three-part Paramount+ docuseries “#CyberSleuths: The Idaho Murders,” premiering on Tuesday, Feb. 6, filmmakers examine the impact of these TikTok detectives on the case and ask the question of whether or not they were ultimately good for the case or not. You can watch #CyberSleuths: The Idaho Murders with a 7-Day Free Trial of Paramount Plus.

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Latah County, Idaho, District Judge John Judge has denied the motion to dismiss the quadruple homicide indictment against Bryan Kohberger handed down in May.

The motion was filed by Kohberger’s attorneys on August 23.

The judge said in an order that the grand jury that indicted Kohberger had been presented with sufficient evidence to find probable cause that, in November 2022, he killed four students of the University of Idaho in a home off campus.

These victims were Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.

Idaho law says that the standard of proof is moderately lower for grand juries in contrast to trial juries.

Grand juries should only return an indictment if they find probable cause based on evidence that would have a rational person believe that the accused most likely committed the offense.

Trial juries, on the other hand, are required to find someone guilty if they believe...

The house where four University of Idaho students were killed last year is being demolished today, Dec. 28, The Associated Press reports.

The former owner of the rental home in Moscow, Idaho — which has been boarded up and cordoned off by a security fence — donated it to the University of Idaho earlier this year. The school announced the building would be razed in February, but the actual demolition date wasn’t scheduled until earlier this month. Last week, before the demolition began, the defense team for suspected killer Bryan Kohberger was...

Bryan Kohberger, the man who has been charged in the murders of four University of Idaho students, had his second attempt to throw out the case against him denied by a state judge.

Kohberger is facing four charges of first-degree murder and a burglary count for allegedly entering an off-campus rental home. His alleged victims were Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xena Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, all of whom were undergrads at the University of Idaho at the time of the murder.

Kohberger attended the nearby Washington State University to obtain a Ph.D. in criminology.

His defense team filed two motions to dismiss earlier this year. They tried to argue that the burden of proof should be “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

The second motion claimed that juror bias and prosecutorial misconduct would affect Kohberger’s trial.

Initially scheduled to begin in October, Kohberger’s trial has been delayed. The suspect...

For those who have a penchant for delving into real-life mysteries, “48 Hours on ID” is a television program to watch. This intriguing series, airing on Investigation Discovery at 10:00 Pm on Wednesday, November 8, 2023, offers viewers a glimpse into non-fiction investigations surrounding themes like jealousy, murder, and deceit.

Criminology Ph. D. student Bryan Kohberger is charged with the murder of four University of Idaho students; in Nov. 2022, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen are found dead in their home; Peter Van Sant reports.

Each episode of “48 Hours on ID” delves into a different true story, piecing together the facts surrounding a particular case. With a focus on real events, it’s a window into the world of crime and the efforts to uncover the truth.

If you’re someone who enjoys real-life detective work, “48 Hours on ID” might be your cup of tea. Tune in...

On Thursday, lawyers for Bryan Kohberger, the man charged with the murder of four Idaho students, presented arguments as to why the grand jury indictment against Kohberger should be dismissed.

Kohberger, 28, stands accused of brutally butchering four University of Idaho students during a home invasion attack days before Thanksgiving last year.

The victims were university students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.

Earlier this year, defense attorney Jay Logsdon filed a motion to dismiss the murder charges against Kohberger. The motion cited concerns of grand jury bias, the presence of “inadmissible” and insufficient evidence, as well as allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.

Judge John Judge of Idaho’s 2nd Judicial District in Latah County denied the motion.

Logson argued that the standard of proof should be raised to “beyond a reasonable doubt,” rather than Idaho’s general “sufficient probability cause” that is standard at the grand jury level.

A judge has rejected University of Idaho stabbing suspect Bryan Kohberger’s efforts to have the case against him dismissed.

Kohberger was in the courtroom during Thursday’s hearing, where his defense attorney argued for the standard of proof to be raised to a “beyond a reasonable doubt” instead of Idaho’s typical “sufficient probably cause” standard at the grand jury level. His request was shut down by the judge, according to CourtTV.

The judge said they were following Idaho state law and that changes to the legal system would...

On Saturday September 16 2023 at 10:00 Pm, CBS broadcasts the “The Night of the Idaho Student Murders” episode of “48 Hours”.

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At 10:00 Pm, Peter Van Sant and 48 Hours reveal new information about the case against Bryan Kohberger for the Nov. 13, 2022, deaths of four University of Idaho students in “The Night of the Idaho Student Murders.” Kohberger is charged with killing Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in a case that stunned the country. A judge has entered a plea of not guilty on Kohberger’s behalf.

Van Sant interviews Steve and Kristi Goncalves, parents of Kaylee Goncalves, who share new details about the night of the murders and the investigation. The Goncalves want the public to be...

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CBS’s 48 Hours begins its 36th season with an episode that focuses on the Gilgo Beach killings and alleged murderer Rex Heuermann. Season 36 episode one airs on Saturday, September 16, 2023 at 9pm Et/Pt and includes an exclusive interview with someone who worked with Heuermann at his company, Rh Consultants & Associates.

Correspondent Erin Moriarty, who knows the Gilgo Beach case well after covering it for over a dozen years, spoke with Muriel Henriquez about her knowledge of Heuermann. In the interview featured on the season 36 opener, Henriquez confesses to being disturbed by Heuermann’s tracking skills.

Henriquez recalled an instance when she told Heuermann she was taking a cruise to celebrate her birthday. When he asked where she was going, Henriquez told him, “I’m going to be in the middle of the ocean, and you’re not going to find me in the middle of the ocean.

Bryan Kohberger — the main suspect in the deaths of four University of Idaho students — will have to wait a bit longer to see his day in court. The 28-year-old waived his right to a speedy trial during court on Wednesday, allowing more time for his legal team to prepare. The trial had been scheduled to begin on October 2 but will now be postponed indefinitely. No new date has been set.

Kohberger, a former criminology graduate student at Washington State University, is accused of stabbing University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves,...

Bryan Kohberger, the suspect accused of killing four University of Idaho students, is offering up an alibi: He was on a long drive when the homicides occurred last November.

Earlier this week, Kohberger’s lawyer, Anne Taylor, filed a court document stating: “Mr. Kohberger has long had a habit of going for drives alone. Often he would go for drives at night.” Taylor claimed Kohberger was on one of those drives when the four victims — Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20 — were stabbed in their off-campus apartment on Nov.

Morgan Wallen is sharing kindness with the family of one of the victims in the University of Idaho murders, Ethan Chapin.

According to Ethan’s mother, Stacy Chapin, the country singer reached out to her after hearing that her late son had been a fan of his, and Morgan invited the family to see his show, where he met with the Chapins as well.

“On Mother’s Day 2022, Ethan sent me the best text about how @morganwallen had written a song for his mom @lesliwallen and how that could be our song,” Stacy wrote alongside a photo of herself and her family standing alongside Morgan. “It was a very touching moment between us. I listen to ‘I Thought You Should Know’ all the time. I’ve told this story a lot, and to our surprise, a very kind person made an introduction.”

“Last night, we met Morgan Wallen! He kindly...

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Bryan Kohberger.

Kohberger, 28, a former Washington State University graduate student in criminology, is accused of stabbing Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in their off-campus apartment on Nov. 13, 2022. He was arrested on December 30 after a six-week investigation and charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary.

“The State gives this notice based on the fact that it has not identified or been provided with any mitigating circumstances sufficient to prohibit the triers of fact from...

A cheek swab taken from Bryan Kohberger matches DNA found at the scene of the crime of the Idaho murders that occurred last November.

Kohberger’s, who is the main suspect, DNA was a positive match to one found on the cover of the knife, which is believed to be the murder weapon. Police were able to obtain this knife from the house, where the murders took place, which Kohberger allegedly left.

Experts performed an “Str” DNA comparison on the DNA from Kohberger and the knife. The results determined a “statistical match.”

This type of technique is a common way to profile DNA in forensic cases like this one.

Before the FBI obtained the cheek swab they used the DNA from the knife and loaded it onto a public genealogy site. This allowed them to create a family tree that consists of people who could be related to the owner of the DNA.

A judge in the Idaho Murders case has entered not guilty pleas on behalf of suspect Bryan Kohberger in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho college students. When the judge asked Kohberger’s attorney whether he was prepared to plead to the charges, the attorney said she and Kohberger would be “standing silent.” This prompted the judge to enter “not guilty” pleas on Kohberger’s behalf. Earlier in the brief hearing on Monday, Kohberger spoke loudly and clearly in a microphone when confirming to the judge that he understood his rights,...

Prolific author James Patterson will take a rare detour into true crime with a new book focusing on the brutal murder of four University of Idaho students.

Patterson, along with journalist Vicky Ward, will “draw from dozens of exclusive interviews, extensive on-the-ground reporting, and copious court transcripts,” publisher Little, Brown and Company announced.

Patterson and Ward will also reportedly be on hand for the murder trial of suspect Bryan Kohberger, who was arrested in December on charges related to the mass killing and was indicted by a Boise grand jury this past week.

James Patterson and investigative journalist Vicky Ward are working to turn the tragic deaths of students Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Kaylee Goncalves into a non-fiction title.

In November 2022, the four students at the University of Idaho were violently killed in their homes. Dubbed the “Moscow Murders,” the infamous attack gained a rapid following online as internet sleuths on Reddit, Twitter and other platforms gathered to try and find the killer and his motive.

The book will recount the violence that rattled the college town and the subsequent investigation and arrest of suspect Bryan Kohberger. Skydance Television is seeking to option the rights of the book as part of their first-look deal with Patterson. Story Syndicate is in final negotiations to be the production partner with Skydance on the docuseries.

Through exclusive interviews, shoe-leather reporting and court transcripts, Patterson and Ward will delve into the details of the crime,...

The story of the horrific Idaho student murders is in the works for the page and the small screen. Bestselling author James Patterson and award-winning journalist Vicky Ward are teaming on a nonfiction book about the 2022 murders of the four University of Idaho students. Additionally, Skydance Television intends to option the rights to the book for development as a docuseries, based on Patterson and Ward’s investigation, as part of their first-look deal with Patterson.

The book, which does not yet have a title or release date, will be published by Little Brown and Company. According to the publishing company, in it, Patterson and Ward will give a dramatic account of the November 2022 murders of the four students in the Idaho college town of Moscow and the investigation of suspect Bryan Kohberger.

Patterson and Ward will draw from dozens of exclusive interviews, extensive on-the-ground reporting, copious court transcripts, and also will attend Kohberger’s trial.

The Nov. 13 discovery of four dead University of Idaho students shocked the community of Moscow, Idaho. But on TikTok, the murders jump-started the app’s true crime engine: a web of amateur sleuths who quickly went to work absorbing, spreading, and dissecting all available information.

It was six weeks before police arrested suspect Bryan Kohberger, a Washington State University criminology graduate student, leaving a vacuum of information. In the absence of any updates from police, some extreme TikTok accounts went as far publicly naming individuals as murderers without cause. And this week,...

Camille Vasquez, who represented Johnny Depp in his defamation trial against Amber Heard, has landed a TV role at NBC News.

Last year, Vasquez was promoted to partner at her law firm Brown Rudnick after helping to secure a win for Depp in the actor’s highly publicised defamation trial against his ex-wife in Fairfax County, Virginia.

Over the seven weeks that court was in session, Vasquez became something of a celebrity among the Pirates of the Caribbean star’s fanbase.

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, she has since inked a deal as a legal analyst for the news division of NBC.

Vasquez made her first appearance on the network on Monday morning (9 January) to discuss the Idaho college student murders.

Bryan Christopher Kohberger, a 27-year-old criminology PhD student at Washington State University, has been charged in the 13 November murders of four University of Idaho students: Ethan Chapin, 20, Kaylee Goncalves,...

A roommate of the victims of the Idaho killer says she spotted him before he left their home. A new affidavit, unsealed Thursday, revealed new information about what led investigators to locate Bryan Kohberger, the primary suspect in the murders of four University of Idaho students.

On Nov. 13, police were called to the house around 11:58 a.m after a roommate called 911 under the belief that one of the girls in the house was unconscious. When police arrived, the bodies were discovered.

According to the affidavit, one of the roommates,...

Authorities have finally released key details in the case of Bryan Kohberger, the primary suspect in the murders of four University of Idaho students. According to an affidavit unsealed Thursday, Kohberger, 28, allegedly left behind DNA evidence at the crime scene on a knife sheath and was caught after authorities used cell phone data and video footage to connect him to the car seen near the scene at the time of the crime.

Kohberger had his first Idaho court appearance Thursday, after agreeing to be extradited from Pennsylvania, where he was caught.

Comedian Russell Kane is tired of being compared to the man charged with the November Idaho murders.

On Friday (30 December), law enforcement released a photo of 28-year-old Bryan Christopher Kohberger, the man charged with a quadruple homicide.

Kane apparently received “at least 100 messages” the following day from people noting the physical similarities between himself and Kohberger.

“Please stop telling me I look like a murderer in America,” the British comedian wrote on Twitter, alongside a side-by-side headshot of both him and Kohberger.

“Omg… you could be his brother!” one person responded, with another writing: “Ha, I saw that and that was my first thought. Great way to start 2023.”

A third added in amusement: “Oh sweet Jesus! Now I can’t unsee it, Russell!”

The 47-year-old comedian has appeared on numerous shows, including the 2012 two-season comedy Unzipped and his self-hosted series Stupid Man, Smart Phone.

In the early hours of 13 November,...