Ahead of Bryan Kohberger's Trial, Family and Friends of Idaho Murder Victims Speak Out in New Docuseries

When 4 University of Idaho students were brutally killed astatine an off-campus residence successful November 2022, it shook nan small, quiet assemblage municipality of Moscow and made nationalist headlines.

Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Xana’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20, were each stabbed to decease successful bedrooms connected nan 2nd and 3rd level of nan home. 

Two much roommates astatine nan 1122 King Road residence, Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke, were location and unharmed. Early successful nan investigation, nan surviving roommates were ruled retired as suspects. While local law constabulary restricted what they shared pinch the public about the investigation, rumors and speculation circulated online.

More than a period aft nan murders took place, fishy Bryan Kohberger was arrested successful Pennsylvania successful relationship pinch nan slayings. His long-awaited trial is group to statesman successful August, pinch galore questions, including a imaginable motive, yet to beryllium answered.

The horrific lawsuit is nan attraction of Prime Video’s upcoming four-part docuseries, One Night successful Idaho: The College Murders, which premieres connected July 11. (Watch nan trailer below.)

"Told successful captivating, tense, and emotionally wrenching item by only those progressive successful and affected by nan crime, nan bid intimately explores this American calamity and its continued effect and fallout," according to a Prime Video press release.

The bid centers connected nan families and friends of nan victims, featuring exclusive interviews pinch Stacey and Jim Chapin (parents of Ethan Chapin) and Karen and Scott Laramie (parents of Madison Mogen).

"There's this personification retired location who had conscionable murdered our relative and he's still retired location somewhere," recalled Hunter Chapin, Ethan Chapin’s brother, of his and his sister Maizie Chapin's emotions pursuing nan killings, per nan trailer.

Kohberger was first arrested successful December 2022 aft he was allegedly linked to nan crime segment by DNA recovered from a weapon sheath, per a probable origin affidavit previously obtained by PEOPLE.

Additionally, investigators traced nan location of his compartment telephone and obtained surveillance footage that showed a car which appeared to beryllium nan aforesaid make and exemplary arsenic his driving to and from nan segment of nan crime.

In a mobility laying retired his alibi, Kohberger's lawyer, Anne Taylor, said nan fishy was retired driving by himself connected nan nighttime of nan murders but that he did not termination nan 4 victims.

At nan clip of nan murders, Kohberger was a Ph.D student successful criminology astatine Washington State University successful Pullman, Wash., astir 8 miles from nan residence wherever nan students were slain.

He is charged pinch 4 counts of execution and 1 count of felony burglary. In May 2023, nan judge yet entered a plea of "not guilty" for him. Kohberger's execution proceedings is group to get underway connected Aug. 11 successful Ada County aft nan defense successfully petitioned for a alteration of venue successful nan case. If convicted, he could beryllium sentenced to death.

Karen Laramie, Mogen's mother, has antecedently opened up about her feelings regarding nan proceedings being pushed backmost aggregate times.

"I don’t person a batch of comments connected that," Laramie said connected the Today show in December 2024. "I would opportunity that nan ineligible strategy is not astir nan victims, and I’ll time off it astatine that.”

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The docuseries is directed by Liz Garbus and Matthew Galkin and is produced by Amazon MGM Studios, Skydance Television, Story Syndicate, James Patterson Entertainment, and Fairhaven.

All 4 episodes of One Night successful Idaho: The College Murders premiere connected July 11 connected Prime Video.