- In the morning of November 13,
there was a call to 911 from someone inside a Moscow,
Idaho, house, reporting that someone was unconscious.
When police arrived, they found a bloodbath.
Four people had been stabbed.
Police and investigators are really trying to shut down
as little information that's getting released to the public.
They want to make sure that this comes out
in a court of law.
So, what we're learning is mostly from court records.
The victims were Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin,
and Xana Kernodle.
- Kaylee and Maddie had grown up together.
They were longtime friends.
Their family statements refer to them as sisters.
Ethan and Xana were a couple.
Xana lived at the home,
and Ethan Chapin was there with her that night.
Ethan was one of a set of triplets,
and they were all going to this university.
They had chosen this school for its small-town feel,
obviously not anticipating what would happen later.
Maddie and Kaylee were out at a bar in downtown Moscow
the night before the killings.
- There was surveillance video
that captured them at a food truck.
Xana and Ethan were at Ethan's fraternity house.
They all, as far as we know and have been told so far,
went home around 1:45 or so in the morning,
and they were asleep or in their rooms by 4:00 AM.
Xana was apparently scrolling on TikTok on her phone
around the time of the killings.
Starting at 3:29, surveillance video
in that neighborhood captures this white sedan driving
by the scene of the crime three times.
At 4:04, the videos show the car coming back again.
- One of the surviving roommates says she saw
a man dressed in all black, wearing a mask, walking by.
He was walking toward a sliding glass door,
and she froze.
- Surveillance video from the house,
just by Xana's bedroom, captures this muffled cry,
thud, and a dog barking.
At 4:20, the surveillance videos
capture this white sedan speeding away.
- The suspect's name is Brian Kohburger.
He is 28 years old.
He is a criminology doctoral student
at Washington State University.
That school is in Pullman, Washington,
which is only a few miles west of the University of Idaho.
He had previously gone to DeSales University,
completed his undergrad degree there and did a master's.
Police had tracked cellphone records, car records, DNA.
They found a knife sheath
next to one of the victim's bodies,
and they tested that at a lab,
and they found that there was DNA.
Investigators matched that DNA to trash
that they took from the home of Kohburger's family.
In the 4:48-5:30 range is when surveillance videos
and Brian Kohburger's cellphone records track him
going back to his apartment, where he lives,
at Washington State University.
His phone records show him back around that King Road residence
again before police even knew about the bodies there.
As far as we know, the first time anyone called police
was shortly before noon that day.
Brian Kohburger is expected to appear in court.
His public defender in Pennsylvania
has said that he expects to be exonerated.
For the families, they've said that this is helpful.
It is some measure of comfort
that there is someone in custody.
Obviously, it changes very little for them,
that the outcome is the same.
- These stabbings shocked this small Idaho college town,
and it shocked the nation
because these were just four young people
who were supposed to be asleep that night.