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Published 15:54 29 Jul 2026 GMT
The murders of four University of Idaho students have created headlines again following the release of the show The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare, four years after the brutal killings took place.
Bryan Kohberger, who was convicted of the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle and sentenced to four life terms back in July 2025, broke into their house and stabbed them to death, it was revealed last year.
The show, which is revisiting the tragic events, draws on evidence, including witness accounts and police interviews, to examine the case in all its gory and harrowing detail.
Kohberger, a mature PhD student at the same university, was 28 years old at the time of the murders, killing four of the six housemates who resided in their off-campus residence in Moscow, Idaho.
Kohberger pleaded guilty to all four counts of murder in a reported plea deal, which secured his conviction, ensuring that he would avoid the death penalty.
Following the release of the gruesome details of the case that shocked both the state and the country as a whole, and there are questions that remain unanswered, according to the families of the victims.
Kaylee’s aunt, Tami, claimed, “He got off, in a sense, in our eyes, easy,” because when the judge asked if he committed the crimes, all he had to say was, “Yes.”
“That’s not enough,” she added.
“The biggest answer I want is why. Why would you choose these kids, and this house.”
Another asked, “Tell all of us parents why he did it, if he was gonna get the plea.”
“What I want is for him to die. Justice would be if the kids came back … they’re never coming back, but I want him to die,” Kristi Goncalves, Kaylee’s mother, said.
As yet, the motive behind the fatal attacks has remained a mystery to investigators, but with Kohberger filing a petition to overturn his guilty plea on the grounds that it was a “false plea”, and claiming that he was “advised to lie”, the parents’ painstaking wait for answers is likely to carry on.
