Newly released police bodycam footage has revealed the heart-stopping moment officers discovered the bodies of four University of Idaho students brutally murdered by Bryan Kohberger — a crime that shocked the nation and left the small college town of Moscow reeling.
The video, obtained by the Law & Crime Network, shows an officer entering the off-campus home where Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were stabbed to death on November 13, 2022.
The responding officer can be heard breathing heavily as he steps into one of the bedrooms. The camera abruptly pans away before he mutters under his breath, his voice trembling:
“There’s two… looks like fatalities.”
Another deep sigh follows, along with an expletive. In the video, the officer warns his partner to “slow down” before exiting the crime scene and telling a group of shocked students outside, “Nobody is allowed to leave.”
The blackened frames — edited to protect the victims’ identities — make the footage even more haunting.
Among those outside was Dylan Mortensen, one of the surviving roommates, who recounted her terrifying encounter.
Through tears, she told police she awoke to what she thought was her friend Kaylee screaming about “somebody being in the house.” Moments later, she heard a man’s chilling voice say:
“You’re gonna be fine. I’m gonna help you.”
Mortensen recalled peeking out of her bedroom only to see a masked figure dressed in black.
“He wasn’t insanely tall, but he had this mask covering his forehead and his mouth,” she sobbed. “I locked the door. I didn’t know what to do.”
Previously released crime scene photos paint a disturbing picture. Investigators found red Solo cups and empty beer bottles scattered around — remnants of a typical college party night. But they also discovered something far more sinister: eerie handprints on the windows and blood spatter seeping beneath a bedroom door.
Following a nationwide manhunt, Kohberger, a Ph.D. criminology student at Washington State University, was arrested at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania in December 2022. Prosecutors initially sought the death penalty, but shortly before trial, Kohberger accepted a plea deal, sparing his life in exchange for life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Despite the conviction, Kohberger has offered no explanation for the murders. To this day, his motive remains a mystery.
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Shouldn’t have gotten a deal without explaining WHY he did it…