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Early in the morning of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were found brutally stabbed to death in their off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho.
The victims were Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Maddie and Kaylee, both asleep in Maddie's bed, were killed first.
It was just after 4am but Xana was still up having ordered a food delivery; he stabbed her next before moving onto kill Ethan where he slept.
There were no signs of forced entry - the lock of the door he slipped through was broken - and two other roommates inside the house survived.
Weeks later, after an investigation shrouded in secrecy, authorities arrested the then 28-year-old Washington State University criminology Ph.D. student Bryan Kohberger at his family home in Pennsylvania.
On July 2nd, Kohberger pled guilty to the murders, as part of a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. His sentencing has been set for Wednesday July 23rd, and he will spend the rest of his life in prison.
In this episode of On The Case, Laura Collins, an editor and investigative reporter at the Daily Mail in New York, sits down with Howard Blum, author of the bestselling book on the case:When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders.
They discuss the story so far, as well as the main, perplexing mystery at the heart of it all - why did Bryan Kohberger do it?
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