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EP 65 - The Idaho House: Four Students, One Silent Suspect · Five-Minute Crime

HOST: Four students were asleep in a Moscow, Idaho, rental house when a masked intruder turned an ordinary college night into a national obsession. [SFX: scary thud] HOST: On November 13, 2022, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were stabbed to death near the University of Idaho campus. HOST: Two roommates survived. One told police she saw a man in black with “bushy eyebrows” walking toward the back door. [AD_BREAK:1] HOST: For weeks police said little. Then genetic genealogy, cellphone records, and cameras pointed to a white Hyundai Elantra and criminology PhD student Bryan Kohberger. [SFX: surprise sting] HOST: Prosecutors say his phone went dark during the murders, then pinged near the house hours later. A knife sheath beside a victim allegedly carried his DNA. [AD_BREAK:2] HOST: Kohberger has pleaded not guilty. His defense has challenged the evidence and says he was out driving alone that night. HOST: The trial may test modern crime-solving itself: DNA family trees, digital trails, and how much jurors should trust the invisible map our devices create. [AD_BREAK:3] HOST: Four lives ended in minutes. The evidence trail lives on.