New ’20/20′ Episode Examines Shocking Murders of 4 University of Idaho Students
Emily Cortez
Published Feb 01, 2026
On Nov. 13, an executioner broke into a three-story, six-room home in Moscow, Idaho, and took the existences of four promising youthful College of Idaho understudies — Kaylee Goncalves, Madison “Maddie” Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. For very nearly seven weeks, no captures were made. Be that as it may, on Dec. 30, a 28-year-old PhD understudy going to an adjoining college was captured in Pennsylvania, almost 2,500 miles from the crime location, and accused of four counts of homicide.
The current week’s episode of 20/20 spotlights working on it and the nerve racking subtleties that have been all revealed during the examination.
The extraordinary, named “Ghastliness in Idaho; The Understudy Murders,” airs Friday, Jan. 13 from 9:01 – 11 p.m. ET on ABC and is accessible to stream on Hulu the following day.
The exceptional will highlight select meetings with guardians and friends and family of the people in question and individuals who knew the suspect, Bryan Kohberger.
The two-hour episode likewise offers a brief look inside the detailing from Individuals’ Partner Wrongdoing Manager, Corin Cesaric.
(A trailer for 20/20: Ghastliness in Idaho; The Understudy Murders is displayed beneath.) At the point when specialists showed up at 1122 Ruler Street in Moscow on Nov. 13, nothing might have set them up for what they’d view as inside. On the second floor of the off-grounds home, Kernodle, 20, and Chapin, 20, who were dating, were tracked down perished in her room and on the third floor, the bodies of Mogen, 21, and Goncalves, 21, were tracked down in Mogen’s bed. Each of the four understudies were wounded to death.
As per the reasonable justification oath, close to Mogen’s body, a tan calfskin blade sheath was found. This is where specialists purportedly found DNA connecting Kohberger to the crime location.
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On Dec. 30, specialists declared they had captured Kohberger in his home province of Pennsylvania and accused him of four counts of homicide and one include of crime robbery regarding the killings. At the hour of his capture, he was concentrating on criminal science and law enforcement at Washington State College, which is found under 10 miles from the Ruler Street home where the casualties were killed. To fabricate their case, specialists utilized observation film and Kohberger’s phone pings.
While seeing telephone records, specialists discovered that Kohberger’s PDA was nearby the home where the homicides occurred on something like 12 events before Nov. 13, the affirmation charges. Up to this point, a thought process in the slayings has not been delivered and there is apparently no association between the suspect and the four understudies he’s blamed for killing.
20/20: Frightfulness in Idaho; The Understudy Murders, airs Friday, Jan. 13 from 9:01 – 11 p.m. ET on ABC and is accessible to stream on Hulu the following day.