Idaho Murders SURVIVORS TELL ALL

Text messages and a harrowing 911 call reveal how two women responded to their roommates' brutal slayings

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LIVING NIGHTMARE

Hours after University of Idaho students (clockwise from top left) Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen were found brutally murdered, their two surviving roommates were “heav[y] breathing and crying” on the 911 call, according to court docs.

At around 4:19 a.m. on Nov. 13, 2022, the young woman, identified in court documents as D.M., was frozen in fear. After seeing a strange man in the house, she began frantically texting and calling her roommates, including fellow University of Idaho students Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen. Only one, identified by her initials as B.F. in the recently unsealed documents, responded. “I’m rlly confused rn,” D.M. texted her. “I’m freaking out.” B.F. urged D.M. to “run” from the second floor to B.F.’s bedroom on the first floor of their off-campus Moscow, Idaho, rental, assuring her terrified roommate that “it’s better than being alone.” A few minutes later, D.M. texted both Xana and Kaylee, begging them to answer, as she hunkered down with her other roommate.

But unbeknownst to the two women, they were the only survivors of a horrific massacre, which left Kaylee, Madison, Xana, and Xana’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, dead. The recently unsealed texts, as well as a panicked 911 call, reveal chilling new details about the victims’ final moments — and how the killer stalked them in their home. The documents were filed as part of the case against Bryan Kohberger, who has been charged with the murders. (He has pleaded not guilty.) Both roommates are expected to testify at his trial, the court documents say, to provide a timeline, describe what they witnessed — and how they were “trying to make sense of the startling event.”