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Amazon Prime Video shines light on Idaho murders as friends who discovered bodies speak out

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Published 08:00 3 Jul 2025 GMT+1

Amazon Prime Video shines light on Idaho murders as friends who discovered bodies speak out

A new docuseries is coming to Amazon Prime Video, focusing on the grisly murder of four students in their home

Jen Thomas

Jen Thomas

True crime fans will soon have something new to watch as a brand new docuseries about the Idaho murders is coming this week to Amazon Prime Video.

Called One Night In Idaho: The College Murders, the two-part series is set to air from July 11 on Amazon Prime, and features witnesses speaking for the first time publicly.

This comes after accused killer Bryan Kohberger accepted a controversial plea deal earlier this week (July 2), finally admitting to murdering the four students after they enjoyed a night out in November 2022.

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The victims were Xana Kernodle, 20, Ethan Chapin, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21. They were discovered by one of their surviving roommates.

ABC News has previewed the series, and says it focuses on the events of the morning after four students of the University of Idaho were murdered in their home. Watch the trailer below:

Emily Alandt, her boyfriend Hunter Johnson and their roommate Joise Lauteren lived nearby, and went over after the surviving roommate called. However, Emily remembers thinking it wasn't 'urgent'.

"When Dylan had called, I didn't think it was urgent, so I start walking to Xana's house, and when we got there, Dylan and Bethany [Funke] had exited the house," she recalled in the series.

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"They looked frightened. Just hands on the mouth like, 'I don't know what's going on' type of thing."

Emily says she and her boyfriend knew something wasn't right as soon as he entered the home.

"As soon as I stepped in the house, I was just like, 'Oh, something is so not right', like you could almost feel it," Josie added.

Her boyfriend Hunter was recorded calling 911 and urging everyone to 'get out, get out, get out' of the horrific scene.

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Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, and Kaylee Goncalves were brutally murdered in their home back in 2022 (Instagram)
Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, and Kaylee Goncalves were brutally murdered in their home back in 2022 (Instagram)

Josie said: "There was a big realisation that we had been stalked for many months and had no clue."

The witnesses also said they faced slanderous accusations on the internet of people accusing them of killing their friends.

One of the victims, Ethan, was the eldest of triplets and his siblings, Hunter and Mazie, also feature in the docuseries, as well as the parents of Madison Mogen.

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Kohberger was arrested almost a month after the murders took place in December 2022 and now, almost three years on, he has now accepted a judge's plea deal.

He had previously pleaded not guilty, but the new deal means he will serve four consecutive life sentences as well as a maximum penalty of 10 years for the burglary charge.

The killer repeatedly answered 'yes' in court as the charges were put to him.

Bryan Kohberger has accepted a controversial guilty plea deal (Zach Wilkinson-Pool/Getty Images)
Bryan Kohberger has accepted a controversial guilty plea deal (Zach Wilkinson-Pool/Getty Images)

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The Idaho Statesman reports the families were sent a letter by Latah County Prosecuting Attorney Bill Thompson, which reads: "We cannot fathom the toll that this case has taken on your family. This resolution is our sincere attempt to seek justice for your family.

"This agreement ensures that the defendant will be convicted, will spend the rest of his life in prison, and will not be able to put you and the other families through the uncertainty of decades of post-conviction appeals.

"Your viewpoints weighed heavily in our decision-making process, and we hope that you may come to appreciate why we believe this resolution is in the best interest of justice."

Accepting the plea deal means he will not face the death penalty, causing much anger from the families of the victims.

Featured Image Credit: Monroe County Correctional Facility via Getty Images

Topics: Amazon Prime, Film and TV, Crime, True crime, US News

Jen Thomas
Jen Thomas

Jen Thomas is a freelance journalist and radio presenter for Magic Radio and Planet Rock, specialising in music and entertainment writing.

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