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MOSCOW, Idaho — Newly released texts messages shed light on the early morning when four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their off-campus home.
Text messages between the two surviving roommates, and texts to some of the victims, describe fear and confusion during the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022.
Around 4:22 a.m. that November morning, one of the roommates texted that she saw a man in a “ski mask” inside the home.
“I’m freaking out rn,” one roommate texts.
The other roommate tells her to run to her room downstairs because “it’s better than being alone.”
She also texted that “No one is answering” in reference to the other roommates after calling Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves and Xana Kernodle.
Several times around 4:30 a.m., one of the roommates calls and texts Goncalves and Kernodle.
“Pls answer”
“R u up??”
Hours later, 911 is called and first responders dispatch to the home on King Road for an unconscious person, after the callers reported one of the roommates was drunk the night before and wasn’t waking up.
“Oh, and they saw some man in their house last night,” one of the callers tells dispatch.
Bryan Kohberger is accused of killing Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Kaylee Goncalves. A not-guilty plea has been entered on Kohberger’s behalf.
The night before the murders, Nov. 12, 2022, Mogen and Goncalves went to a local bar and ate at a food truck before going back to the home on King Road. Chapin and Kernodle went to a party at Chapin’s fraternity before returning to the King Road home.
At 2:47 a.m. on Nov. 13, Kohberger’s phone left his residence at neighboring Washington State University and traveled south through Pullman before the phone lost connection with the network; investigators say the phone was turned off.
Several surveillance videos in the King Road neighborhood allegedly captured Kohberger’s white 2015 Hyundai Elantra driving around at approximately 3:30 a.m.
Around 4 a.m., just before the roommates’ text messages began, Kernodle received a DoorDash delivery. One of the roommates woke up to what sounded like Goncalves playing with her dog and hearing Goncalves say, “There’s someone here.”
That roommate later told law enforcement that she heard crying from another victim’s bedroom and a man saying something like, “It’s OK. I’m going to help you.”
When the roommate opened her bedroom door again, she reportedly saw a man walking toward her in black clothing and a ski mask, then he walked past her and left through a sliding door.
At 4:20 a.m., video shows the white Elantra leaving the area while speeding on a road that leads to Pullman. About a half an hour later, Kohberger’s phone begins reporting to a network south of Moscow.
Using DNA data found on a knife sheath next to one of the victims inside the home, FBI agents tracked Kohberger from Washington state to eastern Pennsylvania for several days before he was arrested on Dec. 30.
This story includes reporting by Kipp Robertson, Tracy Bringhurst, Shannon Moudy, Vinny Saglimbeni and Adel Toay.