This uni sharehouse murder baffled the world. Now prosecutors have released a chilling photo.

Flanked by rolling wheat fields and a mountain range, Moscow is a city of 26,000 people huddled around the University of Idaho campus.

It's the kind of place where people are comfortable venturing out after dark, where bikes can be left unlocked.

In November 2022, it became the centre of a chilling quadruple murder that shocked the world. Four young University of Idaho students were found dead in their sharehouse. It was Moscow's first murder in seven years.

The tragedy captured international headlines as authorities raced against time and the rumour mill to find the truth about what happened.

Now, almost two-and-a-half years on, chilling new details about their alleged killer are coming to light.

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The University of Idaho killings.

Around lunchtime on November 13, 2022, Moscow City Police were dispatched to a home on King Road in the city's southwest following a 911 call. There, they found the bodies of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and her partner of roughly a year, Ethan Chapin, 20.

Each had been stabbed in their beds on the second and third floors of the home. None of the victims were sexually assaulted, none of their belongings were stolen, and there was no sign of forced entry to the home.

Two of the victims' housemates, both of whom slept in bedrooms on the first floor, were unharmed and, according to police, had been unaware of the brutal crime that took place above them.

Police have gathered large amounts of evidence from the King Road home. Image: Moscow City Police.

Over two weeks, authorities collected more than 113 pieces of physical evidence, took more than 4,000 crime scene photographs, received more than 1,000 tips and conducted at least 150 interviews.

They concluded that the killings were an "isolated, targeted" attack.

"To be honest, you're going to have to trust us on that at this point, because we are not going to release why we think that," Moscow Police Captain Roger Lanier told a news conference.

Xana's father Jeffrey Kernodle told his local news station, 3TV/CBS 5, that his daughter was in constant communication with her family, and nothing about the evening of November 12 had seemed out of the ordinary.

"It doesn't make sense," he said.

"They were just hanging out at home. Xana was just hanging out at home with her boyfriend."

Kaylee's sister, Alivia Goncalves, has also been left reeling.

"They were smart, they were vigilant, they were careful and this all still happened," she wrote in a statement published by the Idaho Statesman.

"No one is in custody and that means no one is safe. Yes, we are all heartbroken. Yes, we are all grasping. But more strong than any of these feelings is anger. We are angry. You should be angry."

The timeline of events.

In a statement, Moscow City Police shared an updated timeline of the housemates' movements on the evening of November 12 in the hope that it would encourage further witness reports.

According to police, in the hours before their deaths, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen were at a local bar in downtown Moscow. They arrived around 10pm and left at 1:30am, before heading to a local street food vendor.

Security footage at 'Grub Truck' shows the pair laughing while they wait to collect their food order. They were then given a lift home by a "private party" and arrived at 1:56am. The driver has been ruled out as a suspect, as has a man in a white hood captured in the food truck footage.

Footage from Saturday night purportedly shows two victims of the Moscow Idaho Student murders

Kaylee Goncalves & Madison Mogen appear to order at a food truck just hours before the King Rd homicide pic.twitter.com/tD9DytoHjO

— Idaho Tribune (@IdahoTribune) November 16, 2022

Meanwhile, Xana Kernodle and her partner, Ethan Chapin, were seen at the Sigma Chi fraternity house on the University of Idaho Campus.

The couple were believed to have returned to the King Road home at 1:45am. Ethan was not a permanent resident of the house, but stayed with Xana that evening.

The two surviving housemates were also both out in Moscow that evening, and police say they returned separately by 1am.

According to The New York Times, call logs from Kaylee's phone show seven phone calls were made her ex-boyfriend, who was also a student at the University of Idaho, between 2:26 and 2:52am.

Several calls to the same number were also made from Madison's phone. Each time the calls went unanswered.

Police confirmed they had investigated the calls and that the ex-boyfriend had been ruled out as a suspect.

At some point in the hours that followed, Kaylee, Madison, Ethan and Xana were killed.

A coroner's report stated that all four were likely asleep when they were attacked, and that some of them had sustained defensive wounds, suggesting they struggled with the perpetrator.

"It's such a horrific crime," Latah County coroner Cathy Mabbutt said, according to The New York Times. "It's hard to think that somebody, whether they live here or they were here, commits something like that and is at large."

Police said that the surviving residents on the first floor didn't wake up until later that morning. They then summoned friends to the home out of concern that they couldn't rouse one of their housemates on the second floor, who they thought had "passed out".

Neither of the surviving housemates were considered to be suspects.

A chilling 911 call.

Almost two-and-a-half years on, in March 2025, the frantic 911 call made on the day the students were stabbed was revealed.

At 11:55am on November 13, 2022, a distressed woman called authorities saying, "Something happened in our house", CBS News reports.

She broke down crying while giving the address. At that point, another woman takes the phone and starts talking.

"One of the roommates who's passed out, and she was drunk last night, and she's not waking up," the second woman tells the dispatcher. "And they saw some man in their house last night."

The dispatcher tells them she needed to know what was going on at the time and if someone was passed out.

One of the women then goes to check on the student and says she's still passed out and not waking up. At this point, the callers sound very distressed, as if they're breathing heavily or have been crying.

A male voice is then heard on the line telling the dispatcher the woman who was passed out was not breathing. The dispatcher tells the group help is on the way and the call ends shortly after when police arrive.

Police have previously declined to say who placed the call.

Bryan Kohberger in court after he was charged with murder in the Idaho university killings. Image: Getty.

A stalker, dead dogs and cold cases: rumours abound.

Throughout the investigation, police have been forced to publicly combat rumours about the case that have circulated online and on social media.

Among them: that the victims were tied and gagged; that the case was tied to mysterious animal deaths in the area, including a report of a skinned dog; and that there was a connection between the killings and previous stabbings in neighbouring states of Washington and Oregon.

One line of investigation that remains open, however, is related to multiple reports that Kaylee had previously expressed concern that she was being stalked.

A suspect is arrested.

The motive behind the stabbing murders still remains a mystery.

One month after the stabbings, Bryan Christopher Kohberger was arrested by police and the FBI in Scranton, Pennsylvania — over 4,000 kilometres from Moscow, Idaho.

He was charged with four counts of murder in the deaths of Ethan, Xana, Madison and Kaylee.

Kohberger is reportedly a college student but did not attend the University of Idaho, according to reports.

He appears to have been pursuing a doctorate in criminal justice at Washington State University in Pullman, less than 10 miles from Moscow.

Bryan Christopher Kohberger. Image: Monroe Co. Correctional Facility.

Kohberger's DNA has been matched to samples recovered at the scene of the crimes, according to CNN.

A judge previously entered a not-guilty plea on his behalf and prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty if he's convicted, CBS News reports.

Kohberger's trial is due to begin on August 11, 2025, and is expected to last more than three months.

Following the arrest, Madison's father, Ben Mogen, told the Spokesman-Review newspaper he was hopeful justice would be served.

"From the very beginning, I’ve known people don't get away with these things these days. There’s too many things that you can get caught up on, like DNA and videos everywhere," he said.

Authorities narrowed their focus to Kohberger after they traced his ownership of a white Hyundai Elantra seen in the area of the killings.

The 'crime scene scenario' paper.

Prosecutors are looking to include one of Kohberger's college essays titled "Crime Scene Scenario Final" as part of their evidence, according to US media.

ABC News reports the 12-page paper details a case involving a woman who was stabbed to death at a trailer park.

In the paper, Kohberger lists the steps for a crime scene investigator entering the scene, including packaging evidence for forensic analysis, determining suspects, motives and writing closing reports.

Prosecutors say there are aspects of the case that are similar to the Idaho murders, including the murder weapon, surveillance video and collection of DNA, per ABC.

Former NYPD cold case investigator and criminal justice professor Joseph Giacalone told Fox News elements of Kohberger's essay, such as discussion of fibre-free clothing to avoid contaminating a crime scene, would not be helpful for his defence.

"Prosecutors are going to talk about this when they bring up the lack of forensic evidence left by the killer," he said.

"They're going to say, 'Look how much he knew about this.'"

A controversial selfie.

In a recent court filing, the prosecution made the chilling allegation that Kohberger took a selfie just hours after the brutal killings, per People.

Authorities want the photo allowed into evidence as one of the surviving roommates said in multiple police interviews that the man she saw leaving the home after the killings had "bushy eyebrows".

Now, that photo has been released. In it, a smiling Kohberger gives a thumbs up while wearing a white button-up shirt.

Bryan Kohberger smiles in a selfie taken on November 13, 2022, hours after the Idaho murders. Image: Latah County Prosecutor's Office.

Prosecutors say Kohberger bought a black balaclava on January 10, 2022 — 11 months before the murders, the New York Post reports. This is reportedly the same type of mask one of the housemates witnessed the intruder wear.

Prosecutors say Kohberger also purchased a combat-style knife, sheath and sharpener from Amazon eight months before the killings.

The Post reports Kohberger's defence claimed he has autism, which will make "fair and just trial a challenge". They said his inability to show emotion in a courtroom may cause jurors to be biased against him.

Last month, his defence pushed for the court to disqualify key pieces of evidence, including security camera recordings that show a car similar to Kohberger's near the crime scene and DNA samples on a knife sheath left at the scene.

His legal team also requested to block words such as "murder", "murderer", "psychopath", "sociopath" and "bushy eyebrows" — a description of the supposed killer given by a roommate who was in the house — saying it was unfairly prejudicial.

Jury selection for the trial is set to begin July 30.

This article was published on November 30, 2022 and has since been updated with new information.