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In a development that has reignited public fascination with one of the most gruesome campus killings in recent U.S. history, Moscow police have released heavily redacted bodycam footage from the initial response to the November 13, 2022, crime scene at 1122 King Road, where Bryan Kohberger confessed to stabbing four University of Idaho students to death. The video, obtained and published by outlets like Law & Crime and ABC News following Kohberger’s July 2025 sentencing to four consecutive life terms without parole, captures the raw chaos of the morning after the attacks, including emotional interviews with surviving roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke. While graphic interior photos remain sealed by court order to protect the victims’ dignity, the footage provides a disturbing new window into the terror that unfolded in the off-campus rental home, blending police protocol with the survivors’ harrowing accounts.

The murders claimed the lives of Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20, who were stabbed multiple times in their beds during the early morning hours. Kohberger, a 30-year-old criminology PhD student at nearby Washington State University at the time, entered the home via a rear sliding glass door around 4 a.m., armed with a Ka-Bar knife. Newly unsealed documents detail his path: He first checked an empty room on the third floor, then fatally stabbed Mogen and Goncalves in their shared bedroom, before descending to the second floor to kill Kernodle—who was awake and ordering food via DoorDash—and Chapin. Investigators later determined the entire attack could have taken as little as 90 seconds, based on crime scene reconstruction.

The bodycam video begins with officers arriving at the scene shortly after a 911 call from one of the surviving roommates, who had discovered the bodies earlier that morning. Footage shows police establishing a perimeter around the three-story house, with redacted visuals obscuring faces of witnesses and first responders. One particularly gut-wrenching segment features University of Idaho student Hunter Johnson, a friend of the victims who arrived to check on them, leading officers through the home after finding the bodies himself. Armed with a steak knife, Johnson had searched the house for the intruder before police arrived, informing a young man outside that his brother—likely Chapin—had been murdered. The video captures the officers’ cautious entry, setting up crime scene tape amid the eerie silence of the blood-soaked interior, though explicit details like the victims’ bedrooms are blurred or withheld.

Most disturbing are the interviews with Mortensen and Funke, conducted outside the home as the women, visibly shaken and sobbing, recount the night’s horrors. Mortensen, who came face-to-face with the masked killer as he fled through the sliding door, tearfully describes hearing a “loud thud” upstairs around 4 a.m., followed by crying from what sounded like Goncalves. “I opened my door… and there was a figure, dressed in all black, with bushy eyebrows… he turned and walked towards the back sliding door,” she tells officers, her voice trembling. Funke echoes the panic, explaining they dismissed the noises as typical college antics—”Nothing happens in Moscow”—only to discover the tragedy hours later when no one emerged from the rooms. The women waited outside with other students, faces blurred in the footage, as the reality of the “unimaginable” set in.

This release comes after Latah County Judge Steven Hippler’s July 2025 ruling post-sentencing, balancing public interest in transparency with sensitivity toward the victims’ families. While bedroom photos and unredacted videos were blocked to prevent further trauma—”the murder investigation and criminal case are closed,” the judge noted—other materials, including surveillance of Kohberger’s white Hyundai Elantra circling the block multiple times before and after the killings, were made public. The car, captured between 3:30 a.m. and 4:20 a.m., vanished for a 13-minute window prosecutors believe encompassed the murders. DNA from a knife sheath left at the scene, combined with genetic genealogy, ultimately led to Kohberger’s December 2022 arrest in Pennsylvania.

The footage has drawn widespread media coverage, with true crime podcasts and networks like TMZ and Fox News amplifying clips that highlight the survivors’ terror. Social media buzzed with reactions, from shock at Mortensen’s encounter—”Chilling bodycam shows Kohberger’s brutal crime scene”—to debates on the redactions. Families of the victims, who delivered emotional impact statements at sentencing, have expressed mixed feelings; some welcomed closure, while others criticized the plea deal that spared Kohberger the death penalty.

Kohberger’s motive remains elusive, though documents reveal prior stalking complaints against him by other students and “inappropriate behavior” at school. A separate bodycam from a 2024 traffic stop showed a DoorDash driver claiming to have seen him near the scene moments before, though authorities clarified it didn’t alter the timeline. Now in solitary at Idaho Maximum Security Institution, Kohberger faces taunts from inmates, a far cry from the quiet scholar he appeared to be.

This footage not only humanizes the survivors’ ordeal but underscores the swift, if delayed, path to justice in a case that gripped the nation. As Moscow Chief of Police James Fry once challenged unsubstantiated claims, the evidence— from bodycam testimonies to vehicular surveillance—solidified Kohberger’s guilt. For the University of Idaho community, still healing from the “Fox Hollow House” legacy, these releases serve as a somber reminder of vulnerability in small-town America. The King Road home, demolished in 2024, may be gone, but the echoes of that night persist in every frame.