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Lloyd Green

The Idaho Four review – a disturbing, necessary portrait of a killer and his victims

signs saying 'forever a vandal' and 'the light remains' next to flowers at a memorial site
A sign for Madison Mogen, one of the four students killed, in Moscow, Idaho, in November 2022. Photograph: Lindsey Wasson/Reuters

In the early hours of 13 November 2022 in an off-campus apartment in Moscow, Idaho, a masked assailant murdered four students. The dead, who would come to be known as the Idaho Four, were Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen. Each was stabbed multiple times. The killer left a gruesome scene and the motive was not readily apparent.

Videos, cellphone records and solid detective work led law enforcement to Bryan Kohberger, a doctoral candidate at Washington State University. Arrested at his parents’ home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, in late December, he was extradited back west.

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