911 call made morning of University of Idaho murders made public
FILE - A private security officer sits in a vehicle on Jan. 3, 2023, in front of the house in Moscow, Idaho, where four University of Idaho students were killed in November 2022. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
MOSCOW — The 911 call made by roommates and neighbors of the four University of Idaho students killed in an off-campus house in November of 2022 has been made public.
It can be listened to here:
The release comes after a court filing from last week deemed it unnecessary by legal standards to keep the call from the public, according to KXLY, which first obtained the recording.
The call lasted just over four minutes, ending when a Moscow police officer arrived at the scene at 11:59 a.m.
The individuals who called 911 did not identify themselves, and the phone is passed between what sounded to be two young women and a young man.
At the start of the call, the first young woman, who was audibly upset, told the dispatcher, “Something has happened in our house. We don’t know what.”
Moments later, a second young woman told the dispatcher that she lived next door and that “one of our, one of the roommates is passed out. She was drunk last night and she’s not waking up.” She added that she “saw a man in their house last night.”
At this point, the first young woman gets back on the phone, saying to the dispatcher, “Can I just tell you what happened?”
“What is going on currently? Is someone passed out right now?” the dispatcher asks.
The young woman responded, “I don’t really know, but pretty much at 4 a.m. —” before the dispatcher again asks if someone in the house was currently passed out.
At this point, the callers had gone to check on the roommate they believed was passed out, and a male voice can be heard saying the name “Xana” in the background.
“She’s passed out, what’s wrong? She’s not waking up,” the caller then told the dispatcher.
After a few moments, the same male voice can be heard saying “get out, get out, get out,” in an urgent tone.
When the phone is handed to the male, the dispatcher asked, “Is she breathing?” to which the male responded, “No."
Moscow Police were on the scene by 11:59 a.m., at which point the call ends.
Following the phone call, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were found stabbed to death in the off-campus house. Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of the murders, is set to stand trial in Boise in August.
In a statement posted to the Goncalves family Facebook page late Friday afternoon, the male in the call is identified as Hunter, presumably a friend of the victims.
“After hearing that call, one thing is clear — Hunter, with his quiet, stoic resolve, protected those girls from a nightmare that no one should ever be forced to witness. He stepped into the abyss, shielding them from horrors that will haunt him forever,” the statement read in part. “For that, the Goncalves family owes him a debt that words cannot repay.”