A chilling new docuseries, One Night In Idaho: The College Murders, brings fresh attention to the University of Idaho, Idaho 4 killings, offering first-hand accounts from witnesses who arrived at the grisly crime scene the morning after the attacks happened.
One of those voices is Emily Alandt, whose account adds haunting clarity to one of America’s most horrifying college-town tragedies.
The emotional impact of these interviews adds critical context to the ongoing case against Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of carrying out the murders. Kohberger’s trial is expected to begin just one month after the docuseries premieres.
Alandt’s account
Premiering July 11 on Prime Video, One Night In Idaho: The College Murders offers never-before-seen footage and interviews with those closest to the victims and the unfolding investigation. Among them are Alandt, her boyfriend Hunter Johnson, and their roommate Josie Lauteren.
The trio lived just down the street from the now-infamous King Road residence where Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, and Madison Mogen were murdered in November 2022.
Alandt reveals in the series that she and her friends were called to the house by one of the surviving roommates, Dylan Mortensen, who reportedly said she was scared but didn’t elaborate. “When Dylan had called, I didn’t think it was urgent,” Alandt says in the interview.
“So I start walking to Xana’s house,” she says, “and when we got there, Dylan and Bethany had exited the house. They looked frightened. Just hands on the mouth like, ‘I don’t know what’s going on’ type of thing.”
Lauteren: “Something is so not right”
Josie Lauteren, who entered the house, described an overwhelming sense of dread that overtook her immediately. “As soon as I stepped in the house, I was just like, ‘Oh, something is so not right,’ like you could almost feel it,” Lauteren says in the series.
Inside, Johnson was the first to comprehend the scale of the horror. He can be heard on the 911 call urgently telling everyone to flee: “Get out, get out, get out!”
The Kohberger trial
Although none of them fully understood the carnage at first, they would soon learn that their friends—Xana, Ethan, Kaylee, and Madison—had been brutally murdered. Ethan’s siblings, Hunter and Mazie Chapin, were also students at the university and arrived at the home shortly after. They, too, are featured in the docuseries, providing emotional testimony.
“There’s this person out there who had just murdered our brother, and he’s still out there somewhere,” Hunter states, capturing the terror and helplessness that enveloped the campus and community in the aftermath.
To watch One Night In Idaho: The College Murders, stream it exclusively on Prime Video. This new series doesn’t just retell a crime; it gives voice to those who lived through the unimaginable—and reminds viewers that the scars of that night in Moscow, Idaho, are still raw and painfully real.
