WATCH: Chilling Bodycam Video Shows the Moment Cops First Showed Up at Idaho Murder House: ‘I Saw The Guy!’
Harrowing bodycam video shows the moment police officers arrived at the off-campus Moscow, Idaho, home of Bryan Kohberger’s victims to find four people stabbed to death and the surviving roommates and witnesses processing their shock outside the residence.
The Nov. 13, 2022, footage, which was released Friday by the Moscow Police Department, captured the instant that police drew their guns and swept the residence to make sure the perpetrator had left the premises. As they moved through the house, police can be heard counting the bodies before they cordoned off the scene with yellow tape.
The video also showed paramedics arriving at the scene, then being turned away.
One of the surviving roommates wrapped in a blanket gave her account of what happened to her housemate:
I heard a scream and she ran downstairs ’cause she saw someone. That’s when I’m pretty sure she said, “Someone’s here!” And she screamed and just ran downstairs. And I called her name—I jumped up and locked my door ’cause I was so scared. And then I heard someone in the bathroom and I heard her crying. And I heard some guy say, “You’re gonna be OK, I’m gonna help you.” And I kept calling her name but no one was answering. And then I opened the door for a second and I saw this guy! And he wasn’t insanely tall, but he was in all black, and like this mask that just covered his forehead and his mouth.
Nearly seven weeks after the murders of college students Ethan Chapin, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21; police arrested Bryan Kohberger at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania.
Police identified Kohberger from DNA on a knife sheath that was left at the scene.
Kohberger, a PhD student in criminology at Washington State University, changed his plea to guilty just days before his trial was set to begin. He was sentenced to four consecutive life terms in prison without the possibility of parole.
Watch the clip above via Law & Crime on YouTube.
