We begin with breaking news out of North idah hope well there was a lot of blood it was yeah it it it’s a very sad scene with for U murdered college students this horrible crime has affected all of us we will support each other as we grieve and
We’ll move through this together as a vandal family you could see the happiness in them the you know the the love if the world lived life like Ethan it would be a better place it has been a year since four University of Idaho students were murdered in an
Off-campus home in Moscow the past 12 months have been full of legal twists and turns ever since prosecutors are now working to build their case against the man accused of the killings Brian koberger our Morgan Romero takes a look back at what happened in November of 2022 and where things stand to
Today November 13th 2022 a day that changed how people around the world talked about Moscow Idaho on this day local law enforcement found four people dead in a home off King Road along with the victims investigators also discovered a few key pieces of evidence A Kar knife sheath investigators believe
Belonged to the murder weapon on that sheath police say they found DNA that didn’t match anyone living at the house the next day people would know the victims as University of Idaho students Zan kodal Ethan chapen Madison Mogan and Kaylee gonalves police launched a homicide investigation and Days Later
Autopsies revealed the four victims were murdered within 10 days of the crimes Moscow police held three press conferences to address the public all without having a suspect in custody we know you have questions and so do we in a week and a half investigators say they
Had collected more than a 100 pieces of evidence taking 4,000 photographs reviewed 1,000 tips and conducted 150 interviews one of the biggest leads to a potential suspect would point to a white Hyundai Elantra court documents would later reveal the make and model of that car was seen speeding past the King Road
Home right after the murders local law enforcement would begin looking into this November 25th on December 7th the Moscow Police Department brought this tip to the public but by this point court documents say a Washington State University Police Officer had already found found a wi Elantra registered to Brian coburger living in pulman
Washington two weeks before the end of the year cerer and his father drove that car across the country from Washington to Pennsylvania there police collected trash from his Pennsylvania Family Home and an Idaho State lab match DNA to the knife sheath found November 13th 47 days after the students bodies
Were discovered an arrest is made December 30th Pennsylvania State Police take coburger into custody he’s then extradited to Idaho where he would wait for his first lto County court appearance on January 5th on this day major details in the investigation were released in a probable cause affidavit
Over the first quarter of the Year search warrants which show what investigators took from cob Berger’s Pullman apartment and his university office cerg made several Court appearances leading up to a grand jury indictment May 17th less than a week later at the suspect’s arraignment a trial date was set for October 2nd this
Date would eventually be thrown out with both the state and defense advocating for more time to prepare for the trial that brings us to this week one year later where we’re all in Waiting between a suspect waiting to know his fate while in the lah County jail and the world
Waiting to know who is responsible for the deaths of four young people and whether they’ll be brought to Justice and we know four lives were lost that horrible November night four beautiful college students taken at the prime of their young lives Morgan Romero joins us once again to tell us who these victims
Were Ethan chapen a triplet from Conway Washington had just turned 20 years old the month before he was killed his brother and sister were and continue to be students at the University of Idaho as well Ethan was a member of the sigma Kai fraternity at the time of his death
He was dating Zan kodal 20-year-old Zanna was originally from Arizona but later moved to Post Falls she went to Post Falls High School where she was active in volleyball track and soccer she was a junior majoring in marketing at the College of Business and economics
And was also a member of the pi beta F sority according to her family she loved her dog electronic dance music and going on family trips with her dad and sister Kaylee gonalves from wrath drum Idaho was 21 years old and one of five kids she’s been described by her parents
As the ultimate middle child she was majoring in General Studies and a member of the alpha Fe sorority she was set to graduate a few weeks before her death her sister said Kaye was constantly chasing adventure and was going to move to Texas to live with her
Sister where she had a job with an IT firm lined up in Austin kayle’s best friend was 21-year-old Madison Mogan who went by Maddie some described them as close as sisters Maddie was a senior a marketing major and a member of the pi beta fi sorority she the color pink and planned
To move to Boise after she graduated to be closer to her boyfriend her father described her as the light of his life Moscow Idaho what was once a safe College Community spiraled into chaos when those murders happened it was just a shocking crime for us all and a year
Later we wanted to know how the University of Idaho is working on the continued healing of Vandal students and staff so we went to Moscow to find out We’re back with breaking news about a murder mystery involving those four Idaho college students we know you have questions and so do we the University’s dean of students responding to those ongoing fears it’s scary uh what’s happened take me back and tell me what you went through in those first days
Those first days are really a blur we were responding we were all devastated we were all in shock bla Eckles is the dean of students at the University of Idaho he still can’t believe what happened a year ago four students brutally murdered in a home just off campus Ethan chapen Zanna kodal
Kaylee Gonzales and Madison Mogan four beautiful lives cut short the media descended on the small college town this is the last thing you thought you’d have to deal with here at the U ofi yeah no one ever anticipates going through an experience like this at all while police
Were investigating Eckles says the ufi went into crisis mode he had a a job to do um which was responding for the needs of our students we LED with a student uh first approach of Safety and Security and support that made it very simple in my world from how our faculty responded
And supported students who needed to go home at probably the darkest time in their life for the support and Outreach that I’ve seen students show in in care and support of one another to the beautiful outpouring of care and support for the families of these individuals that we’ve lost after weeks of
Uncertainty and fear detectives arrested 28-year-old Brian Christopher cerg Brian cerg was arrested he was booked into L County jail and there was a huge sigh of relief on campus a year later life goes on and the focus is now on healing this was a site that a lot of students really
Like because it’s kind of quiet here and it’s peaceful a major part of that healing is this open space on campus I knew that we didn’t have to create some sort of Memorial to remember these four bright Souls um that we lost and so we started and created a Vander healing
Garden in Memorial it’s a quite secluded Place nestled up against the trees we have our students in the College of art and architecture that are leading the way with what a design can look like for that I’m really excited to see what the students are going to do with it the
Vandal healing garden and Memorial is still in the early phases but donations are coming in today we’ve raised over $200,000 $219,000 that will go towards the Vandal healing Garden in Memorial so we’re always looking for uh great donations and opportunities for folks to help us create a space where our our Vandal
Family can come together and heal and grieve and support of one another thousands of those dollars raised by students remember these Vandal strong bracelets with the name of the four victims they were sold to support this Memorial we had the bracelets again a student Le in initiative which they did
Phenomenal they raised over I think $25,000 I’m actually wearing one of the bracelets right here but eeko acknowledges there is one thing that remains near campus something that makes it hard to heal and you can see it from almost every direction the now boarded up King Road House the scene of the
Crime it is an impact on our students you know it’s a constant daily reminder for them and that’s a hardship as well some of the families want it left alone in until the trial is over but at the beginning of this month investigators once again visited the house since
There’s no date set for the coburger trial they wanted more time to examine the house and to build a model of it we’re evaluating as the situation goes and seeing what happens on the court side too at the moment there there aren’t any plans uh underway to do
Anything with the house president green is just being very sensitive to the the needs and the concerns of the family but we also have a responsibility to our community to on the year anniversary there will be a special student Le vigil at the UI to remember these beloved
Vandals taken from this community only students are going to be speaking at this vigil it’ll be at 6:00 on Monday the 13th of November and it’s going to be open for anyone to uh join and participate a vigil to keep healing and keep moving forward one day at a time a
Year later eckle says being a vandal means even more to him now the one thing I think it’s really done is solidify what it means to be a member of the Vandal family we are there for one another we care for one another we support one another Vandal
Strong when this is all said and done if you remember these four kids that’s that’s the end goal that we’re all working towards coming up we sit down with the parents of Kaye gonzalves at their home in Rath Dr Idaho to find out how they’re doing a year later plus
Smack Madison mogan’s dad is sharing her memory and making sure her Legacy lives through a day of Kindness I feel like it’s been forever and I feel like it was yesterday um so much of it was has just been a blur um I know that it’s been tremendously painful um and I know that that’s still coming and it’s not over it it would be nice to get the court
Proceedings over um just so it will be that will be done I mean you know I don’t know if I call it closure just it will be done Steve and Christy Gonzalez are still feeling so much pain a year after their beautiful daughter Kaylee was murdered they also lost Maddie Mogan
That night kayle’s best friend who was like a daughter to them these girls grew up together in North Idaho and we went to the gonzalas home in ratham to reflect back on this last year and all that they’ve been Through she had a ton of spirit she was fun she’s very close with her siblings yes so Olivia is the oldest and then uh and then Steven then Kaylee then Autumn and Aubrey Kaye gonzalves was one of five children she was the middle child and she was loved more than she could
Ever know she was like a little little princess and wanted to do all the girls our girlly girls Kaylee met her best friend Maddie when they were in the sixth grade Steve and Christy Gonzalez remember it so well Kaye came home talking about this Maddy
Girl and the rest was history I mean it was Kaye and Maddie you know they were just Inseparable Kaye was either over there or Maddie was at our place so they had the best of both worlds they did High School all together graduated and the same school yep they loved the
University of Idaho it was their home away from home you could see that in in photos of them I mean you could see the happiness in them the you know the the love um you know just that the bright light I do think that the the the famous
Picture that is out there of all of them um with Ethan and Zanna I think it kind of sums up their relationship laughing smiling I mean just in the moment they were taken that day Kaye texted them to me um about a little after 2 on Saturday
Um and with Maddie up on her shoulders and that is the last sex message that I have from Kaye on November 13th 2022 Steve and Christie found out the de devastating news that Kaye and Maddie were gone the Heartbreak ever since has been unbearable it’s real and people I don’t
Think sometimes understand that this isn’t TV and yes there’s TV shows about it but it’s real um this is your life this is our life they’re not characters it’s not entertainment it’s it’s a disaster for us I mean I think everybody has seen the food trep video I mean it really sums
Things up I mean to me their relationship it’s heartwarming but heartbreaking at the same time to watch those videos I mean I could watch them and smile and I could watch them and just cry I just love the fact that you guys have put together this beautiful
Facebook page yes and that you share so many wonderful memories and pictures that we’ve never seen before the page is flooded with encouraging and uplifting comments I wish that I could reply to everybody um I I I can’t unfortunately um but I read all of it I I wake up in
The morning and that’s the first thing I do and before I go to bed that’s the last thing I do and it um I want the people um out there to know how important it is to me and it made a difference in our lives friends of Kaye
That we haven’t even met will send us photos of times that they had together so whenever you get to see new photos of your your daughters and I pass those on to the other victim’s parents as well I hope it never stops their home in rrom is filled with gifts from the public
That honor and remember Kaye this is just it leaves you speechless it um it really does it’s comforting for me um because that’s kind of how you envision it you know and how you hope that it it is it’s just so real that up there is Kaye and Maddie
Best friends Kaylee and Maddie’s ashes are side by side their parents say they would want it that way right now Kay is over here MD’s here one bright light this year a new grandbaby her middle name in honor of Maddie and Kaye we call her Maddie Kay
She smiles so much that baby so this baby and all of your grandkids have brought you so much joy yes yeah good distractions to get out of your head being in dark spot and uh think about you know what you can do to make every day a little bit better for the people
Around you I think it would be much harder without all the love and support when this is all said and done if you remember these four kids that’s that’s the end goal that we’re all working towards and we’re going to forget whatever loser did this whatever monster
Put this together he’s going to become uh not the story and the story will be he’ll be non-existent yeah he he won’t even be around to uh be remembered and everyone else will be you don’t want it to turn you into a monster because something bad has happened to you no the
Gonzalves family will continue to celebrate kayle’s birthday we do plan on doing um Kaye J day every every year do something you love M with the people you love and they’re also collecting keychains from all over the world in honor of their daughter # keychains for Kaye Jade was my idea um
You know people always want to do something we have a lot of uh personalized ones and people send us M and K if a keing comes from Chicago Illinois kayy was thought of in Chicago Illinois she was in thought she was in prayer a year later Steve and chrisy are
Still taking this one day at a time the people that we have surrounding us uh lifting us up in prayer and lifting us up are amazing sharing this grief with us and um you know sharing our our tears and and the love for our girls it’s um
We would have never thought that um this well for one would happen and that it would become so big and so important to so many and um hurt so many and um we’re just blessed to have everybody that that we Have a very special family there and the Gunz solices want to say thank you to all the people here in Idaho who have thought of them and prayed for them over the past year it means so much we have the full extended interview with that family on our website right now ktvb.com
Madison mogan’s dad Ben Mogan he is honoring his daughter in a special way he got this tattoo in memory of Maddie and angel on his arm and now mti’s presence is what keeps Ben going every spring on mti’s birthday a day in May is dedicated to spreading
Kindness she was she was the best child I could have asked for and um yeah we we miss her so much MADD Mayday is something that my my sisters um came up with we just wanted to have her birthday May 5th be a day that we celebrate and that makes
People’s lives better in in the name of MD May and just like all the families impacted by this terrible crime Madison mogan’s family continues to heal a year later coming up you’ll hear about Ethan chapen from his family the Chapin are carrying on his legacy with the Ethan
Smile Foundation any kid any dream in Ethan’s name it’s the very very best that we we can do for him Stacy and Jim chapen tell us about their precious son in literally a year ago parents weekend we were celebrating these amazing kids that we’ raised we were
Like okay maybe we get to step back and take a deep breath and say they’re going to be okay you know they’re going to they have each other and they’re going to live the best life and they’ll always have the you know the three of them and it’s a really terrible
Situation that our family has been put into Stacy and Jim chapen are doing their best to move forward in memory of their beautiful son Ethan Ethan was a triplet and all three of the chap and triplets Ethan Hunter and Maisy they went to the uvi together we sat down
With the Chapin at the uvi to talk about the past year and how they’re now carrying on Ethan’s Legacy I think it’s the very first thing I actually told amian Hunter when we picked him up on the evening of November 13th a year ago I said I don’t know what
Just happened here but this will not sink our family a year after their son’s death we met Stacy and Jim chapen back at the University of Idaho at Ethan’s fraternity house Sigma Kai I think a lot of people are just wondering how you guys are doing I’ve found a place to
Talk Ethan and you know in my heart and you know then you just have to get up and put your best foot forward I’m a lot better than I was um just knowing that the two kids Hunter and Maisy are doing well is is a relief for me it’s
Literally all that matters as a mom Hunter and Maisy chapen are back at the ufi this year the friendships that they have and the support system that they have it’s Priceless for us let’s talk about Ethan tell me what made him shine cuz he shined from Bur he was
Easy yes he was so easy he must have known it from the beginning that he just was going to have to take easy street because there were two others somebody was going to cry until they got the attention and Ethan just was like well it’s fine I’ll just I’ll just wait my
Turn amazing Hunter just loved to be around him and everybody loved to be around him I mean he he just had this magical thing with people that’s a word we haven’t used in in describing him it’s true he had a magical he he touched people it was amazing months after his
Death they started a foundation in his honor it’s called the Ethan smile Foundation people want to genuinely help our family how do you help a family who’s in this situation and you know we had money in a GoFundMe account and so we put all of it into the foundation and we will
Scholarship kids Stacy also wrote a children’s book with a portion of the proceeds going to the foundation the title of the book is the boy who wore blue and it was actually his triplet color It’s a Wonderful story it’s a reminder to just live your best life she
Went on the Today’s Show to talk about it with Savannah Guthrie it’s the only thing that I have left as a mom is to be his voice do I wish we were not under these circumstances hell yes I’d live in a cardboard box on a street to have my
Son home but that isn’t going to happen Ethan also worked at a tulip farm in Washington the kid loved working with him the farm created a yellow tulip to remember him it’s called Ethan’s smile his smile was just amazing so cute he always smiled he did all the time and
Jim and Stacy say Ethan was in love tell us what you want to share about that relationship we were blessed to spend the summer with Zanna the most important thing I think that people should know is that uh Ethan was exactly where he wanted to be we say in our family he was
In the right place at the wrong time and you know you just have to live with that Ethan’s girlfriend Zan kodal lived at the King Road House they were very sweet together that’s where he stayed most nights we all knew it he’s a college kid who was in love Stacy did
Something this year that surprised even her she went to crime conon in Orlando Florida there is a huge National following of True Crime in this nation we happen to be at the epicenter of it I was asked to sit on a panel and talk about the great things that can come
From tragedy I actually got to meet with a group of you know 24 victims families you know that are kind of in a similar National Spotlight but I was curious if there was some support kind of a support group there I happened to be walking by when they were doing the Idaho session
They were doing a question and answer there were some things that weren’t quite right and I thought well here’s my chance my name is Stacy chapen and I’m Ethan’s mom you could have heard a pin drop in that room I can speak on behalf of my own son who was an incredible
Human how did it feel to do that actually it was it felt quite empowering and we miss them all terribly I have no problem reminding people that there is a real family and a son or you know people behind these stories did you know you had all this strength in you
Not this kind of strength the chapen say they will not be at the upcoming trial there’s nothing there that’s going to bring Ethan back so we decide to take the positive energy and use it somewhere else it took one of our kids right it just can’t syn the
Rest of our family and and that’s how we decided to take it uh it it’s a choice the Chapin were at the fraternity for the presentation of the first ever Sigma Kai Ethan chapen Memorial Scholarship it’s an endowed scholarship they raised $125,000 and it is a $5,000 scholarship
That will be given to this chapter every year forever to be able to give the first Ethan chapen Memorial scholarship award the recipient tonight is Hunter he is receiving the first Memorial Scholarship of Ethan’s um and that’s pretty special how does it feel to know that Ethan will live on forever here on
The wall in that beautiful award I know it’s amazing it is he’ll he’ll be watching what do you want his legacy to be it’s going to be scholar shiing kids I mean it’s honestly any kid any dream in Ethan’s name I it’s the very very best that we can do for him Hunter
Amazing will one day help to carry that Legacy on for now they’re focusing on healing and just being college students we have protected them at all costs really for the most part they are completely insulated here at the at at the University and that’s the best place
For them we were a great family before and we have to go on and continue to be that and you are that we are Ethan will always be a part of that if the world live life like Ethan it would be a better place he’s a good kid and we miss
Him good kid he genuinely was one of a kind you just get to a point where you have to make a decision to carry on and Stacy also shared this very special photo with us she now has a tattoo in Ethan’s little boy handwriting
On her arm that says I love you mom a constant reminder of her son always right there with her on Monday night on the one-year Mark of Ethan’s death the chapen family held a Gayla fundraiser for the Ethan smile Foundation the goal to raise more money for Scholarships in
Ethan’s name the Chapin say that was the best possible thing they could do on that oneyear Mark his story will be shared with everyone everyone can hopefully live life like Ethan memories of Ethan are everywhere on campus at the U ofi for his fraternity Brothers how the sigma
Kais are making sure his name lives on in that chapter this fraternity is very special to me the camaraderie is all there uh the brotherhood’s all there a year after the killings on King Road the sigma Kai fraternity Brothers at the University of Idaho are now sharing their memories about Ethan
Chapen the four students we talked to are from Eagle Meridian and greville we went to the sigma Kai house in Moscow and heard about their love for Ethan and how they’re trying to heal together here at the sigma Kai house at the University of Idaho memories of Ethan chapen are
Everywhere I have never met someone who so like universally Lov everyone liked him he just like the happiest person to be around everyone wanted to be around him losing Ethan in such a tragic way has imp impacted each of these students the feelings and the emotions are still
Fresh right after that happened I mean it was it was a mad house up in Moscow uh there’s news people everywhere and I don’t it was just no one knew what was going on really cuz stuff like that isn’t really happen in a town like this
But I think as a house we all banded together it was hard cuz a lot of people went home I felt way better when I was up here with my brothers rather than being at home I needed to be around these guys talking about what I was
Feeling talking about e maybe we want to talk about memories with e all of us knew that no one was going to look down on them for sharing their emotions or you know anything like that how we handled that as a fraternity it wasn’t one person handling the situation we
Handled it as a Brotherhood and I think that really helped us uh get through they each shared happy memories of Ethan coolest guy you’ll ever meet that’s that’s about it right there he was a really big funny happy guy when someone I’d walk in the room like not just me
Anybody um he would welcome you into the room he was always very kind in everything that he did he always would call me Gussy Gus and his little raspy voice you know emotionally always there for people one of my favorite memories with him was my apartment flooded one night after
A big party cuz there was all sorts of plumbing problems with it it’s an old house went over to zanta and I was hanging out with the two of them and we just talked for like hours and hours and Zanna made us grilled cheese sandwiches and Ethan and I are just sitting there
Talking so that’s one of like my my most like cherished memories with him you know like I just I think back to that night a lot and I try to focus on nights like that rather than the sad ones when it comes to e the brothers lost Ethan’s girlfriend
Zanna kodal that terrible night too him and Zanna were just like the most perfect couple you could imagine that’s just how she was like she was just able to come over here and hang out with all the dudes and it was like oh hey what’s
Up Zanna he said that Ethan was like the most universally loved person on campus I think Zanna was right up there with Ethan like I everyone loved Zan everyone loved Ethan both of them were just flourishing flourishing for sure Hunter chapen Ethan’s brother is also a member of this house it was kind
Of tough cuz it was a subject that he didn’t want to talk about for a while just kind of letting him know that we are there if he ever does want to talk just kind of knowing that that’s open for him if he ever does need a release
To to let his emotions out to us when we were there the first Sigma Kai Ethan chapen Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Hunter the chapen family was there his mom his dad his sister Maisy and there was a standing ovation I think it obviously means a lot um going
To Hunter you know we’re talking all about e right now but Hunter’s right there with him you know like they’re they’re very very similar people especially with what Hunter’s gone through obviously and then the way he’s come out on the other end like the person he is now like personally I don’t
Think I could be not okay the word isn’t okay but be yeah that strong um in a situation like that like if I were to lose one of my brothers for Hunter to go through all that and then come out on the other end you know as strong and as
Great of a man as he is now like that exemplifies everything Ethan did um in the past and I think it’s 100% Hunters deserving of it I think it means a lot that uh Sigma Kai took the the bull by the horns and made this scholarship a thing in the world uh raised
$125,000 for the scholarship which is absolutely insane um and that’s $5,000 to a sigma Kai every single year which is incredible I don’t think there’s a better way to honor Ethan than to just help some more people help more people go to college exactly he did he gave his
Whole life so let’s keep on giving in the name of Ethan the scholarship award plaque and photos of Ethan will live on here at Sigma Kai forever we all are wearing these bracelets I don’t know if I can’t see if yeah we we all are words
On yeah mine’s all faded we got these at his memorial last year and they said live life like Ethan on them and I haven’t taken mine off since and every morning when I look at my wrist and I see this I just know I should live life
Like Ethan that day so I think that the the stories of Ethan are going to just go from generation to generation from pledge class to pledge class and I think that’s amazing that his story will be shared with everyone and everyone can hopefully live life like Ethan the separation of being a journalist and being a person maybe initially that wasn’t difficult but later on I think it started to take a toll where I had to realize like wow I haven’t processed this have I coming up the media descended upon the small town
Of Moscow a year ago we take a look at a different perspective student journalists reporting on the murders of their classmates when four students were found stabbed to death in a house just off the UI campus people wanted to know know what was going on some of the first to
Share that information young reporters who were also ufi students one of those reporters now works for the Idaho Press and Brian Holmes talked with her about what reporting on this story as a college student was like I remember we all first heard of it through the Vandal alert that went out
Through text I saw a message that was pretty vague it said something about homide had occurred right off campus please remain inside getting away from the area if you can yet as a reporter hotti aari’s first instinct was to not stay away from the area but to go
Straight there what did you see when you first showed up so it wasn’t necessarily anything unusual just uh the area taped off the police talked to us we never would have imagined that it was so many individuals involved and that was just such a random act of violence I think
Throughout the day we were getting a sense that something bigger was going on we were hearing things through through like social media saying four students are dead a rumor confirmed that night by another argona reporter who was a friend of one of the victims he pulled me aside
And wanted to talk to me and he could let me know what happened it wasn’t until the next morning that it was publicly announced as editor and chief hadia had to balance her roles overseeing a paper while also keeping an eye on her people I wasn’t just thinking
About myself at that time you know I was thinking first as a journalist as serving our community not putting my emotions first but doing it for them and then secondly making sure that my staff was doing okay and that they were being safe how are you doing at a certain
Point that is all you can do meanwhile doing the job my name is Chief James fry with the Moscow Police Department was getting more difficult for hadia and other reporters I think a lot of people got really frustrated with the local police department um and I shared those frustrations initially for example
Within 2 hours of the first Vandal alert students got a second one despite not having a suspect Moscow Police Department believed there was not an active threat to the community they weren’t as open as they should have been the public information issues were highlighted by the fact it took 3 days
For police to talk to the media we have directly tried to push out some information through press releases um but the reality is um I probably should have been standing here a day or so ago but I’m here now but the initial consequences of that um led to a lot of
Critique getting a lot of tension in the community and a lot of rumors yeah a lot of rumors cuz if people couldn’t get facts they were going to find it in their own way their own facts so hadia wrote a fact versus fiction article to address that that really just came to
Fruition cuz I was hearing all these weird rumors and some of them I would hear and I would immediately roll my eyes I would immediately know like that’s just not true that’s not related that’s not what happened so I just took it upon myself to do some Bas level
Research and I was able to put that piece together those first couple of days mhm what was the most difficult part I think maybe it was just the separation of being a journalist and being a person maybe initially that wasn’t difficult but later on I think it
Started to take a toll where I had to realize like wow I haven’t processed this have I so when did you then realize that you’re also dealing with this as a student as a person I think for me maybe one of the first times that I was able
To process it this is where I would ask that you turn on your electronic candles if you have them was at the vigil that happened on campus about 2 weeks later Zanna kodal I made the choice to not attend it in person actually I just decided like I
Need a moment I don’t want to go to the vigil to cover it and the only cure to pain is love it’s the only thing that’s going to heal us that’s the only thing that’s going to heal you I think that’s when it really hit me like wow this has
Been a lot and this isn’t going to calm down anytime soon you said you needed a moment what did you do just sitting with it just accepting it not you know what can I do to make this better ultimately there isn’t anything anyone can do to make this better it happened what also
Happened is hadia learned a lot about her community yeah if anything I think a lot of people kind of grew some bonds and some ability to lean on each other caught in the middle of covering a tragedy and grieving it at the same time may have taken a toll on argonut
Reporter like hadia however time has helped her keep it in perspective I just try to remind myself too like it’s not like I’m the victim here you know the people that really matter are the families the friends those that are going to remember this every single
Year and not only did the murders Rock the small protected community of Moscow it also captured the attention of millions of people online Tik Tok podcasts online forums you name it people were talking about this story and sharing their own theories about who did it Kyle simchuk with our sister station
And Spokan sat down with the author of a new book about the spectacle this case has become within a matter of days it seemed like the entire country even parts of the world had heard of the murders on King Road and knew the names and faces
Of the young victims the hash Idaho 4 began trending on Twitter and the case wasn’t left behind in the 24-hour news cycle Network television Crews stood shoulder-to-shoulder ticktockers and YouTubers flocked to the small college town some as far away as Florida college kids this is horrific it’s just horrific
Whether this made national news or not we were coming regardless because um we just wanted to support the community we wanted to support these families we wanted to support the victims investigators remained tight lipped for nearly two months and there was a reason for that but despite this people wanted
Answers and some internet sleuths began to create their own but no one except for Idaho Police and the FBI had Brian coburger on their radar and when the PHD student was arrested in Pennsylvania over winter break and touched down on the polio days later the national Spotlight intensified this case with the
Mystery sort of hanging out there uh was was the perfect setup for that that social media frenzy people weighing in people contributing evidence it’s been one year and Jay Ruben appan has already written a book on the case and some people say like well how can you have
This book without without the trial right I never intended to write a book that included the trial this was to me not about Brian cober Appleman says his book while Idaho slept provides more context on the case and focuses on the victims and the Moscow Community it was
About how the community repairs itself how um communities in general repair themselves from the visit of this kind of violence uh how how uh the surviving family members find Hope in their lives how they move forward Appleman says his decision to write the book wasn’t just influenced by all the attention the case
Has received his own daughter went to the University of Idaho and he’s lived in the state for decades the violence never leaves the communities it never leaves the families it it drifts from shoulder to shoulder among everybody who was affected by these crimes and that’s really the story that I wanted to tell
We think a year is a long time but in in in their hearts and in their psyche and and in their you know what we would call inherited trauma a year is nothing there are a lot of people up there that are living with a lot of heartbreak even if
They didn’t know these students I’m Kyle simchuk reporting and in the days after the murders things changed at the University of Idaho the once sleepy campus saw increased police patrols and the national media arrived red on scene but despite being in the spotlight for such a terrible crime the university has
Actually attracted more students look at this in 2022 the university had the largest class of freshmen enroll at the University and just a year later they followed that with the second largest class of freshmen in school history retention of students is also up more than 1% year after year and National
Statistics show undergraduate enrollment is down across the country since the pandemic but the total enrollment at the University of Idaho climbed in 2023 to nearly 12,000 students coming up a year later candles set the administration lawn a glow at the University of Idaho as students remember their former classmates keeping
Their memories alive and people across the Gem State are showing solidarity with Moscow a look at how people in the Treasure Valley are honoring the four victims Monday marked one year since the lives of four Young University of Idaho students were taken idahoans from boisey to North Idaho gathered this week to honor and to remember the lives of Madison Mogan Kaylee Gonzalez Zanna kodal and Ethan chapen vigils were held both in Moscow and at the U ofi campus
In boisee in Moscow hundreds of people gathered on the University of Idaho Administration lawn for a student L vigil all four victims members of Greek life at the University and representatives from the girls sororities and Ethan’s fraternity spoke at this vigil there were many kind words that were used to describe Maddie the
Most common being kind loving genuine driven stunning outgoing this list can go on forever but most of all bright Maddie was a bright person she had a bright smile she had a bright future Maddie was bright she was bright in every way that a person could be Kaye
Gonzalves had a contagious laugh I mean you could hear it in the other room it was so unapologetically her I miss this laugh every day she laughed often at herself and with others Kaye was beautiful inside and out a lot of people say you don’t know what you have until it’s
Gone however Zanna Coral does not fit into that category Pi beta 5 was blessed to have Zan’s presence blessed to have known her and to call her a sister she made an impact on her organization that will never be forgotten she meant so much to everyone
Around her and that’s just who e was the life of the party always optimistic always looking for excitement the type of person to pick you up when you’re down to keep you at a high when you’re up there’s not many people I’ve met in my life that I can
Wholeheartedly say exemplify the true meaning of what it means to be happy there was a moment of silence after each speaker and the university says it was important for students to lead this vigil because it allows them to move forward together Ethan Zanna Madison and Kaye will continue to have
Their stories told and their legacies honored for years to come Governor Brad little released a statement on the one-year Mark of the murders the statement reads in part quote during a time of intense sadness and hurt we saw idah hoens and those impacted come together with an important
Message spend time with those you love and tell family and friends that you love them often boisee State University also remembered the lives of the four students the lights at Albertson stadium look at this shined in this yellow hue in bright Vandal solidarity and on Monday night several
Dozen people came out to the University of Idaho College of Law in boisee to honor these victims and show their support for the Vandal Community from afar our Abby Davis was there as the community took a moment of silence to remember these victims please buy your head in silence
As we um honor those forong far from Moscow but still part of the Vandal family vandals are only going to be stronger through this struggle and I thank you for coming out dozens of University of Idaho Boise students and alumni gathered Monday night to honor the lives of Ethan chapen Zanna kodal
Madison Mogan and Kaylee Gonzalez I remember when it uh the news broke about it and it was really hard to hear I was thinking of all my friends up in Moscow hoping that they were okay praying for their safety praying for um the four students families um I can’t even
Imagine what they went through I think most people like us we think about it all the time so to come out and commemorate this on the 1-year anniversary just felt like something we really wanted to do law student Julia chovi says they started organizing the vigil last week we had heard of the
Student Le event being held in Moscow um in remembrance of the four students and we wanted to in solidarity with our Moscow classmates have a student Le event down here um concurrently so we held it at the same time as theirs for Julie ainger seeing everyone come
Together meant a lot being a Vandal goes beyond just your four years in college and you know the years after that it’s it’s a lifetime thing and we’re always here for each other so to see that tonight was really important although far from Moscow the events of November
13th 2022 still hit too close to home like any tragedy where there’s this much grief you just have to deal with it head on and the best way to do do that is just to deal with it face it and and share the grief with each other the
Vandal Family Sharing in their grief and now in their healing hug someone here that you care about it’s hard to believe that it’s been a whole year but I just really hope moving forward that their families can find peace and get the justice that they deserve and the people at that visil
Told us they hope this becomes a tradition for the boisey campus they want to gather every year to remember and honor these four students so where does the case stand right now Brian coburger the man accused of the murders he is still in the Leon
County jail he was in died by a grand jury back in May a judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf he has waved his right to a speedy trial and the trial itself has been delayed indefinitely there is no start date just yet for now we continue to mourn the
Loss of Maddie Kaylee Ethan and Zanna they will always be in our Hearts
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