The Idaho Student Murders: What do we know about the crimes of Bryan Kohberger? Details revealed as new Peacock documentary surfaces 

Peacock's recently released documentary titled The Idaho Student Murders features the harrowing incident of November 2022, where four students were butchered to death in their Idaho rental home by a 27-year-old criminology student.

The official synopsis for the documentary reads as follows:

''A feature documentary focuses its lens on the pre-trial case against Bryan Kohberger, a young criminology student accused of brutally stabbing to death four University of Idaho coeds. Could Kohberger have been a serial killer in the making, a man who hates women...''

The four victims identified in The Idaho Student Murders are — Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, and Xana Kernodle, 21.

While Bryan Kohberger, the primary suspect in the case, denied the prosecutor's accusations, he changed his statement on July 2, 2025. Bryan Kohberger accepted all four charges of murder and one of burglary to avoid the death penalty if he were found guilty by the prosecution.

More on this in our story.

The Idaho Student Murders: Inside the crimes of Bryan Kohberger

The Idaho Student Murders documents the harrowing crimes of Bryan Kohberger, who murdered four students at their home near the University of Idaho campus in November 2022.

Before his guilty plea, Prosecuting Attorney Bill Thompson provided a thorough research of his crimes in the court on July 2, 2025, which sheds light on the young student's crimes and what went down inside that Idaho home.

While Bryan Kohberger committed the act in November 2022, he had started planning for his killing spree back in March 2022, while living in his parents' Pennsylvania home.

According to his search history, he bought a military-grade Ka-Bar knife and sheath from Amazon, which ultimately became the murder weapon in The Idaho Student Murders.

He then moved to Pullman, Washington, to pursue a PhD in criminology at Washington State University, which was minutes away from the Idaho murder site and took frequent trips to the house (as his phone records suggested).

In the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, Bryan entered the said rental home through the kitchen sliding door and slipped onto the third floor, where he found Mogen and Goncalves, two of his four victims, sleeping in their beds.

Bryan used his Amazon knife to butcher the two college seniors in their sleep and left the knife's sheath beside them, which had his DNA.

As documented in The Idaho Student Murders, he encountered Kernodle on the stairs, who was collecting a food delivery. He used the same knife and butchered the girl, leaving her to die on the stairs.

Later, he slipped into her bedroom and found her boyfriend, 20-year-old Chapin, and butchered him too, before slipping away from the house for good. Thompson's statement in the court was recorded as follows:

“We will not represent that he intended to commit all of the murders that he did that night, but we know that that is what resulted.''

The Idaho Student Murders: Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to his crimes

After murdering four students and slipping back into his Pullman home, Bryan Kohberger returned to his murder site and retrieved the bloody knife, which he then dumped into a water body in Lewiston, Idaho.

While the murder weapon was never found, his trip to the town confirmed his motive. In addition, he frantically tried to delete his Amazon search history and also changed his car's registration from Pennsylvania to Idaho, which made him the prime suspect in the investigation.

While Bryan Kohberger denied all charges before, one day before the release of The Idaho Student Murders, he shockingly changed his plea to guilty for four murder charges and one burglary.

This changed plea removes the death penalty on the suspect and he would now spend the rest of his life behind bars, serving four consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.

The Idaho Student Murders is now streaming on Peacock.

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