What is One Night in Idaho: The College Murders about? Everything you need to know about the Prime Video series

Prime Video just debuted a chilling official trailer for One Night in Idaho: The College Murders, a four-part docuseries about real-life events surrounding the murder of four University of Idaho students' murder in the silence of the night. The docuseries is a gripping inside look at the case that shook the entire nation down to its bones.

Here's everything that you need to know about the upcoming Prime Video project titled One Night in Idaho: The College Murders.

One Night in Idaho: The College Murders: A gripping tale of crime and murder

The morning of November 13, 2022, brought with it the shocking news of the death of four University of Idaho students. Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, and Xana Kernodle, 20, were all brutally stabbed in their off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho, a crime for which Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old criminology graduate, was eventually arrested by the Moscow police.

Prime Video's One Night in Idaho: The College Murders, which is set to release in a four-part docuseries on July 11, is an in-depth look into the case, including interviews with family members such as the Chapins and the Mogens, and closest friends who were also targeted by the ameteur sleuthers at one point with their personal information and home addresses blasted on the Internet for anybody to find.

Prime Video's One Night in Idaho: The College Murders tries to immortalize the story of the side that has been untold for a long time in heartwrenching detail, as exclusive interviews with the parents of Ethan Chapin, his sister, and the parents of Madison Mogan are featured in the trailer:

"What is the side that is untold? At the end of the day, these kids are victims. And their families deserve their stories to be told in fulsome, loving ways."

Filmmakers Liz Garbus and Matthew Galkin, known for their previous projects revolving around true crime and the people affected, who are mostly ignored by the police and the media, talk about their experience with One Night in Idaho: The College Murders in a conversation with Rolling Stone. Galkin explains:

"In the first conversation with the Chapins, one of the things that truly struck me was their description of being swept up in this circus from the inside. All of the Tiktok videos and hypothesizing and having their son’s name dragged through the mud unfairly, obviously, because none of [the conspiracy theories] turned out to be true. I felt like we had never seen that story told from that perspective. Major crime in 2025 has all of these layers of attention and social media and speculation where that didn’t exist a few decades ago, but now it’s what all of these families have to deal with on a daily basis."

The story of their death grew to be one of the most high-profile cases in all of America, but with the onslaught of amateur social media sleuthing, and little official information from the Moscow police, there was no inside look at how the people who were most affected by these deaths dealt with the loss and the media frenzy which followed.

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