Hey Everyone,
People have asked me what it felt likt to report The Idaho Four, given it’s such a dark story.
Today I talk about the most chilling moment for me: I traced Bryan Kohberger’s footsteps and the routes he drove the night of the murder. I sat in a car behind the house at 1122 King Road, in the spot where he would have parked his car on November 13th 2022 - and on the twelve previous times when police believe he was stalking the house.
With me was Alexia “Lexi” Pattinson, a neighbor and friend of the victims. Lexi told me how most nights she’d walk out to her car parked in the cul-de-sac behind the house and see Maddie Mogen at her vanity, putting on her make-up or curling her hair. Maddie’s was the bedroom window you could see clearly from the road.
Anyone would have known it was her bedroom because she had a sign saying Maddie in the window. And a pair of pink cowboy boots.
And Maddie’s room was where Kohberger headed directly after he entered the house on November 13th 2022. That’s a huge reason friends and relatives of the victims believe Maddie was Kohberger’s target.
It was complete happenstance that Kaylee Goncalves was in the room, too. Kaylee had moved out andwas only visiting Maddie for one night to show her her new car.
As for Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin? Again, in a tragic twist of fate, Xana was still up when Kohberger entered because she’d just received a doordash delivery. And Kohberger had to come down the stairs and walk past her room to leave the house….
Standing there above the house with Lexi, looking at the house from the road and thinking about what Kohberger had been staring at; and then replaying the dreadful events of that night…
That was chilling.
The Idaho Four comes out on July 14. You can pre-order it here.
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