Chilling 911 call after four university students slaughtered in campus housing revealed

There has been a chilling update after four university students were found brutally slaughtered inside their college housing.

The chilling 911 call made after four university students were butchered in their college home over two years ago has been released for the very first time.

In the early hours of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students – Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20 – were found brutally murdered inside their college housing.

Two remaining female housemates were left unharmed. In December 2022, Bryan Kohberger, now 31, was arrested for the murders and is currently awaiting trial.

Kaylee Goncalves (second from left, bottom), Madison Mogen (second from left, top), Ethan Chapin (centre) and Xana Kernodle (second from right). Picture: Instagram

In a world-first, the audio of the gut-wrenching 911 call made by the surviving housemates to emergency services has been made public for the very first time.

“Hi…Something happened here, something happened in our house and we don’t know what,” a frantic young woman tells the 911 dispatcher in the audio obtained by KXLY Spokane and published by the New York Post.

The caller then explains, between sobs, that one of the housemates was “passed out” and “she’s not waking up.”

“And they saw some man in their house last night,” another friend continues.

The phone is passed between three to four different people, understood to be the two surviving housemates, a female friend and another man.

The callers are heard weeping, stammering, and forcing the dispatcher to repeatedly ask for their address and other key details.

“I need to know right now if someone is passed out! Can you find that out?” the dispatcher asks.

“What’s wrong? She’s not waking up!” a young woman answers in the chaos.

A police officer arrives shortly after and the call concludes.

University of Idaho murder victims with the two housemates that survived. Picture: Instagram

The horrifying four-minute recording has helped prosecutors build a case against Kohberger, a PhD criminology student from the nearby Washington State University.

He is accused of slaughtering the four students just before around 4:30am but leaving their two housemates alive.

The mention of a “man in the house” in the 911 call backs up later testimony by one of the housemates that said she saw a man in a black mask and “bushy eyebrows” leaving through the back door.

The house where four students were murdered in Moscow, Idaho. Picture: Getty Images via AFP

The court had previously kept the 911 recording from the public, and the defence had moved to keep it out of the courtroom entirely, dismissing it as “hearsay.”

The 911 recording is not the only piece of evidence Kohberger’s lawyers want kept away from the jury.

In a blitz of suppression motions filed last month, defenders asked the court to disqualify, for various technical reasons, security camera recordings that show a car similar to Kohberger’s near the crime scene, DNA samples on a knife sheath left at the scene, and more DNA found under a victim’s fingernails.

Bryan Kohberger was arrested in connection with the murder of four university students. Picture: AFP

The defence had also asked the judge to ban the use of words including “murder,” “murder weapon,” “psychopath,” and “bushy eyebrows,” claiming they would prejudice the jury.

Steve Goncalves, the father of Kaylee, told NewsNation that he felt the 911 call did not give him any greater understanding of the horror of what unfolded that fateful night.

“Your brain wants to gravitate to ‘make this make more sense,’” he told the outlet.

“But the truth is, murder never makes sense. This is a psychopathic person who does something that breaks the norm.

Kaylee Goncalves with her best friend Madison Mogen. Picture: Instagram

Xana Kernodle with her partner Ethan Chapin. Picture: Instagram

Hunter Johnson, a close neighbour and the best friend of Ethan Chapin, was at the scene and can be heard on the 911 call searching the house.

“I talked to Hunter directly and it sucks, he had a broken soul,” the father said.

“This is a man who had seen his best friend dead. He was literally just responding to what he probably thought was a prank.

“Thinking his friend, his best buddy, had these girls rolling. He showed up there and he saw the opposite of a prank.”

-With the New York Post

Originally published as Chilling 911 call after four university students slaughtered in campus housing revealed