What’s one more documentary about the brutal 2022 quadruple homicide of four University of Idaho students?
On July 29, Netflix will join Peacock (The Idaho Student Murders) and Amazon Prime Video (One Night in Idaho: The College Murders) with an Idaho student murders documentary series of its own, The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare. But this one is the “definitive” one, so says Netflix and executive producer Joe Berlinger (Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey).
Skye Borgman (of the excellent Netflix docuseries Unknown Number: The High School Catfish) directs The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare, which boasts “unprecedented access to the victims’ families and police footage,” per the streamer. You can see some of the bodycam capture in the trailer (below).
On Nov. 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were murdered in an off-campus home. For weeks, their killer was unknown. DNA evidence left behind on a knife sheath pointed to Bryan Kohberger, a PhD student at the nearby Washington State University, who has since pleaded guilty to the murders.
“When I first came to this story, I kept coming back to one simple thought: four young people lost their lives, and they deserved to be remembered for far more than the tragedy that took them,” Borgman said in a statement. “Making this series became deeply personal to me because I felt a responsibility to keep Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin at the center of every decision we made. At a time when so much attention has been focused on the case itself, I felt it was important to create something that brings the focus back to who they were, the lives they lived and the love that still surrounds them.”
“As a father of two daughters who had great college experiences, this case struck a nerve with me, unlike many stories I’ve covered,” Berlinger said. “Though we were among the first documentarians on the scene, it was important to us to tell the complete story. This documentary is the definitive account: unprecedented access to key family members, never-before-seen bodycam footage, police interviews revealing case details for the first time, and access to forensic evidence. We felt the best way to honor the victims was to tell the full, accurate story of everything that happened that horrible night in Idaho.”
Gina Scarlata, Jon Kamen and Jen Isaacson also executive produce the three-episode series, which hails from RadicalMedia and Third Eye Motion Picture Company.
Watch the trailer:
One Night in Idaho: The College Murders has been renewed by Prime Video for a second season.
