Dateline: True Crime Weekly
The Idaho student murders: new details. Karen Read's voicemails. And Sean Combs's trial begins.
Thu, 8 May 2025
Keith Morrison shares his latest reporting on the murders of four University of Idaho students including exclusive interviews and never-before-publicly-seen video. The retrial of Karen Read is in week three. The prosecution plays some of her final voicemails to John O'Keefe. And jury selection is underway in Sean Combs's blockbuster trial.Find out more about the cases covered each week here: www.datelinetruecrimeweekly.com
Chapter 1: What updates are there on the Idaho student murders?
But before all that, we've got two very special guests, Keith Morrison and Dateline producer Shane Bishop. They're here to tell us about their groundbreaking investigation into a crime that stunned the nation, the murders of four University of Idaho students in 2022.
Within days of the tragic discovery that the students had been fatally stabbed in their beds in the college town of Moscow, Idaho, Dateline producers were on the ground covering the story.
For the next two years, Keith and his team followed the case at every turn, reporting on the manhunt, the arrest of the suspected killer, criminology student Brian Koberger, and the family's painful wait for answers. Koberger's trial is set to begin in 12 weeks, and the judge has entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.
Now, Keith is back with Dateline's latest reporting on the case, from never before publicly seen security footage to exclusive interviews with people who crossed paths with Koberger. It's the kind of insight you won't find anywhere else. Keith and Shane, thank you so much for coming on to talk about this.
Our pleasure, I'm sure.
Just remind us, who were the students who were killed in the house in those early hours of November 13th, 2022?
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Chapter 2: Who was the target in the Idaho student murders?
So the four students that were murdered were Maddie Mogan, Kaylee Gonsalves, Zanna Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.
Two of them were about ready to spring into the world, just about, almost finished with their studies. Two were not quite so far along. All were, you know, lauded by their families and by their parents as responsible kids who were nevertheless, you know, going to college and having a good time as college students as well.
Shane, there's always been a question about whether the killer was targeting one of the students in particular. What did you find out about that?
So we've confirmed with investigative sources that they believe the target that night was Maddie Mogan. One reason they believe that is because the killer seems to have gone immediately up to Maddie's room. So he was familiar in some way with where that girl's room was. As we all know by now, the killer found Kaylee with Maddie. These same sources tell us that
there was a struggle upstairs in Maddie's room between Maddie, Kaylee, and the killer. And the noise of that confrontation, the thumping is the words that our source used, got the attention of Zanna on the floor below. So the belief is by these sources that she went up to investigate the thumping upstairs, the killer got interrupted, and then chased Zanna downstairs.
So just awful, awful final moments for these poor students. You found out that there was another girl who was supposed to be there that night, but lucky for her, she had a change of plans. And Keith, you had a very emotional interview with her mom. Let's take a listen.
How soon was it that you thought, my God, she was going to be there?
I didn't think about that right away. All I could think about was the kids. But she just cried. In her bed. She didn't want to talk about it. We just cried together for a long time.
Makes you sad too, doesn't it?
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Chapter 3: What exclusive insights does Keith Morrison provide on the Idaho case?
It does. Wow.
Well, I mean, imagine this. You've got kids yourself, Andrea, and you know how desperate a mother is to keep her children safe. Her daughter was intending to go that weekend to spend several days with her best friend, Maddie Mogan. And... Only at the very last minute, she had to stay at home to watch over the family dog. And if she hadn't, she would have gone to Moscow, Idaho.
She would have been in that house when the murders occurred and probably would have been sleeping in that same bedroom where the murders occurred.
That is chilling. Something else that you learned from court records, which you will go more in depth in the episode, you discovered that Koberger's phone pinged off a cell tower close to the student's house before the murders?
Mm-hmm. So it's been discussed in court documents that the FBI's CAS team, this cellular area survey team, has found 23 instances in which Koberger's cell phone used a tower that served an area within 100 meters of the murder scene between July 9th and November 7th. We have some additional reporting on that that hasn't been out there, some specifics that we'll disclose on Friday.
So there is some never-before-publicly-seen security video, which you'll show. Describe this video for us.
You have to see it to get a full appreciation of it. But there is certainly some pretty dramatic evidence of a white car in the vicinity of the crime scene right around the time it happened and afterwards.
And... You can't say for sure that it's Brian Koberger's car, but he owns a car similar, at least looks similar to what's in that video, right?
Well, we know Koberger owns a white Elantra.
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Chapter 4: What is the latest in Karen Read's retrial?
Chapter 5: What evidence is being presented in Sean Combs's trial?
Inside a federal courthouse in downtown Manhattan, hundreds of prospective jurors are being narrowed down to the 12 who will sit in judgment of a music legend.
Jury selection is officially underway in the sex trafficking trial of Sean Diddy Combs.
But before all that, we've got two very special guests, Keith Morrison and Dateline producer Shane Bishop. They're here to tell us about their groundbreaking investigation into a crime that stunned the nation, the murders of four University of Idaho students in 2022.
Within days of the tragic discovery that the students had been fatally stabbed in their beds in the college town of Moscow, Idaho, Dateline producers were on the ground covering the story.
For the next two years, Keith and his team followed the case at every turn, reporting on the manhunt, the arrest of the suspected killer, criminology student Brian Koberger, and the family's painful wait for answers. Koberger's trial is set to begin in 12 weeks, and the judge has entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.
Now, Keith is back with Dateline's latest reporting on the case, from never before publicly seen security footage to exclusive interviews with people who crossed paths with Koberger. It's the kind of insight you won't find anywhere else. Keith and Shane, thank you so much for coming on to talk about this.
Our pleasure, I'm sure.
Just remind us, who were the students who were killed in the house in those early hours of November 13th, 2022?
So the four students that were murdered were Maddie Mogan, Kaylee Gonsalves, Zanna Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.
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