Today, we're sharing a breaking news episode of the ABC News podcast "The King Road Killings: An Idaho Murder Mystery." In this episode, the 911 call made hours after the murders is made public and the judge orders the release of documents that could prove key to the case: transcripts of the text messages between the surviving roommates. We’ll hear the 911 audio in its entirety. The new judge says he wants more transparency from both sides in Bryan Kohberger’s case. Kayna Whitworth talks with ABC News contributors Julie Scott and Brian Buckmire about the new developments. For more on this story as it develops, follow "The King Road Killings" on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-king-road-killings-an-idaho-murder-mystery/id1687357696), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6mBtF4lQkWh1PyaDrmSrxD), or wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who introduces the episode and what is it about?
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Hi, it's Kena Whitworth. Welcome to a bonus episode of The King Road Killings. With Brian Koberger's trial just five months away, there's been a lot of secrecy surrounding the case. Some of that came to an end in recent days with the release of key court documents. And now, for the first time. We heard the 911 call.
It was made over seven hours after Kaylee Gonsalves, Madison Mogan, Zanna Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were killed. In this episode, we're going to play that call for you in full. This sudden flurry of information is in part because of the change of venue, which moved the location of the trial from Moscow, Idaho, where the murders took place, to Boise.
With that change came a new judge who was assigned to the case in November, Judge Stephen Hippler. And Hippler seemingly has lost patience with the way the case has been handled so far.
He said the case is infringed on the public's First Amendment right to know about the court's progress because the prosecution and defense have been trying to seal so much of the material that will be presented in court. What we've learned in the past few days could change the way we see this whole case and answer questions that have been brewing since the murders happened more than two years ago.
In this episode, I'm going to talk with two people who've been following this case closely. First, we'll speak with ABC News contributor Julie Scott. She's a journalist who's based in Moscow, Idaho. And then I'll be joined by ABC News legal contributor Brian Buckmeyer to talk about the legal strategy that's been playing out behind closed doors.
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Chapter 2: What details are revealed about the 911 call?
And when she saw that man, She then went and retreated to her room and locked the door. And that's what we knew. Now we know that she was corresponding with the other roommate about those actual events.
I have this filing in front of me. It starts to really give you the timeline here. From 419 to 421, the surviving roommate on the second floor, the one who told authorities she saw someone clad in black in the home, attempts to call not only the roommate on the first floor, but also Zanna Kernodle, Kaylee Gonsalves, and Madison Mogan. The filing says all of those calls are unanswered.
Then between 422 and 424, she texts back and forth with the surviving roommate on the first floor. And it starts with the roommate on the second floor saying, no one is answering. I'm really confused. Then The roommate on the first floor sends a text message to the roommate on the second floor saying, yeah, dude, WTF. Zanna was wearing all black.
Next text is from the roommate on the second floor to the roommate on the first floor saying, no, it's like a ski mask almost.
Right. So in the confusion, um, She's thinking, and we can go back to the probable cause affidavit, but she's thinking, what did I just see? Was that Zanna? Or no, it can't be because there was someone in a ski mask. That's giving the first signs of a description of what the surviving roommate actually saw.
And then you really see the fear set in, right? and the roommate there on the first floor saying, come to my room, run down here. 4.27, the roommate on the second floor again calls Kaylee Gonsalves, and at 4.32, pleading with her over text message to answer her phone.
I mean, it sends chills. Every time I look at that correspondence, but we know at that point that Most likely from the probable cause affidavit and the police reports that Kaylee is probably dead at that point.
And as we learn about these text messages, we learn about the 911 call. This is all after Coburger's lead attorney, Ann Taylor, has really tried to create some questions about the surviving roommate, about her credibility. And they even bring up this description of bushy eyebrows. And right now, Koberger's defense team does not want her to be able to use that description in court.
Which is really interesting. Again, we're learning a lot of information that we never had. We didn't have a description of the surviving roommate's room before. But Koberger's team is saying that when police photographed the crime scene right after the killings, her room was found to have had many pictures of eyes with prominent eyebrows on the walls in her room.
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