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The 911 Call

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The transcript captures one roommate saying, 'She's not breathing,' while dispatch keeps asking, 'What's going on right now?'

1. The King Road Killings: An Idaho Murder Mystery centers this bonus episode on the first public release of the 911 call tied to the Moscow, Idaho killings. 2. Kena Whitworth hosts the episode, Julie Scott reports from Moscow, Idaho, and Brian Buckmeyer explains the legal strategy as an ABC News legal contributor. 3. The episode asks what the newly released call, text messages, and filings reveal about the case before Brian Koberger's trial. 4. Whitworth says Koberger's trial is five months away and that recent court document releases ended part of the secrecy around the case. 5. Scott says the 911 call was made more than seven hours after Kaylee Gonsalves, Madison Mogen, Zanna Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were killed. 6. The episode places the killings between 4:00 and 4:20 a.m. based on the probable cause affidavit. 7. A new filing shows surviving roommates texting and calling during the night, then sending a 10:23 a.m. message that says, 'please answer, are you up?'. 8. The 911 call begins at 11:55 a.m. and starts with dispatch asking for the address at 112 King Road. 9. The audio shows multiple people on the line, the phone being passed around, and one caller saying a roommate had 'passed out' after being drunk the night before. 10. Dispatch asks, 'Is she breathing?' and then says an ambulance and law enforcement have already been sent. 11. Scott says the call is 'raw,' 'jagged,' and full of 'chaos and disbelief and screams.' 12. The family of Kaylee Gonsalves issued a statement that calls the recording 'a searing, unvarnished truth.' 13. The timeline now includes text messages between the surviving roommates from 4:22 to 4:24. 14. Those texts include 'Zanna was wearing all black' and 'no, it's like a ski mask almost,' which adds a new description to the record. 15. The filing also says the second-floor roommate called Kaylee Gonsalves again at 4:27 and texted her at 4:32, pleading for her to answer. 16. Buckmeyer explains that the defense wants to exclude some DNA evidence because, in his words, 'when the DNA helps you, you want it in.' 17. He describes why partial or mixed DNA results can be called inconclusive and why the defense may want to keep a three-person mixture under Maddie's fingernails out of evidence. 18. The discussion turns to Judge Stephen Hippler, who said he is 'particularly sensitive about closing things when we don't need to' and criticized over-caution about sealing records. 19. The episode will appeal to listeners following the Idaho case, court procedure, and the fight over evidence in a capital prosecution. 20. It may be less useful for listeners who do not want detailed trial filings or crime-scene audio.

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A sober courtroom update that ties the newly released call to the case's next legal moves.

The episode follows the case as secrecy gives way to a string of recent developments: key court documents have been released, the 911 call is heard in full for the first time, and the trial is now five months away.

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The 911 call finally surfaces, alongside new court filings and the venue shift in Kohberger's trial.

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