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When four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their off-campus house on King Road, the media descended on the tiny town of Moscow, Idaho. ABC News Correspondent Kayna Whitworth brings listeners behind the scenes as she investigates the savage murders that captivated and horrified the nation in the winter of 2022. The King Road Killings, an immersive, reported series from ABC Audio, follows the case against Bryan Kohberger, the criminology PhD student charged with the murders. In the series, Whitworth takes a close look at why these students might have been targeted, how fear can grip a town w...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Kayna Whitworth turns a heavily publicized murder case into a clear account of legal strategy, community pressure, and unresolved grief.
Kayna Whitworth keeps The King Road Killings: An Idaho Murder Mystery trained on the legal questions surrounding the killings of four University of Idaho students.
Four life sentences, and you're still waiting for the answer everyone in Moscow wants.
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A steady true-crime opener that turns a disappearance into a betrayal story.
The episode opens with Gigi Chang introducing Sarah Stern's disappearance, and it quickly settles into true-crime reporting that keeps the timeline easy to follow while the questions stay active.
A restrained introduction that turns Vanessa Guillen's story into a wider account of family, duty, and accountability.
The episode opens as a new true crime podcast and gives Vanessa Guillen's story a careful, human frame. It grounds the case in family memory, her enlistment, and the pride around the scholarship check she received, then moves toward the sense that her future was about to change.
A restrained sentencing update that keeps the legal facts and the human loss in view.
The episode uses Brian Koberger's sentencing as its frame, but its real concern is the effect on the victims' families, the court, and a community still asking why this happened.
A careful case update that makes the recent filings and 911 audio easy to follow.
The episode revisits the Brian Koberger case through recent King Road filings and the tense 911 call from the surviving roommate. It moves steadily through the dispatcher exchange and the fear inside the house, while keeping the legal stakes clear as trial gets closer.
A clear venue-change update that gives court procedure and family burden equal attention.
The piece lays out a key venue change in the Kohberger case: Judge John Judge moved the trial out of Moscow, with Boise selected after the court accepted the defense argument about pre-trial publicity in Latah County.
A sentencing hearing where the families take back the courtroom from Brian Koberger.
The episode frames Brian Koberger's sentencing around the people he left behind, lingering with the families and friends of Kaylee Gonsalves, Madison Mogan, Zanna Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin as they speak directly to him.
A locked-room 911 call gives this true-crime opener its steady pulse.
Sarah Miller, a veteran 911 dispatcher in Ashland, Ohio, keeps the focus on a whisper-quiet emergency call that depends on exact, restrained decisions.
A measured update that keeps the focus on grief, procedure, and a case still waiting on trial.
The King Road Killings Update: A Longer Road to Justice tracks the case as it moves toward trial, with Kena Whitworth reporting from Moscow, Idaho.
Ashley Flowers and Britt Prawat revisit unsolved murders and cold cases as new evidence surfaces.
Two friends narrate true crime cases, listener stories, and archived live-tour shows.
Multi-part true crime narration, from BTK's Wichita letters to Australian cold-case disappearances.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
LA Times reporter Christopher Goffard traces con man John Meehan's fraud, abuse, and its Bravo TV adaptation.
In The King Road Killings: An Idaho Murder Mystery, the episode introduces The Hand in the Window through 911 dispatcher Sarah Miller's account of a September 2016 abduction call in Ashland, Ohio.
Kena Whitworth opens with a longer conversation with investigative reporter Howard Bloom about his book When the Night Comes Falling and his effort to understand Brian Koberger's possible motive.
Kena Whitworth opens this Inside the Midnight Order episode by centering the Robert Pickton case, where 33 women’s remains were found on his British Columbia farm and 27 charges were later narrowed in court.
Kena Whitworth returns to Moscow, Idaho, for a hearing over where Brian Kohberger’s murder trial should be held, with the defense pushing to move it out of Latah County and the prosecution arguing the statewide publicity problem is not unique to Moscow.
The episode centers on the November 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho, and uses police body-cam video, roommate accounts, and family interviews to reconstruct the case.
Kena Whitworth opens the bonus episode of The King Road Killings with the first public hearing of the 911 call, made more than seven hours after Kaylee Gonsalves, Madison Mogen, Zanna Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were killed at 112 King Road.
Kena Whitworth returns to Moscow, Idaho for Brian Koberger's January 26 hearing, where the court refuses a defense appeal over grand jury instructions and leaves no trial date set.
Brian Koberger's sentencing in Boise centered on nearly three hours of victim impact statements from the families and surviving roommates of the four University of Idaho students he killed.
The premiere episode of Bridge of Lies, a true crime podcast hosted by Juju Chang, introduces the mysterious disappearance of 19-year-old Sarah Stern from Neptune City NJ in December 2016.
John Quinones introduces a new ABC true-crime podcast focused on Vanessa Guillen.
Brian Koberger is now set to be sentenced after pleading guilty to the murders of four University of Idaho students killed in 2022.
This bonus episode covers Bryan Kohberger's guilty plea in the murders of four University of Idaho students, detailing the courtroom hearing, evidence presented, and mixed reactions from the victims' families as the case nears closure.
The Crime Scene Weekly returns to the King Road killings as the Brian Koberger case moves closer to trial.
This episode covers the decision to move Bryan Kohberger's trial from Moscow to Boise due to pretrial publicity, with analysis from a defense attorney on the legal implications, new judge assignment, and challenges like the death penalty request.
This episode provides an update on the pre-trial proceedings in the Bryan Kohberger case, covering recent hearings, defense motions on DNA evidence and alibi, and the emotional impact on victim families.