Skye Borgman has recently reacted to the 2022 case in Idaho, where four students were murdered in an off-campus Moscow home.
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Add BollywoodShaadis on GoogleOn November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students, including Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, were killed in an off-campus Moscow home, shocking the small college town. The case drew national attention during a long manhunt that ended with the arrest of Bryan Kohberger.
Netflix’s three-part series The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare, which arrived on July 29, 2026, traces the investigation using family interviews and previously sealed police footage. Now, the director of the documentary, Skye Borgman, has reacted to the case.
Bryan Kohberger was a former PhD student in criminology at Washington State University who was arrested in connection with the November 13, 2022 killings of four University of Idaho students in Moscow, Idaho. After a lengthy legal process, he entered a guilty plea.
Accounts from court records and people who knew him in graduate school describe him as socially withdrawn. Several former classmates said they had uncomfortable interactions with him, and he was later dismissed from his teaching assistant role. In a recent interview with Fox News Digital, Skye Borgman, director of the Netflix documentary The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare, shared her view on why that specific house was targeted and said:
“The fact that was the house that he chose. This was a house that had five women living in it. The night that the murders happened, Xana Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, was over, but really, this was a house full of women, and it seems quite clear that he targeted it. He watched the house; he was around the house in the days, weeks and months leading up to the murders.”
She also suggested he may have held hostility toward women, and noted there has been public discussion about whether he identified with the incel community, though she described that as speculation.
The documentary includes interviews and records that portray Kohberger as not well liked by peers. Classmates told filmmakers he often spoke down to women, engaged in mansplaining, and could become argumentative or aggressive. Multiple students said they found his behaviour “creepy” and felt uneasy around him.
Moscow Police Chief Anthony Dahlinger said in the film there were just strange incidents and strange behaviour. Former Washington State University Police Chief Gary Jenkins recalled an account of a student who felt cornered by Kohberger and believed he sometimes followed her to her car. Kohberger was eventually terminated from his TA position. Jenkins explained that none of those reports were sent to police because they did not meet the threshold of a crime.
FBI Special Agent Ed Jacobson stated in the documentary that investigators found no evidence Kohberger was part of the incel movement. He added that Kohberger was very good at hiding his online activity.
For Skye Borgman, the central question that remains is motive. In the latest conversation, she addressed how difficult it is that the reason behind the killings may never be public, and how that affects both the public and the victims’ families. She stated:
“I would love to, I think, along with the rest of the world, know why he did what he did. But it is one of those things that I don't think any of us will ever know. That's a frustrating thing for myself ... and I know especially for the families. They wish so truly that he had been forced through the terms of his plea deal to give us more information about the why of it all.”
Borgman said investigators she spoke with, including an FBI agent, have had to accept that some answers may not come. She noted that this uncertainty is part of why the case drew so much attention for so long.
According to Borgman, the victims’ families are no longer waiting for answers from Kohberger. She said they are focused on honouring Ethan, Maddie, Kaylee, and Xana by helping other families who go through similar tragedies, and choosing to move forward with love rather than hatred.
She also addressed the impact on law enforcement and the Moscow community. Borgman said some officers were so affected by the case that they left policing. She described a period of deep fear in town where people stayed home, followed by a strong sense of community that emerged after the arrest.
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