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The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare on Netflix chronicles the stranger-than-fiction murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle, whose lifeless bodies were found at their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho.

According to a supplemental filing from prosecutors, the University of Idaho students were stabbed at least 150 times on November 13th, 2022, which led the cops to Bryan Kohberger, a then-28-year-old PhD student at nearby Washington State University, who was arrested and charged with their murders on December 30th, 2022.

Right before the case was to go to trial on July 25th, Kohberger entered a guilty plea to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary to avoid facing the death penalty. While he received four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, Kohberger attempted to file a petition to obtain a court case and withdraw his guilty plea two days before the Netflix documentary aired.

Although The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare takes a victim-first approach, offering in-depth details on the investigation, the Netflix docu-series omits a select few alarming details about Kohberger and the case. So, for those curious, here are five unsettling details you may not find in the documentary.

Five disturbing details The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare leaves out

Bryan Kohberger was allegedly diagnosed with multiple mental health conditions

The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare mentions Bryan Kohberger’s online posts about struggling with visual snow syndrome. However, the three-part docu-series doesn’t address his alleged mental health conditions.

In a June 2025 court filing obtained by PEOPLE, Kohberger wrote that he was reportedly diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (level 1), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) in February that year. It was noted in his filing that the only medication he was on was levothyroxine.

Bryan Kohberger spoke to his mother for hours the day of the murders

The Netflix documentary on The Idaho Murders reveals that Bryan Kohberger’s phone records suggest he didn’t talk to anyone other than family. However, what it doesn’t pull back the curtain on is that less than two hours after the crime, he called his mother, Maryann Kohberger.

The digital forensics expert Heather Barnhart, who led the team responsible for analysing Kohberger’s phone and drive, told PEOPLE that Kohberger rang his mother from his home. When she didn’t answer, he tried contacting his father to ask what’s been up with Maryann. It was only at 6.17 that he got hold of his mother and talked for 36 minutes.

Following this, Kohberger again called his mother at 8.03, allegedly the same time he was on his way back to the crime scene at King Road. They spoke for another 54 minutes, and he lurked around the property for 10 minutes before pulling up at his Pullman, Washington, residence, where he took a selfie showing a thumbs up. He called Maryann at 9 again and spoke for nine minutes.

This was followed by a two-minute call at 16.05. Kohberger’s last call to his mother on the day of the murders was at 17.53, which lasted a whopping 96 minutes!

Bryan Kohberger wanted to put the blame on the victims’ friends

Before pleading guilty to avoid facing the death penalty in July 2025, Bryan Kohberger allegedly planned to pin the blame for the murders on the victims’ friends and a relative.

A court order from Ada County District Court Judge Steven Hippler obtained by PEOPLE states the perpetrator wanted to throw three unnamed people under the bus for his doings who “were each socially connected to one or more of the victims, interacted with one of more of the victims at social events in the hours prior to the homicide, lived within walking distance of the crime scene and were familiar with the layout of the victims’ home from prior social events.”

The fourth person was a man who ran into one of the female victims during a shopping trip a month before the murders. “He followed her briefly out the exit of the store while considering approaching her to talk. He turned away before ever speaking to her,” the order said. Ultimately, the court banished Kohberger from using the four unnamed entities as possible suspects.

Classmates noted Bryan Kohberger’s injuries after the killings

The Idaho Murders, which is the subject of Netflix’s latest true-crime documentary, honestly gets more chilling the more you read about it. And one such shocking aspect is how Bryan Kohberger was allegedly “incredibly late” to one of his WSU classes in the days following the killings. He even dropped an email about missing another class.

But during that phase, what many of Kohberger’s classmates noticed was strange cuts on his hand. According to the students, Kohberger had a different excuse for everyone who asked for an explanation. Sometimes it hinged on the fact that he was a boxer, and on other days, he blamed it on accidents. The Idaho State Police alleged that the wounds were likely inflicted by Xana Kernodle during the struggle.

Bryan Kohberger may have stalked his victims

One of the surviving roommates of the Idaho Murders, Dylan Mortensen, revealed to the Moscow Police Department that Kaylee Goncalves felt she was being stalked in the weeks leading up to the quadruple homicide she became a target of. In a specific incident mentioned, she reportedly witnessed a dark figure while walking her dog a month before the crime.

Interviewees featured in the Netflix documentary said that Kohberger’s phone had only 18 contacts, a select few messages and apps. However, a source close to the investigation unveiled that he did have photos of one of his female victims. Additionally, an account supposedly belonging to Kohberger followed Goncalves, Madison Mogen, and Xana Kernodle on Instagram (via PEOPLE). “He had more than one picture of her,” the source said. “It was clear that he was paying attention to her.”

College Nightmare also omits that Kohberger paid visits to the restaurant where Kernodle and Mogen were employed. As per a former employee, he visited at least twice. Although the employee wasn’t suspecting him, he remembered Kohberger due to his strict instructions.

While phone records reveal Kohberger being around the neighbourhood numerous times before the murders, Mortensen further noted to the police that they had arrived home to find their front door wide open and their washing machine running just two weeks before the murders.

Additionally, two women reportedly accused Kohberger of stalking them while a third alleged he harassed and followed her at her job at WSU’s criminology department.