Idaho murder victim’s sorority sister breaks silence on weeks after tragedy: ‘A lot of girls didn’t come back’

A sorority sister of one of the four students killed just steps from the University of Idaho campus in 2022 is shedding light on the weeks of fear that followed the tragedy.

“It definitely opened people’s eyes to real life,” Natalia Zieroth-Chaumont, Kaylee Goncalves’ sister at the Alpha Phi sorority, told the Idaho Press.

Despite the visible security presence on campus throughout the 2022-2023 school year, Zieroth-Chaumont said she came to realize “even super safe places still have their dangers.”

Goncalves, 21, and three others — Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, and 21-year-old Madison Mogen — were killed inside the girls’ rented home during the early hours of November 13.

Moscow police received a call just before noon Nov. 13 for a report of an “unconscious person.”

Officers found the four lifeless students on the second and third floors, police said.

The victims had been stabbed multiple times between 3 and 4 a.m., and some showed signs of having tried to fight back, police said.

Two other roommates were on the bottom floor of the home at the time of the attack and survived, police said.

One of the surviving roommates was later revealed to have come face to face with the killer hours before the police were called.

Natalia Zieroth-Chaumont has shed light on the weeks of fear following the tragedy.

Final photo of the victims, pictured just hours before their untimely deaths. The four University of Idaho students are Madison Mogen, 21, top left, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, bottom left, Ethan Chapin, 20, center, and Xana Kernodle, 20, right. — The victims just hours before their untimely deaths: Madison Mogen, 21 (top left), Kaylee Goncalves, 21 (bottom left), Ethan Chapin, 20 (center) and Xana Kernodle, 20 (right).

General view of off-campus home where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death on Thursday, December 1, 2022 in Moscow, Idaho — The four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in this off-campus home on Nov. 13, 2022, in Moscow, Idaho

The home where four University of Idaho students were murdered. — The victims were stabbed between 3 and 4 a.m.

The school will be posthumously honoring the slain students at upcoming graduation ceremonies, Fox News Digital reported.

Zieroth-Chaumont, a senior, told the Idaho Press her role as a residential adviser prevented her from being able to attend classes remotely, but many of her sisters decided not to return to campus.

“There were a lot of girls that didn’t come back after Thanksgiving,” she reportedly said.

Police arrested Bryan Kohberger, a criminology student at nearby Washington State University, at the end of December 2022.

Bryan Kohberger, left, looks toward his attorney, public defender Anne Taylor, right, during a hearing in Latah County District Court, Jan. 5, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. — Bryan Kohberger looks toward his attorney during a hearing in Latah County District Court, on Jan. 5, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho.

Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, appears at a hearing in Latah County District Court, on Jan. 5, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho.

Kohberger, who was living close to Moscow in Pullman, Washington, had allegedly remained on campus for weeks after the murders before making a cross-country drive with his father to his home state of Pennsylvania.

The now-29-year-old was charged with felony burglary and four counts of first-degree murder for the violent stabbing deaths of the four students.

He is due to appear in a Latah County court in June for a preliminary hearing to determine whether the case will go to trial.

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