Netflix’s Idaho Murders Doc Wants to Keep the Victims in Focus

Netflix is the latest streamer to produce a documentary about the 2022 murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Peacock released The Idaho Student Murders on July 3, 2025. Amazon Prime Video delivered One Night in Idaho: The College Murders a week after that. Now, Netflix is bringing out The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare, with the filmmakers looking to center the victims of the case rather than its perpetrator. “Making this series became deeply personal to me because I felt a responsibility to keep Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin at the center of every decision we made,” director Skye Borgman told Tudum. “At a time when so much attention has been focused on the case itself, I felt it was important to create something that brings the focus back to who they were, the lives they lived, and the love that still surrounds them.”

Borgman previously made Unknown Number: The High School Catfish for Netflix, about a teen girl cyberbullied by her own mother. She teamed with executive producer Joe Berlinger, who made a JonBenét Ramsey documentary for the streamer. “As a father of two daughters who had great college experiences, this case struck a nerve with me unlike many stories I’ve covered,” Berlinger said. And the trailer shows how idyllic the four victims’ college experience was until Bryan Kohberger (who has pled guilty to the murders) seemingly picked them at random to act out his serial-killer obsession. With a giant void where a killer’s motive would normally exist, this series fills that space with the lives cut short. One Night in Idaho: College Nightmare drops on Netflix July 29.