The former roommate of the Idaho 4 murder victims revealed the last text message she sent her friends before she found out they were brutally killed.
Six months prior to the fatal stabbings of University of Idaho students Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, both 21, Ashlin Couch lived with the girls in their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho.
In May 2022, Couch moved out, and U of I student Xana Kernodle, 20, took over her lease, and moved into Couch's old bedroom. That November, Kernodle and her boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, also 20, were slaughtered alongside Mogen and Goncalves, in a savage, quadruple, middle-of-the-night murder that rocked the tight-knit college town.
Shortly after their mutilated bodies were discovered, the university sent out an alert confirming the massacre on King Road.
"I texted our group of friends, and I just had said, 'Has anyone heard from Maddie?'" Couch recalled, according to KXLY-TV. "And I remember, my last text message to her was, 'Are you okay?'"
But Mogen never texted back.
"And I felt it right then and there, I kind of just knew that something was wrong," she said.
With a mass murderer on the loose, residents were kept on edge.
It wasn't until six weeks later, authorities arrested Bryan Kohberger, then 28, nearly 2,500 miles away at his parents' home in Pennsylvania, after DNA evidence allegedly tied him to the grisly murder scene. He pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder.
"It crosses my mind that that could have happened while I was there," Couch admitted, according to the outlet. "I just wish that I could give her one last hug just to be able to say goodbye."
In December, the university demolished the off-campus home.
A trial date for Kohberger, now 29, has not yet been set.
