Two close friends of the four students murdered at the University of Idaho paid tribute to the victims on their wedding day.
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Emily Alandt and Hunter Johnson, who were among the first people to discover the bloody crime scene on November 13, 2022, tied the knot in Boise over the weekend.
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Among the decor was a sign honoring Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle, both 20, along with another later friend, Katie Marshall, and the message: 'You are with us today and everyday.'
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Chapin's mother, Stacy, shared the photo on social media, along with pictures of her family - including Ethan's father, Jim, and his siblings, Maizie and Hunter, alongside the happy couple.
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Congrats to Hunter [and] Emily!!' she posted.
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The nuptials come nearly four years after the horrific stabbing spree that took Chapin and Kernodle's lives, along with those of Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen, both 21.
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Dylan Mortensen, one of the two roommates who survived the ordeal, had asked Alandt and Johnson to check out the house at 1122 King Road in Moscow, reporting that she made a strange discovery the night before, the couple previously recounted.
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Alandt said she hadn't expected any real problem when they made their way to the house that morning - until they saw the two surviving roommates, Mortensen and Bethany Funke, standing outside.
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'As soon as you get there, you know something's wrong,' Johnson told ABC News.
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Among the decor at Emily Alandt and Hunter Johnson's wedding this weekend was a sign paying tribute to University of Idaho murder victims Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle
The happy couple is pictured with Chapin's family at the wedding in Boise
Kernodle and Chapin, both 20, were brutally stabbed to death at her off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho on November 13, 2022
Johnson was then the first to go inside, stumbling upon the four students' bloodied bodies.
Once he realized what had happened, Johnson said he rushed the girls trailing him out of the home and told them to call 911.
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In audio from the call to police just before noon on November 13, 2022, girls could be heard telling a dispatcher there was an 'unconscious person inside.
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The girls could then be heard telling the dispatcher, 'She's passed out' and 'She's not waking up,' before Johnson reported that Kernodle wasn't breathing.
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'That was our last day living as kids,' Johnson told PEOPLE in July.
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'Our innocence was gone, added Alandt.
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Johnson now remembers Kernodle as being a 'blast,' saying he never had a 'dull moment with her.
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'If you're not happy, she'll make you happy.
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Like, somehow, she'll make you laugh.
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And Ethan's the same way,' he said.
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Alandt and Johnson have opened up about how they sought comfort in each other following the tragedy.
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They are pictured with Chapin's siblings
Johnson had been one of the first people to enter the crime scene at 1122 King Road
Meanwhile, Alandt said of Goncalves: 'I don't think I've ever been around her when she didn't have a smile on her face.
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And it would always put a smile on all of our faces.
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'Her and Maddie were both super welcoming to me,' added Johnson.
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'They, like, took me in.
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To get through the tragedy, Alandt and Johnson said they started to rely on each other - and last year they moved in together.
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'We just want happiness for the [victims'] families and we want them to come to a point where they can, you know, wake up and have a good day,' Alandt said at the time.
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She added that the experience 'sticks with you forever, but you get the option to get up and choose to live a happy life,' which Johnson suggested included the two of them starting a family.
But as the couple now starts their life together, the families of the victims are facing the possibility that accused murderer Bryan Kohberger may once again face trial.
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Bryan Kohberger, now 31, has launched a bid to withdraw his guilty plea and head to trial
Left to right: Dylan Mortensen, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen (on Kaylee's shoulders) Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Bethany Funke
Kohberger, now 31,
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After fighting the charges for more than two years, he finally pleaded guilty to the murders in July 2025 as part of a plea deal that would hand him life without parole but spare him from the death penalty.
But, in a stunning U-turn this July, the convicted killer launched a shocking bid to withdraw his guilty plea and head to trial instead.
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He now claims he is innocent of the murders and was misled by his defense team into striking a plea agreement.
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At the same time, his newly-appointed defense attorney Gregory Rauch is seeking to have Judge Hippler ousted from the case and for the case to be moved out of Ada County - back to Moscow where the crimes took place.
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Judge Steven Hippler wiped away tears at his sentencing before calling Bryan Kohberger a 'faceless coward'
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Kohberger has claimed his defense attorney Anne Taylor, above at his change of plea hearing, was ineffective and misled him to plead guilty
In a filing last month, the defense attorney argued that the judge’s comments when he handed down Kohberger’s life sentences showed bias against him.
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Judge Hippler was seen wiping away tears when some of the victims’ loved ones delivered heartbreaking impact statements.
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When he then sentenced him to four life sentences plus 10 years, the judge described Kohberger as a 'faceless coward,' who 'slithered' into 1122 King Road and 'senselessly slaughtered’ his victims.
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Judge Hippler also addressed the lack of motive for his crimes, following calls to require Kohberger to give a statement at the sentencing, saying that any explanation he might give could likely not be believed.
‘Even if I could force him to speak, which legally I cannot, how can anyone truly believe that what he says is the truth?' he said inside Ada County Courthouse on July 23, 2025.
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'Do we really believe, after all of this, he is capable of speaking the truth, or of giving up something of himself to help the very people whose lives he destroyed?
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Rather, I suspect the so-called reason would be dished out in enticing self-serving and aggrandizing bits leaving people more desire for understanding.
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Even if we could get truthful insight into his way I suspect it would not quench anyone's thirst for understanding why.'
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He added: 'His acts of evil have made him the worst of the worst.
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Even in pleading guilty he's giving nothing hinting of remorse or redemption or regret for the pain that he's caused and therefore I will not attempt to speak of him further other than to sentence him and remove him forever from society.'
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