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What Happened to Ethan Chapin Family Speaks Out.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

True Crime

4.6809 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

What Happened to Ethan Chapin? Family Speaks Out #ethanchapin #triplets #grief after the #idahomurders The family of Ethan Chapin shares their story of #grief after the #idahomurders, recalling the last time they saw their son. They are working through the #trial of Bryan Kohberger as they try to heal. The family continues to be in the #news as the legal proceedings continue

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0:00.0

So the last time that Jim and Stacey Chapin saw their son Ethan alive, it was parents weekend at the University of Idaho.

0:06.9

They told me they left full of pride. Their three children, their triplets were living their best lives.

0:13.0

But that feeling was short-lived. It wasn't long after they learned that Ethan had been murdered in a quadruple homicide that thrust the town of Moscow into chaos.

0:22.1

And this morning, for the first time, the Chapin family tells the story of how they stayed afloat.

0:27.9

We just decided maybe it was best to tell our story of Ethan one, only just literally one time.

0:36.1

He deserves it. He deserves our story of him. This morning,

0:42.5

as the Idaho murder suspect prepares to accept a plea deal, the family of Ethan Chapin speaking

0:48.5

publicly together for the first time since Ethan, his girlfriend, Zana Kurnodal, and her roommates, Madison

0:54.7

Mogan and Kaylee Gonzalez, were brutally murdered in an off-campus home at the University of Idaho.

1:00.3

I miss him every day. When you lose your son at 20, you know, it's different. It's a different loss.

1:12.6

And I do, I miss him every single day.

1:16.6

And I always will.

1:19.6

Ethan, a triplet with his siblings, Hunter and Maisie,

1:23.6

all attending the University of Idaho together.

1:26.6

Hunter and Maisie and their parents, Jim and Stacey,

1:29.3

now telling their story in a new prime video docu series one night in Idaho, the college murders,

1:35.9

remembering their six foot four larger-than-life brother and son.

1:40.7

We played every sport together, every time we went in the car was together, party together. There was never a dull moment.

1:48.0

The night before Ethan was killed, Maisie brought him to her sorority formal. She now cherishes the text he sent her before bed.

1:56.0

So he started off by texting me. I think he said, dog, come hang out. We all want you here. And I said, I'm going to bed. And then he said, love you. And I didn't even respond to that. I think I was asleep by then. And that I love you kind of stood out, though. Well, yeah, yeah, definitely. Hunter, who pledged Sigma Kai with Ethan, says the next morning, a friend at the fraternity

2:19.6

woke him up saying the police were at Zana's house.

2:23.3

Hunter Johnson came out to me and said, I was like, where's Ethan and Zana?

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