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🗓️ 4 July 2025
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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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