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[TENSE MUSIC]
Moscow will forever be known as the scene
of one of the most tragic crimes in American history.
There's still sort of a darkness whenever you talk to people.
It will be ever part of the university's history
and the town's history.
There are four very, very important names in this case--
Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle,
and Ethan Chapin.
And if you're going to remember any names from this case,
I ask that it be all four.
My name is Olivia Goncalves.
And Kaylee was my little sister.
Well, everybody's going to work.
And you look out the window, and there's kids running down
the street, laughing.
And you're just like, how can you be out there playing?
My daughter's dead.
Kaylee Goncalves is gone.
Stop everything.
Everybody in the whole world, stop.
And everything just keeps going.
My sister, Xana Kernodle, is one of the happiest funniest people
I've ever met.
And I had the awesome privilege of growing up with her.
And I still have a hard time coming to terms with the fact
that it did happen.
Bryan Kohberger is accused of stabbing these four University
of Idaho students in the pre-dawn hours on November 13,
2022.
The murder weapon, which was a knife, has never been found.
This is a type of survival knife.
Bryan Kohberger did not make his own plea.
The judge entered a plea for him of not guilty.
The maximum penalty is life in prison or the death penalty.
Due to the nature of the crimes, the state of Idaho
is seeking the death penalty.
He was there to kill.
He came in with a kit.
I believe he had a kill kit.
And you believe that everything right down
to the implement of destruction, this large marine knife, that
was all planned?
All planned.
It was inhumane.
You wouldn't do these type of things
to any living creature, let alone an innocent human being.
The star piece of evidence in the prosecution's case
is the DNA that was found on the knife sheath that
was left at the crime scene.
But there's so much other evidence
that's also pointing towards nobody else
that we're aware of.
How is Bryan Kohberger's car spotted leaving the scene?
Why was his cell phone seen there 12 times, including
the morning after the offense?
The prosecution would like everyone
to believe that it's an open-and-shut case.
But I think the facts they have make the case more
open than open and shut.
According to the defense, there is no connection whatsoever
between Bryan Kohberger and the victims.
And if there is no connection, then there is no motive.
And if there is no motive, then it
becomes very hard to make the case that he is the killer.
And this is a graduate student, not a trained assassin.
It's more so about putting these pieces together.
Because I know what the puzzle looks like at the end.
I have the box in front of me, but I'm missing so many pieces.
How did all of these pieces fall to create
what I'm living in right now?
Where did this come from?
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[TENSE MUSIC]
It was not the news Steve and Kristi
Goncalves wanted to hear.
In August of 2023, just six weeks
before the murder trial of Bryan Kohberger was set to begin,
he waived his right to a speedy trial.
Are you sure you want to do this?
Absolutely.
They would have to wait indefinitely
for their day in court.
I was really hoping that we could get this show on the road
because the not knowing, it just--
it's agony.
It's agony.
Steve and Kristi, the parents of Kaylee,
haven't left anything to chance.
After the judge issued a gag order to attorneys and law
enforcement, quote, "to preserve the right to a fair trial,"
they drilled down on their own investigation
and are now sharing what they believe
that investigation found.
Steve says he believes transparency
is the best path to justice.
We're not going to just sit back and cross our fingers
and pray that we're going to get justice.
It has been a long and painful journey
for the families of Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana
Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, the four University
of Idaho students who were savagely
murdered by a knife-wielding assailant in the wee
hours of November 13, 2022 as they settled down
to sleep in their off-campus house on King Road.
Do you ever dream of your sister?
Yeah, I've had some dreams of her.
There's times where I prayed and asked
God to see her another time.
And I did.
And it just gives me some peace knowing that I know she's OK.
Jazzmin Kernodle, who is speaking for the first time,
was a senior at Washington State University
and lived only 15 minutes away from her younger sister Xana.
Often mistaken as twins growing up,
she says they were best friends.
She was always fun.
She was uplifting.
And she took any bad situation and turned it into a good one.
Jeff, what did you love most about your daughter?
Everything.
She cared about people.
She was a people person.
She cared about her friends, just as much as her family.
For the first time in her life, Xana
had fallen in love with fellow student Ethan Chapin,
a triplet who loved his siblings,
boats, and working on a tulip farm.
The sweetest kid ever.
They were just two happy people.
And just seeing the videos and photos of them,
you can just tell how happy they are.
They're just amazing together.
Sadly, they will now forever be linked in death.
On Sunday Morning, November 13, Xana's friends
started calling Jazzmin, saying something bad had
happened on King Road.
Jazzmin rushed over to Xana's house.
And while you're driving that 8, 9 miles over to the house,
are you trying to reach your sister then?
Mm-hmm.
How many times did you call her?
A lot.
I called her a lot.
I called Ethan a lot.
Her next call was to her father.
Jeffrey had been visiting Jazzmin for Dad's Weekend
and was on his way home.
So you answer the phone.
What do you hear?
I hear her crying and just telling
me to get back to Moscow and meet me at Xana's house.
And my heart drops instantly.
I raced back down there.
The house was cordoned off and swarming with investigators.
As soon as Jefrrey said he was Xana's father,
he and Jazzmin were escorted to the Moscow Police Department.
And, Jazzmin, what does the officer
say to you and your father?
I don't remember exactly, just that four people passed away
and that one was Xana.
The worst day of your life, just your worst nightmare.
It just happened.
What do you do?
You can't do a damn thing.
100 miles away, the Goncalves family
also had been getting frantic calls,
saying something bad had happened to their daughter
Kaylee.
But no one knew what.
I just kept saying over and over, what do I do?
What do we do?
Finally, at around 4:00 in the afternoon,
a deputy appeared at their door.
And we said, what's going on?
I can confirm your daughter has died, passed away.
That point, he said there were four victims.
And I said, four?
And he said, yes, ma'am.
I said, can you tell us if one of the victims
was Maddie Mogen?
And he said, yes, ma'am.
Maddie Mogen, Kaylee's best friend from childhood.
Give us a sense of just how close
Kaylee and Maddie were in life.
I think that they had a very amazing relationship,
the epitome of true best friends.
From very early, I mean, they were sisters
through and through.
They were completely inseparable.
As soon as the news hit, Olivia, the eldest
of the five Goncalves children, and her parents
went into detective mode.
We had zero details.
We just knew they were gone.
Olivia got into her sister's call log
and frantically started cold calling recent numbers.
She says a friend told her that Kaylee had been at the Corner
Club bar around 1:07 AM and later texted
a rideshare driver, who Olivia managed to track down.
The rideshare driver said, around 1:45, Kaylee
had texted him, requesting a ride from the Grub truck, which
is the local mac and cheese food truck, to take
her back home to 1122 King, and she
had with her another female.
Olivia then uncovered one of the most important leads
in the case.
The rideshare driver told her about a camera
mounted on the Grub truck.
So I was able to look it up and find Kaylee on the video.
And I saw the girl that she was with was Maddie.
So at that point, I knew Kaylee and Maddie were together.
They got into the car to go home together and alone.
The driver told her the exact time
Kaylee and Maddie were dropped off at their house
on King Road, 1:56 AM, a timeline she says she confirmed
before the police.
I immediately took it to the police officers.
Here's her phone information.
Here's the rideshare driver's name.
Olivia says Kaylee made a call to her boyfriend at 2:56 AM,
but he didn't answer.
The Goncalveses believe Kaylee fell asleep shortly after.
According to the police affidavit,
Kaylee and Maddie were stabbed to death between 4:00 and 4:25
AM.
Just as they had done since they were little girls,
they were sleeping in the same bed.
Those two best friends since little girls,
I don't think there's anything more terrifying than what
they went through.
I really don't.
The killer took four lives in a matter of minutes,
but he left behind two surviving roommates, one of whom
would provide a key description of the intruder.
He was dressed in black, muscular build,
and very bushy eyebrows.
[TENSE MUSIC]
If there is one picture that speaks to the Idaho student
murders, it is this, six smiling college students,
blissfully unaware of the carnage to come.
It's staged in a way that is almost, in a strange way,
ominously predicting.
Investigative journalist Howard Blum
has written extensively on the student
murders for Graydon Carter's online magazine, Air Mail.
He is now writing a book on the case.
On the ends of the picture are the two survivors.
In the middle are the victims, and they're huddled together.
Kaylee with a beaming Maddie on her shoulders, friends
for life.
Ethan with his arm around Xana, young love in full bloom.
A moment that should have been a memory of their idyllic college
years would eternally be a reminder
of the gruesome murders that put them in their graves.
What makes it so tragic is they're forever
preserved in this moment.
They'll never be able to leave this moment.
Hours after this photo was taken,
the four friends would be murdered.
Their deaths so violent, even the house
seemed to be bleeding.
There was literally blood oozing out from the home.
You could see it on the exterior walls.
CBS News consultant Bryanna Fox is a former FBI agent
and professor of criminology at the University of South
Florida.
That's how bloody and gruesome the crime scene is.
According to the affidavit, which
outlines law enforcement's investigation,
the bodies of Xana and Ethan, who was sleeping over,
were found in or near her bedroom on the second floor.
The bodies of Kaylee and Maddie were on the third floor,
in the same single bed in Maddie's room.
How did your daughter die in that house?
What do you know?
We know the autopsy.
We know the means of what is officially how she died.
She was assaulted and stabbed.
Several times.
Her death certificate is the ugliest, disgusting-est piece
of paper that you will ever see in your life.
And every line is a horror show.
Every line.
Because there's causes of death, and then
there's contributions to death.
Kristi and Steve spoke to coroner Cathy Mabbutt
before the gag order was issued, and they
say she told them how the two friends were
positioned in the bed.
The bed was up against the wall.
A headboard was touching the wall,
and the left side of the bed was touching the wall.
And we believe that Maddie was on the outside
and Kaylee was on the inside.
According to Coroner Mabbutt, the killer's first victim
was Maddie, says Steve.
And then, from Maddie, he moved on to your daughter.
You believe she had awakened at that point?
Yes.
Yeah, there's evidence to show that she awakened and tried
to get out of that situation.
The way the bed was set up is what--
She was trapped.
We know from the affidavit that Kohberger's cell phone
pinged in the vicinity of the house
12 times prior to the murders.
Steve says, before the gag order,
one of the lead investigators told him
they believe Kohberger had been scouting out the house.
You believe these visits were like-- he
was like on an intelligence mission, a scouting mission,
looking at lifestyle patterns, when they came and went,
who came to the house.
Methodical, yeah.
He had to know when people were coming, people were going.
It makes the Goncalveses wonder if he'd ever
gone inside the house.
I think that he at least had opened that door, went in,
tested the waters, looked around.
Steve says the coroner told him the killer's rampage started
on the third floor, where both Maddie and Kaylee had
their bedrooms.
Kristi thinks he wasn't expecting
to find the two friends together in the same bed.
I do think that his plan went awry.
I do think that he intended to kill one and killed four.
Bryanna Fox also believes Xana and Ethan
were collateral damage.
According to the affidavit, Xana received a DoorDash food
delivery at 4:00 AM, then went back to her room
on the second floor.
It's possible, says Fox, that Xana, still awake, came face
to face with the killer.
And she sees somebody that she doesn't expect.
And I don't think he was expecting to see her either.
One of the two surviving roommates, Dylan Mortensen,
later told the police that she heard
what she thought was crying coming from Xana's room.
She heard a male voice say something
to the effect, "it's OK.
I'm going to help you"--
not something a killer would likely
say to an intended target, says Fox.
He probably was trying to make a split-second decision.
Do I run away?
Do I kill her?
What do I do?
And he decided to kill her.
At approximately 4:17 AM, police say an outside security camera
less than 50 from Xana's room picked up
distorted audio of what sounded like voices
or a whimper followed by a loud thud.
Shortly after, Dylan, the surviving roommate,
whose bedroom was near Xana's, opened the door.
According to the police affidavit,
when Dylan opens the door, she saw a man dressed
in black with a black mask.
And she says he has "bushy eyebrows."
Those bushy eyebrows become very important when the police are
making their identification.
The man with the bushy eyebrows kept
walking to the rear of the house without harming Dylan.
Why was Dylan not killed?
Again, there is no definitive answer.
He didn't kill her because he didn't see her.
He was sort of transfixed on getting out.
He didn't kill her because he was satiated.
Or he was simply too depleted to kill again, says Fox.
Even stabbing somebody for a minute and a half,
not only is that overkill, but it actually
would become rather exhausting.
The police believe the murder weapon, which has not
been found, was a military-style KA-BAR
knife, similar to this one.
The details are disturbing.
This is not a civilian knife.
It was actually meant to tear apart bone, ligaments, organs.
So this is a extremely brutal and something
that you would never expect a person
to walk in and want to commit unless they took some pleasure
out of the brutality of it.
After seeing the intruder, Dylan, the surviving roommate,
told investigators she locked herself in her room.
It would be almost eight hours before 911 was called,
causing an uproar on social media,
criticizing Dylan's alleged inaction.
But Bryanna Fox says it's not unusual for people
to freeze or be too afraid to intervene.
She had no reason to know how to handle herself in that moment.
According to the affidavit, the male "walked towards the back
sliding glass door" and presumably left the scene.
But committing murder and getting away
with it are two different things, says Fox.
For an offender to get away with a crime, a murder,
they have to bat a thousand.
They have to be absolutely perfect.
If they make one singular mistake, that's all it takes.
And that one possible mistake in this case
may have been the sheath to the KA-BAR knife.
One like this was found on the bed
next to Maddie Mogen. It would lead investigators
to the door of a man studying for a career in criminology,
Bryan Kohberger, the alleged killer.
To see a timeline of the case, go to 48hours.com.
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Day after day and week after week
passed and there is no suspect that is arrested.
What was that time like for you?
That was the worst.
For 47 days after the murders, the families
of Kaylee, Maddie, Xana, and Ethan and the country waited--
We do not have a suspect at this time.
--and wept and weighed in.
People of Idaho and those throughout our nation
who provided information has been very impressive.
We received over 19,000 tips.
Then, on December 30, 2022, Bryan Kohberger
was arrested in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania.
Bryan!
At the time, his attorney said Kohberger looked forward
to being exonerated.
What goes through your mind when you see
the face of the alleged killer?
Oh, I wonder, who is this?
Why?
I never heard of the person before.
It still is confusing why.
At this point, the families knew as much about Kohberger
as the public did, a PhD candidate studying criminology
just 10 miles away, at Washington State
University in Pullman.
I remember thinking, I only have a few minutes
to look up this individual and to try
to get any credible information before things
start getting wonky.
Some of Olivia Goncalves's online discoveries of Kohberger
made her uneasy.
He had made a few posts on Reddit
in which he was conducting-- it seems
like a questionnaire to people in prison or jail
who had committed crimes.
How did you pick your victim or your target?
For seven weeks, the families and the country
were left wondering.
I think, for this type of an investigation,
47 days is actually quick.
Criminologist and CBS News consultant Bryanna Fox
says the Moscow police kept things moving, starting
with a video canvas, which produced footage
from those early morning hours showing a white car making
three passes by the girls' house starting around 3:30 AM.
Less than an hour later, investigators say,
the killer struck.
They noticed that this car approached
King Road, left, came back, almost did a U-turn,
finally went there around 4:06 in the morning.
And that car then departed in about 25 minutes and sped off.
Multiple surveillance cameras then captured that white car
as it traveled what appeared to be a less direct route back
to Pullman, Washington, arriving around 5:30 AM.
That information helped investigators identify the make
and model of the vehicle.
And we're looking for a 2011 to a 2013 Hyundai Elantra.
Washington State Police find the car parked
outside graduate housing.
They get the license plate, and they
get Bryan Kohberger's name.
They then get the driver's license,
and they see the bushy eyebrows that,
in the eyes of one of the Moscow detectives,
must be the eyebrows of the killer.
Now armed with a warrant, investigators
retrieved cell tower data from that morning,
which captured Kohberger's phone around 2:47 AM in Pullman,
when it suddenly stopped connecting to the network.
According to the affidavit, this was also
around the time cameras caught a white Elantra
leaving his apartment complex.
There was indication that he turned off
his cell phone, which is something that a lot of people
do when they want to avoid law enforcement knowing
their whereabouts.
His cell phone signal was picked up again two hours
later south of Moscow as it traveled back
toward his apartment building.
The affidavit described a deeper dive
into Kohberger's phone history that
revealed this was a familiar neighborhood to him, going back
several months.
Cell phone records indicated that he has traveled past
and was very near the vicinity of this crime scene
on 12 separate occasions.
And towers actually captured a 13th trip just hours
after the murders.
Anecdotally, a lot of killers, they
like revisiting the memory of the crime.
I won.
I was able to get away with this,
and you guys won't catch me.
But they had one secret weapon to make their case.
They had the knife sheath.
And there was a microscopic spot of DNA on this.
Could they tie this DNA to Kohberger?
According to the affidavit, the DNA
was found "on the button snap of the sheath."
But when investigators ran it through the national database,
there were no matches.
It's unclear if Bryan Kohberger knew
law enforcement was watching when he left Washington
in mid-December.
Kohberger and his father, who had flown in from Pennsylvania,
drove back home together in his white Elantra.
Kohberger, from what I've heard, tells the father
that he's in trouble with his job.
He's concerned enough about his son
to want to make the drive back with him.
On the 2,500-mile journey from Washington,
they are stopped twice for traffic violations.
Hello.
What's also interesting is Kohberger's reaction
to the police.
Is this your car?
Yes, sir.
OK.
He's pretty calm and cool.
Father and son made it home to Albrightsville, Pennsylvania,
where Blum says investigators initiated a stealth operation.
What they did is they sent a team of Pennsylvania state
troopers to Kohberger's family's house.
Law enforcement recovered Kohberger's father's DNA
from the trash outside their home, which
tested as a high probability it was
the biological father of whoever left DNA on the knife sheath.
So that was the eureka moment which
they decided they could get an arrest warrant.
At that point, they made the arrest of Bryan Kohberger.
And they got a separate-- essentially a search warrant
for his DNA.
And when investigators compared his DNA to the DNA
on the knife sheath, they say it was a statistical match,
at least 5.37 octillion times more likely to be
Kohberger's than anyone else.
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Where you sit today, are you certain
that Bryan Kohberger is the killer?
With what you know.
I don't trust anybody or anything.
So I have to see it myself.
I have to see everything.
As the months passed, Steve and Kristi Goncalves
remain a united front in wanting justice.
But their weight has brought different perspectives.
Your mind is still open to the potential
that it could have been someone else?
Of course, yup.
I go into that 100%.
Yup, of course.
That's not where you are.
No.
Yeah, that's fine.
I don't think there's any slam dunk.
Criminologist Bryanna Fox says, with the gag order in place,
any hint of Kohberger's defense has come from court documents.
It seems that the defense is alleging
there was a rush to judgment.
Law enforcement made an arrest too fast,
and they focused on their client too quickly.
A defense filing did reveal Kohberger's alibi
for the night of the murders.
It simply stated, "Mr. Kohberger was out driving alone."
The defense is not necessarily having
to prove that he's innocent.
They just have to raise doubt.
Both Fox and Howard Blum think the defense
can find ways to poke holes in the prosecution's
case, challenging some of the key evidence presented
in the affidavit, including the cell phone location
data and the white Elantra.
There's other concerns, such as whether Bryan Kohberger's car
was accurately identified at the onset
or if that was revised after knowing
what Bryan Kohberger drove.
The cell phone data makes one suspicious of Kohberger,
but it's not convincing.
It's not putting someone at someone's doorstep.
It's putting someone in someone's neighborhood.
If you can raise doubts about the validity
and the accuracy of the cell phone data,
I think you're halfway there to getting
the case against Kohberger either a hung
jury or a not guilty verdict.
And there's more, according to the defense.
That there is no DNA or forensic evidence
found from the crime scene at the apartment, car, office,
or on Bryan Kohberger's person.
So they were basically alleging, how
could he have committed such a brutal murder
and yet have no evidence found on him of that?
After consulting their own investigators,
Kristi and Steve theorize that Kohberger likely
brought what they call a kill kit with him.
What do you mean by a kill kit?
I think he had a backpack.
A change of clothes.
We don't know if it was coveralls, pants.
We don't know.
A defense filing also claimed the presence
of other unidentified male DNA was found on the premises.
Three separate and distinct male DNA profiles
were found from the crime scene.
Two were inside the house.
One was outside on a glove.
The defense wants to know, who are these people?
And what role could they have played in this whole story?
So what the defense is doing now is
trying to look for other narratives that make sense.
Howard Blum has written extensively about this case,
including a piece on a possible alternative defense
theory involving drugs.
Maybe someone had reneged on a drug payment,
and this was a retribution of vengeance for people
not paying for drugs they had ordered.
I want you guys to respond to one thing that's
out there, because speculation that somehow drugs
were involved in this attack.
That's just Hollywood nonsense.
I just dismissed that because I understand
our society wants to believe in some of these movies
that they watch.
They don't have these crazy lives
where they're crossing paths with people like that.
That storyline of it being drugs gives people
a reason to think why it happened
because nobody knows why.
And the reason I think it happened
is because he wanted to.
That's what he wanted to do.
He wanted to commit a murder.
Bryan Kohberger's defense attorneys argue,
there's a lack of evidence linking their client
to the students.
The defense is claiming that the defendant, Bryan Kohberger,
and the victims have absolutely no connection.
There's no motive.
In the minutes after Bryan Kohberger was publicly named,
the Goncalves family went online.
They just told us the name, and we immediately
started googling.
They believe they had found a possible connection
through Instagram and immediately took
these screenshots.
From our investigation of the account,
it appeared to be the real Bryan Kohberger account.
Among the people this account was
following were Maddie Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves,
in addition to several people with the name Kohberger.
But when we looked through theirs,
it appeared to have other family members that
were related to him.
At first, Steve, who works in it,
was skeptical, thinking someone created a fake account
immediately following Kohberger's arrest.
But according to the family, they
uncovered more possible connections.
You would go to Maddie's Instagram account
and look at her pictures, and he liked them.
Bryan's name was under a lot of Maddie's pictures,
liked that picture and that picture
and that picture.
So he was actively looking at the Instagram account.
And the importance of that is what?
That he was--
There's digital evidence that this particular account
had some type of connection with the victims.
48 Hours has not confirmed the authenticity of this account,
which has since been deleted.
And the gag order prevents investigators from commenting.
After dedicating months looking for their own answers,
the Goncalveses say they are mentally prepared for trial
no matter when it begins.
I think he's done.
He's going to feel all of us just staring
at the back of his head.
And he's going to know that we are the Goncalves family.
And he knows what he did to our daughter.
[TENSE MUSIC]
How could this happen to a group of kids
that are doing everything the way they're supposed to do?
To not know is what keeps you awake at night.
And it's every day, all day.
It never stops.
Why?
There is no why.
It is as unexplainable today as it
was the day Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana Kernodle,
and Ethan Chapin were murdered.
I wish we knew.
All four of them were just such great people
and made such an impact on the lives around them.
For now, the families are left with thoughts
of what might have been.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
Kaylee Jade Goncalves has been recommended to receive
a posthumous bachelor's degree.
Her family will receive the diploma
of the University of Idaho.
On May 13, 2023, exactly six months
from the day of the murders, an occasion that
would have been a cause for celebration, graduation,
was instead another reminder of what was lost.
Seeing all those graduation photos, it just--
they should be here.
Graduation is just one of many milestones that will be missed.
She would have been my maid of honor,
and I probably would have been hers.
And it's like sad to have to go through those life
moments without her.
Jazzmin Kernodle planned to work side
by side with her sister Xana, creating their own marketing
business.
It's just not the same without her
because she just brought such a crazy, different energy
than anybody else I've ever met.
Kaylee Goncalves's future was in sight.
She had accepted a job in Austin working for an IT firm.
Kaylee not only pushed herself, say her parents,
but pushed them.
We lost that person that would force us to make new memories
and force us to go and take on something that seems
a little daunting at first.
One of you guys--
Guys--
For the Goncalveses, amid all the loss,
there was an addition to the family when in February, Olivia
gave birth to a baby girl.
So her name is Theodora MaddieKay.
Obviously, MaddieKay is after Maddie and Kaylee.
And if one were to believe in signs,
there were, says Olivia, several with Theodora MaddieKay's
arrival.
In the hospital, her room number, 1113,
was the same as the date of the murders, November 13.
And eerily, the time of birth, 4:21 AM, is in the time frame
that Kaylee and Maddie are believed to have been killed.
To have birth and life and firsts, first giggles,
first walks, that they would be there somehow,
even if it's just a namesake.
This is the Goncalves family.
Maddie has truly been a blessing in our lives.
I'm Xana's sister.
The families of Kaylee, Maddie, Xana, and Ethan
have all searched for ways, sometimes
together, to cope with a horrible new normal.
We all are always going to be there for each other.
And it's just difficult. We're all going through it
in our own ways.
For Ethan's parents, Stacy and Jim Chapin, one way of coping
involves creating a foundation, Ethan's Smile--
Ethan just had a great smile.
He smiled all the time.
--raising money for scholarships by selling tulips
planted in honor of Ethan, who had worked at a tulip farm.
So Ethan will live on through the foundation.
That's what motivates us to do this.
How do you live with this, Jeff?
It's not easy.
You just got to keep going.
I think just living our lives like Xana would want us to.
I know that she would want us to talk about the life
that she lived and to be her voice right now.
She had a beautiful smile, her and Maddie.
The memories that we shared, we don't do it lightly.
Because they are very private memories, and sometimes
it feels like I'm giving away a part of them.
But I do it for the importance to realize how great of a loss
it is because nothing's going to bring them back.
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