On Prime Video’s new docuseries One Evening in Idaho: The Faculty Murders, launched Friday, July 11, Maizie emotionally recollects inviting Ethan as her date to the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority formal on the night time of November 12, 2022, simply hours earlier than he was killed alongside his girlfriend, Xana Kernodle, and two of her roommates, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen.

“I do not often invite anybody to formals however a few of Ethan’s associates have been going and he wasn’t going,” Maizie shared. “So, I used to be like, ‘OK, you possibly can simply be my date.’ It was tremendous enjoyable.”

After the occasion, Maizie mentioned others left round 9:00 p.m. to return to the Sigma Chi fraternity home the place Ethan and their brother Hunter Chapin lived, however she determined to go to mattress.

“For some motive I stayed and went to mattress,” she defined. “Ethan stored texting me, ‘Maizie, come hang around.’ I went to sleep, so I wasn’t responding to any of them.”

However it was the final textual content — the ultimate textual content she’d ever obtain from Ethan that was essentially the most chilling.

“Final one mentioned, ‘I like you,’ which was additionally bizarre as a result of we do not say that to one another,” Maizie recalled.

In accordance with the four-part docuseries, Ethan and Xana returned to the off-campus home on King Street at round 1:40 a.m. on November 13. Simply after 4:00 a.m., police say Bryan Kohberger broke in and murdered the 4 college students in a brutal stabbing spree that shook the nation.

Kohberger wasn’t arrested till late December 2022. Initially pleading not responsible, he lately modified his plea as a part of a deal to keep away from the demise penalty. On July 2, Kohberger confessed to 4 counts of first-degree homicide and one rely of felony housebreaking. His sentencing is scheduled for later this month, the place he faces 4 life sentences with out parole along with 10 years for the housebreaking cost.

Because the proceedings play out within the public eye, the Chapin household has determined to stayed away from Kohberger’s courtroom appearances.

“Sitting within the courtroom simply would not really feel proper. Why would I am going sit in a courtroom with that particular person?” Ethan’s mom, Stacy Chapin, mentioned within the doc. “We can’t attend any of the hearings. What is the function?”

She added, “I haven’t got a have to go look him within the eyes. I do not. It’s what it’s, we can’t change the result on this factor. We can’t deliver Ethan again.”

As for a way they’re maintaining Ethan shut amid his tragic demise, his father, Jim Chapin, mentioned he is discovered a strategy to “discuss” to Ethan each time he is lacking him.

“He’ll sit within the basement till considered one of us go,” Jim mentioned via tears. “He is secure and I can go down and discuss to him any time I need, and I do.”

One Evening in Idaho: The Faculty Murders is now streaming on Prime Video.