Police visited Idaho murder victims' home 3 times since August to break up loud parties fueled by White Claw and country music

• Police were called to the site of the Idaho killings three times since August.
• There were frequent parties at the home, according to neighbors and police reports.

MOSCOW, Idaho — In the months leading up to the brutal killings of four University of Idaho students in November, Moscow police repeatedly responded to complaints of loud parties at the off-campus house where most of them lived.

Police reports from the neighborhood describe young people coming to and going from the house, where they drank and listened to music. After police spoke with some of the home's residents — Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20 — they left the scene without citing the students.

The young women, along with the 20-year-old Ethan Chapin, who did not live there, were brutally killed at the home just before 4:30 a.m. on November 13, though a surviving roommate, Dylan Mortensen, didn't place a 911 call reporting an "unconscious person" until noon.

Later, after police found the bodies, Mortensen told police she had opened her door in the middle of the night after hearing noises and a male voice. She said she saw a man she didn't recognize — "a figure clad in black clothing" wearing a mask that covered his mouth and nose, according to a police affidavit in the case.

She told police the man walked past her as she stood in a "frozen shock" and then locked herself in her bedroom as the man stepped toward a sliding-glass back entrance.

The timing of the first 911 call, hours after police say the four students were each stabbed multiple times, has raised questions about why nobody alerted authorities sooner.

Police reports obtained by Insider and interviews with local residents show the home was often noisy and frequented by unfamiliar faces.

Several residents of a large brick apartment building next door described disruptive late-night parties with loud music and numerous visitors coming and going through an unlocked door.

Vincent Sheetz, a Lyft driver, told Insider he started refusing to pick up or drop off anyone in the area of the victims' home on party nights because his car had been vomited on and struck with objects there.

He said he previously worked as a caterer at several University of Idaho fraternity and sorority houses and couldn't take it.

"The amount of drugs and alcohol in this was mind-fucking-boggling," he told Insider. "So I quit."

Goncalves was a member of Alpha Phi sorority, and Kernodle and Mogen were members of Pi Beta Phi.

Both sororities are on probation at the university for "health and safety violations."

Country music and spiked seltzers

Police were asked to respond to a noise complaint at 1122 King Road at 5:40 p.m. on August 16, about five days before the fall semester kicked off at the university, according to the report obtained by Insider.

When an officer arrived at the door that night, Goncalves answered and told him she was a college senior.

He told her he had "nothing against" parties as long as everyone was of age but that the music was disturbing the peace and needed to be turned down.

If he was called back after the warning, he said he would have to give them a ticket and a hefty fine.

Law & Crime published a video of that call online.

"If I do come back, a $300-something ticket is coming your way," the officer said. "I'd much rather you spend that $300 bucks on beer or something fun."

Police returned to the house for another noise complaint on September 1 just after 8:30 p.m.

As officers approached, they heard music and saw some young women walking down the street. While asking the women whether they knew who lived at the house, officers witnessed other women "flee the scene," the report said.

"As I approached the home, I observed a black backpack and a case of Truly Seltzers on the ground outside of the home," the officer wrote.

When a woman answered the door and said she would get a resident of the house to talk to them, officers waited around for 10 minutes before several unnamed men came to the door.

They told the officers they would call Mogen, who lived there. A black backpack stuffed with White Claw seltzers was left behind by fleeing partygoers, the report said.

"I explained to Mogen about the noise complaint. I stated she would need to contact her friends at her home and advise them to keep to the noise down," the officer wrote in his report. "Mogen understood and was apologetic. Before I cleared, I emptied the contents of the abandoned alcoholic beverages on scene."

Another call came in 4 ½ hours later. Police were back at the house at 12:30 a.m. on September 2 for another noise complaint — this time for loud country music.

One of the officers asked people on the back porch of the house to turn off the music and to speak with a resident of the home, according to the report.

Kernodle came to the door. The officer asked Kernodle whether she spoke with Mogen, and she said no. The officer told her this was the second time police were responding to house party there and that if they had to come back, the residents would be cited, according to the report. Kernodle understood and said she would "kick" everyone out of the home, the report said.

Finally, an arrest

Matthew Moye, 22, whose house overlooks the victims' home, told Insider he called in the September 1 noise complaint because he had an early morning the next day.

He said he and Goncalves once walked their dogs together and that she was friendly with Mortensen, the surviving roommate. Moye said the three women and their two roommates were pleasant but had a penchant for throwing parties where country music was blasted throughout the neighborhood.

"It sounded purely like everybody was having a good time all the time," he said. "They were sweet girls who liked having fun."

On December 3o, after a search lasting more than a month, police arrested a 28-year-old criminology graduate student, Bryan Kohberger and charged him with four counts of murder and one count of burglary.

Prosecutors say Kohberger had driven from his Pullman, Washington, home — about 10 minutes away — 12 times before the killings. A knife sheath left at the grisly scene contained DNA that was matched to trash at his parents' home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania.

Kohberger is being held without bail and awaiting trial.