New trove of disturbing Bryan Kohberger documents unsealed — and reveals which University of Idaho victim he brutalized most
A massive trove of disturbing documents revealed the gruesome, bloody details of the vicious killings of four University of Idaho students that convicted murderer Bryan Kohberger carried out nearly three years ago.
The 30-year-old monster, who was handed four life sentences on Wednesday, used a suspected Ka-Bar knife with “a lot of force” to butcher Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Ethan Chapin in their off-campus Moscow house on Nov. 13, 2022, dozens of horrific documents released by Moscow police Wednesday night showed.
Kernodle, 20, sustained more than 50 stab wounds — including two to the heart — with police indicating she attempted to fight off the deranged killer inside a bloodstained second-floor bedroom before she died.
Police said they found her lying on her back in her bloodstained underwear and shirt, with defensive knife wounds to her hand — including a deep gash between her index finger and thumb on her left hand.
“I looked inside the bedroom Xana was lying in and it was obvious an intense struggle had occurred,” police said of the gruesome scene, where Chapin, 20, was also found dead under a blanket with “arterial blood spray” splattered near his head.
Kohberger proceeded to savagely knife Goncalves more than 20 times, leaving the 21-year-old “unrecognizable” in a crimson puddle on the bed in the third-floor bedroom, police said.
Her gutted body was found alongside Mogen, 21, covered in a blood-soaked pink blanket.
“Kaylee was unrecognizable as her facial structure was extremely damaged,” the nightmarish police records said, noting she also sustained blunt force and asphyxia injuries, with the sharp, single-edge blade piercing her lung, liver and various arteries.
Goncalves’ goldendoodle, Murphy, was also found in the murder house when cops arrived — uninjured but “scared,” detectives wrote in the unsealed court documents.
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Dylan Mortenson, one of the surviving roommates, told a friend that she didn’t call 911 despite seeing a masked man at the hellish scene because “she was intoxicated and didn’t want to believe what was going on,” the court filing said.
She then asked the friend to come over to “check the house because she was too scared” before locking herself in a room with Bethany Funke, who also survived the bloodbath, around 4:30 a.m.
The friend, who never showed up at the bloody massacre, divulged the grim details to cops when they found the four lifeless bodies.
While the Ka-Bar knife sheath was found at the scene, the murder weapon has never been recovered.
‘F–king weirdo’
The chilling documents also included police interviews with friends and former fellow inmates of Kohberger, including one maximum-security prisoner who called him “a f–king weirdo.”
Another inmate who was housed next to the insidious slayer in Latah County Jail described odd habits that “annoyed” him — including washing his hands “dozens of times each day” and spending “45 minutes to an hour in the shower.”
“Kohberger would be awake almost all night and would only take a nap during the day,” the detective wrote, and would video chat with his mother “for hours each day.”
A teaching assistant who worked alongside Kohberger at Washington State University told police the twisted killer had what appeared to be “scratches from fingernails” on his face and hands around the time of the grisly murders.
Kohberger simply asserted that he’d “been in a car accident” and tried to brush off his friend’s concern, even as his behavior grew more erratic, the documents showed.
The TA noted that he tried to warn Kohberger away from inappropriate behavior with female students after the madman started to leverage his position.
Another document revealed that the twisted killer said he “of course” knew about the murders because he received an alert about them from WSU, which is less than 10 miles from the U of I.
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Idaho State Police conducted their first interview with Kohberger on Dec. 29, 2022, after his arrest while he was with his family in Pennsylvania.
He and the investigators initially made small talk about WSU and how he “loved being in school” before the conversation turned to the quadruple murders, according to documents released by the Moscow Police Department on Wednesday.
When asked if he had heard about the slayings, the killer responded, “Of course,” citing the alert he had received about them.
The detective asked Kohberger if he “wanted to talk about that,” to which the monster replied, “Well, I think I would need a lawyer,” the docs show.
The interview concluded when Kohberger invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and asked for an attorney, per the docs.
Kohberger accepted a plea deal earlier this month that landed him four consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole. He was not required to offer a motive for the killings — and gave no explanation for the slaughters at sentencing Wednesday.
He only uttered three cold words — “I respectfully decline” — when asked by Judge Steven Hippler if he had any comments after coming face to face with the families of his victims for the first time.
Those were the most words he has ever uttered in the courtroom since his 2022 arrest.
The cruel statement followed nearly three hours of gut-wrenching victim impact statements from the friends and family of his four slain victims, many of whom spoke directly to the “stupid” “psychopath,” as they ripped him to shreds for the heartless killings.
“You’re a joke, a complete joke,” Steve Goncalves told his daughter’s killer while ridiculing the lazy trail of evidence he left behind at the scene of the quadruple homicide.
“You were that foolish, that careless, that stupid. Today, you have no name. Nobody cares about you. You’re not worth the time, the effort to be remembered. In time, you’ll be nothing but two initials forgotten to the world.”
Mortensen also stunned the court, fighting back sobs as she spoke directly to the “soulless killer” who stole her best friends’ lives.
