Bryan Kohberger Said Name Of Victim During Attack On Idaho Students, Documents Show

A surviving roommate who encountered nan masked intruder who slaughtered 4 University of Idaho students successful an off-campus location successful 2022 initially told investigators she heard an chartless antheral sound mention to a unfortunate by her name.

Amid nan rampage, roommate Dylan Mortensen said she had opened her doorway and "heard a antheral say, 'It's OK Kaylee, I'm present for you,' and crying," according to a recently unsealed archive written by Idaho State Police trooper Jeffory Talbot, based connected a briefing received from a constabulary sergeant successful Moscow, Idaho.

Investigators said Kaylee Goncalves, 21, was fatally stabbed connected nan 3rd level of nan flat location successful nan aforesaid room pinch different victim, Madison Mogen, 21. Two others were killed successful nan home: Xana Kernodle, 20, and her boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20, who was staying complete that night. They were murdered connected different floor, constabulary said.

Investigators used DNA recovered on nan fastener of a weapon sheath near down nan room wherever Goncalves and Mogen were killed to thief necktie nan onslaught to Bryan Kohberger, past a criminology Ph.D. student astatine adjacent Washington State University.

Mortensen later adjusted what she told constabulary aft gathering "additional information," and said she believed it was Kernodle who had been crying successful a bathroom, according to nan documents, adding, "She advised she knows nan male's sound was not Ethan's voice."

From apical left, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle.

Kohberger, who was facing a quadruple execution proceedings this month, changed his plea to blameworthy successful nan students' deaths arsenic portion of a woody pinch prosecutors past month. Kohberger, 30, was punished pinch 4 consecutive life sentences and waived his correct to entreaty successful speech for prosecutors' agreeing not to activity a decease sentence.

The plea woody was criticized by immoderate victims' families who wanted to spot Kohberger spell to trial.

Key questions, including a motive for nan killings and why he chose his victims, stay unknown.

In nan aftermath of Kohberger's sentencing past month, various rule enforcement agencies, including constabulary successful Idaho and Washington state, person released new specifications astir nan case successful documents and videos that were antecedently sealed.

In nan weeks earlier she was murdered, Goncalves recounted a bid of unnerving events to Mortensen and a 2nd surviving housemate, according to a constabulary study released past month.

Goncalves said she believed personification was pursuing her, and she recounted to a roommate that she saw a protector while she was extracurricular pinch her canine astir a period earlier nan murders, according to a abstracted report.

The different surviving roommate told investigators that, astir nan aforesaid time, Goncalves saw an "unknown male" supra their off-campus house, staring astatine her erstwhile she took nan canine outside.

The documents did not specifically nexus Kohberger to those incidents.

Bryan Kohberger astatine his sentencing proceeding successful Boise, Idaho, connected July 23.Kyle Green / Pool via AP

The astir precocious released documents from nan Idaho State Police besides picture interviews pinch erstwhile peers and professors astatine Washington State University.

One professor warned colleagues that Kohberger "is smart capable that successful 4 years, we will person to springiness him a Ph.D."

"Mark my word, I activity pinch predators, if we springiness him a Ph.D., that's nan feline that successful galore years erstwhile he is simply a professor, we will perceive is harassing, stalking, and sexually abusing" students, nan professor said.

A chap student who said pinch constabulary said she had a speech pinch Kohberger aft nan murders and he told her that "whoever committed nan homicides must person been beautiful good."

And, according to nan student, Kohberger said nan timing of nan killings conscionable earlier nan commencement of wintertime break "made it a bully choice."

Kohberger declined to speak astatine his sentencing. He is being held successful nan Idaho Maximum Security Institution adjacent Boise.

Latah County charismatic Bill Thompson said Kohberger cannot beryllium trusted to supply a believable relationship of his actions moreover if he decides to speak from prison.

"I don't judge that there's thing that would travel retired of his rima that would beryllium nan truth," Thompson told reporters past month.