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University of Idaho Murders: State of Idaho vs. BK *GUILTY PLEA* (8 Viewers)

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Got my Masters degree from here. :(

Killer who stabbed 4 Idaho students to death still at large​

The killer — or killers — who stabbed four University of Idaho students to death remained at large Tuesday, prompting many students to leave the campus in the idyllic small town despite police assurances that there was no imminent risk to the community.

So many students had left the scenic tree-lined campus in Moscow, Idaho, by Tuesday that university officials said a candlelight vigil scheduled for the next day would instead be held after the Thanksgiving break.

The students, all close friends, were found dead in an off-campus rental home around noon on Sunday, and officials said they likely were killed several hours earlier. Latah County Coroner Cathy Mabbutt told the Spokane, Washington-based television station KXLY that her preliminary investigation showed the students were stabbed to death. There is no indication that substance use was involved in the deaths, Mabbutt said.
 
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RoundPeg said:
I'm just asking, that's all. I'm unsure of procedure here, but I thought this was a plea hearing. Isn't the sentencing more for the families? What do people think he should have done that he didn't?
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Yeah, they can speak at sentencing, however if any questions were to be answered by him it would have happened at this hearing as I understand it.
 
Guess Who said:
I think he did it just because he thought he was smart enough to commit the "perfect" crime.
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Well he wasnt as smart as he thought he was. It wasn't perfect because he easily got caught by his phone and vehicle and leaving his knife sheath with DNA leading directly to him. Plus he was seen by a witness.
 
Cousin Dupree said:
Beautiful popular kids. He may have asked one out and was blown off. He tried to enter a party and was thrown out.

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Wanted to see if he could pull it off.
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I think you are on the right track here. I do not think he chose them randomly but was maybe rejected by one or more of the victims.
 
This looks like it was just before the hearing and sounds like it too. Still, I know I've never watched it or heard from these two before so am linking.

 
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Bryan Kohberger Did Not Plan to Murder All 4 Victims, Suggests Prosecutor as He Fights Back Tears in Court

Bryan Kohberger may have only murdered Xana Kernodle and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin because he encountered Kerndole while trying to exit the Moscow residence, said Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson
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  • Prosecutor Bill Thompson said during a plea hearing on July 2 that the state could not offer evidence that Bryan Kohberger planned to kill all four of his victims
  • Thompson said Kohberger first killed Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, but Goncalves had moved out of the home by the time of the murders and was just visiting for the weekend
  • Xana Kernodle was killed after crossing paths with Kohberger as he was likely trying to leave the home, said Thompson, at which point she and Ethan Chapin were murdered
Bryan Kohberger did not plan to murder all four of his victims on the night of Nov. 13, 2022, according to the lead prosecutor in the case.

The former criminology student, 30, entered the off-campus home of a group of University of Idaho students with the intention of killing one or two of his young victims, Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson suggested in court on July 2.
Thompson detailed how events transpired on the night of the murders after Kohberger confessed to killing the four victims: Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20.

Bryan Kohberger, charged in the murders of four University of Idaho students, appears at the Ada County Courthouse, Wednesday, July 2, 2025, in Boise, Idaho.

Bryan Kohberger.
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Towards the end of his 10-minute presentation, Thompson suddenly became overwhelmed with emotion and, after a brief pause, began to cry.
He then finished his remarks trying to fight back those tears while telling Judge Steven Hippler: "As the defendant has just admitted and pleaded guilty, on November 13, 2022, Mr. Kohberger entered the residence at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho. He did that with the intent to kill."
Thompson then added: "We will not represent that he intended to commit all of the murders that he did that night, but we know that that is what resulted."
The lawyer then finished his remarks by saying that even if Kohberger's actions were not planned, he did kill his four victims "intentionally, willfully, deliberately, with premeditation and with malice aforethought."
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Thompson explained to the court that on the night of the murders, Kohberger entered the victims' house through a sliding door on the second floor and immediately went to the third floor, where Mogen and Goncalves were laying in bed together.
While not mentioned in Thompson's remarks, the family of Goncalves has previously said she had moved out of the home because she had lined up a job in Austin, but then decided to return to see her friends.
This, and the fact that Kohberger went right to the third floor when there were two bedrooms on the second floor where he entered, suggests that Mogen, and possibly Goncalves, were Kohberger's initial targets.
The other murders may have just been a result of an individual being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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Bill Thompson.
Idaho Fourth District Court.
"The state's evidence would show that Xana Kernodle was still awake [when Mogen and Goncalves were stabbed]. In fact, Xana had taken a Door Dash order not long before this started."
Thompson said that while Kohberger was either "coming down the stairs or leaving" he ran into Kernodle and stabbed her to death.
Then he went into Kernodle's bedroom, said Thompson, where her boyfriend Ethan Chapin was asleep and killed him.
"Each victim suffered multiple wounds," Thompson said, while also stressing there was no evidence or proof of sexual assault.
Then, on his way out, Kohberger spared a life.
Bryan Kohberger, Court

Anne Taylor, Bryan Kohbegher, Elissa Massoth.
Idaho Fourth District Court.

Thompson said one of the two surviving roommates watched Kohberger exit through the second-floor sliding door with a container in his hand.
That young woman then ran downstairs to the bedroom of the other surviving roommate, where they spent the night together, unaware that four people were dead upstairs.
The man who ended the lives of those four victims will now spend the rest of his life in prison after making a deal with prosecutors, sparing him the death penalty.
Kohberger's sentencing is scheduled for July 23.
 
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