Bryan Kohberger entered a guilty plea Wednesday for the brutal slaying of four University of Idaho students, revealing a chilling timeline of premeditation that began nearly six months before the November 2022 murders that shocked the nation.
The 30-year-old criminology doctoral student admitted to killing Maddy Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle in their off-campus Moscow, Idaho home during the early morning hours of November 13, 2022.
The confession brings closure to one of the most closely watched criminal cases in recent memory.
Prosecuting Attorney Bill Thompson delivered emotional testimony in a Boise courtroom, describing how Kohberger purchased the murder weapon months in advance and stalked the victims’ residence repeatedly before carrying out the attack.
Thompson’s voice shook as he recounted the horrific details that would have been presented during a weeks-long trial.
The prosecutor choked up while explaining the cold-blooded nature of the crimes, telling the court that Kohberger “killed—intentionally, willfully, deliberately, with premeditation, and with malice and forethought—Maddy Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle.”
The prosecution revealed that Kohberger ordered a military-grade Ka-Bar knife and sheath from Amazon in March 2022 while living at his parents’ Pennsylvania home.
This same weapon would later be used to kill all four victims eight months later, demonstrating the extensive planning that went into the attacks.
Kohberger relocated to Pullman, Washington in June 2022 to pursue his PhD in criminology at Washington State University.
His new residence placed him just minutes away from the future crime scene in Moscow, Idaho.
Cell phone records showed a disturbing pattern of surveillance beginning in July 2022.
Just one month after Kohberger arrived in the area. Kohberger’s phone pinged off the cell tower serving the victims’ house 23 times between 10pm and 4am over the months leading up to the murders.
Prosecutors emphasized that no evidence indicated Kohberger had any direct contact with his victims during this extended stalking period.
On the night of the murders, Kohberger powered off his phone around 2 a.m. in Pullman before reactivating it near Moscow just before 5 a.m.
Security footage captured Kohberger’s white Hyundai traveling from his apartment to the victims’ residence, where he parked behind the house.
Wearing a dark face mask, he entered through the kitchen’s sliding door around 4 a.m.
The attack began on the third floor where best friends Mogen and Goncalves, both 21-year-old college seniors, were sleeping together in bed.
The two women had been close friends throughout their college years and were spending their final semester together before graduation.
Kohberger used his seven-inch blade to kill both women while they slept, striking them down before they could react or defend themselves.
During his exit, Kohberger encountered 20-year-old Kernodle on the stairs.
She had been awake after receiving a food delivery and was killed where she stood.
Thompson’s voice shook as he described the encounter, stating, “Her room was not on the third floor, it was on the second floor. He encountered Xana, and he ended up killing her, also with a large knife.”
Kohberger then entered her second-floor bedroom and murdered her boyfriend, 20-year-old Chapin, as he slept.
The young man had no opportunity to defend himself or his girlfriend, becoming another innocent victim of Kohberger’s rampage through the house.
Thompson acknowledged that prosecutors could not definitively prove Kohberger intended to kill all four victims when he entered the house.
“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,” Thompson said, suggesting the full scope of the violence may have escalated beyond Kohberger’s original plan.
The killer left behind crucial evidence at the scene that would ultimately lead to his downfall.
The knife sheath, discovered next to Mogen’s body, contained Kohberger’s DNA, which would ultimately lead to his identification and arrest.
This single piece of evidence proved to be the breakthrough investigators needed to solve the case, the New York Post highlighted.
One of two surviving housemates witnessed a man with “bushy eyebrows” leaving the residence.
This eyewitness testimony provided investigators with a physical description that would later help confirm Kohberger’s identity as the perpetrator.
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