Quote from Oladosun Joshua Segun on July 2, 2025, 11:31 PM

As Bryan Kohberger entered his guilty plea, chilling details about the University of Idaho murders surfaced. Prosecutor Bill Thompson, speaking in court at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, on July 2, at times became tearful as he described the suspected sequence of events, primarily based on phone data and surveillance footage, on November 13, 2022, when Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were fatally stabbed in an off-campus residence.

According to Thompson, Kohberger stalked the students at 1122 King Road, drove his Hyundai Elantra to Moscow, Idaho, turned off his cell phone (which would stay off for almost two hours), and then sneaked in through a sliding door on the back side of the house that leads to the kitchen at around three in the morning.

The 30-year-old allegedly then went to the third story of the house, where he stabbed and killed 21-year-old Mogen, leaving a knife sheath next to his body, according to the prosecution.

(Although they never discovered the murder weapon, authorities would ultimately link Kohberger, who had bought a knife and sheath on Amazon earlier in the year, to the killings using DNA discovered on the sheath.)

Thompson claimed that Kohberger killed a 21-year-old Goncalves who was asleep on the third level before coming across a 20-year-old Kernodle who was awake and had just placed a DoorDash order. Kohberger then fatally stabbed Kernodle with a huge knife. He then proceeded to her second-floor bedroom and murdered her sleeping boyfriend, Chapin.

According to Thompson, "each victim suffered multiple wounds." "I will state for the record that there is no evidence there was any sexual component or sexual assault on any of the victims. I want to make that clear, so there's no speculation."

Additionally, the prosecutor pointed out that Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke, two of the victims' housemates, were sleeping in the residence at the time but were unharmed.

According to Thompson, Funke "saw the defendant clothed in black" as she peered out her bedroom door. and "holding some sort of container in his hand" before observing him quietly exit their house through the same sliding door.

As stated by Thompson, Kohberger apparently returned to 1122 King Road later that morning at around 9 a.m. after driving back to his Pullman, Washington, home, where he stayed for roughly ten minutes before leaving again.

As per to the attorney, Kohberger took a selfie in his restroom dressed all black when he got home. Weeks later, he would be captured at his Pennsylvania home by his parents.

Shortly before Judge Steven Hippler accepted Kohberger's guilty plea, Thompson recounted the evidence. Weeks before his July murder trial was scheduled to begin, Kohberger accepted a plea bargain after having previously entered a not guilty plea at his May 2023 arraignment. He would confess to killing all four college students and committing first-degree burglary as part of the agreement, but he would not be executed.

"Are you pleading guilty because guilty?" Kohberger was questioned by Hippler during his most recent hearing, who gave a resolute "Yes."

In response to the question regarding if he killed each victim "willingly, unlawfully, deliberately and with premeditation and malice with forethought," and Kohberger said, "Yes."

Judge Hippler stated that Kohberger is not bound by the arrangement, but he is scheduled to be sentenced on July 23 and faces a fixed life term on the four murder counts and a 10-year sentence for the burglary conviction.