Weeks ago he was due to the stand trial, after years of accepting his innocence, Brian Kohberger took a shocking decision – he was blaming.
The 30 -year -old faced the death sentence for the severe killings of four students at his home in Moscow, Idaho in November 2022, Kaylee Gonklaves, Ethan Chapin, Xna Karnodal and Madison Mogan.
The argument quit her life – but leaves relatives of the victims who suddenly ended with controversial feelings and many questions.
The state “deal with Satan”, Steve, father of Kaylee Gonclaves, told reporters. Like others, they had questions about the secrets around the case, including a motive.
But for Ben Mogan, the father of Madison, the deal is a moment of closure for a family that conducted a fierce test after years of emphasis in the national spotlight.
“This is a nightmare that is coming into our head,” Mr. Mozen told the New York Times.
A bad dream in a close college city
This was a specific Saturday night for four young college students near Tree Line University of Idaho campus, weeks before the Thanksgiving brake.
Xana Kernodle, 20, and her lover, Ethan Chapin, went to a party in his community. Meanwhile, the best friends, Madison Mojen and Kayley Gonclaves, both went at once and finished with a food truck trip at night, before they all returned to their homes under the road from the campus from the campus around the local time.
Hours later, on the morning of 13 November 2022, a masked attacker will park his car behind his house on King Road and enter a sliding glass door. He climbed the third floor with stairs, moving from the bedroom to the bedroom, stabbing four young students, while leaving two others in the house.
The killer left behind a magnificent view, causing the walls to be scattered with blood, before he was seen in a ski mask, one of the two living roommates coming out through the glass doors.
For more than a month, the public had no idea who committed such a terrible and violent crime. Mystery – and nationwide attention attracts it – left the city of small Idaho, while passionate amateur internet sleels tried to fill the spaces.
Finally, on 30 December, after weeks of unanswered questions, the police announced that they had arrested a suspect, Kohberger at his family’s house hundreds of miles away in Poconi Mountains, Pennsylvania.
Crime without any purpose
Nearly three years later, there is no public explanation as to why Kohberger killed four students, for whom they had no known relationships.
Kohaburger himself has not offered any reason, only entered the court in the court for planning and stabbing.
Journalists and members of the people have sought answers, digging in Kohaburger’s past, and finding online old writing about conflicts with depression, lack of remorse and addiction to a pre -heroin.
He had an attraction with criminals, studied under true crime writer and forensic psychologist Catherine Ramsaland, who shook that a man he had seen as humble and respectable, could commit crimes.
“I thought,” they would have to do it wrong, “that told the new York Times. “This is not Brian Kohberger I know.”
Kohbergers would eventually pursue a criminal doctorate at Washington State University, where they were also fired from their jobs as a teaching assistant to strictly evaluate students.
Thriller novelist James Patterson – including newly released documentaries and books – has estimated his objective, suggesting that he was angry about romantic rejection, or even trying to follow the Micinist Killer Elliot Roger.
A gag order in the case stopped people from speaking close to the investigation. But last week, an Idaho judge removed the order, stating that the public’s right to information was “given a petition”.
Judge Steven Hippler said, “Media frenzy, as it is described, will continue regardless,” said Judge Steven Hippler.
Homoids entice social media sleels
In the weeks after the murders, students of Idaho University were on the shore, waiting for a response and arresting in the death of four of their companions.
With a killer still loose, many people fled from the leafy city of 25,000 residents who had not seen murder for five years.
Since the police went away without naming a suspect or even a murder weapon, an online community – disappointed for answers – formed and investigated.
Thousands of amateur crime Sleiths pledged through clues on Tikokkok and other social media sites. A private Facebook group received more than 30,000 members about the case.
The victims were bombing with messages to relatives and friends, some accused – without any evidence – unhappy roommates and others who were close to the victims of being involved in the murders.
Some small colleges landed, trying to reach the boarded house, surrounded by caution tape. Mania disappointed the local law enforcement.
The Moscow Police Department said at the time, “There are speculation, without factual support, removing the fears of the community and spreading false facts.”
Behind the curtain, the investigators were combing through thousands of tips from public, cell phone records and video surveillance.
Many pieces of evidence finally helped them to do the puzzle together.
A white Hyundai Elementra car captured in the footage near the crime scene matched the vehicle of Kohberger. The records of the cell phone placed a 30-year-old child near the Moscow of-Campus house at the time of killings, and suggested that he left the house repeatedly, then hours later, the crime, before the roommates learned about the terrible scene.
Perhaps the most important piece of evidence was left behind a major object: a knife sheath with DNA that matched a sample taken from garbage at Kohberger’s family’s house in Pennsylvania, where the officer would eventually track him during his holiday break.
A small city tries to carry forward the tragedy of the past
On the 1122 King Road, a three-storey house with gray-shitter no longer sits on a slope from the center of the campus of Idaho, the campus of Idaho.
A year after the murders, the school decided to tear off the off-campus house, where four students were killed, called the “Grimm Reminder”.
,[I]T is time to remove its removal and to allow our community to continue the collective treatment, “the university said at that time, received mixed reactions from relatives of the victims.
Now safe with a guilty petition for Kohberger, Mozen’s family agrees that it is time to convert from “tragedy and mourning” to “The Light of the Future”.
Her father has said that marketing students were “known for the ability to smile and laugh at others”.
Gonclaves, the good friends of Mojen, had a “defender and protector” of his family, who did everything that he had put on his mind “, the relatives said.
Chapin’s mother said that his son, who was a triple, was the “life of the party” and “the most kind person”.
Karnodal was a strong willpher student who was “all the time” with her friends, her father said.
To honor their memories, university students built a circular steel structure engraved with the names of four students last year, where visitors have come to laying flower bouquets, stones, candles and notes, recalling their lost friends.
Lying in a grass memorial garden, light at the top of the structure at night, one of the only remaining signs of a tragedy shook the city of small Idaho.