The main prosecutor in the Quadrule murder of the Idaho University Share his frightening theory on the reasons why Killer Bryan Kohberger spared a fifth potential victim.
Earlier this month, Kohberger pleaded guilty to students’ murders Kaylee Goncalves,, Madison Mogen,, Xana Kernodle And Ethan Chapin In the early hours of November 13, 2022, in a student house outside campuses in Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger, 30, was delivered Four consecutive life sentences On the murders on July 23. He should serve life prison.
After the conviction, the Moscow police service Hundreds of non -sealed documents linked to the case, including a declaration by the police officer Mitch Nuneswho wrote how survivor Dylan Mortensen Described by seeing the striker of his roommates. Nunes said Mortensen had “glanced” out of his room on the second floor “and observed a man described as a half -feet high construction, with a black ski mask leave the second floor patio.” (Mortensen shared the same floor as Kernodle.)
In an interview Idaho’s statesman Posted on Wednesday July 30, Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson said it was very likely that the attacker also saw Mortensen, although he did not try to attack him.
Details of the murders of the Idaho University were published after more than two years after the Bryan Kohberger condemnation hearing in July 2025. More than 300 investigation files were published via the Moscow police service after a previous Batillon order. Unclosed files reveal that during his first interview with the police in December 2022, Kohberger […]
“From what Dylan has described, I find it hard to imagine that the killer has not seen Dylan,” he said.
Thompson theorized: “At that time, he was probably in the house probably longer than expected, and he had killed more people than he had planned.
Bryan Kohberger appeared at the Palais de Justice of the County of Ada for his condemnation audience on July 23, 2025 in Boisse, Idaho.
Kyle Green-Pool / Getty imagesMortensen delivered a Declaration of impact of the emotional victim During the conviction of Kohberger to Boisse, Idaho, on July 23.
“What happened that night has changed everything,” she said through tears, by CBS News. “Because of him, four beautiful, authentic and compassionate have been removed from this world without reason.”
Mortensen continued: “What he broke me in places that I did not know could break. I should have understood who I was. I should have had the university experience and start to establish my future. Instead, I was forced to learn to survive the unimaginable. ”
Mortensen then described the psychological effects during this fateful night, revealing that it is terrified to be alone and undergoes regular panic attacks.
The order of Bâillon on the case of the Idaho University was lifted after the conviction of Bryan Kohberger – and more details on the murders are revealed. On November 13, 2022, Kohberger entered the residence of 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho and stabbed students Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin to death. […]
“I can’t breathe, I can’t think, I can’t stop trembling. It is far beyond anxiety. It is my body that revives everything even and still. My nervous system has never received the message that it is finished, and that won’t let me forget what it did to them,” she said.
Mortensen described Kohberger as a “hollow ship, something less than human, a body without empathy, without remorse”. She added: “He chose destruction. He chose evil. He doesn’t feel anything. He tried to take everything from me: my friends, my security, my identity, my future. ”
A second surviving roommate, Bethany Funkealso wrote a declaration read by a friend. Funke described his guilt not to achieve what had happened earlier.
“I always wear so much regret and guilt not to know what happened and not to call [911] Immediately, even if I understand that it would have changed anything, even if the paramedics were right in front of the door, ”she said, by CBS News And AND! News.
