Bryan Kohberger identified at least one of his victims by name before knifing four University of Idaho students in their beds, according to surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen.
Bryan Kohberger identified at least one of his victims by name before knifing four University of Idaho students in their beds, according to surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen.
Kohberger — who is serving four life sentences behind bars — admitted to slaying Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle on Nov. 13, 2022 in their off-campus house in Moscow.
Two newly unsealed documents state that Mortensen told officials she heard the killer say Kaylee Goncalves’ name during the heinous attack.
Trooper Jeffory Talbot of the Idaho State Police wrote in his report that after arriving at the Moscow residence where the stabbings took place, Sgt. Dustin Blaker of the Moscow Police Department gave him a rundown of the details investigators had compiled earlier that day.
“Sometime in the early morning hours, [Mortensen] was awoken and opened her room door [redacted] and heard a male say, ‘It’s okay Kaylee, I’m here for you,’ and crying,” Talbot wrote in his summary of the briefing he received from Sgt. Blaker, obtained by People.
Mortensen, for her part, believed she heard Goncalves, 21, beeline for the stairs while trying to escape from Kohberger before she heard him speak.
