Unsealed Idaho murders documents reveal shocking details after Bryan Kohberger’s life sentence for the murders of four University of Idaho students
Details of the Idaho University murders have been released after more than two years following Bryan Kohberger’s July 2025 sentencing hearing.
More than 300 investigatory records were released via the Moscow Police Department after a previous gag order was lifted. The unsealed records reveal that during his first interview with police in December 2022, Kohberger was asked about the murders. When law enforcement asked whether he wanted to discuss what happened, he replied, “Well, I think I would need a lawyer.”
On November 13, 2022, Kohberger entered the residence at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho, and stabbed college students Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Maddie Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves to death. While Kohberger was pursuing a PhD at Washington State University at the time of the murders, he was arrested nearly a month after the incident at his parents’ house in Pennsylvania.
Following his arrest, Kohberger pleaded not guilty to the four murders. In July 2025, he entered a guilty plea as part of a deal that removed the possibility of the death penalty, which would have been on the table if the case had gone to trial. Kohberger was sentenced to four lifetimes in prison after pleading guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary.
When asked whether he wanted to speak during the sentencing hearing after listening to several statements from the victims’ family and friends, Kohberger declined.
