An American criminology student who shocked the United States, by murdering four students without ever revealing his motivations, was sentenced to incompressible life on Wednesday. After two and a half years of silence, Bryan Kohberger, 30, pleaded guilty for this quadruple murder committed in November 2022, which had terrorized the small town of Moscow, in Idaho (northwest). A decision that allowed him to avoid the death penalty. The story had fascinated America: the bodies of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, both 21 years old, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, 20 years each and in a couple, had been discovered in a house, backed with stabs. These unexpected students were killed in their sleep, without it waking up their two other roommates.
The investigation had patinated for two months, before the police stopped Mr. Kohberger on December 30, 2022, thousands of kilometers from the crime scene, with his parents in Pennsylvania. The murderer studied at the time of the facts at the University of the State of Washington, with the ambition of passing a doctorate in criminology. He was confused by his DNA on a knife case recovered from crime. A video also shows a car similar to his circulating in the victims district at the time of the murders.
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But in addition to these elements, the investigation has never been able to establish a mobile and he has always kept silent. A behavior which visibly exasperated judge Steven Hippler, who portrayed him on Wednesday as a “coward” looking for attention. “The more we strive to seek an explanation for the inexplicable, the more we try to extract a reason, the more we give it to power and control”estimated the magistrate, believing that he “It’s time to put an end to the 15 -minute glory of Mr. Kohberger”. “It is time for him to be condemned to ignominy and the isolation of a perpetual imprisonment”he insisted, by calling not to decline this case in book or documentary. “I sincerely hope that no one will lower to offer him this notoriety that he wants”he concluded.
The guilty plea agreement had been strongly disputed by certain families of victims, notably that of Kaylee Goncalves. The relatives of the young woman demanded the death penalty, and pushed in favor of a law promulgated in the spring in Idaho, who provides that the death row inmates be killed by an execution peloton. At the helm on Wednesday, families mentioned the memory of the victims with emotion and sometimes hoped for a divine punishment for the accused. “You will go to hell”he launched Randy Davis, Xana Kernodle’s stepfather, Tremblant de Rage. “You are evil. There is no room for you in paradise. You took our children. You will suffer. “
