Forced families to survive the unimaginable: a quadruple murder remained, until the end, without explanation. A cold accused, pleading guilty and never looked at the photos of the victims: Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, 21 years old, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, 20. Bryan Kohberger, an American student in 30-year criminology, was sentenced to incompressible life on Wednesday July 23 for a quadruple murder committed in November 2022, which had terrorized the small town of Moscow, Idaho, in the northwest of the United States.
After two years of silence, Kohberger, calm, eyes wide open and in orange outfit – that of prisoners -, A “Respectfully declined” to speak before hearing his conviction. The accused knew that his confessions would avoid the death penalty.
Before that, several members of the victims’ families had paraded to express their sadness or disgust for this “Assassin, psychopath and sociopath”. If some mentioned the memory of their loved ones with emotion, others 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. “
The story had fascinated America: eighty -year -old had been discovered in a house larded 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 Bryan Kohberger on December 30, 2022, thousands of kilometers from the crime scene, with his parents in Pennsylvania.
The murderer, confused by his DNA on a knife case recovered at crime scene, studied at the time of the facts at the University of the State of Washington, with the ambition of passing a doctorate in criminology. A video also shows a car similar to his circulating in the victims district at the time of the murders.
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 fifteen minutes of glory of Mr. Kohberger”. “It is time for him to be condemned to ignominy and the isolation of a perpetual imprisonment”he insisted.
The plea-guilty agreement had been strongly challenged 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 the State, which provides that the sentenced to capital punishment be killed by an execution peloton.
Donald Trump wanted to support families on Wednesday, by the voice of his spokesperson in the White House, Karoline Leavitt. “Our nation cries with you, and we will never forget the precious souls that have been lost in this horrible and evil actshe said during a press briefing. If it only held to the president, he would have forced this monster to explain publicly why he chose to steal these innocent souls. ”
Judge Steven Hippleren called not to decline this case in book or documentary. “I sincerely hope that no one will lower to offer him this notoriety that Mr. Kohberger wants.”
