Bryan Kohberger’s Victims ‘Endured a High Degree of Pain’ Before Their Deaths, Newly Unsealed Reports Show

Nearly four years after the murders that shook America, newly unsealed autopsy reports are finally revealing just how much Bryan Kohberger‘s four victims suffered.

The Moscow, Idaho, off-campus home where University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodle were killed on November 13, 2022, became the scene of one of the most chilling quadruple murders the country has ever seen.

Kohberger ultimately accepted responsibility through a plea deal that spared him the death penalty, but he has never publicly shared why he targeted the four friends, according to the Daily Mail.

Now, newly released documents are filling in major gaps in the case.

As per the outlet, Spokane County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Veena Singh revealed that three of the victims, Goncalves, Mogen and Kernodle, “endured a high degree of pain and suffering” before their deaths.

Chapin is believed to have also suffered significantly, though to a lesser degree.

Across all four autopsies, the reports document more than 150 sharp-force injuries inflicted in under 20 minutes, with Singh concluding that a single large Ka-Bar-style hunting knife was used in the attack.

Among the most heartbreaking findings in the report are details about Goncalves’s injuries. The 21-year-old sustained at least 38 sharp-force wounds and blunt-force trauma so severe that it caused bleeding around her brain.

Singh also revealed that an unidentified object had been “pressed across Goncalves’ mouth,” raising painful new questions for her loved ones.

Kernodle, 20, suffered the most injuries of all four victims, totaling 67 wounds. Singh said several were defensive, pointing to a desperate struggle.

Mogen, 21, who was sleeping beside Goncalves, suffered at least 28 wounds, including ones that pierced her lung and liver. Investigators have long believed she was Kohberger’s first victim.

Chapin, 20, suffered fewer wounds but still sustained injuries to several major arteries and veins.

In a unified push for accountability, the four victims’ families have filed a lawsuit against Washington State University, where Kohberger was enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate, claiming the school should have done more to stop him, Court TV reported on June 3.