Crime
New Idaho Police Timeline Details Bryan Kohberger’s Stabbing Spree and One Victims’ Brave Fight
Bryan Kohberger’s stabbing spree may have lasted just a few minutes — and one of his victims was wide awake when she died, Idaho State Police believe.
According to documents obtained by People on Friday, August 22, authorities used video footage from nearby homes to piece together his route in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, before and after he brutally murdered Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20 and Madison Mogen, 21.
Kohberger parked behind the 1122 King Road home in Moscow, Idaho, at about 4:07 a.m., the documents reveal.
After entering through the sliding glass door on the second floor, he went upstairs, People reported, and found Goncalves and Mogen sleeping in bed together.
As previously revealed, Mogen and Goncalves were both stabbed in the lung and liver. Goncalves died instantly, the newly unsealed documents reveal, while Mogen may have been alive when he left the room.
Investigators believe Chapin, who was asleep in Kernodle’s second-floor room, was the third victim.
His fatal injury was from a stab wound “under his left clavicle which severed his subclavian vein and subclavian artery, and also his jugular vein was severed,” according to the coroners’ report.
He would have had no chance to help Kernodle, who investigators believe was the only victim who was awake at the time of the attack. “Kernodle was initially attacked just inside the bedroom near the entrance,” according to the report.
Kernodle, who suffered more than 50 mostly defensive wounds, “fought the suspect in the bedroom area and was ultimately killed on the floor of the bedroom next to the bed,” the documents state.
At around 4:18 a.m., a woman can be heard screaming and then whimpering in recently released video from a neighbor’s security camera.
Kohberger then walked back out the sliding glass door and returned to his car shortly after 4:20 a.m., according to the documents.
In chilling bodycam footage obtained by Law & Crime on Friday, August 22, officers walk through the house hours after the crimes. “Oh man,” one officer says in the video, upon seeing the bodies.
Kohberger is currently serving four consecutive life sentences at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution.
