Bryan Kohberger Sentencing Live Updates: Survivors’ classmates speak in court
Through a declaration read in the court of friend Emily Alandt, one of the fourth survivors, Bethany Funke, said she is still afraid to go out in public, but is forced to do so because she knows that her friends would want her to live her life to the fullest.
Emily Alandt reads a victim’s impact statement during Bryan Kohberger’s sentence on July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho.
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Funke related his memories of his friends at his home outside the campus.
“Our house was not just a house, it was a home,” Funke said.
She said that Xana Kerndo was the life of the party and the “friendliest and most funny person,” and that Ethan Chapin and Kerndo “were absolute twin souls.”
Kaylee Goncalves “had the most beautiful and radiant smile” and could have governed the world, he said.
Maddie Mogen, Funke’s older sister in her brotherhood, was the “older sister who would always have wanted. There was no one to admire or admire more than Maddie.”
“I wish more than anything I could hug them for the last time,” he said.
“I still tell you every night I will continue to live for them,” he said.
