Families of Idaho Slam Bryan Kohberger at the Emotional Judgment Hearing: “Hell will be waiting”

One by one, the relatives of the victims of murder of the University of Idaho amounted to the podium and looked at the murderer Bryan Kohberger during the victim’s impact statements in his sentence on Wednesday.

Victim’s sister Kaylee Goncalves, Alivea Goncalves, who has been an open lawyer from Kaylee and her best life of life and her companion victim Maddie Mogen, said Kohberger in a blunt statement, “my sister Kaylee and her best friend Maddie were not yours.

“They are all you could never be: loved, accepted, vibrant, successful, brave and powerful,” he said.

“They would have been friendly with you. If you had approached them in their daily lives, they would have instructed you, they thanked you for the fulfillment … in a world that rejected you, they would have shown mercy,” he said.

Goncalves said “I don’t know here and will give you what you want”: tears and tremors.

“You did not win … You are a delusional, pathetic and hypochondriac loser who thought you were much smarter than everyone else,” he said.

“You are not special or deep, not mysterious or exceptional. You never twist again. No one is afraid of you today. Nobody is intimidated by you, nobody is impressed by you, nobody thinks you are important,” he said.

He concluded his statement with memorable words to Kohberger, saying that, if he had not attacked the students while they sleep, “Kaylee would have kicked your butt.”

People in the court hall applauded when Goncalves resigned.

Judge Steven Hippler sentenced Kohberger to four consecutive perpetual chains for the four first -degree murder counts and the maximum penalty of 10 years in the robberies count.

Students, fellow Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodle, and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, were stabbed until death at the girls’ house outside the campus on November 13, 2022. On July 2, weeks before the trial began, Kohberger declared all the counts. As part of the guilt agreement, the death penalty was withdrawn from the table.

When Kaylee’s mother, Kristi Goncalves, read her statement on Wednesday, told Kohberger: “Hell will be waiting.”

“You are nothing. That you continue living your life in misery. You are officially owned by the Idaho state, where your inmates anxiously expect your arrival,” he said.

Kaylee’s father, Steve Goncalves, told Kohberger: “Today, you have lost control. Today we are here to show the world that you chose the wrong families, the wrong state, the wrong police officers, the wrong community.”

“You tried to plant fear, you tried to divide us, you failed. On the other hand, your actions have joined everyone in their disgust for you,” he said.

Goncalves criticized Kohberger as “silly and stupid” for leaving his DNA in the crime scene. “Master’s degree? You are a joke, a complete joke,” he said.

“No one cares about you … From this moment, we will forget you … You chose the wrong family and we are laughing at you on your trip” to prison, he said.

Maddie Mogen’s grandmother, Kim Cheeley, said in court that her “fear was really weakening” following the murders.

Then, after Kohberger’s arrest, he said his family has lived “with the effects of traumatic pain.”

Cheley said he has experienced depression and anxiety and that he has tried to cope with Duel classes and EMDR therapy.

She said she is grateful that her own mother died in the months before Mogen was killed, so she did not live “horror.”

Xana Kernodle’s stepfather, Randy Davis, went to the families of the other victims, saying that this was probably the last time everyone would be in the same room.

“I love you all and I feel your pain,” he said.

For Kohberger, he said as he shaken: “You go to hell … You are evil … You took our children … you will suffer, man.”

“Go to Hell,” he concluded, while everyone applauded.

However, a relative gave a different tone.

Xana Kernodle’s aunt, Kim Kernodle, told Kohberger: “I have forgiven you, because I could no longer live with that hatred.”

“Every time you want to talk and tell me what happened … I’m here, without judgment,” he told his niece’s murderer.

Ethan Chapin’s family decided not to attend the sentence.

The court also listened to the two fellow survivors.

Dylan Mortensen, who told the Police that he saw a man with a mask at his home on the night of the murders, sobbed in court while describing his weakening panic attacks and Tsunami.

“Sometimes I’m going to the ground with my heart, convinced that something is very bad … it’s my body reviving everything again and again,” he said.

She said that Kohberger “removed my ability to trust the world around me” and “destroyed me in places that I didn’t know they could break.”

“He was just 19 when he did this,” he said. “I should have been discovering who it was. I should have discovered university experience … Instead, I was forced to learn to survive the unimaginable. I couldn’t stay alone. I had to sleep in my mother’s room because I was too terrified to close my eyes.”

He called Kohberger a “hollow container, a little less than human, a body without empathy, without remorse.”

“He tried to take everything away: my friends, my security, my identity, my future,” he said. “He took my life, but I will continue trying to be like them, to make them proud. Living is how I honor them.”

Friend Emily Alandt read a statement on behalf of the second room of room survivor, Bethany Funke.

Funke said he is blamed for not calling 911 immediately.

“I was so frantic that morning and I got scared until death, without knowing what had happened. And when I made the call to 911 I couldn’t even get the words,” he said.

Funke said he wonders every day why he could live and his friends did not, and said he felt “sick of guilt” when he looked at his friends’ families.

She said the crime has left her terrified. She said she slept in her parents’ room for almost a year and made them block double each door. She said she has never slept all night and constantly wakes up in panic, worried that someone is entering, trying to hurt her or someone she loves.

Funke said he is still afraid to go out in public, but he is forced to do so because he knows that her friends would want her to live her life to the fullest.

Funke also opened about what strange from his friends.

She said that Xana Kerndo was 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, Funke said.

Maddie Mogen, Funke’s older sister in her brotherhood, was the “older sister she would always have wanted,” he said. “There was no one to whom I admired or admired more than Maddie.”

“I wish more than anything I could hug them for the last time,” he said.