Following the emotional conclusion of Bryan Kohberger’s sentencing hearing, Scott Laramie, stepfather of Madison “Maddie” Mogen, alongside Maddie’s mother, Karen, said that they can now “move on” with their lives.
“Karen and I just left the sentencing where we gave our victim impact statement,” Laramie said. “Judge Hippler sentenced the defendant to the maximum allowable sentence under the plea agreement.”
While acknowledging the pain of not going through a trial, Laramie expressed that he was thankful for the plea deal due to the possibility that Kohberger might have avoided the death penalty or launched years of appeals.
“The sentence will ensure that this evil will never again terrorize a family as he did ours and three others.”
“This way, his fate is sealed, society is protected, and we can move on with our lives and attempt to recover,” he said.
He closed with a tribute to Maddie saying: “She was our purpose and our hope. We remain lost without her, but we will find our way.”
Following an emotional day in court, Steve Goncalves, the father of Kaylee Goncalves, addressed reporters during a press conference outside the Ada County Courthouse.
“It’s been a long and emotional morning,” he said. “So please show some grace to the families as they answer your questions.”
Reflecting on the nearly three-year journey since the 2022 murders, Goncalves said, “Today’s the end of a long, hard-fought battle. But we have our person, and we have him where he belongs.”
“We are thankful for all the men and women that put the work together, put this case together.”
Despite the relief of a sentencing, Goncalves remained firm in his view that justice was incomplete.
“It wasn’t justice. It was just a shortcut,” he said. “And we said from the very beginning, we’re not interested in a shortcut for our daughter.”
Voicing his frustration on Kohberger’s plea deal, Goncalves said that they were “never given a fair chance at justice.”
“This isn’t just about a prosecutor’s record,” he said. “It’s about Kaylee. It’s about my daughter. She’s not just one of the Idaho Four.”
“She was a daughter, a sister, a best friend, and the light in every room she walked into.”
As the sentencing hearing for Bryan Kohberger unfolded in court Wednesday, his mother, Maryann Kohberger, and one of his sisters sat quietly behind him.
They were the only family members present on Kohberger’s side, alongside his two defense attorneys.
Unlike the emotionally charged presence of the victims’ families, Kohberger’s family remained quiet throughout the proceedings.
Judge Steven Hippler delivered a sweeping rebuke of Bryan Kohberger while formally sentencing him to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students.
Judge Hippler praised the courage of the surviving roommates and the dignity shown by the victims’ families.
“They are and should be known as survivors, fighters, and foremost as witnesses to the tremendous lives of value and unbounded promise of these four young people,” he said.
He acknowledged that Kohberger’s motive for the slayings remains unknown, but warned against giving the 30-year-old convicted killer more power by endlessly seeking an explanation.
“The more we struggle to seek explanation for the unexplainable, the more power and control we give to him,” Hippler said. “In my view, the time has now come to end Mr. Kohberger’s 15 minutes of fame.”
Judge Hippler firmly rejected Kohberger’s future bid for fame through books, media or television.
“There should be no need for that to spill over into the public eye,” he said.
Referencing a former Idaho judge, known for finding at least one positive thing to say about those he sentence, Hippler said that he was unable to find a positive attribute for Kohberger.
“Truth be told, I’m unable to come up with anything redeeming about Mr. Kohberger,” Hippler said. “His grotesque acts of evil have buried and hidden anything that might have been good or intrinsically human about him.”
With that, he sentenced Kohberger to four consecutive life terms without parole, plus ten years for burglary and $290,000 in financial penalties to the victims’ families.
“He is forever removed from civilized society,” the judge concluded.
During a press briefing Wednesday following the sentencing of Bryan Kohberger, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that if it were up to President Trump, he would have “forced this monster” to explain himself.
“We are so sorry for the grief and the pain that you have experienced at the hands of such a vicious and evil killer. Our nation grieves with you and we will never forget the precious souls who were lost in this horrific act of evil,” she said.”If it were up to the president, he would have forced this monster publicly explain why he chose to steal these innocent souls,” she said.
“May God bless everyone affected by this unimaginable tragedy. Especially the parents who lost their children.”
As the sentencing hearing for Bryan Kohberger continued, the defense announced it would not present any evidence, choosing not to call witnesses or offer statements on Kohberger’s behalf.
When the judge turned to Kohberger and asked if he wished to address the court, he responded simply: “I respectfully decline.”
Randy Davis, the stepfather to Xana Kernodle, took the podium and told Bryan Kohberger to “go to he–.”
“This is probably the last time we’re all going to be in the same room together, and that’s real,” he said, turning to the other families. “So I can say, I love you all, and I feel your pain. God bless us all.”
Davis shared a memory of Xana’s humor, recalling how she and her sister once dressed up their younger brother in makeup and a dress.
“She was funny,” he said, eliciting laughter in the courtroom.
“I told her she’d be in the movies or be someone great one day. And now she is, just above us, as an angel.”
Looking directly at Kohberger, he said: “I want to just be out in the woods with you for five minutes… just so I can teach you about loss and pain,” he said. “I love God, I wouldn’t take your life, that’s up to Him. But I guarantee you, you are weak. Go to he–.”
Kim Kernodle, aunt of Xana Kernodle, stood before Bryan Kohberger and offered something no one else had: forgiveness.
“I’m always looking for the positive thing because evil and hate can destroy people,” she said. “And that’s what it started doing to our family.”
Kim reflected on the anger and division that followed Xana’s murder, but said that she has chosen a different path.
“Xana was everything the media and her friends said. She was that fun-loving, high-spirited, beautiful person,” Kernodle said. “I no longer get to get my nails done with her or have lunch with her.”
“We’re stronger than ever. We have family and friends now that we never knew we had.”
Then, turning directly to Kohberger, Kim offered her forgiveness to her niece’s killer.
“Bryan, I’m here today to tell you I have forgiven you because I no longer could live with that hate in my heart,” she said. “For me to become a better person, I have forgiven you.”
She also extended her willingness to talk to him.
“Any time you want to talk and tell me what happened, you have my number. And I’m here.”
After a brief courtroom recess during Wednesday’s sentencing hearing, Bryan Kohberger returned to his seat.
Kohberger, clad in his orange jail jumpsuit and still shackled, flashed a big smile as he returned to the Ada County courtroom Wednesday.
He has remained mostly expressionless throughout the proceedings while victims’ families fought through tears and delivered searing testimony.
Ben Mogen, father of Madison “Maddie” Mogen, described his daughter as the meaning of his life.
“Maddie was my only child that I ever had,” he said. “She’s the only great thing I ever really did. The only thing I was ever really proud of.”
Mogen reflected on how he believed he and Maddie had a lifetime ahead to grow closer as adults. He recalled some of their happiest memories together, including the time he scored last minute meet-and-greet tickets for Maddie and her friends to see Mac Miller, one of her favorite artists.
“That was one of my favorite memories,” he said. “My cousin Zach drove us and he’s gone now too.”
Mogen also read the final Father’s Day card Maddie ever gave him.
“She did encourage me, not just to do my best, but to live on,” he said, revealing that Maddie’s presence helped him through his own battles with addiction.
“When I wasn’t wanting to live anymore, she kept me alive.”
Following a series of emotional victim impact statements, Bryan Kohberger was briefly escorted out of the courtroom Wednesday morning for a scheduled break in proceedings.
Clad in an orange jumpsuit, Kohberger was seen walking with ankle chains.
Alivea Stevenson, the older sister to Kaylee Goncalves and a beloved “sister figure” to Madison Mogen, delivered brutal personal attacks against Bryan Kohberger in her searing victim impact statement.
She began by reminding the courtroom, and Kohberger, that her sister and Maddie were not his to take.
“They were not yours to study, to stalk or to silence,” she said. “They are everything that you could never be—loved, accepted, vibrant, accomplished, brave and powerful.”
“In a world that rejected you, they would have shown mercy,” she said.
Stevenson turned her grief into defiance, saying that she won’t offer the 30-year-old killer her tears nor her trembling.
“I won’t feed the beast,” she said.
Instead, she unleashed a series of unrelenting questions to Kohberger. She demanded details about the murder, his preparations, and his motive.
“What were Kaylee’s last words?” she asked. “Do you feel anything at all—or are you exactly what you always feared? Nothing.”
“You didn’t create devastation. You revealed it, and it’s in yourself,” she said. “That darkness you carry, that emptiness, you’ll sit with it long after this is over. That is your sentence.”
In a blistering takedown, Stevenson said; “You’re a delusional, pathetic, hypochondriac loser who thought you were so much smarter than everybody else.”
“All of that effort just to seem important,” she said.
Stevenson called Kohberger a textbook case of “insecurity disguised as control.”
She slammed his inflated sense of intellect and elitism, mocking his belief in online IQ scores.
“Your motives are shallow. You are not profound. You’re pathetic,” she said. “No one is scared of you today. No one is impressed. No one thinks that you are important.”
Stevenson’s statement ended with a brief round of applause from the courtroom.
“If you hadn’t attacked them in their sleep in the middle of the night like a pedophile, Kaylee would have kicked your f—ing a–.”
Steve Goncalves, the father of 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves, unleashed an impassioned victim impact statement Wednesday morning.
Addressing Bryan Kohberger directly, Goncalves declared: “Today, we are here to finish what you started. Today, you’ve lost control. Today, we are here to prove to the world that you picked the wrong families.”
His voice rising, Goncalves told Kohberger he had chosen the wrong town, the wrong police officers, and the wrong community.
“You tried to break our community apart. You tried to plant fear. You tried to divide us. You failed,” he said. “Instead, your actions have united everyone in their disgust for you.”
He described how quickly their family and law enforcement rallied to identify Kohberger, recounting how they gathered camera footage and helped spot the white Hyundai Elantra within hours.
“You were that careless, that foolish, that stupid. Master’s degree—you’re a joke. Complete joke.”
Goncalves said that Kohberger no longer even deserved to be named.
“Today you have no name. We all came together and said, let’s stop even talking about his name. Just use initials. So even the media just called you BK. That’s all you are.”Goncalves said that they are “laughing at you and your trip to the penitentiary.”
“In this moment, we will forget you. We want to. I’ll leave in closing. One last thing. You picked the wrong family and we’re laughing at you and your trip to the pen [penitentiary].
Known lovingly by Madison “Maddie” Mogen as “Deetle Beetle,” Kim Cheeley opened her remarks with a touching story about how her granddaughter gave her that special nickname as a toddler.
“I became Deetle Beetle, shortened to Deetle when she was about 6 or 7, and I was Deetle all her life.”
Cheeley spoke warmly of the tight relationship she shared with Maddie and how Maddie once gifted her a necklace engraved with “Deetle and Maddie,” now worn daily with an added angel wing.
“It’s one of my treasured possessions,” she said, revealing that she even got a matching angel wing tattoo, a first for her.
She reminisced about their cherished Wednesday rituals from Maddie’s childhood.
“From preschool through grade school, I stopped teaching piano lessons early on Wednesdays and picked Maddie up for bubble baths, brownies, and books,” she said. “It was our special time together.”
Cheeley shared that the grief on her family was “debilitating.”
“When the four kids were murdered, the foundation fell out of our world. Initially, the fear was truly debilitating,” she said. “The first six weeks were excruciating. Despite the vigils, memorials, candlelight, gatherings of students, friends, family, community members. After the arrest in the past two and a half years, my family has lived with grief, with the effects of traumatic grief, of which I was blissfully unaware before all of this.”
“We Mogen’s are choosing to put our energy and focus into honoring Maddie’s too short life and sweet spirit by celebrating Maddie May Day, which my two daughters establish on May 25th each year, Maddie’s birthday,” she said. “We encourage folks to do random acts of kindness in Maddie’s name. In my daughter Katie’s words, ‘May we all protect our peace in whatever way possible. Unite in community and focus on joy.'”
As emotional victim impact statements echoed through the Ada County Courthouse Wednesday, Bryan Kohberger sat motionless, offering little visible reaction.
At one point, Kohberger took a deep breath, leaned back in his chair, and his expression changed slightly, but he remained dry-eyed as loved ones of the victims expressed their grief.
Around him, the courtroom atmosphere was heavy. Reporters, members of the public and court staff could be seen wiping away tears.
Scott Laramie, Madison Mogen’s stepfather, said he had no words for Bryan Kohberger.
“As for the defendant, will not waste words… nor will we fall into hatred and bitterness. Evil has many faces, and we now know this. But evil does not deserve our time and attention.”
He also declared that they are done being victims.
“We are taking back our lives. We will turn our time, talents and attention to hope, healing and helping others and to the future,” Laramie said. “We invite all those who have suffered with us to join us in our journey. We can make this world a better place. We can move on from tragedy. Adversity will visit us. Evil will visit us. But we will overcome. We can and will endure.”
He delivered the statement on behalf of himself and Maddie’s mother, Karen Laramie.
Dylan Mortensen, one of the two surviving roommates, delivered a powerful victim impact statement through tears, saying it was the “night that changed everything.”
Speaking for the first time in court, Mortensen described the deep and lasting wounds left by the November 2022 murders of her four close friends: Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.
“What happened that night changed everything,” she said. “He didn’t just take their lives. He took the light. They carried it into every room.” Mortensen spoke through tears as she recounted her friends.
“He took away birthdays, graduations, celebrations. And all the memories that we were supposed to make. All of it is gone. And all the people who love them are just left to carry that weight forever.”
She also opened up about her trauma and fear in the aftermath of the crime.
“What he did shattered me in places I didn’t know could break. I was barely 19 when he did this,” she said. “I should have been figuring out who I was. Instead, I was forced to learn how to survive the unimaginable.”
Mortensen described sleeping in her mother’s bed out of fear, planning escape routes everywhere she went, and suffering from sudden panic attacks.
As family members and friends of the victims poured their hearts out in the courtroom, convicted killer Bryan Kohberger remained stone-faced, showing no visible emotion.
He is seated across from the victims in a prison-issued orange jumpsuit.
Bethany Funke, one of the two surviving roommates, submitted an emotional victim impact statement in court.
With emotion in her voice, Emily Alandt, Funke’s friend delivered the statement, recounting the trauma her friend has carried since the murders of her closest friends: Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.
“I was roommates with Maddie, Kaylee, Xana, and Ethan. I not only lost some of my best friends, but I also lost a sister,” Alandt said on behalf of Funke. “Never in a million years would I have thought that something like this would have happened to my closest friends.”
She described waking up that morning with a toothache and calling her father.
“He told me to take Advil, so I did and I went back to sleep,” she said. “I still carry so much regret and guilt for not knowing what had happened and not calling right away. Even though I understand it wouldn’t have changed anything, not even if the paramedics had been right outside the door.”
Funke also spoke about the wave of harassment she and her family endured in the days and weeks that followed.
“I was getting flooded with death threats and hateful messages from people who did not know me at all or know the dynamic of our friendship. Social media made it so much worse and strangers made up stories to entertain themselves.”
“I hated and still hate that they are gone, but for some reason I am still here and I got to live. I still think about this every day. Why me?”
Bryan Kohberger appeared in an orange jail-issued jumpsuit Wednesday morning as his sentencing got underway at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho.
The 30-year-old sat quietly as proceedings began, flanked by his attorneys, with victims’ families gathered to deliver emotional impact statements.
The family of Kaylee Goncalves, one of the four University of Idaho students brutally murdered in 2022, arrived at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise on Wednesday.
Steve and Kristi Goncalves, Kaylee’s parents, entered the courtroom holding hands.
The family has been among the most vocal advocates for justice throughout the investigation and court proceedings.
Anne Taylor, Bryan Kohberger’s attorney, arrives for his sentencing hearing at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise Wednesday.
Taylor was seen in a black skirt and a maroon jacket entering the courthouse.
The family of Madison Mogen, one of the four University of Idaho students murdered in a brutal 2022 stabbing, arrived at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise Wednesday.
Madison “Maddie” Mogen was a 21-year-old student at the University of Idaho studying marketing.
Mogen was known for her vibrant personality and her lifelong bond with fellow victim Kaylee Goncalves, who was also her roommate and best friend since childhood.
As Bryan Kohberger faces sentencing for the brutal 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students, key pieces of forensic and digital evidence detailed by prosecutors shed light on how authorities built their case.
At the center was a leather knife sheath discovered beneath victim Madison Mogen’s body. DNA recovered from the sheath was matched first through a familial DNA search using a sample from Kohberger’s father’s trash and later confirmed via cheek swab following his Pennsylvania arrest.
In addition to the DNA evidence, surveillance footage played a major role.
A white Hyundai Elantra, matching Kohberger’s vehicle, was caught on camera circling the King Road residence in Moscow, multiple times in the early morning hours of the attack.
Cellphone data revealed even more: his device had pinged near the victims’ home a dozen times in the weeks before the murders.
A probable cause affidavit said that Kohberger’s AT&T cell phone was turned off during the estimated window of the killings. Authorities said it was turned back on just after the time of the murders, and it later pinged near the scene again.
Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano Jr. and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
Xana Kernodle’s cousin implored people to “remember the names of the victims, not the name of the monster who took them.”
“Today will bring a lot of emotions,” Sheldon Kernodle wrote on X Wednesday. “By honoring their lives instead of giving attention to the one who caused so much pain, we keep their memories alive.”
“Please never forget their names: Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves,” he wrote. “Remember them. Forget him.”
Fox News Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
Media crews lined up overnight outside the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, for a front-row seat to Bryan Kohberger’s highly anticipated sentencing.
With just 50 seats reserved for press inside the courtroom, reporters gathered early Wednesday morning to secure their spot.
The sentencing is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. EST (9 a.m. local time), marking the final chapter in the case.
Prosecutors have asked a Boise judge to extend the order barring Bryan Kohberger from contacting his victims’ families for another 99 years following his guilty plea in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students.
“This Motion is based on the fact that Defendant has now entered guilty pleas to all offenses charged in the Indictment and will be sentenced on July 23, 2025,” Latah County Prosecuting Attorney Bill Thompson wrote in a motion made public Tuesday.
“The current No Contact Orders expire on January 5, 2027, and the State respectfully requests that they be extended for an additional ninety-nine (99) years.”
The family of Ethan Chapin, one of the four University of Idaho students murdered in 2022, has confirmed they will not attend Bryan Kohberger’s sentencing today in Boise.
“The days do get better,” Stacy Chapin, speaking alongside her husband, Jim, told the TODAY show.
“If I could physically do a handstand, I’d probably do one, because I am so ready,” Jim Chapin said. “I’m ready for my kids to move on. I’m ready for us to move on. I mean, it’s been almost 2½ years, and it’s, just, it’s over.”
The Chapins said the plea agreement saved their surviving children, Maizie and Hunter, Ethan’s triplet siblings, from possibly having to testify at trial.
“Our first, our initial response was like, the eye, an eye for an eye,” Stacy said. “But this was a better deal.”
As Bryan Kohberger prepares to be formally sentenced Tuesday for the murders of four University of Idaho students, a legal expert condemned his previously proposed defense strategy as “depraved.”
Fox News contributor Donna Rotunna to Fox and Friends’ co-host Lawrence Jones that “this is the day for the families.”
“This is the day they get to use their voices to tell us about the pain and the suffering. We will hear about graduations they won’t attend. Weddings they won’t witness… grandchildren that will not be born,” she said.
“These lives were lost much too soon, and the pain will reverberate in their lives for as long as they are on this Earth.”
Jones pointed to a People report highlighting that, prior to accepting a plea deal, Kohberger’s legal team had considered pursuing an alternative perpetrator theory that would have implicated other students.
Kohberger’s lead attorney, Anne Taylor, attempted to advance that defense, but the judge ultimately rejected it.
Rotunno criticized the tactic as legally and ethically flawed:
“To try to frame any person that they don’t have any real evidence of committing crimes or no nexus to their actions in crimes. I mean, obviously, anybody on Earth has contact with other people in our world of social media, in the world of apps, and the world of Snapchat. They were college students. They probably had thousands of followers, people that knew them, people that lived close to them. This was a close knit community of students,” she said.
“And so the fact that you would try to, you know, essentially throw other people under the bus when there’s no evidence to suggest that they were involved in this is definitely depraved.”
It’s judgment day for Bryan Kohberger, the former aspiring criminologist who killed four University of Idaho students in a 4 a.m. home invasion ambush in November 2022.
The 30-year-old was studying for a Ph.D. at Washington State University in Pullman when he drove about 10 miles to the off-campus rental house at 1122 King Road, just across the state line, in Moscow, Idaho.
At a change of plea hearing July 2, he admitted to killing four young people inside: Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20. But he did not give a motive or explain anything other than admit his guilt.
Mogen and Goncalves, who were best friends, were killed in a third-floor bedroom. Kohberger’s key mistake — the only publicly known physical evidence tying him to the crimes — was a Ka-Bar knife sheath he left under Mogen’s body. Police found his DNA on the snap.
On the second floor, Kernodle was awake, having received a DoorDash delivery minutes earlier. Kohberger killed her, then turned his knife on her sleeping boyfriend, Chapin, who was spending the night.
A surviving roommate told police she heard crying and a man’s voice say something to the effect of, “It’s OK. I’m going to help.” Then she saw a masked man with “bushy eyebrows” leave out the back door. For whatever reason, he didn’t attack her.
The victims’ families have been split over the plea deal, which required Kohberger to waive his right to appeal and to forfeit his right to seek a sentence reduction under Idaho law.
Read the full report by Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz here.
As Bryan Kohberger prepares to face sentencing for the murders of four University of Idaho students, the courtroom is expected to hear emotional impact statements from the families of the victims.
Today, family members of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin will have the opportunity to deliver victim impact statements, giving voice to the lasting trauma left in the wake of the November 2022 killings.
While Kohberger has accepted a plea deal, avoiding the death penalty in exchange for life in prison without parole, the sentencing hearing provides a final public forum for the families.
As the Idaho murder case against Bryan Kohberger nears its final chapter, one pressing question lingers: will the convicted killer finally reveal his motive?
By accepting a plea deal, Kohberger avoided a lengthy trial in exchange for life in prison without the possibility of parole, effectively removing the death penalty from the table.
While the plea secured a swift resolution, it left one glaring omission: no official explanation for the motive behind the brutal stabbings of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.
James Patterson, the bestselling author with over 260 New York Times titles and 10 Emmy Awards, teamed up with investigative journalist Vicky Ward to write The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy, in which the pair explore Kohberger’s possible motivation.
Kohberger may have been inspired by one killer – Elliot Rodger. The 22-year-old was obsessed with exacting “retribution” after experiencing what he claimed was a lifetime of social and sexual isolation, The Associated Press reported.
In 2014, Rodger killed six people in a stabbing and shooting spree in Isla Vista, California, before turning the gun on himself.
“No one knows that, like Rodger, Bryan is a virgin who hates women,” the book claimed. “No one knows that Bryan copes with loneliness by immersing himself in video games. Like Rodger, he goes for night drives. Like Rodger, he visits the gun range. And, like Rodger, he goes to a local bar and tries to pick up women.”
“Elliot Rodger wrote that he kept trying to place himself in settings where he could pick up women,” the book continued. “But no one noticed him. Bryan must think that surely he’ll be noticed. Women must spot his looks, his intelligence, and they must want him. They don’t.”
Patterson pointed out that at the Seven Sirens Brewing Company in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Kohberger would push his way into unwanted conversations with female bartenders and patrons. He went as far as asking for their addresses. Some women, according to the book, started complaining to the brewery’s owner about “the creepy guy with the bulging eyes.”
Kohberger was adamant that women would notice him. But Patterson noted that to many, he was simply “off-putting.”
“He made people uncomfortable,” said Patterson. “The bartenders and owners remembered him as being this weird duck who would sit at a bar and just weird everybody out and talk inappropriately. He had a lot of trouble socializing.”
According to the book, Kohberger felt that by going to Moscow, Idaho, across the state border, he could find a girl willing to date him. He read about a place online called the Mad Greek where they sell vegan pizza – he’s vegan. When he walked inside, he noticed a blonde waitress – “Maddie” Mogen.
It’s been speculated by sources who spoke to Patterson that Mogen rejected Kohberger.
The book pointed out an eerie similarity.
“Elliot Rodger wrote of reuniting with a childhood friend named Maddy in the months before the day of retribution,” read the book.
“She was a popular, spoiled USC girl who partied with her hot, popular blonde-haired clique of friends,” Rodger wrote, as quoted by the book. “My hatred for them all grew from each picture I saw of her profile. They were the kind of beautiful, popular people who lived pleasurable lives and would look down on me as inferior scum, never accepting me as one of them. They were my enemies. They represented everything that was wrong with this world.”
Read the full report by Fox News Digital’s Stephanie Nolasco here.
President Donald Trump waded into the “vicious” Idaho student murders case Monday with a post on Truth Social about Bryan Kohberger’s upcoming sentencing, saying he hopes the judge requires some kind of explanation at Wednesday’s hearing for the slayings of “four wonderful young souls.”
When Kohberger pleaded guilty earlier this month, he gave no motive or explanation while admitting to the home invasion stabbing deaths of four college students.
“While Life Imprisonment is tough, it’s certainly better than receiving the Death Penalty but, before Sentencing, I hope the Judge makes Kohberger, at a minimum, explain why he did these horrible murders,” Trump wrote. “There are no explanations, there is no NOTHING.”
Read the full report by Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz here.
Fox News Digital will stream live coverage of Bryan Kohberger’s sentencing hearing Wednesday at 11 a.m. Eastern Time, following his conviction under a plea deal in the brutal 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students.
Kohberger stood silent during his initial arraignment, prompting the judge to enter a not guilty plea on his behalf. However, in a dramatic shift earlier this month, he accepted a plea deal that secured a conviction and spared him the death penalty.
He is expected to receive four consecutive terms of life imprisonment with no chance of parole, plus another 10 years, and has waived his right to appeal and to seek a sentence reduction.
