The Brief
- Bryan Kohberger has formally confessed in writing to the 2022 murders of four Idaho college students, admitting to breaking into their home with intent to kill and then fatally stabbing Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.
- This confession, made public days before his scheduled sentencing on July 23, includes a plea deal that waives his right to appeal in exchange for four consecutive life sentences without parole.
Bryan Kohberger put his guilt in writing and signed the bottom – without giving any explanation for the Idaho student murders that left four college students dead in a home invasion massacre days before they would have gone home for Thanksgiving in November 2022.
Kohberger, in a one-page document published by the Fourth Judicial District Court in Ada County, admitted to breaking into the off-campus house at 1122 King Road, in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13, 2022, with the intent to commit murder.
Then, with premeditation and malice aforethought, he stabbed Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.
Each of them suffered multiple stab wounds from a large knife, believed to be the Ka-Bar that came from a leather sheath found next to Mogen’s body. While the knife has not been recovered, police found Kohberger’s DNA on a snap on the sheath.…