A heartbreaking detail has emerged in the case of the 2022 murders involving four University of Idaho students.
Bryan Kohberger, a criminology graduate at the university, was set to stand trial for the murders of Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, both 21, as well as Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle, both 20.
Readers may remember how the four were found dead in the off-campus home they shared in Moscow, Idaho, on November 13, 2022. Latah County Coroner Cathy Mabbutt surmised that they had been “butchered”.
As per the latest reports, suspect Kohberger has now agreed to a plea deal to avoid the possibility of facing the death penalty. The 30-year-old was slated to go on trial in August, with prosecutors indicating that they would pursue the death penalty.
Given the most recent turn of events, it’s no surprise that the case has risen to international prominence again, with a tragic new detail coming to the fore.
As stated, both Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were murdered when Kohberger paid call at their student home, but new reports claim that the pair had initially debated leaving the property to get food, having just returned from a night out with two other roommates, Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke.
Mortensen and Funke survived the massacre that took place at the home as, unbeknownst to the killer, they were both in their bedrooms.
The detail regarding the roommates potentially going out to get food on the night of the murders came due to a court order by judge Steven Hippler, who green-lit a request from prosecutors to permit the text exchanges and 911 call from the two surviving housemates to be called on as evidence at trial.
Funke, Mogen, Mortensen, and Goncalves all gathered in the latter’s room on the night of the massacre at around 2am, where they “talked for a while before going to bed.”
A court order stated: “The roommates debated going out to a food truck for a late snack, prompting D.M. to send text at 2:10 a.m. to an Uber driver she knew to see if he was driving.
“Ultimately, however, the girls decided to just go to bed.”
The murders are understood to have taken place between 4am and 4.25am, with a masked intruder breaking into the home and stabbing his four victims to death. Mortensen was the only person to see the suspect, describing them as being a masked man with “bushy eyebrows”.
Almost two months passed after the horrifying incident before authorities arrested and charged Kohberger, who had driven to his parents’ house in Pennsylvania.
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