Chilling update after four university students slaughtered inside their college housing
There has been a chilling update after four university students were found brutally slaughtered inside their campus housing.
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A chilling selfie taken by the man accused of murdering four university students in their campus housing has been released for the very first time.
Bryan Kohberger is alleged to have snapped a photograph of himself with a huge grin and giving the thumbs up just hours after he was accused of a horror quadruple homicide.
The bodies of University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were discovered inside their campus housing on November 13, 2022.
Two remaining female housemates were left unharmed. In December 2022, Kohberger, now 31, was arrested for the murders and is currently awaiting trial.
Earlier this week, police released a chilling selfie of the accused murderer standing in what appears to be his bathroom, wearing a crisp white button up shirt and sporting a huge smile and a “thumbs up” sign.
Latah County Prosecutor William Thompson stated in a court filing that Kohberger took the unsettling photograph on his phone just a few hours after the brutal massacre in the town of Moscow.
Authorities are requesting that the photo be allowed into evidence during the trial due to one of the surviving roommates, who is the sole eyewitness in the case, said in multiple interviews with police that the man she saw in her home had “bushy eyebrows.”
The bizarre selfie has ignited shockwaves around the world, with many questioning — if guilty — how he could appear so calm just hours after butchering four people in cold blood.
Steve Goncalves, the distraught father of one of the victims, Kaylee, said in an interview that he believes Kohberger could have taken the picture to celebrate his alleged crime.
“I see somebody that was there making himself a trophy,” he said while appearing on Fox & Friends.
“I know the timeline, I know that he … had just returned to the crime scene and came back
“He had realised that nobody had called 911, I think he knew they were still asleep.
“And to him, that’s his little trophy to let him know that, hey, I got away with it.”
The selfie was taken at 10:30am on Nov. 13, 2022 – roughly six hours after the students were killed.
Investigators believe the four were murdered between 4am and 4:25amand allege that Kohberger left his apartment in Pullman, Washington, and drove back to the scene in Moscow, Idaho, around 9am, according to mobile phone data.
There were only four girls living in the property at the time of the murders — Xana and Madison as well as two female housemates — as Kaylee has since moved out.
However that weekend, she had returned to Moscow to spend time with her best friend before moving to Austin, Texas, where she had a job lined up with an I.T firm.
The two girls had been out the night before the murder, seen on CCTV at a local bar and grabbing dinner from a nearby food truck.
Xana and her boyfriend Ethan were at a nearby fraternity party.
Kaylee and Madison were sleeping in Madison’s bed on the third floor, while Xana and Ethan were in Xanas’s room on the second floor when all four were stabbed to death.
Six weeks later, the Moscow Police Department announced the arrest of Kohberger, a doctoral candidate at nearby Washington State University.
Earlier this month, the case took a major turn when the chilling 911 call made after the crime was released for the very first time.
“Hi…Something happened here, something happened in our house and we don’t know what,” a frantic young woman tells the 911 dispatcher in the audio.
The caller then explains, between sobs, that one of the housemates was “passed out” and “she’s not waking up.”
“And they saw some man in their house last night,” another friend continues.
The phone is passed between three to four different people, understood to be the two surviving housemates, a female friend and another man.
The callers are heard weeping, stammering, and forcing the dispatcher to repeatedly ask for their address and other key details.
“I need to know right now if someone is passed out! Can you find that out?” the dispatcher asks.
“What’s wrong? She’s not waking up!” a young woman answers in the chaos.
A police officer arrives shortly after and the call concludes.
The court had previously kept the 911 recording from the public, and the defence had moved to keep it out of the courtroom entirely, dismissing it as “hearsay.”
The 911 recording is not the only piece of evidence Kohberger’s lawyers want kept away from the jury.
In a blitz of suppression motions filed last month, defenders asked the court to disqualify, for various technical reasons, security camera recordings that show a car similar to Kohberger’s near the crime scene, DNA samples on a knife sheath left at the scene, and more DNA found under a victim’s fingernails.
The defence had also asked the judge to ban the use of words including “murder,” “murder weapon,” “psychopath,” and “bushy eyebrows,” claiming they would prejudice the jury.
Steve Goncalves, the father of Kaylee, told NewsNation that he felt the 911 call did not give him any greater understanding of the horror of what unfolded that fateful night.
“Your brain wants to gravitate to ‘make this make more sense,’” he told the outlet.
“But the truth is, murder never makes sense. This is a psychopathic person who does something that breaks the norm.
Hunter Johnson, a close neighbour and the best friend of Ethan Chapin, was at the scene and can be heard on the 911 call searching the house.
“I talked to Hunter directly and it sucks, he had a broken soul,” the father said.
“This is a man who had seen his best friend dead. He was literally just responding to what he probably thought was a prank.
“Thinking his friend, his best buddy, had these girls rolling. He showed up there and he saw the opposite of a prank.”
Originally published as Chilling update after four university students slaughtered inside their college housing
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