In the days after murdering four University of Idaho students in an off-campus home, Bryan Kohberger’s behavior shifted dramatically and investigators would later find that he had fixated on news coverage of the killings and began paying for items in cash – often wearing gloves – as he avoided the area of the murders.

University of Idaho murder victim Kaylee Goncalves’ sister Alivea Goncalves described what it was like coming face-to-face with killer Bryan Kohberger at his sentencing hearing. On Wednesday, July 23,

A University of Idaho roommate who survived Bryan Kohberger’s vicious massacre faced the killer for the first time since she saw him and his “bushy eyebrows” the night of the killing — and described him as an “evil” and empty coward during emotional impact statements.

She told police that they planned to meet shortly after he stabbed four students, but that they stopped talking because their conversations made her "uncomfortable."

Cara Northington, mother of victim Xana Kernodle wipes a tear at the sentencing hearing of Bryan Kohberger at the Ada County Courthouse, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho, for brutally stabbing four University of Idaho students to death nearly three years ago.