Bryan Kohberger goes to prison, but Idaho town left with questions

Weeks before his return to trial, after years of recognizing his innocence, Brian Cuperger made a horrific decision – he was guilty.

The 30 -year -old faced the death penalty due to the heinous murders of four students, Kylie Gonclavis, Ethan Chaphein, Xana Kernodle and Madison Magen at their home in Moscow, Idaho, in November 2022.

The deal of acknowledgment of his life’s sitting – but the sudden end leaves the relatives of the victims with conflicting feelings and many questions that have not been answered.

“The state had” a deal with Satan. ” Like others, he had questions about the puzzles surrounding the case, including the motivation.

But for Ben Min, Madison’s father, the deal represents a moment of closure of a family that was intimidating a stressful trial after years of heading to the national spotlight.

“This nightmare was approaching our heads,” Mr. Min told the New York Times.

Saturday night was a model for four young university students near the Idahu University campus on which trees lined up, weeks before the Thanksgiving Feast.

Xana Kernodle, 20, and her friend Ethan Chaphein, went to a party in his brother. Meanwhile, the best friends, Madison Min and Kylie Gonclavis, both 21, went to a bar and ended tonight by visiting a dining truck, before they all returned to their home on the road from the campus around 02:00 local time.

Hours later, early in the morning of November 13, 2022, the convincing striker would stop his car behind his house on the King Road road and enter a sliding glass door. The stairs were climbing to the third floor, wandering from the bedroom to the bedroom, stabbing the four young students, while leaving two others at home without hurting.

The murderer left behind a terrible scene, as he wandered in the walls with blood before he was monitored in a ski mask by a room -up teammate who is alive on his way through the glass doors.

For more than a month, the public had no idea of those who committed such a terrible crime and violence. The ambiguity – and the attention of the country that attracted it – left the small town of Idahu as it was reeling while the amateur amateur systems on the Internet attempted to fill the voids.

Finally, on December 30, weeks of unanswered questions, the police announced that they had arrested a suspect, Kohberger, at his family’s home hundreds of miles away in the Boncono Mountains in Pennsylvania.

After nearly three years, there is no general explanation for killing the four students, who had no known links.

Kohberger himself did not present any reasons, only when a comet in the court is approved by planning and implementing stabs.

Journalists and members of the public sought answers, dug to the past of Cuperger, and to find old online writings on struggles with depression, his lack of remorse and previous heroin addiction.

He had a magic for criminals, studying under the real crime writer and Catherine Ramland, a criminal psychologist, who expressed his shock that the man who considered it polite and respectful had committed such crimes.

“I thought,” they must have this error, “she He said The New York Times. “It is not the Brian Cuperger that I know.”

Cohbarger was eventually a PhD in crime science at Washington State University, where he was expelled from his job as an educational assistant to assess students very harshly.

The newly released documentaries and books – including one of the excitement novelists James Patterson – have speculated about his motive, indicating that he was angry at romantic rejection, or even he was trying to simulate Fighting women’s hatred Elliot Rodger.

Preventing the arrangement of a gag in the case, who approached the investigation from speaking. However, last week, Idaho’s judge raised the matter, saying that the public’s right to information “was very important given the fact that a call had been inserted.”

Judge Stephen Hibler said: “The madness of the media will continue, as described, regardless.”

In the weeks that followed the murders, Idahu University students were on the brink of the abyss, awaiting answers and arresting at the death of their four peers.

As a loose killer continued, many fled to the lush city with a population of 25,000, which did not witness a five -year murder.

With the police passed on weeks without naming the suspect or even the murder, a community was formed online – frustrating for answers – and the investigation began.

Thousands of amateur crimes have moved to Tijook and other social media sites to take off through evidence. A special group on Facebook has gained more than 30,000 members.

Relatives and friends of the victims were bombed with messages, and some of them accused – without any evidence – the grief of the roommates of the room and others who were close to the victims of participating in the murders.

Some descend in the small kidney town, trying to reach the surrounded house, surrounded by a caution. Beloved lover to enforce local law.

“There is speculation, without realistic support, fearing society and spreading false facts,” said the Moscow Police Department at that time.

Behind the scenes, combined investigators through thousands of advice from public records, cell phone and video control.

Several evidence in the end helped them to collect the mystery.

The Hyundai Ilantra white car was captured in footage near the location of the crime that matches the Cuperger. The 30 -year -old cell phone records were placed near Moscow’s house outside the campus at the time of the murders, and suggested that he led next to the house again and again, then hours after the crime, before the room’s colleagues knew the terrible scene.

Perhaps the most important evidence came from a major element that left behind: sheathing a knife with the DNA, which matches a sample taken from trash in the Cohpersgrand family in Pennsylvania, where officials were recently tracked during the break.

In 1122 King Road, just a few streets from the center of the University of Idahu University, the three -storey house is no longer sitting on a slope.

A year after the murders, the school decided to demolish the house outside the campus where the four students were killed, describing it as a “dark reminder”.

“[I]The university said at the time, “It is time to remove it and allow the collective recovery of our community to continue.

With guilt for Kohberger Sunsed now, the Magen family agrees that the time has come to switch from “tragedy and mourning” to “the light of the future”.

Her father said that the marketing student was “known for her ability to make others smile and laugh.”

Relatives of relatives said that Gonclavis, Magn Al -Tayeb’s friend, was a “defender and protector” for her family.

The mother of two young men said that her son, who was a triple, was “the life of the party” and “the most kind person.”

Her father said that Kirnodel was a strong will was with her friends “all the time.”

To honor their memories, the university students last year built a circular steel structure engraved with the names of the four students, as visitors arrived to put flower bouquets, stones, candles and observations that remember their missing friends.

Lailed in a herbal souvenir garden, lights up the top of the structure at night, one of the only remaining tragedy signs that shook the small city of Idahu.