One by one, relatives of the victims of murder of the Idaho University have mounted on the podium and looked at admitted the killer Bryan Kohberger during the impact declarations on the victim during his conviction Wednesday.
The sister of the victim of Kaylee Goncalves, Alivea Goncalves, who was a frank defender of Kaylee and her best friend and colleague victim for Vie, Maddie Mogen, said in an energetic statement in Kohberger, “My sister Kaylee and her best friend Maddie were not yours.
“They are all you could never be: loved, accepted, vibrant, accomplished, courageous and powerful,” she said.

Alivea Goncalves, sister of victim Kaylee Goncalves, speaks to the condemnation hearing of Bryan Kohberger at the Palais de Justice of the county of Ada on July 23, 2025 in Boisse, Idaho.
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“They would have been nice to you. If you had approached them in their daily life, they would have given you instructions, would have thanked you for the compliment. … In a world that rejected you, they would have shown mercy,” she said.
Goncalves said that she “will not stay here and will not give you what you want”: tears and tremors.
“You have not won. … You are a delusional, pathetic and hypochondriac loser who thought you were so much smarter than everyone,” she said.
“You are not special or deep, not mysterious or exceptional. Never do it again. No one is afraid of you today. No one is intimidated by you, nobody is impressed by you, nobody thinks that you are important,” she said.
She concluded her statement with memorable words to Kohberger, saying that, if he had not attacked the students in their sleep, “Kaylee would have kicked your F —– Cul.”
The inhabitants of the Applaudi courtroom when Goncalves resigned.

Steve Goncalves, father of victim Kaylee Goncalves, kisses his daughter Alivea after talking during the conviction of Bryan Kohberger at the Palais de Justice of the county of Ada on July 23, 2025 in Boisse, Idaho.
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Judge Steven Hippler condemned Kohberger to four consecutive perpetuity convictions on the four counts of first degree murder and the maximum 10 -year penalty on the count of burglary.
Students – roommates Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodle, and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin – were stabbed to death at home outside the girls’ campuses on November 13, 2022. On July 2, weeks before the start of the trial, Kohberger pleaded guilty to all the counts. As part of the advocacy agreement, the death penalty was removed from the table.
When Kaylee’s mother Kristi Goncalves read her statement on Wednesday, she said to Kohberger: “Hell will wait”.
“You are nothing. May continue to live your life in misery. You are officially the property of the state of Idaho, where your held colleagues are impatiently awaiting your arrival,” she said.

The parents of victim Kaylee Goncalves, Steve Goncalves Console Kristi Goncalves while speaking during the condemnation hearing of Bryan Kohberger at the Palais de Justice of the county of Ada on July 23, 2025 in Boisse, Idaho.
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Kaylee’s father Steve Goncalves told Kohberger: “Today you’ve lost control. Today, we are there to prove to the world that you have chosen bad families, bad condition, bad police officers, bad community.”
“You have tried to plant fear, you tried to divide us-you failed. Instead, your actions have united everyone in their disgust for you,” he said.
Goncalves criticized Kohberger as “stupid and stupid” for Leave her DNA on the crime scene. “Master? You are a joke, a complete joke,” he said.
“No one cares about you. … From that moment, we will forget you. … You have chosen the bad family and we make fun of you during your trip” in prison, he said.

Bryan Kohberger, 30, appears for his hearing for determining the sentence after being sentenced in the death of stabbing in 2022 of four students from Idaho, at the Palais de Justice of the county of Ada, in Boisse, Idaho, on July 23, 2025.
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Maddie Mogen’s grandmother Kim Cheeley told court that her “fear was really debilitating” in the wake of murders.
Then, after the arrest of Kohberger, she said that her family had experienced “with the effects of traumatic grief”.
Cheeley said that she had been depressed and anxiety and tried to deal with sorrow and EMDR therapy.
She said she was grateful that her own mother died in the months preceding that Mogen was killed, so she did not live “horror”.

Kim Cheeley, grandmother of victim Madison Mogen, speaks during the condemnation hearing of Bryan Kohberger at the Palais de Justice of the county of Ada on July 23, 2025 in Boisse, Idaho.
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Xana Kernodle’s stepfather, Randy Davis, addressed the families of other victims, saying it was probably the last time they were all in the same room.
“I love you all and I feel your pain,” he said.
In Kohberger, he said while trembling: “You are going to go to hell … You are evil … You took our children … You will suffer, guy.”
“Go to hell,” he concluded while everyone applauded.
However, a parent has brought a different tone.
The aunt of Xana Kernodle, Kim Kernodle, told Kohberger: “I forgave you, because I could not live with this hatred anymore.”
“Whenever you want to speak and tell me what happened … I’m here, no judgment,” she said to the killer of her niece.
Ethan Chapin’s family I chose not to attend the conviction.
The court also heard the two surviving roommates.
Dylan Mortensen, who told the police that she had seen a man in a mask in their house on the night of murderssobbing in court while she described her Tsunami type debilitating panic attacks.
“Sometimes I come across the ground with my beating heart, convinced that something is wrong. … It is my body that revives all over and over again,” she said.

Dylan Mortensen obtained a hug after having spoken during the condemnation hearing of Bryan Kohberger after being sentenced in the death in 2022 of four students of Idaho, at the Palais de Justice of the county of Ada, in Boisse, Idaho, July 23, 2025.
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She said Kohberger “removed my ability to trust the world around me” and “broke me in places that I did not know that could break.”
“I was barely 19 years old when he did this,” she said. “I should have discovered who I was. I should have found the university experience … Instead, I had to learn to survive the unimaginable. I could not be left alone. I had to sleep in my mother’s room because I was too terrified to close my eyes.”
She called Kohberger “hollow ship, something less than human – a body without empathy, without remorse”.
“He tried to take everything from me: my friends, my security, my identity, my future,” she said. “He took their lives, but I will continue to try to be like them, to make them proud. Life is the way I honor them.”
Friend Emily Alandt read a statement on behalf of the second surviving roommate, Bethany Funke.
Funke said that she was carrying the guilt of not calling 911 right away.
“I was so frantic that morning and I was afraid to death, not knowing what had happened. And when I made the 911 call, I couldn’t even get out the words,” she said.
Funke said that she was wondering every day why she was able to live and that her friends did not do it, and said that she felt “sick of guilt” when she looked at the families of her friends.
She said that the crime had left her terrified. She said that she was sleeping in her parents’ room for almost a year and had each door locked up each door. She said that she had never slept all night and is constantly wokening up, fearing that someone enter, trying to hurt her or someone she loves.
Funke said that she was always afraid to go out in public but forces herself to do it because she knows that her friends would like her to live her life fully.
Funke also talked about what is missing about his friends.
She said that Xana Kerndole was the “nicest and funniest person”, and that Ethan Chapin and Kerndole “were absolute souls”.
Kaylee Goncalves “had the most beautiful and the most beautiful smile” and could have governed the world, said Funke.
Maddie Mogen, Funke’s big sister in their sorority, was the “older sister I would have always wanted,” she said. “There was no one I watched or admired more than Maddie.”
“I want more than anything I could kiss them one last time,” she said.