Bryan Kohberger Wednesday at the Ada County Courthouse was handed four life sentences, following his conviction for quadruple homicide, and ordered to pay $200K in fines

Earlier this month, Kohberger, 30, admitted that he murdered four University of Idaho students in cold blood inside their off-campus house in November 2022

Victims identified as Ethan Chapin, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20

Judge Steven Hippler said it was time to end Bryan Kohberger’s “15 minutes of fame”, that continued focus on why he slaughtered his four victims offers him the “relevance” and power he craves

Quadruple-homicide convict Bryan Kohberger [photo] handed four life sentences on Wednesday – one for each victim, at the Ada courthouse in Idaho and ordered to pay $200K in fines

The graduate student of Criminal Justice who murdered four University of Idaho students in cold blood inside their off-campus house in November 2022, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison after pleading guilty to the killings earlier this month.
At sentencing Bryan Kohberger, 30, had to confront for the first time, the havoc his actions wrecked on the lives of victim’s loved ones.
The families of Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20, all delivered scathing impact statements, at times speaking directly to the “stupid,” “wannabe,” “psychopath,” as they angrily ripped into the killer.
Jim and Stacy Chapin, parents of the fourth victim, 20-year-old Ethan Chapin, said they recently found “big-time closure”, despite Kohberger’s controversial capital punishment exclusion deal. However they chose not to be present in court at sentencing.
The victim’s surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen stunned the court, fighting back sobs as she faced the “soulless killer” who stole her best friends’ lives.

Former Criminal Justice doctoral candidate Bryan Kohberger, who murdered four University of Idaho students in cold blood inside their off-campus house in November 2022, is seen in the Ada County Courthouse after his sentencing hearing

Judge Steven Hippler said it was now time to end Bryan Kohberger’s “15 minutes of fame”, arguing that continued focus on why he slaughtered his four victims offers him the “relevance” and power he craves.
Dismissing calls for the killer to reveal his motives, Hippler said, “Even if I could force him to speak, which legally I cannot, how could anyone ever be assured that what he speaks is the truth?” the judge said before handing down the sentence.
Judge Hippler said there was no way to know if Kohberger was too selfish to offer any honest explanation: “Do we really believe after all this that he is capable of giving up the truth, or some piece of himself to help the people whose lives he destroyed in the first place.”
He urged the media and others not to give the convicted killer a platform going forward.
“I truly hope that someone does not stoop to giving him the spotlight that he desires,” the judge said.

Judge Steven Hippler was visibly emotional as sentenced Bryan Kohberger to four life terms in prison, one for each of the victims

Bryan Kohberger has been sentenced life in prison — one life term for each of his four victims — and the judge ordered him to pay $50,000 restitution to each of the families.
Judge Steven Hippler became visibly emotional, wiping his tears with a tissue as he handed down the penalty, ending the court hearing.

Life timer Bryan Kohberger is taken out of the Ada County Courthouse after sentencing on Wednesday

Prosecutor Bill Thompson defended the decision to allow Bryan Kohberger to take a plea deal, while acknowledging that not all of the victims’ families agreed.
“I respect the fact that, of these fine suffering people here, not everyone agreed with the decision we made,” Thompson said.
“That’s my responsibility.”
Thompson added that while prosecutors had enough evidence, a trial could have resulted in years or decades of appeals — pointing to the defense team making “dozens” of attempts to dismiss the case.

Bryan Kohberger address the court when given the opportunity during his sentencing Wednesday. “I respectfully decline,” he said when the judge asked if he would.

Bryan Kohberger declined speaking to speak when given the opportunity during his sentencing Wednesday.
“I respectfully decline,” he said when the judge asked if he would.
That means the world may never know why he slaughtered four young people with whom he apparently had no direct connection, as the slept in their residence three years ago.

“We can’t undo and we can never undo the horror that occurred,” said prosecutor Bill Thompson [photo], visibly upset as he read out the names of the four victims – as he prayed the court to impose the harshest sentence

Prosecutor Bill Thompson was visibly upset as he read out the names of the four victims slaughtered by Bryan Kohberger.
He choked up as he held up their photos to the packed court room, urging the judge to impose the harshest sentence possible.
“We can’t undo and we can never undo the horror that occurred,” Thompson said.
“From today forward, our memories should be focused on these innocent victims whose lives were taken on their families, on their friends, on the community.”

Benjamin Mogen, father of victim Madison Mogen, cries at the sentencing hearing of Bryan Kohberger at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, on Wednesday

Meanwhile the convicted man’s mother, Maryann Kohberger, accompanied by sister Melissa Kohberger sat in the Monroe County courthouse for his sentencing hearing Wednesday, weeping into tissue which she was holding up to her face.

Bryan Kohberger’s mother, Maryann Kohberger, and sister Melissa Kohberger entering the Monroe County courthouse for his hearing on Tuesday

Xana Kernodle’s uncle Stratton Kernodle said in his impact statement that the 30-year-old “contaminated, tainted their family name and pretty much made it a horrible, miserable thing to be ever related to him.”
Her dad, Jeff Kernodle, revealed he had almost gone to her house on the night she was murdered, and deeply regrets not going.
The killer would have had to have dealt with him instead of his daughter, Kernodle said.

Friends Xana Kernodle (left) and Madison Mogen, [right] were among the four slain in their sleep by Kohberger in November 2022

Xana Kernodle’s father, Jeff, [photo] speaks at the sentencing hearing of his daughter’s murderer, Bryan Kohberger, at the Ada County Courthouse on Wednesday

Xana Kernodle’s mother, Cara Northington, [right], was seen in court wiping tears at the sentencing hearing for the man who took her daughter’s life and refuses to explain the motive for his heinous crime

“I really wish I would have gone,” he said, adding that Xana had called him saying she wasn’t feeling well.
“They would have had a chance, all four of them.”
Kernodle said the only thing that stopped him from heading to the house was that he’d promised his daughter a week earlier that he wouldn’t drink and drive..
Xana’s aunt said she’d forgiven him and would listen anytime he wanted to speak, begged Bryan Kohberger to explain why he killed her: “I have forgiven you. Because I could no longer live with that hate in my heart,” the aunt said in the courtroom.
She also offered to give Kohberger her phone number, and said she’d listen anytime he wanted to speak about the crimes.
“I’m here. I’ll be that one that’ll listen to you.”

Xana Kernodle [photo], called her dad saying she wasn’t feeling well. The only thing that stopped him from heading to her off campus residence on the fateful night was that he’d promised his daughter a week earlier that he wouldn’t drink and drive, he revealed

She also offered to give Kohberger her phone number, and said she’d listen anytime he wanted to speak about the crimes.
“I’m here. I’ll be that one that’ll listen to you.”
Convicted murderer Bryan Kohberger had a black heart drawing next to him during his sentencing hearing.
The eerie symbol was spotted on a piece of paper just in front of Kohberger as he stoically listened to the families of his four victims deliver emotional victim impact statements.
He stared straight ahead, not glancing down at the heart as parents, siblings, grandparents and friends of the slain college students took turns to lampoon him on his final day in court.

“You were that foolish, that careless, that stupid” – Kaylee Goncalves’ father, Steve Goncalves, [left], in his victims impact statement, dismissed his daughter’s killer, Bryan Kohberger, as a “joke”

Kaylee Goncalves’ father delivering a scathing victims impact statement Wednesday, dismissed the man who admitted to slaughtering his daughter as a “joke”
“You’re a joke, a complete joke,” Steve Goncalves told Kohberger while ridiculing the lazy trail of evidence he left behind at the scene of his slaying of four University of Idaho students.
“You were that foolish, that careless, that stupid,” Goncalves said, revealing that cops told him the suspect’s DNA was found “within minutes” along with footage of his car arriving and leaving the scene of the crime.
“We knew from the very beginning we had you,” Goncalves told Kohberger.
Goncalves said the antithesis of Kohberger’s attempt to divide people, was that his gruesome act only united the world.

“We knew from the very beginning we had you,” said Steve Goncalves adding that Kohberger attempted to divide people — but that his shocking crime only united the world.

“Today we are here to prove to the world that you picked the wrong families,” he said.
“Our actions have united everyone in their disgust for you.”
“Today you have no name,” he concluded.
“Nobody cares about you. You’re not worth the time, the effort to be remembered. In time you’ll be nothing but two initials forgotten to the wind.”