The parents of slain University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves and Xana Kernodle believe their daughters were awake and put up a struggle the morning they and two other students were killed in the bedrooms of home near campus.
“There’s evidence to show that she awakened and tried to get out of that situation,” Kaylee’s father, Steve Goncalves, told CBS News for an upcoming special on the murders. “She was assaulted and stabbed.”
The victim’s mother, Kristi Goncalves, supported her husband’s account of what happened on Nov. 13, 2022, when their daughter was pinned between a wall and her best friend Maddie Mogen, who was killed while sleeping next to her.
“The way the bed was set up … she was trapped,” Kristi Goncalves told CBS.
Xana’s father, Jeffrey Kernodle, told CBS he also has reason to believe his 20-year-old daughter fought with her killer before being fatally stabbed one floor lower in the same house.
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Bryan Kohberger enters the courtroom during a hearing Tuesday, June 27, 2023, at the Latah County Courthouse in Moscow, Idaho.
Bryan Kohberger, a criminal justice grad student at nearby Washington State University, has since been charged with killing Goncalves, Mogen, Kernodle and Kernodle’s boyfriend Ethan Chapin. No motive has been established.
Kohberger was arrested at his parents Pennsylvania home more than a month after the murders, following a cross-country drive with his father. Kohberger pleaded not guilty in May.
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