While Bryan Kohberger‘s alleged motive for killing Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin has by no means been revealed, The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare director Skye Borgman revealed the previous criminology pupil could have focused the group as a result of younger girls lived in the house.
“This was a house that had five women living in it,” Borgman instructed Fox News of the crime scene in Moscow, Idaho.
Goncalves, 21, Mogen, 21, and Kernodle, 20, lived in the house with fellow college students Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen when the grisly murders occurred on November 13, 2022.
“The night that the murders happened, Xana Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, was over, but really, this was a house full of women, and it seems quite clear that he targeted it,” Borgman speculated.
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The Netflix docuseries options tales from Kohberger’s former classmates from Washington State University, who defined he was “not particularly well liked” and infrequently spoke negatively about girls.
Kohberger, 31, was reported to Washington State University police by a feminine pupil, who claimed he adopted her to her automotive. Kohberger was a educating assistant on the time of the incident and misplaced his job after he was reported.
Amid the investigation, suspicions that Kohberger was watching the house started when Funke, 23, instructed authorities that Goncalves claimed she noticed somebody “staring at her” whereas she was strolling her canine.
“He watched the house; he was around the house in the days, weeks and months leading up to the murders,” Borgman stated. “So, it seems pretty likely that he had a very low regard, if not hatred, for women.”
Another subject mentioned in the docuseries was the speculation that Kohberger was allegedly half of the incel motion, which is a web-based subculture of males who’re involuntarily celibate and have intense hostility in the direction of girls.
“It’s all conjecture, but he seemed to struggle with his relationships with women,” Borgman stated. “And we look at this incel movement and the question of whether or not he was an incel, and whether or not he didn’t like women.”
Kohberger was taken into custody on December 30, 2022, after DNA proof linked him to the crime scene, the place a Ka-Bar knife sheath with the USMC insignia was situated subsequent to a sufferer’s physique.
He pleaded responsible to the murders in July 2025 as half of a plea deal, in which he averted the demise penalty and was sentenced to 4 lifetimes in jail with out the chance of parole. (Prior to his plea deal, Kohberger claimed to be out stargazing on the night time of the murders.)
In a surprising flip of occasions, Kohberger filed a petition to withdraw his guilty plea in July 2026.
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“My actual innocence is my truth, and the plea, hinged on by false promises and blatant disinformation, MUST be withdrawn,” he stated in a press release to The New York Times.
Shortly after he made the submitting, the Goncalves’ family slammed Kohberger whereas issuing a press release concerning the state of affairs.
“‘The mosquito you simply can not seem to swat’ — that’s what Kohberger and his following have grow to be to this household,” the Goncalves household wrote in the July 27 assertion.
They added that Kohberger was “a guilty man once again claiming he is innocent,” and that he beforehand “chose not to leave his fate — or the facts of the case — to a jury” when he accepted the plea deal.
