‘Murder never makes sense’: Father of slain Idaho student
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() The father of one of the college students murdered in Moscow, Idaho, was able to listen to the frantic 911 call leading police to the crime scene before authorities released the audio to the public Friday.

The courtesy didn’t give him any greater clarity about what happened, says Steve Goncalves, whose daughter, Kaylee, was among the victims slain in November 2022.

“Your brain wants to gravitate to ‘make this make more sense,’” he told “Banfield” on Friday. “But the truth is, murder never makes sense. This is a psychopathic person who does something that breaks the norm.”

Prosecutors have charged Bryan Kohberger, a University of Washington graduate student, with the stabbing deaths of Kaylee as well as Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Chapin, Kernodle’s boyfriend, was sleeping over at the time of the killings.  

A flyer seeking information about the killings of four University of Idaho students who were found dead is displayed on a table along with buttons and bracelets Nov. 30, 2022, during a vigil in memory of the victims in Moscow, Idaho. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

The audio of the 911 call offers insight into the circumstances two surviving roommates were struggling with on the morning of Nov. 13, when one of their roommates could not be roused. A neighbor and one of Chapin’s close friends, Hunter Johnson, were also at the scene, and Johnson can be heard searching the house.

Goncalves said he talked with Johnson and thinks the friend stumbled upon the broader truth about what had happened.

“I talked to Hunter directly, and it sucks. He had a broken soul. This is a man who had seen his best friend dead,” the father said. “He was literally just responding to what he probably thought was a prank, thinking his friend, his best buddy, had these girls rolling.

“He showed up there and he saw the opposite of a prank.”

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