Recently disclosed court documents shed light on the horrific manner in which Bryan Kohberger, a convicted killer, took the lives of four University of Idaho students.

On November 13, 2022, Kohberger forced entry into an apartment close to the University of Idaho campus and brutally murdered Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, and Kaylee Goncalves, according to earlier reports from CrimeOnline.

Armed with a Ka-Bar style combat knife, Kohberger carried out the murders, leaving behind a knife sheath as a crucial piece of evidence. The four students were found dead in their respective bedrooms, as reported by FOX News Digital.

Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were found together in a third-floor bedroom. The absence of blood at their feet indicated that they were attacked in their sleep, without a chance to defend themselves.

According to a crime scene analyst, the evidence pointed to the possibility that after Mogen and Goncalves were either deceased or incapacitated, they were arranged in their shared bed. “Kaylee was repositioned from having her head on a pillow to being partially atop Madison,” the documents revealed. “Then the comforter was placed over both of them.”

Chapin, who had been in Kernodle’s bedroom on the second floor, also showed no blood on his feet.

Kohberger inflicted the most wounds on Xana Kernodle, who had been awake at the time. The autopsy found 67 wounds, including seven stab wounds, 25 incised wounds, and “23 stab and incised wounds” around her scalp, neck, and face, Court TV reports.

Kernodle’s wounds reportedly left her face unrecognizable.

“This is, in fact, overkill; this is a frenzied event,” forensic death investigator and host of the Body Bags podcast, Joseph Scott Morgan, told Court TV. “She fought. You don’t get this contact trace blood elements on the feet without that having occurred.”

The location of the wounds on all four victims indicated that Kohberger “targeted their head and upper extremities,” Biography reports.

Goncalves had 38 wounds to her face, scalp, chest and neck area. Kohberger attacked her while she slept. However, blood found on her feet suggested that she woke up and attempted to fight back.

Mogen had 13 wounds, including stabs and incisions, across her face, neck, and scalp area. The incisions were in her upper extremities.

Chapin had an upper chest stab wound, and four wounds scalp, face, and neck, which included both stabs and incisions. An autopsy found a total of 17 wounds.

Chapin’s injuries were less in severity when compared to the female victims. The autopsy did not note much facial trauma.

“It doesn’t seem as though Ethan really moved from the position that he was in,” Morgan added.

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Kohberger, convicted for the murders in July 2025 for the murders, is now housed at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, which is around nine miles south of Boise.

A judge sentenced him to four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.

[Feature Photo: Left, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves and right, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle/Instagram]