CHILLING evidence from the Idaho murder case has been revealed as the police made public all of the files relating to convicted killer Brian Kohberger. 

The newly released records by the police department unveiled shocking insight into the killer’s personal life.

Kohberger was sentenced to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to murdering students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle.

The Pullman police department in Washington, where Kohberger studied criminology at Washington State University, shared that overwhelming interest in the case has led them to make all their files on the 30-year-old convicted murderer public.

Kohberger even tried to work with the Pullman police department in a PhD graduate research assistant program, according to the department’s records.

The police department shared the files on Monday, just weeks after Kohberger pleaded guilty to stabbing the four college students to death in 2022. 

The files reveal disturbing new details regarding Kohberger’s personal and professional life. 

One unsettling insight into Kohberger’s life revealed that he had just 18 contacts on his phone, NewsNation reported.

“He had 18 personal contacts. Eighteen,” Heather Barnhart, who led the team that investigated Kohberger’s phone and hard drive, said. 

“Think about all the people you meet and the hundreds of random numbers.

“And they were even identified as ‘girl I ran with,’ ‘second girl I ran with.’ A contact, then in parentheses ‘hair,’” she continued. 

“Then there was ‘Mother’ and ‘Father,’ and his sister and just a few others.”

Barnhart said that the killer would plainly refer to his parents as mother and father while texting.

“It’s eerie,” Jared Barnhart, who also assisted in the investigation, said.

“It stands out from any other case I’ve worked.”

In the hours following the murders on November 13, 2022, Kohberger reportedly called his mother and then his father when his mother didn’t pick up.

The full details of Bryan Kohberger’s sentence

On July 23, 2025, Judge Steven Hippler sentenced Bryan Kohberger to the following:

• Count 1: Burglary – 10 years fixed, zero years in determinate. $50,000 fine.
• Count 2: First-degree murder of Madison Mogen: Fixed term of life in prison without the possibility of parole. $50,000 fine and civil penalty of $5,000 payable to the family of the victim.
• Count 3: First-degree murder of Kaylee Goncalves: Fixed term of life in prison without the possibility of parole. $50,000 fine and civil penalty of $5,000 payable to the family of the victim.
• Count 4: First-degree murder of Xana Kernodle: Fixed term of life in prison without the possibility of parole. $50,000 fine and civil penalty of $5,000 payable to the family of the victim.
• Count 5: First-degree murder of Ethan Chapin: Fixed term of life in prison without the possibility of parole. $50,000 fine and civil penalty of $5,000 payable to the family of the victim.

The sentencings will run consecutively to one another.

The Barnharts said that phone records show that the killer rarely talked to anyone outside of his parents.

PROFESSOR’S WARNING

A criminology professor at Washington State University, where Kohberger was studying for his PhD, warned others about him, NewsNation reported.

At the time, Kohberger was working as a teaching assistant while pursuing his doctoral degree.

“Kohberger is smart enough that in four years, we will have to give him a Ph.D,” the note read. 

“Mark my word, I work with predators, if we give him a Ph.D., that’s the guy that in many years when he is a professor, we will hear is harassing, stalking, and sexually abusing.”

The professor issued the warning months before the murders of Goncalves, Mogen, Chapin and Kernodle.