A brand new book on the subject of the University of Idaho murders expounds on a theory that murder suspect Bryan Kohberger might actually have been originally targeting only one of the roommates at the off-campus house where the four students were killed just two years ago. The book also goes on to discuss signs that the killer’s family might have had their suspicions that he was the one involved in the slayings before he was arrested.
According to a report from The New York Post:
Bryan Kohberger, 29, was targeting college senior Madison Mogen when he allegedly broke into the home on King Road in Moscow in the early hours of Nov. 13, 2022, journalist Howard Blum suggests in his new book, “When the Night Comes Calling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders.”
“I think Maddie was his target,” Blum said during an interview with ABC News – pointing out the suspect allegedly bypassed two other bedroom doors and made a direct line for Mogen’s when he gained entry to the house.
“If he was just on a killing spree, it would have been natural, instinctive, to go to one of those doors,” Blum went on to say. “Instead he goes up this narrow staircase and he turns directly into Maddie’s room.”
Mogen, 21, was found dead on her bed alongside her best friend, Kaylee Goncalves, also 21. Downstairs on the second floor, housemate Xana Kernodle, 20, was killed alongside her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, 20.
All four of the victims who died in the grisly murder were stabbed multiple times. A knife sheath was discovered near the bodies of Goncalves and Mogen. Two of the roommates who survived the violent attack, Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen, are the ones who discovered the crime scene hours later. They then informed local police.
Kohberger – who was pursuing a doctorate in criminology in nearby Pullman at the time of the murders – was arrested at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania on Dec. 30. At the time of the shocking arrest, the one-time high school outcast’s family was supposedly already suspicious about his possible involvement, Blum claimed.
“[Michael] has been reading the headlines – he knows that four students were killed 12 miles from his son’s house. He knows what a troubled son he has,” Blum stated during the conversation with ABC concerning the suspect’s father, Michael Kohberger.
The author then revealed that the suspect’s father was “on edge” when he picked him up from school a few weeks after the murders occurred. The pair then drove across the United States from Washington to Pennsylvania. They were stopped twice on the way by Indiana police officers.
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According to Blum, one of Kohberger’s sisters even confronted their father about the possibility that he was involved in the Moscow murders – but the patriarch brushed off the concerns.
“He can’t confront it,” Blum suggested to ABC.
Bryan Kohberger was arrested when local authorities stormed his family’s home just before New Year’s Day.
This individual took four innocent lives. As a result, he deserves to be put to death for his crimes. We must ensure justice is served and society protected from this monster.