(23 Jul 2025)
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Boise, Idaho — 23 July 2025
1. Wide exterior of Ada County Courthouse building
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Dahlinger, Moscow Police Department Chief:
"While this marks the end of a long and challenging journey through the criminal justice system, we acknowledge that for the families, friends and loved ones of these four young people, grief does not end because the losses are permanent and the pain remains."
3. Wide of Anthony Dahlinger speaking
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Thompson, Prosecutor, Latah County Prosecutor’s Office:
"We realized that we had tough decisions to make and we made them, but we did not make them in a vacuum. As I said in court today, we reached out to the families, we asked their thoughts, we listened to what they had to say. We accept and recognize that not everybody agrees with the decision we made, but this isn’t a popularity contest. And we made what we thought was the most appropriate decision under the law and on the facts to give this case closure in a sense it would never be realized otherwise."
5. Bill Thompson and other officials walking in for briefing
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Raúl Labrador, Idaho Attorney General:
"There is no sentence that can bring true justice for this kind of evil. Nothing we do today can undo the heartache or fill the empty chairs of family tables. But today’s sentencing ensures one thing, that the perpetrator will never again walk free. In fact, he will never harm another family."
7. Wide of briefing room
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Brett Payne, Corporal, Moscow Police Department:
"The evidence suggests that there was a reason that this particular house was chosen. What that reason is, we don’t know. We don’t who the target was and we’re not gonna speculate on that up here today. But we can tell you that for whatever reason, Mr. Kohberger chose that residence."
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Brett Payne, Corporal, Moscow Police Department:
"That area is frequented by many, many people at all hours of the night when college is in session. So what Darren (Gilbertson) and I have surmised is that perhaps it’s the old hiding in plain sight. There’s lots of people around, there’s lots vehicles around at all hours. It’s not isolated where you’d be noticed. So that’s where that comment comes from."
++BLACK FRAMES++
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Darren Gilbertson, Lieutenant, Idaho State Police:
"We had every resource possible and we worked that tirelessly, both from everything from his (Kohberger’s) side, but all the victims and all the members of the house from their side. So, we have never to this day found a single connection between him and any of the four victims or the two surviving roommates."
11. Wide exterior of Ada County Courthouse building
STORYLINE:
Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador acknowledged that nothing would bring “true justice” for the “evil” of Bryan Kohberger’s murderous attack on four University of Idaho students. But he endorsed the sentence handed down by the court.
“Today’s sentencing ensures one thing: That the perpetrator will never again walk free,” Labrador said Wednesday. “In fact, he will never harm another family.”
Judge Steven Hippler ordered Kohberger to serve four life sentences without parole for four counts of first-degree murder in the brutal stabbing deaths of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin early on Nov. 13, 2022.
He was also given a 10-year sentence for burglary and assessed $270,000 in fines and civil penalties. He has waived his right to appeal.
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