Kohberger pleaded guilty to murdering Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen in their off-campus home on 13 November 2022. In exchange for that plea, he avoided the death penalty. The unsealed documents give a renewed sense of the brutality of the murders.

Dylan Mortensen made an emotional statement July 23 at the sentencing of Bryan Kohberger, who killed her University of Idaho peers Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle.