A year after four students were brutally murdered in an off-campus house, their families are still struggling with the losses as their alleged killer's trial remains postponed indefinitely.
“People have to understand that these children are very young. ... You know, they’re just young kids, and it’s just a really traumatizing thing," Patricia Munroe said of her stepdaughter Dylan Mortensen, who survived the Idaho massacre last November.
A Latah County judge called the defense's argument to dismiss the University of Idaho murder suspect's indictment based on error "creative," but said it's an issue to raise with the Idaho Supreme Court.
The parents of Kaylee Goncalves — one of the four University of Idaho students fatally stabbed last year — says that evidence shows that their daughter fought her attacker back but was "trapped."
"We want to get this trial over," loved ones of murder victim Kaylee Goncalves stated before alleged killer Bryan Kohberger's trial was officially delayed.
“Evidence corroborating Mr. Kohberger being at a location other than the King Road address will be disclosed pursuant to discovery and evidentiary rules as well as statutory requirements,” Bryan Kohberger’s legal team wrote in newly filed court documents.
“We believe leaving the house standing, for now, is the right course to take,” University of Idaho President Scott Green said, after some victims' family members opposed tearing it down before Bryan Kohberger’s murder trial.
“The home itself has enormous evidentiary value as well as being the largest, and one of the most important, pieces of evidence in the case,” said Shannon Gray, a lawyer representing the family of Kaylee Goncalves.
Bryan Kohberger was first arrested in 2014 after he allegedly stole his sister's $400 iPhone and told his father "not to do anything stupid" when the alleged theft was discovered.
