The father of Idaho murder victim Kaylee Goncalves told Fox News on Friday that he wants accused murderer Bryan Kohberger to receive the death penalty.
“I want this case to get stronger and stronger to the point where he realizes he’s not going to be on the planet that long,” Steve Goncalves said a day after he and his wife, Kristi, confronted Kohberger. in court for the first time since his daughter and three other students were killed.
Kohberger, 28, made his initial appearance Thursday in Latah County court on four counts of first-degree murder in the Nov. 13 stabbing deaths of Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20. and Xana Kernodle, 20.
Steve Goncalves said he wants Kohbegerg to “feel like he’s targeted the worst family.”
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A side by side with Steve and Kristi Goncalves and Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of murdering his daughter and three other students.
(Ted Warren via AP/Latah County Sheriff’s Office)
“Every time he turns on the television, he sees us, and every time he thinks something positive is happening in his case, he sees one of us communicating and he realizes he has no hope,” Goncalves said.
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In an interview Thursday, Goncalves told NewsNation that, for his family, justice meant that Kohberger would receive the death penalty, which the suspect faces if convicted.
Victims of the November 13 massacre at the University of Idaho.
(Instagram @xanakernodle / @maddiemogen / @kayleegoncalves)
“I want to say that justice does not have a room where you can read books, you can go to school, you can have three meals and you can have your vegan diet,” he said, flanked by his wife. “Justice is when you leave the planet and the whole world can rejoice and be glad you’re not there.”
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The couple said they were surprised by the Washington State University Ph.D.’s appearance and demeanor. student they saw in court.
Bryan Christopher Kohberger arriving at the Monroe County Courthouse in Pennsylvania for an extradition hearing in Pennsylvania on January 3, 2023. He flew back to Idaho the next day.
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“I just looked at a guy who looks like a normal everyday kid. I mean, I didn’t see anything there that caught my eye,” Steve Goncalves told NewsNation. “We expected him to be a bigger, more intimidating monster.”
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Nearly seven weeks after the baffling murders, Kohberger was arrested last week at his parents’ home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, after his DNA left on a brown leather knife sheath at the crime scene was a match, according to a probable cause affidavit that was unsealed Thursday and revealed chilling details of the crime.
