Bryan Kohberger Disfigured Kaylee Goncalves' Face In Brutal Stabbing

In a cold shocker, recently unsealed documents detail the gruesome nature of the November 2022 University of Idaho slayings, fresh on the heels of Bryan Kohberger's sentencing. Perhaps the most harrowing details here involve the injuries sustained by the 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves, which were so extensive that she was left "unrecognizable." Kohberger, who is now serving four consecutive life sentences for murdering Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, was formally found guilty earlier this month. But the public only recently found out just how violent he was to his victims, especially Kaylee.

Kaylee had a "disfigured" face, while Paige had been "brutally murdered," according to police officer Corbin Smith, one of the first to arrive at the scene, they said. The young girl was reportedly stabbed 34 times, with several of the wounds being to her face, leaving her with an "extremely damaged" face, and she could not be recognized, the documents state. This attack was so brutal that roommate Dylan Mortensen couldn't even identify who had been killed in the attack in the moments after law enforcement arrived on the scene, according to Time Magazine.

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The apartment complex, a short drive from the University of Idaho campus in Moscow, Idaho, was a crime scene of unspeakable horror. The unsealed reports also offer more context to the slayings of the three other students, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin, all of whom were repeatedly stabbed in a frenzied rage that shook the university town and the nation at large. The extent of the violence detailed in these documents speaks to the callous brutality of the slayings. For months, the nation was riveted by every twist and turn in the case, but this new information brings back the heartbreak and the terror that sent the community reeling.

The shocking nature of these details will only further cement Kohberger's sordid legacy and stand as a bitter testament to the havoc wrought by random brutality. For the families of the victims, and particularly the Goncalves family, the details open fresh wounds in what has been an incomprehensible loss. And as more details have emerged, the case continues to be among the most terrifying mass homicides in recent U.S. history, a grim roster of lost lives and unfulfilled futures in one of Idaho's darkest eras.