Idaho murder victim’s sorority sister breaks silence on weeks after tragedy: ‘A lot of girls didn’t come back’

A sorority sister of one of many 4 college students killed simply steps from College of Idaho campus in 2022 is shedding mild on the weeks of concern following the tragedy.

“It positively opened folks’s eyes to actual life,” Natalia Zieroth-Chaumont, Kaylee Goncalves’ sister on the Alpha Phi sorority advised the Idaho Press.

Regardless of the seen safety presence on campus all through the 2022-2023 college 12 months, Zieroth-Chaumont, mentioned she got here to appreciate “even tremendous protected locations nonetheless have their risks.”

Goncalves and three others – Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20 and 21-year-old Madison Mogen – have been killed inside the women’ rented dwelling throughout the early morning hours of November 13.

Moscow Police obtained a name simply earlier than midday Nov. 13 for a report of an “unconscious particular person.”

Officers arrived to search out the 4 lifeless college students on the second and third flooring, police mentioned.

The victims have been stabbed a number of occasions between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., and a few confirmed indicators of the victims attempting to combat again, police mentioned.

Two different roommates have been on the underside flooring of the house on the time of the assault and survived, police mentioned. 

One of many surviving roommates was later revealed to have come head to head with the killer hours earlier than the police have been known as.

The college will probably be posthumously honoring the slain college students at upcoming commencement ceremonies, Fox Information Digital reported.

Zieroth-Chaumont, a senior, advised the Idaho Press her function as a residential advisor prevented her from with the ability to attend courses remotely, however a lot of her sisters determined to not return.

“There have been a variety of women that didn’t come again after Thanksgiving,” she reportedly mentioned.

Police arrested Bryan Kohberger, a criminology scholar at close by Washington State College, on the finish of December 2022.

Kohberger, who was dwelling near Moscow in Pullman, Washington, had allegedly remained on campus for weeks after the murders earlier than making a cross-country drive together with his father to his dwelling state of Pennsylvania.

The now 29-year-old was charged with felony housebreaking and 4 counts of first-degree homicide for the violent stabbing deaths of the 4 college students.

He is because of seem in a Latah County courtroom in June for a preliminary listening to to find out whether or not the case will go to trial.