Idaho victim Xana Kernodle fought back against alleged killer Bryan Kohberger: report

Slain College of Idaho pupil Xana Kernodle fought again towards alleged killer Bryan Kohberger — struggling noticeable defensive wounds on her fingers, a report mentioned.

“Xana Kernodle put up a fierce struggle when the attacker set upon her, repeatedly grabbing the attacker’s knife, a lot in order that she sustained deep cuts to her fingers and that her fingers had been almost severed,” sources near the investigation informed Information Nation Thursday.

The sources mentioned Kernodle was the final of the 4 college students to be killed at an off campus house in Moscow on Nov. 13.

Childhood finest mates Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen — who had been sleeping in the identical mattress — had been killed first, the insiders mentioned.

The noise might have alerted Kernodle and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, who had been on the second flooring, to the intruder, the report mentioned.

It appeared Ethan had stepped partly into the hallway the place the second-floor assault might have begun, sources informed the outlet.

Chapin suffered a slash to the neck and was killed within the doorway of Kernodle’s room, the sources mentioned.

That’s when Kohberger allegedly set his sights on Kernodle, who fought to the bitter finish.

The brand new particulars match statements father Jeffrey Kernodle made shortly after the slayings.

“Bruises, torn by the knife. She’s a tricky child. No matter she wished to do, she might do it,” he mentioned in November.

Two different roommates had been in the home, however weren’t focused within the brutal assault. One of many girls, Dylan Mortensen, informed investigators she got here face-to-face with a person with “bushy eyebrows” — a particular attribute that helped investigators nail him down — earlier than he walked out the door.

The investigative sources divulged the unique particulars regardless of a court-mandated gag order stopping anybody concerned with the case from talking to the media or the general public. 

A choose issued the order in January to guard Kohberger’s proper to a good trial within the face of a nationally-covered and sensationalized story.

Goncalves’ household, who’ve been outspoken since their daughter’s homicide, filed an enchantment Friday on the order, arguing that it’s “facially overbroad and imprecise.”

The household argued that they shouldn’t be restricted by the order as a result of they don’t seem to be events within the case towards Kohberger, in keeping with the submitting obtained by Fox Information.

On Friday, three College of Idaho college students mentioned they incessantly noticed Kohberger milling in regards to the Moscow campus. They mentioned he was a creepy loner who had a behavior of staring.

“He wouldn’t look away in the event you caught him staring. Like he wished you to note that he was you,” one pupil mentioned.

“He didn’t smile, didn’t nod, didn’t say something. Simply stared.”