What to Know
It’s impossible to truly get into someone else’s mind, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t fascinated. Accused killer Bryan Kohberger murdered four students at the University of Idaho in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022.
Nearly four years later, Kohberger has yet to share what motivated him to brutally kill Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20. Yet, a new documentary speculates Kohberger may have been attracted to the home because of its female inhabitants and the power he potentially could have over them.
Kohberger studied the crime scene.
“The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare” director Skye Borgman believes Kohberger stalked the home at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho, for quite some time before killing the women inside.
“He watched the house; he was around the house in the days, weeks and months leading up to the murders,” Borgman told Fox News Digital. “So, it seems pretty likely that he had a very low regard, if not hatred, for women.”
Borgman believes that Kohberger wanted to kill women specifically. “The fact that [this] was the house that he chose. This was a house that had five women living in it. The night that the murders happened, Xana Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, was over, but really, this was a house full of women, and it seems quite clear that he targeted it,” she explained.
Kohberger apparently didn’t have much success with women.
According to Borgman, Kohberger might not have been very lucky in love, which could have led to his disdain for females.
“It’s all conjecture, but he seemed to struggle with his relationships with women,” she explained. “And we look at this incel movement and the question of whether or not he was an incel, and whether or not he didn’t like women.”
In the documentary, some of the killer’s former classmates described Kohberger as unpopular and creepy. But for Borman, that doesn’t explain murdering innocent people.
Borman will never stop wondering what Kohberger’s motive really was.
Even if he disliked women because he never found luck in a relationship or had social insecurities, Borman wants answers. Not just for herself, but for the families of Kohberger’s victims. Many felt that taking a plea deal was cowardly. Even though Kohberger will never see the outside of a prison, that’s not enough.
“I would love to, I think, along with the rest of the world, know why he did what he did,” Borman told Fox News Digital. “But it is one of those things that I don’t think any of us will ever know. That’s a frustrating thing for myself … and I know especially for the families. They wish so truly that he had been forced through the terms of his plea deal to give us more information about the why of it all.”
The police also want answers.
Borgman added that Kohberger didn’t get away with his crime; therefore, she believes that he’s keeping his motive a secret to stay in power. Everyone involved in the murders will keep a piece of the case with them forever.
Borman said some of those people left their careers in law enforcement because of what the case did to them. When police finally caught Kohberger, the fear in the community began to subside, and they collectively began to heal, though they may never understand why.
Kohberger recently hired a new attorney in an effort to withdraw his guilty plea.
READ MORE: Autopsy Report Reveals Just How Savagely Bryan Kohberger Murdered His Victims & Who Fought Back
