Skye Borgman said Bryan Kohberger appeared to target the Moscow, Idaho, rental home because it was a house full of women, including Kaylee Goncalves. Her comments focus the case on why that home was chosen, even as Kohberger is serving four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty in 2025.
Borgman said the house had five women living there and that Xana Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, was over on the night the murders happened. She added that Kohberger watched the house and was around it in the days, weeks and months leading up to the murders. The comments appear in the documentary’s account of Kaylee Goncalves.
Kaylee Goncalves and the four victims
The attack killed four University of Idaho students in 2022: Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen. The murders happened at an off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13, 2022.
Borgman said, “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,” Borgman said to News Digital. She also said, “He watched the house; he was around the house in the days, weeks and months leading up to the murders.”
Skye Borgman on Kohberger
Borgman said, “So, it seems pretty likely that he had a very low regard, if not hatred, for women,” and added, “It seems to me that there was a hatred of women there.” She also said, “It’s all conjecture, but he seemed to struggle with his relationships with women,” and raised the question of whether he did not like women.
Lilly Karaban, a former classmate, recalled Kohberger as someone with a “his way or the highway” attitude who seemed to exist in his own world. According to the documentary, classmates described him as not particularly well liked, spoke down to women, engaged in mansplaining and became argumentative or aggressive.
Ada County Courthouse for Kohberger
Kohberger appeared at the Ada County Courthouse for his sentencing hearing on July 23, 2025, after pleading guilty in exchange for being spared the death penalty. A judge also approved his request for a new lawyer as he tries to secure a new trial.
The documentary is now streaming, and the new comments keep the focus on the same question the case has carried from the start: what direct evidence shows Kohberger selected the house because women lived there?
