Kaylee’s sister, Alivea Goncalves, stated to Bryan Kohberger, “My sister Kaylee and her greatest buddy Maddie weren’t yours to take. They weren’t yours to review, to stalk or to silence.”
“They’re every part you could possibly by no means be: cherished, accepted, vibrant, completed, courageous and highly effective,” she stated.
Alivea Goncalves, sister of Kaylee Goncalves, reads a sufferer impression assertion throughout Bryan Kohberger’s sentencing, July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho.
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“They might’ve been sort to you. In case you had approached them of their on a regular basis lives, they’d’ve given you instructions, thanked you for the praise. … In a world that rejected you, they’d’ve proven mercy,” she stated.
Goncalves stated she “will not stand right here and offer you need you need”: tears and trembling.
She known as him a “sociopath, psychopath, assassin,” earlier than asking him a sequence of questions.
Her questions included, “The place is the homicide weapon, the garments you wore that evening? What did you convey into the home with you? … What had been Kaylee’s final phrases?”
“You did not win. … You are a delusional, pathetic, hypochondriac loser who thought you had been a lot smarter than everyone else,” she stated.
“You are not particular or deep, not mysterious or distinctive. Do not ever get it twisted once more. Nobody is terrified of you at present. Nobody is intimidated by you, nobody is impressed by you, nobody thinks you might be vital,” she stated.
She concluded her assertion by saying to Kohberger, if he hadn’t attacked them of their sleep, “Kaylee would’ve kicked your f—— ass.”
Onlookers within the courtroom clapped when Goncalves stepped down.