A shocking affidavit has revealed Kaylee Goncalves’ eerie last words. She was murdered in Idaho.
The woman was heard saying “there’s someone here” immediately before she and three other people were mercilessly hacked to death with a military-grade razor blade, according to a surviving roommate who later called Moscow police.
The written statement, which outlines the investigation that resulted in the arrest of key murder suspect Bryan Kohberger, was made public by officials on Thursday morning.
In the paper, Brett Payne of the Moscow Police Department describes speaking with a roommate who managed to escape the assassin’s grasp.
The roommate, who gave police just the name D.M., claimed that she was awakened on November 13 at around 4:00 am by sounds that she initially mistook for Goncalves playing with her dog in the third-floor bedroom.
D.M. then told authorities that she heard “sobbing” coming from Xana Kernodle’s room and overheard a man, who she later identified as Bryan Kohberger, say, “I’m going to help you.” D.M. was sleeping on the second floor at the time.
Authorities were informed by the roommate that she peered out of her bedroom but did not notice anyone else present.
D.M. opened her door a third time after hearing additional screams, and that’s when she was startled to see a “masked man in black attire” in the hallway.
The woman informed authorities that the masked suspect proceeded by her and reached the back sliding door of the house while she was in a “frozen shock phase.”
Then the surviving roommate shut the door to the space.
According to Payne’s affidavit, the crime scene contained the sheath for a military-style knife.
The sheath was reportedly discovered next to the victims Madison Mogen and Goncalves in a single bed, according to a police officer who responded to the crime scene on November 13.
The friends, both 21 years old, were in bed together and had “obvious stab wounds,” according to Payne.
He added that when later viewing the room from the door, he noticed “what appeared to be a tan leather knife sheath laying on the bed next to Mogen’s right side.”
Payne’s statement read: “As I entered this bedroom, I could see two females in the single bed in the room. Both Goncalves and Mogen were deceased with visible stab wounds.
“I also later noticed what appeared to be a tan leather knife sheath laying on the bed next to Mogen’s right side (when viewed from the door).”
Officer Payne said the sheath was “later processed” and had “Ka-Bar” “USMC” and the United States Marine Corps eagle globe and anchor insignia stamped on the outside of it.
He said that eventually, “a single source of male DNA (suspect Profile) left on the button snap of the knife sheath” was discovered by the Idaho state lab.
Police in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, retrieved the trash from the Kohberger family home on December 27 after investigations identified Kohberger as a suspect.
The following day, a lab in Idaho reported that a DNA profile taken from the garbage and a DNA profile taken from the sheath both indicated that a man could not be ruled out as the suspect’s biological father.
