Forensic experts have revealed that Xana Kernodle, one of the victims of the University of Idaho murders in November, was awake at the time of the killings, and fought back against her attacker, allegedly Bryan Kohberger. She is said to have repeatedly grabbed the knife to the point that her fingers were almost severed during her battle with her attacker.
Police have evidence that the slain residents had returned well after midnight to their rooms. Kernodle received a DoorDash Delivery at about 4 am and went on TikTok minutes before her attacker entered the house and began his killing spree.
The forensic report agrees with statements made by Kernodle’s father, Jeffrey Kernodle, in November of last year, when he said that the autopsy report on his daughter showed that her skin had bruises most likely obtained while defending herself.
Before Kernodle was killed, the attacker murdered Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21. They were found in a bed on the third floor of their house before the attacker went down to the second floor and murdered Ethan Chapin, 20, and Kernodle.
Chapin and Kernodle must have been awakened by the commotion upstairs, causing Chapin to go into the hallway to find out what was happening. Police found Chapin dead in the doorway of Kernodle’s room, with slash wounds to his neck.
Two other residents in the house at the time of the murders were not attacked. One of the survivors, Dylan Mortensen, told the police that she saw a man with bushy eyebrows and athletic build in the house before he exited. She froze in fear and locked herself in her room.
Three students at the University of Idaho told police they had often seen Kohberger lurking on the campus and had seen him sitting alone in the Student Union building a few weeks before the murders. One of the students, Chelsea, said she saw the murder suspect eating alone in the University’s food court weeks before November 13.
Chelsea told People magazine online that Kohberger would stare at people and would not look away even when he was noticed staring. She said he seemed as if he wanted the person to notice that he was staring, adding that the man did not smile, nod or talk.
Another student said Kohberger’s stare made her uncomfortable after she ran into him several times on the University campus.
The reports of sightings of Kohberger at the campus confirm what authorities have said about the alleged killer spending a lot of time at the University of Idaho campus before the killings.
After the murders, the University hired additional security personnel. The school administration said the increased presence of officers would remain in place.
Jordan Serulneck, a bar manager in Pennsylvania, said he had seen the suspect, Kohberger, at his bar several times, and that he had numerous uncomfortable interactions with women at the bar.
Serulneck said staff at the bar described Kohberger as the problematic guy who makes “creepy comments” to women when they refuse his advances.
