Idaho Murders

Bryan Kohberger says prison life’s already a nightmare -- claiming inmates won’t stop hurling threats and crude sexual taunts his way ... and now he’s begging for a transfer.

In a handwritten note, the convicted killer pleaded with officials to get him out of Idaho Maximum Security Institution's J-Block -- just a day after being transferred there on July 29. People was first to report on the July 30 note.

Kohberger insists in the note he's not part of any recent chaos -- citing "flooding/striking" -- but claims he's getting slammed with "minute-by-minute" threats and harassment, saying he wants out of J-Block ASAP.

Bryan Kohberger allegedly bragged to a classmate that whoever pulled off the Idaho quadruple murders must have been a "pretty good" killer -- and even commented on the timing of the killing being perfect ... this according to recently released police documents.

The reports detail how Kohberger -- the confessed murderer of 4 University of Idaho students -- met another female student at Washington State University, in Pullman -- and had a conversation with her three weeks after the savage killings in November 2022.

The female student told cops Kohberger started talking about the quadruple homicide, saying that whoever did the dirty deed "must have been pretty good."

Bryan Kohberger was once a firm believer in the death penalty ... this according to one of his fellow Ph.D. classmates.

Idaho State Police released hundreds of pages of documents last week ... including an interview with a person who was in one of Kohberger's post-grad classes at Washington State University. The woman's name is redacted.

This individual peeled back the curtain on her alleged interactions with the murderer ... telling authorities he was the only student in class who believed in the death penalty.

6:00 PM PT -- Steve Gonclaves -- Kaylee's father -- tells TMZ … "The only thing more disturbing than the murder of your child is hearing that the killer called out her name while committing this heinous act -- and then discovering the prosecutor deliberately hid this fact from the families."

He calls the court system in Latah County corrupt and calls for an immediate audit of it. Steve asks how anyone can justify "protecting such savagery in the name of justice" and calls on Idaho to do better in the future.

Steve also tells us ... "Kaylee knew she was being hunted—yet no one in that town lifted a finger to stop it."

Chilling new docs show Bryan Kohberger called out Kaylee Goncalves by name moments before the brutal Idaho student murders.

According to a surviving roommate's interview with Idaho State Police, she woke up around 3 AM on the day of the murders and heard a man say, "It's OK Kaylee. I'm here for you," followed by crying. Minutes later, the roommate saw a masked man dressed in black standing in the kitchen.

Goncalves was killed along with Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin in November 2022. The revelation suggests Kohberger not only knew Kaylee but also targeted the victims.

Quadruple murderer Bryan Kohberger is already bitching about his life in prison and how he's being taunted by fellow inmates ... and the father of one of his victims says that should be the least of his concerns in the joint.

Steve Goncalves, father of Kaylee Goncalves, tells TMZ … He was super pleased to hear inmates are already making Kohberger's life miserable -- and the fact he complained about it to guards shows how truly stupid he is.

As we reported ... Kohberger is crying about how fellow inmates inside his Idaho prison are taunting him by yelling at him through vents at all hours of the day and night ... but prison officials say that's just how inmates talk to each other.

Bryan Kohberger is crying that fellow inmates inside his Idaho prison are taunting him by yelling at him through vents ... but prison officials say that's just how guys in the joint talk to each other.

Here's the deal ... inmates at Idaho's Maximum Security Institution are reportedly taking turns screaming into the vent that leads to the cell where Kohberger is in solitary confinement, and the admitted murderer whined to prison guards that the noise is preventing him from sleeping.

The Idaho Department of Corrections tells TMZ ... "We are aware of Kohberger's complaints about what he considers taunting. Incarcerated individuals commonly communicate with each other in prison."

Kaylee Goncalves' father is talking to politicians about taking away commissary funds for murderers like Bryan Kohberger ... and, in his ideal world, that money would be repurposed to pay for the killer's execution.

We caught up with Steve Goncalves Friday ... and, he tells us he's working with two Idaho legislators to make convicted murderers like Bryan Kohberger reimburse taxpayers for the investigation costs of their crimes through their prison commissary funds.

The Goncalves family is leading the charge ... consulting with Xana Kernodle's family on occasion.

Bryan Kohberger left behind a devastating murder scene after killing four University of Idaho students ... and, police have released some of the harrowing images.

The Moscow Police Department dropped a series of photos that likely would've come out during trial had Kohberger not pled guilty ... with the first capturing a pair of handprints pressed into a window back in November 2022.

The two prints are tinged with frost ... standing out starkly from the rest of the crystal clear glass. Unclear if they were made on the inside or outside of the building.

Bryan Kohberger’s gonna have no cellmates and no distractions ... 'cause he's just been moved to solitary confinement at Idaho’s Maximum Security Institution, TMZ has learned.

Sources tell TMZ Kohberger’s long-term restrictive housing -- J Block -- isn’t just any penitentiary unit. It holds up to 128 inmates, and includes everyone from protective custody incarcerees to long-term isolation holds ... and even death row.

It’s a grim setup -- inmates in long-term restrictive housing live alone in their cells, only allowed to exit in restraints ... they get showers every other day, and are permitted just one hour of outdoor time daily.

Bryan Kohberger was captured on police body cam footage during a routine traffic stop in 2022, just a couple months before he murdered four University of Idaho students ... and he's recorded insisting he's a super honest guy.

New video -- which prosecutors planned to present at trial -- has now been released after Kohberger has already pled guilty to his brutal killings ... and, it starts when a cop stops him for allegedly going 43 mph in an area with a 35 mph speed limit.

The Latah County sheriff's deputy pulls up to the window in the August 2022 stop ... and notices Kohberger isn't wearing his seat belt. He asks if Kohberger was wearing his seat belt while he was driving, and BK admits he wasn't.

Idaho investigators have unlocked the mystery behind whose blood seeped out of the murder house and dribbled down the side of it after Bryan Kohberger slaughtered 4 college students with a knife.

State Police Lt. Darren Gilbertson sat down for an interview Friday with ABC News and, at one point, he started talking about the gruesome 2021 crime scene in Moscow, Idaho.

While recounting the events, Gilbertson said police found Ethan Chapin's butchered body on a bed in his girlfriend's room with his blood leaking through the interior wall and out of the side of the house. The grisly image was originally captured in a photograph that will surely live on in infamy.

Bryan Kohberger won't be totally cut off from the world on the inside ... and, he can even send messages to young women across the country -- though not via any dating apps.

The Idaho Department of Corrections tells TMZ ... while prisoners don't technically have access to the internet, they can purchase tablets from the commissary and load them up with a ton of apps.

This means Kohberger and his fellow inmates can access select music, radio stations, podcasts, movies, television, games and books. They can also fire off emails and make phone calls ... BK's lifeline to life outside the prison walls.

Bryan Kohberger butchered the face of Kaylee Goncalves because she screwed up his plans to rape one of his other victims, Maddie Mogen, according to a retired FBI agent.

TMZ interviewed former fed Jennifer Coffindaffer, who has long studied and been a media consultant on the Kohberger case -- and she's now sharing with TMZ her horrific theory of the convicted killer's motive.

Coffindaffer tells TMZ ... Kohberger broke into the house in Moscow, Idaho, that fateful night in November 2022 to forcibly rape Mogen in her bed on the third floor.

Bryan Kohberger brutally disfigured one of his victims' faces when he murdered four college students in Idaho ... but he doesn't have so much as a blemish on him in a new booking photo.

We obtained the mug shot the confessed butcher snapped after getting sentenced to life in prison ... and he's mostly expressionless and clean-shaven, staring into the camera with his pale skin and blue eyes.

Kohberger's latest booking photo looks a lot like his previous ones ...  minus some facial hair  ... and they're all kinda creepy.

Bryan Kohberger totally freaked out one of his Tinder matches when he asked her about death during one of their conversations, police say.

The convicted murderer asked the unidentified woman what the worst way to die is ... after she shared her friend had been murdered in her town years earlier, according to freshly released Moscow, Idaho police documents from the BK investigation.

Kohberger was quite intrigued by the woman's response that a knife would be an awful way to die, and he went on to ask if she was referring to something "like a KA-BAR?"

Bryan Kohberger got under the skin of at least one of his fellow prisoners while in jail ... according to a neighboring inmate who told authorities what the convicted killer is like behind bars.

Among the hundreds of documents released by police after Kohberger was sentenced to life in prison -- obtained by TMZ -- one details a conversation between a Moscow, Idaho police officer and an unnamed inmate at Latah County Jail in September 2024.

The inmate had been housed next to Kohberger for about a month ... and while he described the convicted murderer as "highly intelligent and polite for the most part," he said Kohberger had habits that quickly became "annoying."