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(NewsNation) — The begetter of University of Idaho pupil Kaylee Goncalves says a coroner told him his girl had “damage” astir her mouth, arsenic if slayer Bryan Kohberger sought to muffle oregon gag her arsenic helium fatally stabbed his victim.
Steve Goncalves shared that accusation Thursday with Ashleigh Banfield connected her podcast “Drop Dead Serious” arsenic helium talked astir adjacent week’s sentencing of Kohberger, who has pleaded blameworthy to the murders of Kaylee Goncalves and 3 of her friends successful November 2022 astatine a Moscow, Idaho, rental home.
The elder Goncalves said Latah County Coroner Cathy Mabbutt shared the details astir his daughter’s last moments.
“There was immoderate harm astir her mouth,” Goncalves said, wedging his manus successful his rima to demonstrate, “like idiosyncratic had pressed successful and tried to support her quiet.”
The begetter expressed vexation astatine the deficiency of accusation that has been publically disposable astir the lawsuit since Kohberger, a criminology postgraduate pupil astatine Washington State University, was taken into custody successful precocious 2022. The justice overseeing the lawsuit lifted a sweeping gag bid Thursday, but Goncalves said household members inactive deficiency a implicit representation astir what happened to Kaylee, who was 21, arsenic they effort to hole victim-impact statements.
Kohberger, 30, is scheduled to beryllium sentenced to beingness successful situation Wednesday nether the presumption of a plea statement that spares him the decease penalty.
“You lone got 1 clip to beryllium capable to beryllium a victim’s advocator and accidental what you request to accidental and to code the courtroom and everyone successful Idaho, and they’re not going to fto america cognize precisely what happened,” Goncalves said. “It’s conscionable terrible. … We privation to marque definite everything we accidental is precisely truthful.”
Goncalves has said helium opposes Kohberger's plea deal and would person preferred the suspect spell to proceedings and look a imaginable decease condemnation if convicted.
