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(NewsNation) — Steve Goncalves, the begetter of Kaylee Goncalves, who was murdered by Bryan Kohberger on with 3 different University of Idaho students, tells NewsNation his household received a substance threatening their lives during the sentencing hearing.
Goncalves joined "Banfield" connected Friday nighttime and revealed his wife, Kristi Goncalves, received a decease menace portion interaction statements were underway.
"Sitting adjacent you successful tribunal and watching you is simply a joke. You cognize that Bryan is innocent. ... I americium successful interaction with a batch of serial killers, including BTK, and I've been enactment successful interaction with a wannabe serial slayer who is successful Moscow, Idaho, and I person fixed him your address," the substance read. (BTK is simply a notation to convicted murderer Dennis Rader.)
Goncalves confirmed his lawyer and investigators were looking into the threat, noting the idiosyncratic was extracurricular of Idaho.
He described pb authoritative Bill Thompson's offering of a plea woody to Kohberger, which spared him from the anticipation of the decease penalty, arsenic "suspicious."
"By hiding those details of what happened to my girl and the different victims, it gave substance to these people. It gave them a wishful reasoning that they were, like, defending a PhD grad ... radical don't privation to basal for, like, a skinhead oregon a bull killer.
"I conscionable don't recognize wherefore Thompson would person wanted to support him by hiding these details. And I cognize immoderate of the different families person already changed their sentiment of the deal, knowing each the facts that person travel out, truthful I deliberation it's suspicious that helium purposely ne'er fto this accusation out."
Following the sentencing, Goncalves said helium "felt great" and the courtroom had a "representation that was successful harmony of our family."
"For the archetypal time, we acceptable the tone, and we wanted to person immoderate powerfulness successful that courtroom and dictate immoderate things to him," helium added.
