Xana Kernodle’s mom says she doesn’t hate killer Bryan Kohberger

Xana Kernodle Mother Cara Northington Say she forgives her daughter’s killer. Bryan Kohberger.

“I don’t hate Bryan Kohberger,” Nottington told local Spokane, Washington Speaker review During the interview Published on Saturday, September 6adding that her 30 years of drug use and her own imprisonment have changed her perception of life.

She said of her substance abuse problem: “The Lord made me surrender all of this,” she explained that she could not stop reading the Bible while in prison. “I did it, I haven’t returned yet.”

In July 2025, Kohberger, 30, admitted in writing that he killed Killing Kernodle, 20, and her University of Idaho roommate Ethan Chapin20, Kaylee Gonclaves21, then Madison Mogen,twenty one.

Nottington said she was “washing my hands” when it comes to the killer whose daughter was convicted. Instead, she describes her daughter’s life affectionately.

“She’s funny. She just has a way to make you feel special.” Nottington recalls her daughter and a group of friends on the toilet paper house. “She’s been doing such crazy things.”

July 2025, Koberg was sentenced Each murder case is sentenced to four people in prison.

“This incredible and meaningless evil act has caused immeasurable pain and loss,” Aida County District Court Judge Steven Hippler Kohberger told him when he sentenced the sentence. “No parent should bury their children. This is the greatest tragedy that can be caused to a person.”

He continued: “Parents who take their children to a truck full of moving boxes to college must take them home with a casket lined.”

Kohberger entered the house at 1122 Kings Road in the early morning of November 13, 2022 and stabbed Kernodle, Chapin, Gonclaves and Mogen to death. Their roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Fink It was also home when the attack was attacked.

Kohberger was arrested in December 2022. He did not initially plead guilty but eventually changed his guilty plea, part of a deal that eliminated the possibility of a death penalty. He also pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony theft.

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according to Amazon’s main video documentaries One night in Idaho: College murderMortensen called her friend Emily Alandt November 13th morning with Emily’s boyfriend Johnson Hunter He also arrived and checked Kernodle’s room, and he told everyone to call 911.

“Hunt had enough courage to tell them to call the police for real reasons. His wording was good, and he said, ‘Tell them there was a coma,'” Alante recalled. “The Hunter saved the extreme trauma of us all by not letting us know anything.”