The mother of a University of Idaho student who was killed Kaylee Goncalves shared a heartbreaking video online after she finally received more than a dozen boxes full of her late daughter’s belongings from federal investigators.
Kristi Goncalves‘ The voice began to break as he shared that, while looking through Kaylee’s belongings, he came across the University of Idaho shirt Kaylee was seen wearing in video footage taken outside the food truck hours before her murder.
The video was part of a live stream from Moscow, Idaho, hosted by food truck operators, Grub Truckers.
In the photo, Kaylee can be seen with her roommate and lifelong best friend, Madison Mogen. The girls are seen wandering around the truck after a night out with friends and ordering a plate of carbonara pasta. The video shows the girls smiling, laughing and talking as they wait 10 minutes for their food.
This video was recorded between 1:33 am and 1:43 am on November 13, 2022.
“I just came across the shirt he was wearing that night,” Kristi explained before holding up the wrinkled garment.
Kristi then said she found something in the sweatshirt pocket: a receipt from Kaylee’s order from the food truck.
He then opened the receipt for order #78, which showed the name of the business and a time stamp of 1:42 am.
Kristi then began to breathe into the sweatshirt and cried as she hugged him.
He explained that, in addition to the Sublime t-shirt and sweatshirt, it was the first thing Kaylee came across that he wanted in the boxes. Getting a food receipt “just takes you back to those hours, those hours before … they didn’t know what was going to happen to them.”
The Goncalves family also shared a screenshot of a message sent at 1:05 p.m. to Kaylee’s phone from the food truck drivers, asking simply, “Are you all okay?” The message was sent one minute after a text was sent around the world about the killing of students and staff at the University of Idaho.
Relatives of one of the accused killers, Bryan Kohberger, have been speaking out after the recent release of photos by Idaho officials left them stunned. The family of Kaylee Goncalves criticized the thousands of photos of the crime scene that were made public on Tuesday, January 20, and said that they were given too much on social media. […]
Kaylee was 21 when she and three housemates were murdered by a graduate student at Washington State University Bryan Kohberger. In the early hours of November 13, 2022, Kohberger entered the home where Kaylee lived with Mogen, also 21, killing them and their college sweethearts. Xana Kernodle again Ethan Chapinboth in their 20s, before fleeing the scene.
He initially denied murder but later pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty. In July Kohberger was sentenced to four consecutive life terms and an additional 10 years for burglary.
Kohberger has never revealed a motive for his crime, leaving the true crime to be speculated.
Kohberger is serving his time at Idaho’s only maximum-security prison, which holds 535 inmates, according to the Idaho Department of Corrections website. Kohberger has filed numerous complaints with prison staff since arriving in August. A strict vegan has a problem with prison food and reports being teased and sexually abused by other inmates.
