Kaylee Jade Goncalves

[2022-11-12 / 22:00 – 2022-11-13 / 01:30] Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen spent time at the Corner Club, a sports bar in downtown Moscow.

[2022-11-13 / 01:30 – 01:40] Goncalves and Mogen were seen in front of the “Grub Truck” food truck in downtown Moscow; their time there was captured on a Twitch livestream.

[2022-11-13 / 01:56] Goncalves and Mogen were picked up from the Grub Truck by a private party and driven back to their rental home at 1122 King Road.

[2022-11-13 / 02:26 – 02:52] Several unanswered calls were made from Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen’s phones to Kaylee’s former boyfriend, Jack DuCoeur.

[2022-11-13 / 04:00 – 04:25] Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen, who were sleeping together in a third-floor bedroom, were brutally murdered by Bryan Kohberger, who had entered the house undetected and attacked them with a military-style KA-BAR knife.

[2022-11-13 / 11:58] After the surviving roommates called friends to the house, a 911 call reporting an unconscious person brought Moscow Police Department officers to the scene. Officers discovered the bodies of Kaylee Goncalves and the three other victims in their beds.

[2022-11-17] According to the autopsy conducted by the Latah County Coroner, Kaylee Goncalves had sustained more than 20 stab wounds, along with signs of strangulation and blunt-force trauma. It was confirmed that the victims had been attacked while asleep.

[2022-12-30] Male DNA recovered from the button of the knife sheath found next to Madison Mogen’s body was matched to Bryan Kohberger with the assistance of IGG analysis. Kohberger was subsequently arrested during a SWAT raid at his family home in Pennsylvania.

[2023-05-13] During its commencement ceremony, the University of Idaho awarded Kaylee Goncalves a posthumous bachelor’s degree in General Studies.

[2024-08-21] The Vandal Healing Garden and Memorial was officially opened in a ceremony on campus. A memorial sculpture at the center of the garden commemorates Kaylee, Madison, Xana, and Ethan in perpetuity.

[2025-07-23] Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences. During the sentencing hearing, Kaylee’s father Steve, mother Kristi, and sister Alivea took the stand and delivered powerful victim impact statements directly addressing Kohberger.

[2026-05-06] Steve and Kristi Goncalves officially established “Murder Has a Name,” a nonprofit foundation created in Kaylee’s memory to fund forensic DNA testing for victims’ families who cannot afford the costs.