A man who murdered four American university students has been sentenced to life in jail leaving one of the victims' mothers to voice her disappointment about the "loser" not being executed.
Bryan Kohberger, 30, had initially denied the killings, however, he later pleaded guilty as part of a deal that ensured he avoided the death penalty.
Kohberger was accused of sneaking into a rented home near the University of Idaho campus and murdering Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves.
The motive behind the former criminal justice student's murders has never been revealed.
It is also unclear why two roommates, who were at home at the time, were spared.
Post-mortem examinations showed that the four victims were stabbed several times and were likely asleep when they were attacked. Some of the victims also sustained defensive wounds.
Kohberger was arrested at his parents' Pennsylvania home a few weeks later, following a nationwide search.
The court heard victim impact statements from the four students' families in the presence of Kohberger's mother, Maryann.
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|Bryan Kohberger at an earlier court appearance
Goncalves' mother, Kristi, revealed that she was disappointed that Kohberger would not face the death penalty.
"You will always be remembered as a loser, an absolute failure," she said.
"Hell will be waiting."
Goncalves' sister received applause from the court after saying "you didn't win, you just exposed yourself as the coward you".
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|Steve (left) and Kristi Goncalves
Steve Goncalves also spoke directly to the killer, saying: "Today we are here to finish what you started."
He added that Kohberger "tried to break our community apart".
"You tried to plant fear, you tried to divide us (but) you failed," the father explained.
A statement read on behalf of Mogen's mother Karen Larmie said that "any one of us would have given our own life to have been outshone by hers".
The statement closed with Mogen's family saying that they might never forgive the 30-year-old killer.
"His acts are too heinous," she said in her statement.
Bethany Funke, one of the roommates who survived the attack, added: "I hated and still hate that they are gone, but for some reason, I am still here."
"I got to live. I still think about this every day. Why me?," she explained.
"Why did I get to live, and not them?"
The second surviving roommate, Dylan Mortensen, said she still had panic attacks and she was too terrified to close her eyes.
"I made escape plans everywhere I went," she said.
"He may have shattered parts of me but I'm still putting myself together piece by piece."