BOISE, Idaho (Scripps News Boise) — Bryan Kohberger has been ordered to pay more than $3,000 in restitution to the families of two University of Idaho murder victims, despite his defense team’s arguments that he cannot afford the payments while serving consecutive life sentences.

District Judge Steven Hippler issued orders on November 13, 2025, requiring Kohberger to pay $1,420 to Steve and Kristi Goncalves, parents of victim Kaylee Goncalves, and $1,587 to Karen Laramie, mother of victim Madison Mogen. The payments are specifically for urns purchased for their daughters’ remains.

Bryan Kohberger appears at the Ada County Courthouse, for his sentencing hearing, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho, for brutally stabbing four University of Idaho students to death nearly three ye

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