00:00I won't stand here and give you what you want.
00:02I won't offer you tears.
00:03I won't offer you trembling.
00:06Disappointments like you thrive on pain, on fear, and on the illusion of power.
00:11And I won't feed your beast.
00:15Instead, I will call you what you are.
00:19Sociopath.
00:21Psychopath.
00:22Murderer.
00:24I will ask the questions that reverberate violently in my own head.
00:28So loudly that I can't think straight most any day.
00:34Some of these might be familiar.
00:36So sit up straight when I talk to you.
00:39How was your life right before you murdered my sisters?
00:44Did you prepare for the crime before leaving your apartment?
00:48Please detail what you were thinking and feeling at this time.
00:52Why did you choose my sisters?
00:55Before making your move,
00:57did you approach my sisters?
01:00Did you tell what you were thinking and feeling?
01:03Before leaving their home,
01:05is there anything else you did?
01:07How does it feel to know the only thing you failed more miserably at
01:12than being a murderer
01:14is trying to be a rapper?
01:15Did you recently start shaving or manually pulling out your eyebrows?
01:24Why November 13th?
01:27Did you truly think your Amazon purchase was untraceable because you used a gift card?
01:32How do you find it enjoyable to stargaze with such a severe case of visual snow?
01:38Where is the murder weapon?
01:40Where is the murder weapon?
01:41The clothes you wore that night?
01:45What did you bring into the house with you?
01:49What was the second weapon you used on Kaylee?
01:52What were Kaylee's last words?
01:55If you were really smart,
01:57do you think you'd be here right now?
02:00What's it like needing this much attention just to feel real?
02:05You're terrified of being ordinary, aren't you?
02:08Do you feel anything at all?
02:14Or are you exactly what you always feared?
02:17Nothing.
02:19If you're so powerful, then why are you still hiding, defendant?
02:24You see, I'm here today as me.
02:27But who are you?
02:29Let's try to take off your mask and see.
02:33You didn't create devastation.
02:35You revealed it in yourself.
02:37And that darkness you carry, that emptiness,
02:40you'll sit with it long after this is over.
02:44That is your sentence.
02:45And it was written on the wall long before you ever pled guilty.
02:49Lurking in the shadows made you feel powerful
02:51because no one ever paid you any attention in the light.
02:55You thought you were exceptional, all because of a grade on a paper.
03:00You thought you were elite because your online IQ test from 2010 told you so.
03:05All of that effort just to seem important.
03:09It's desperate.
03:11There is a name for your condition, though.
03:13Your inflated ego just didn't allow you to see it.
03:16Wannabe.
03:19You act like no one could ever understand your mind.
03:22But the truth is, you're basic.
03:24You're a textbook case of insecurity disguised as control.
03:27Your patterns are predictable.
03:29Your motives are shallow.
03:31You are not profound.
03:33You're pathetic.
03:36You aren't special or deep.
03:39Not mysterious or exceptional.
03:41Don't ever get it twisted again.
03:44You orchestrated this like you thought you were God.
03:47Now look at you, begging a courtroom for scraps.
03:50You spent months preparing, and still all it took was my sister and a sheath.
03:56You work so hard to seem dangerous.
03:59But real control doesn't have to prove itself.
04:02Let me be very clear.
04:04Don't ever try to convince yourself you mattered
04:07just because someone finally said your name out loud.
04:11I see through you.
04:13You want the truth?
04:15Here's the one you'll hate the most.
04:17If you hadn't attacked them in their sleep,
04:20in the middle of the night, like a pedophile,
04:24Kaylee would have kicked your fucking ass.
04:31On count one, burglary.
04:38Ten years fixed.
04:40Zero years indeterminate.
04:43I also impose a fine of $50,000.
04:45Count two, first-degree murder of Madison Mogan.
04:51I sentenced the defendant to a fixed term of life imprisonment
04:54without the possibility of parole,
04:57a fine of $50,000,
04:59and a civil penalty of $5,000 payable to the family of the victim.
05:04On count three,
05:06for first-degree murder of Kaylee Gonsalves,
05:08I sentenced the defendant to a fixed term of life imprisonment
05:12without the possibility of parole,
05:14a fine of $50,000,
05:16and a civil penalty of $5,000 payable to the victim of the family.
05:21Or to the family of the victim, pardon me.
05:24On count four,
05:25for the first-degree murder of Zana Karnotl,
05:28I sentenced the defendant to a fixed term of life imprisonment
05:31without the possibility of parole,
05:33a fine of $50,000,
05:35and a civil penalty of $5,000 payable to the family of the victim.
05:40On count five,
05:42for the first-degree murder of Ethan Chapin,
05:44I sentenced the defendant to a fixed term of life imprisonment
05:47without the possibility of parole,
05:49a fine of $50,000,
05:51and a civil penalty of $5,000 payable to the family of the victim.
05:55The sentences on counts one, two, three, four, and five
06:00shall run consecutively to one another.
06:02All right, Mr. Kohlberger,
06:03you have an opportunity to make a statement if you wish to.
06:06I take it you are declining.
06:08I respectfully decline.
06:10Go.
06:20Howard.
06:22Please.
06:23Truth be told,
06:24I am unable to come up with anything redeeming about Mr. Kohlberger
06:27because his grotesque acts of evil
06:30have buried and hidden anything
06:32that might have been good or intrinsically human about him.
06:37His actions have made him the worst of the worst.
06:40Even in pleading guilty,
06:42he is giving nothing hinting of remorse or redemption,
06:46nothing suggesting,
06:47even a recognition or understanding,
06:50let alone regret for the pain that he has caused.
06:54And therefore,
06:55I will not attempt to speak about him further
06:58other than to simply sentence him
07:00so that he is forever removed from civilized society.
07:04You're like,
07:05excuse me,
07:09you're brainwashed by wordmark and what it's being said to me.
07:12You're like,
07:13long-term death.
07:15I have never STEVE Anyway,
07:16what about me?
07:17What on the day?
07:18You have never seen them before.
07:19It is a dream
07:21assignment,
07:22I have never seen him
07:25anymore,
07:26about anything.
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