Overview
- An Ada County judge ruled Kohberger must cover the urn costs for Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen, ordering $1,420 to the Goncalves family and $1,587.79 to Mogen’s mother, with 9.125% annual interest.
- The court rejected Kohberger’s claim that a life sentence makes payment impossible, noting his ability to earn prison wages and the tens of thousands he received while jailed.
- The order enforces funeral-expense restitution that Kohberger agreed to under his plea deal, which spared the death penalty and resulted in four life sentences plus 10 years for burglary.
- Beyond the urns, Kohberger owes $251,227.50 in criminal fines and fees and a $20,000 civil judgment to each family, with earlier restitution already ordered for the Kernodle and Chapin families.
- The judge noted Idaho’s law could allow future media-contract income that may not be available to satisfy restitution, and a separate travel-costs request of roughly $27,000 remains contested after prosecutors acknowledged errors.