Bryan Kohberger updates: Judge sentences Idaho killer to life, 1st police reports released

Scott Laramie, victim Maddie Mogen's stepdad, read a statement on behalf of himself and Karen Laramie, Mogen's mom, as Bryan Kohberger, wearing orange jail clothing, looked on.

“Karen and I are ordinary people, but we lived extraordinary lives because we had Maddie. Maddie was taken senselessly and brutally in a sudden act of evil,” Laramie said.

“Since Maddie’s loss, there’s emptiness in our hearts, home and family -- an endless void,” he said.

Laramie said Mogen’s mom suffered from anxiety and depression after her daughter’s death, unsure how to go on.

"We support the plea agreement. Society needs to be protected against this evil. As for the defendant, we will not waste the words, nor will we fall into hatred and bitterness. ... Evil does not deserve our time and attention," Laramie said. "We are done being victims. We will take back our lives."

Surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen addressed Bryan Kohberger in court, calling him a "hollow vessel, something less than human -- a body without empathy, without remorse."

"He tried to take everything from me: my friends, my safety, my identity, my future," she said. "He took their lives, but I will continue trying to be like them, to make them proud. Living is how I honor them."

Surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen spoke in court through tears, saying, “He didn’t just take their lives, he took the light they carried into every room.”

“He took away my ability to trust the world around me” and “shattered me in places I didn’t know could break,” she said.

“I was barely 19 when he did this. We had just celebrated my birthday at the end of September. I should’ve been figuring out who I was. I should’ve been figuring out the college experience … instead I was forced to learn how to survive the unimaginable. I couldn’t be left alone. I had to sleep in my mom’s room because I was too terrified to close my eyes,” she said.

Mortensen recalled intense panic attacks and flinching at sudden sounds. “Sometimes I drop to the floor with my heart racing convinced something is very wrong. … It’s my body reliving everything over and over again,” she said.

Through a statement read in court by friend Emily Alandt, one of the surviving roommates, Bethany Funke, said she's still scared to go out in public but forces herself to do so because she knows her friends would want her to live her life to the fullest.

Funke recounted her memories of her friends at their off-campus home.

"Our house was not just a house, it was a home,” Funke said.

She said Xana Kerndole was the life of the party and “kindest and funniest person,” and that Ethan Chapin and Kerndole “were absolute soulmates."

Kaylee Goncalves “had the most beautiful, radiant smile” and could have ruled the world, she said.

Maddie Mogen, Funke’s big sister in their sorority, was the “older sister I would’ve always wanted. There was no one I looked up to or admired more than Maddie.”

“I wish more than anything I could hug them one last time,” she said.

“I still tell them every night I will keep living for them,” she said.