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Rathdrum, Idaho

T here’s relief for the Goncalves family too, of course, after Tyson Berrett tells them the news.

Tomorrow is the joint memorial for Kaylee and Maddie. Now the family can focus on the service without the fear that their murderer is watching.

They have no idea what the connection could be between the girls and the guy the police have captured, this criminology PhD student at WSU. And what’s the deal with WSU? How and why did the school protect him if he’d been the menace he seemed to be on social media?

Steve hears from Alivea, who is plugged into social media, about all the red flags Kohberger exhibited; students started posting them once the arrest was made public. The more he learns, the angrier he gets.

Just because this was a school environment, it seems to him, this guy—Steve doesn’t like to say his name—got protections he would not otherwise have had. WSU hasn’t published any of the disciplinary problems the school faced with Kohberger.

Steve Goncalves isn’t going to stop with his own investigations just because they’ve got him in custody. “Half of the stuff that I found and dug up on him… that shit hasn’t [come] out… And it pisses me off. They’ve really clammed up,” he said.

Steve plans to keep up the pressure on the prosecution the same way he did on the cops.

He’s going to search the dark web for any piece of data he can find. He’s going to look for this guy’s cell records, his social media posts. He’s going to leave no digital stone unturned.

Steve wants to make sure, absolutely sure, that Bill Thompson gets a conviction.

Anything less would not be serving Kaylee.