Yesterday I spoke to Ava Wood, a University of Idaho graduate about how she’s feeling in the aftermath of Bryan Kohberger’s sentencing for a quadruple homicide.

Ava was close friends with Kohberger’s four victims: Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Had Bryan Kohberger gone to trial, rather than opting for a plea deal at the eleventh hour, she would likely have been in the witness box because she had received a subpoena from Ann Taylor, Kohberger’s defense lawyer, something that confused and worried her.

In The Idaho Four, James Patterson and I describe how Ava went to 1122 King Road late morning on November 13th 2022 because she heard police sirens, and when she looked out of her kitchen window she saw an ambulance arriving and Emily Alandt, Xana’s best friend sitting on the ground, shivering and crying. (Emily and her boyfriend Hunter Johnson had been called to the house by Dylan Mortensen who had seen Kohberger the night before and had thought she was hallucinating, until, hours later, none of her roommates answered their phones). Hunter Johnson had entered the house and discovered the bodies of Xana and Ethan Chapin.

Watch the two part conversation on Vicky Ward Investigates.