The family members of the victims, too, want to know why he did it. Kernodle’s father said he opposed the plea deal because it prevented all the evidence from coming out — and allowed Kohberger to keep his secrets about why he butchered the coeds with a Ka-Bar knife.

Bryan Kohberger has one last chance Wednesday to give the grieving parents of four University of Idaho students he admitted to killing the answers they’ve desperately sought for nearly three years.