Xana Kernodle’s sister, Jazzmin Kernodle, said in the court that she wasn’t sure if she would talk today. “In the end, I realized that this moment is not about you, it is justice for Xana, Ethan, Kaylee and Maddie,” he said.
Bryan Kohberger, 30, appears for his sentence hearing after he was sentenced in the stabbed deaths of 2022 of four university students from Idaho, in the Palace of Justice of Ada County, in Boise, Idaho, July 23, 2025.
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He called his sister “A gift for each person in which he could have an impact.”
Xana Kernodle was the younger sister, but Jazzmin Kernodle said she was often looking at her.
“Xana was someone I turned to when I needed direction or advice,” he said.
Xana Kernodle’s sister, Jazzmin Kernodle, reads a victim’s impact statement during Bryan Kohberger, July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho.
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“She really lived every day to the fullest. However, her story was interrupted by an act of evil,” he said. “She will not be the lady of honor at my wedding, the great aunt for my future children … but I will take her with me for the rest of my life. I will live in her honor, I will fight to be the best type of woman, someone who is proud.”
“The story of Xana does not end with what he took. He lives through the love he gave to the people he played and the legacy that his family will protect,” he said.
