Topline
Bryan Kohberger, the man suspected of murdering four University of Idaho students in November 2022, will plead guilty to all charges after accepting a plea deal from prosecutors, according to multiple reports.
Kohberger reportedly accepted a plea deal to serve four consecutive life sentences.
Key Facts
Kohberger’s trial was scheduled to begin in August, and prosecutors said they were seeking the death penalty.
Kohberger will plead guilty in exchange for prosecutors dropping the death penalty, ABC News reported, and instead serve four consecutive life sentences without the possibility to appeal.
A Facebook post reportedly from the family of victim Kaylee Goncalves seemingly confirmed the rumors, while admonishing the state of Idaho for offering the deal.
The Latah County Prosecutor’s Office said they could not comment on the potential plea deal at this time.
Key Background
The bodies of University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, 20, were discovered on November 13, 2022 in an off-campus apartment the women shared. Kohberger, a criminology graduate student at Washington State University in nearby Pullman, Washington, was arrested over one month later in Pennsylvania. Investigators identified Kohberger, 30, as the suspect through DNA evidence left on a knife sheath at the crime scene, as well as cell phone GPS data that placed him as the likely driver of a Hyundai Elantra seen near the site of the murders in Moscow, Idaho. A judge entered a not guilty plea on Kohberger’s behalf, after he stood silent when asked to enter a plea.
This is a breaking story and will be updated.