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Kohberger Agrees to Plea Deal in Idaho Students' Slayings

Family of one victim says, 'We are beyond furious'

(Newser) - Bryan Kohberger, who's charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death in 2022, has agreed to a plea deal that would let the 30-year-old avoid a murder trial and the possibility of the death penalty. One of the victims' family members was informed of the deal in...

Bad News for Witnesses in Kohberger Case

Judge orders them to travel to Idaho to testify in murder trial, despite claims of hardship over travel

(Newser) - A Pennsylvania judge has ordered that reluctant witnesses must travel to Idaho this summer to testify in the murder trial of Bryan Kohberger, who's accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022. The victims—Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, and Kaylee Goncalves—were found...

Idaho Judge Rejects Bryan Kohberger's Delay Request

Judge also denied defense request to present 'alternate perpetrators' to jury

(Newser) - An Idaho judge says he won't postpone the quadruple murder trial of a man accused in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students. Fourth District Judge Steven Hippler made the ruling Thursday, telling Bryan Kohberger's attorneys that jury selection will begin Aug. 4 and opening arguments...

DoorDash Driver Says She Saw Kohberger

'I parked right next to him,' woman says in newly emerged police bodycam video

(Newser) - A new witness has emerged in the Idaho student murders case, potentially complicating the upcoming trial for Bryan Kohberger. A woman claiming to have been the DoorDash driver who delivered food to one of the victims just minutes before the November 2022 killings says she saw Kohberger at the...

Judge Would Allow Execution in Idaho Killings Despite Diagnosis

Prosecution argued Bryan Kohberger's mild autism includes no intellectual impairment

(Newser) - A judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors can pursue the death penalty against Bryan Kohberger if he is convicted of murdering four University of Idaho students in 2022, despite the defendant's recent autism diagnosis. Kohberger, 30, is charged in the stabbing deaths of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, and...

Prosecutors Reveal How Kohberger's Defense Will Explain Knife Sheath

Defense will argue sheath could have been planted at the scene, prosecutors say

(Newser) - Prosecutors say DNA on a knife sheath found at the scene of the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students belongs to suspected killer Bryan Kohberger. In a new filing from the state seen by CNN , prosecutors say that instead of challenging that finding, Kohberger's defense plans to...

Texts Reveal Panic Inside Idaho Murder House

A surviving roommate, who was drunk, described seeing masked man walk by her room

(Newser) - Newly unsealed court documents reveal what two young women were up to around the time four fellow University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their off-campus home. "I'm freaking out," Dylan Mortensen wrote to Bethany Funke after 4am on Nov. 13, 2022, eight hours before...

With Murder House Demolished, Prosecutors Turn to a Model

New filings reveal efforts to hamper Bryan Kohberger defense team

(Newser) - The house in which four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in 2022 has been torn down , but no matter: Prosecutors plan to present at trial a 3D model of the three-story home that will be built by the FBI. "This model will consist of three levels...

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New Setback for Idaho Murder Suspect

Idaho judge denies request by legal team for Bryan Kohberger that genetic evidence in case be tossed

(Newser) - An Idaho judge has denied defense lawyers their request to suppress key genetic evidence in the case of Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger, accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022. Per the AP , Judge Steven Hippler wasn't moved on Wednesday by the arguments of Kohberger'...

Kohberger Was Investigated in an Earlier Home Invasion

Legal analyst suggests that case will become an issue in Idaho murder trial

(Newser) - Bryan Kohberger, the man charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death, was investigated in a home invasion a year before the slayings, police said. ABC News reports that body camera footage shows police responding to a report of a home invasion less than 10 miles from where...

For Bryan Kohberger, Death Is on the Table

Judge denies University of Idaho murder suspect's claim arguing the punishment is 'cruel'

(Newser) - Bryan Kohberger could face the death penalty when he goes on trial next summer for the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students found stabbed to death in an off-campus home. Kohberger's defense team sought to block the death penalty as a possible punishment, arguing death by lethal...

Judge Grants Kohberger's Request for a Venue Change

Suspect's lawyer cited 'mob mentality' in Idaho town where four students were murdered

(Newser) - Bryan Kohberger will not be put on trial in Moscow, Idaho, where he is accused of murdering four University of Idaho students in 2022. A judge has granted the suspect's request for a venue change, with the trial location to be determined by the state's Supreme Court, the...

Victim's Family Reacts to Kohberger's Alibi

'We feel even more confident in the prosecution,' says family of Kaylee Goncalves

(Newser) - Relief might seem like a strange response from a murder victim's family to the alleged killer sharing details of his alibi . But that's what the family of Kaylee Goncalves, one of four University of Idaho students found murdered in a Moscow home in 2022, felt upon learning the...

Kohberger Wasn't Near Scene of Idaho Slayings: Lawyers

Defense team gets more specific on the alibi for suspect in Idaho slayings

(Newser) - The man accused of the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students in 2022 was nowhere near the scene of the crime when it took place, according to a new court filing from his defense team. Bryan Kohberger's lawyers put forward this alibi last year , and the new...

Bryan Kohberger's Lawyers Get Access to Murder House

The home in Idaho is being torn down this month

(Newser) - Bryan Kohberger's legal team has gained access to the home where he allegedly murdered four University of Idaho students in the early hours of Nov. 13, 2022. The defense indicated they may take photographs, measurements, and drone footage of the house on King Road in Moscow, which is to...

Bryan Kohberger's Alibi Revealed, Sort Of

He was out for a drive the night 4 Idaho students were killed, lawyers say

(Newser) - Bryan Kohberger's lawyers suggested the suspect in the stabbing murders of four University of Idaho students had an alibi, and prosecutors demanded to know what it was . Now Kohberger's attorneys are responding, but they're not saying much: They filed an objection to the prosecutors' request that they...

Prosecutors Demand to Know More About Kohberger's Alibi

Defense lawyers have suggested he was elsewhere when students were murdered

(Newser) - Prosecutors don't plan on waiting until Bryan Kohberger's trial to learn more about the alibi his defense team has suggested he has for the murder of four University of Idaho students. Idaho prosecutors filed a motion Thursday asking a judge to compel the defense team to release information...

University Agrees to Delay Demolition of Murder Site

Lawyers for families of Idaho victims said jurors in Bryan Kohberger trial might need to see it

(Newser) - Residents of Moscow, Idaho, are going to have to live with a grim reminder of four gruesome murders for a few months longer. The University of Idaho has decided to delay the demolition of the home where four students were stabbed to death in November, NBC reports. After the murders,...

Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty in Slayings of Idaho Students

Filing cites aggravating circumstances that could make Bryan Kohberger eligible for capital punishment if convicted

(Newser) - Prosecutors filed a court notice Monday that they will seek the death penalty against Bryan Kohberger, who is charged with fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students in November. Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were killed in their rental house across the street from campus. The...

Court Filing Reveals DNA Evidence Against Kohberger

DNA on knife sheath a 'statistical match' to suspect

(Newser) - DNA on a knife sheath found at the home where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death last fall is a "statistical match" to that collected from suspect Bryan Kohberger, prosecutors disclosed in a court filing. In the June 16 filing, prosecutors said the STR profile, a...

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