07/03/2025

Bryan Kohberger Admits to Idaho Student Murders

The victims were Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncales, Madison Morgen and Xana Kernodle

A month before the scheduled start of his murder trial for the 2022 killings of four Idaho college students in their off-campus home, defendant Bryan Kohberger admitted his guilt and entered a plea deal that removes the possibility of the death penalty.

At a remarkable change-of-plea hearing Wednesday morning before state district Judge Steven Hippler in Boise, Idaho, Kohberger, in a stunning series of one-word responses, pleaded guilty to all five counts in the indictment.

Kohberger, a 30-year-old former PhD student of criminology, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary in Latah County, Idaho, where the gruesome discovery in a Moscow home first captured national attention.

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