Current:Home > reviewsIndexbit Exchange:Idaho Murder Case: Suspect Bryan Kohberger Indicted By Grand Jury -Prime Capital Blueprint
Indexbit Exchange:Idaho Murder Case: Suspect Bryan Kohberger Indicted By Grand Jury
Charles H. Sloan View
Date:2025-04-06 13:38:13
Bryan Kohberger has been indicted for the quadruple homicide of four University of Idaho students.
According to court documents obtained by E! News,Indexbit Exchange an Idaho grand jury determined the 28-year-old "did unlawfully enter a residence" in the town of Moscow last November and "wilfully, unlawfully, deliberately, with premeditation and with malice aforethought, kill and murder" Maddie Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.
Kohberger was indicted on four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary.
The suspect, a criminology graduate student at Washington State University at the time of the killings, has denied any wrongdoing in the case.
"It is a little out of character, he said. This is not him," his public defender, Jason LaBar, told Today in January. "He believes he's going to be exonerated. That's what he believes, those were his words."
Back in November, police found roommates Mogen, Goncalves and Kernodle and the latter's boyfriend Chapin stabbed to death inside the Moscow home. Two additional women were home at the time of the killings and were uninjured.
Kohberger was arrested at his parent's home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania in late December and charged with murder.
In a probable cause affidavit released at the time of the arrest, Moscow investigators noted that a white Hyundai Elantra was seen on surveillance footage near the home before and after the killings and, that a couple of weeks later, Washington State University police discovered the model was registered to Kohberger.
Authorities also determined that the physical description of him on his driver's license matched the info one of the surviving roommates provided investigators.
Surveillance footage also showed the Elantra at his family's hometown, the affidavit stated. Authorities found the vehicle at the house at the time of Kohberger's arrest, his public defender told CNN in January, adding that this client had gone home for the holidays.
Though a murder weapon has not be located, police did find a knife sheath bearing male DNA at the scene of the crime, per the affidavit. Lab tests were later gathered from that as well as a garbage from outside of the suspect's family home.
"DNA profile obtained from the trash and the DNA profile obtained from the sheath," the affidavit noted, "identified a male as not being excluded as the biological father" of Kohberger.
He is due to be arraigned May 22, court documents show. According to NBC News, his four charges of first-degree murder carry sentences that could include life in prison to the death penalty.
(E!, Today and NBC News are part of the NBCUniversal family.)
For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News AppveryGood! (183)
Related
- US appeals court rejects Nasdaq’s diversity rules for company boards
- Georgia sheriff’s deputy shot while serving a search warrant
- 3 things to do if you're worried about having too little saved for retirement
- 4 children shot in Minneapolis shooting that police chief is calling ‘outrageous’
- Bodycam footage shows high
- New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez will resign from Senate after bribery convictions
- Matthew Perry's Doctors Lose Prescription Credentials Amid Ketamine Case
- Biden’s offer of a path to US citizenship for spouses leaves some out
- Toyota to invest $922 million to build a new paint facility at its Kentucky complex
- 'We've lost a hero': Georgia deputy fatally shot after responding to domestic dispute
Ranking
- A South Texas lawmaker’s 15
- Second jailer to plead guilty in Alabama inmate’s hypothermia death
- Watch 'Inside Out 2's deleted opening scene: Riley bombs at the talent show
- Ex- NFL lineman Michael Oher discusses lawsuit against Tuohy family and 'The Blind Side'
- Intel's stock did something it hasn't done since 2022
- Watch 'Inside Out 2's deleted opening scene: Riley bombs at the talent show
- Aces coach Becky Hammon says Dearica Hamby's mistreatment allegations 'didn't happen'
- The Daily Money: Real estate rules are changing. What does it mean for buyers, sellers?
Recommendation
California DMV apologizes for license plate that some say mocks Oct. 7 attack on Israel
Caleb Downs leads 4 Ohio State players selected to Associated Press preseason All-America first team
A South Texas school district received a request to remove 676 books from its libraries
Teen Mom’s Farrah Abraham Shares Insight Into 15-Year-Old Daughter Sophia’s Latest Milestone
Meta donates $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund
Collapsed rail bridge gets first of two controlled blasts in clean up after severe flooding
Pregnant Brittany Mahomes Shares Adorable Glimpse at Bedtime Routine With Patrick and Their Kids
2 dead, at least 100 evacuated after flooding sweeps through Connecticut