Current:Home > FinanceIdaho Murder Case: Suspect Bryan Kohberger Indicted By Grand Jury -TruePath Finance
Idaho Murder Case: Suspect Bryan Kohberger Indicted By Grand Jury
View
Date:2025-04-18 14:19:06
Bryan Kohberger has been indicted for the quadruple homicide of four University of Idaho students.
According to court documents obtained by E! News, 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! (72)
Related
- Moving abroad can be expensive: These 5 countries will 'pay' you to move there
- Not All Companies Disclose Emissions From Their Investments, and That’s a Problem for Investors
- Arab American leaders are listening as Kamala Harris moves to shore up key swing-state support
- Paris Olympics highlights: Team USA wins golds Sunday, USWNT beats Germany, medal count
- As Trump Enters Office, a Ripe Oil and Gas Target Appears: An Alabama National Forest
- California added a new grade for 4-year-olds. Are parents enrolling their kids?
- Feel like you have huge pores? Here's what experts say you can do about it.
- A move to limit fowl in Iowa’s capital eggs residents on to protest with a chicken parade
- Nearly half of US teens are online ‘constantly,’ Pew report finds
- Michigan’s top court gives big victory to people trying to recoup cash from foreclosures
Ranking
- This was the average Social Security benefit in 2004, and here's what it is now
- Who Is Michael Polansky? All About Lady Gaga’s Fiancé
- Harvey Weinstein contracts COVID-19, double pneumonia following hospitalization
- Rita Ora spends night in hospital, cancels live performance: 'I must rest'
- NFL Week 15 picks straight up and against spread: Bills, Lions put No. 1 seed hopes on line
- Venezuela’s Maduro and opposition are locked in standoff as both claim victory in presidential vote
- Scott Peterson Gives First Interview in 20 Years on Laci Peterson Murder in New Peacock Series
- At Paris Olympics, Team USA women are again leading medal charge
Recommendation
Apple iOS 18.2: What to know about top features, including Genmoji, AI updates
All the Athletes Who Made History During the 2024 Paris Olympics
Want to earn extra money through a side hustle? Here's why 1 in 3 Americans do it.
Video shows a vortex of smoke amid wildfire. Was it a fire tornado?
Could Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft reunite? Maybe in Pro Football Hall of Fame's 2026 class
Saoirse Ronan Marries Jack Lowden in Private Wedding Ceremony in Scotland
Scott Peterson Gives First Interview in 20 Years on Laci Peterson Murder in New Peacock Series
Texas senators grill utility executives about massive power failure after Hurricane Beryl