Bryan Kohberger pleads guilty to Idaho college murders

Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty Monday to all counts in the 2022 killings of four University of Idaho students, according to multiple outlets.

Kohberger was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary in connection with the deaths of roommates Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, in November 2022. The 30-year-old will receive four consecutive life sentences and the maximum penalty of 10 years for burglary, avoiding the death penalty as part of a plea deal, according to ABC News.

“This resolution is our sincere attempt to seek justice for your family,” prosecutors stated in a letter obtained by ABC News. “This agreement ensures that the defendant will be convicted, will spend the rest of his life in prison, and will not be able to put you and the other families through the uncertainty of decades of post-conviction appeals. Your viewpoints weighed heavily in our decision-making process, and we hope that you may come to appreciate why we believe this resolution is in the best interest of justice.”

On Nov. 13, 2022, four Idaho college students were stabbed to death in Goncalves’, Mogen’s, and Kernodle’s off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho, with two roommates, Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortenson, surviving the attack inside. Following officials arriving at the scene, Funke and Mortenson told authorities they had seen a man dressed in black clothes and a mask previously walking past the house.

Over a month later, in December 2022, officials arrested Kohberger at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania and charged him with the murders of the four students. Kohberger, at the time, was a criminology Ph.D. student at the nearby Washington State University.

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