Current:Home > StocksIdaho Murder Case: Suspect Bryan Kohberger Indicted By Grand Jury -Secure Growth Solutions
Idaho Murder Case: Suspect Bryan Kohberger Indicted By Grand Jury
View
Date:2025-04-15 04:51:49
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! (42)
Related
- Former Danish minister for Greenland discusses Trump's push to acquire island
- Massachusetts man stabs five officers after crashing into home following chase, police say
- Chelsea Handler Debuts New Boyfriend Over a Year After Jo Koy Breakup
- Demi Moore Shakes Off a Nip Slip Like a Pro During Paris Fashion Week
- Israel lets Palestinians go back to northern Gaza for first time in over a year as cease
- Japan’s court recognizes more victims of Minamata mercury poisoning and awards them compensation
- 'Dancing With the Stars' dives into Scandoval with Ariana Madix: 'Scandal does not define me'
- More than half of Americans say they don't have enough for retirement, poll shows
- A South Texas lawmaker’s 15
- Travis King, the U.S. soldier who crossed South Korea's border into North Korea, is back in U.S. custody
Ranking
- Head of the Federal Aviation Administration to resign, allowing Trump to pick his successor
- Police say they thwarted 'potential active shooter' outside church in Virginia
- What is 'Mean Girls' day? Here's how fans made October 3rd happen.
- Chelsea Handler Debuts New Boyfriend Over a Year After Jo Koy Breakup
- DoorDash steps up driver ID checks after traffic safety complaints
- Bronny James' Coach Shares Update After He Misses First USC Practice Since Cardiac Arrest
- 13-year-old Chinese skateboarder wins gold at the Asian Games and now eyes the Paris Olympics
- GOP setback in DEI battle: Judge refuses to block grant program for Black women
Recommendation
A South Texas lawmaker’s 15
Sen. Bob Menendez pleads not guilty to federal charges in bribery case
Usher says performing during Super Bowl Halftime Show is moment that I've waited my entire life for
Canadian police won’t investigate doctor for sterilizing Indigenous woman
What do we know about the mysterious drones reported flying over New Jersey?
Astronaut Frank Rubio spent a record 371 days in space. The trip was planned to be 6 months
Christian Thielemann chosen to succeed Daniel Barenboim as music director of Berlin’s Staatsoper
Usher says performing during Super Bowl Halftime Show is moment that I've waited my entire life for