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The trial of Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of murdering four University of Idaho students, will be moved to Boise, the Idaho State Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The State Supreme Court granted a ‘change of venue’ motion, which will move the trial from its current location in Latah County, in North Idaho, down south to the capital in Ada County. This comes nearly two years after the murders took place. Bryan Kohberger is accused of murdering University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves in an off-campus house in Nov. 2022. The house was located...

Up until taking his case, Bryan Kohberger’s court-appointed public defender was actively representing a parent of one of the four Moscow stabbing victims her client is accused of killing, court records show. Anne Taylor, chief of the Kootenai County Public Defender’s Office, filed an attorney withdrawal notice in Kootenai County Court for the parent on Jan. 5 — the same day Kohberger made his first court appearance in Idaho in Latah County. The parent previously was sentenced on unrelated misdemeanor charges. In that case, as well as another where the parent faces two felony charges, the public defender’s office withdrew...

The use of DNA to arrest Bryan Kohberger for the murder of four college students in Idaho reminds me that it's time to bring the death penalty back in a big way. Notwithstanding the absence of a single example, the possibility of executing the "wrong man" has been the left's main line against the death penalty for decades. It's the only argument that has ever lessened Americans' support for capital punishment. Well, guess what? Thanks to the miracle of DNA, now there's no risk! The murderer can usually be identified with greater than 99.99% accuracy. Good news, right? Nope! As...

New footage has been released by the Indiana State Police of US murder suspect Bryan Kohberger being pulled over during a road trip.... ...It’s understood the PhD student made the 4000km trip home with his dad by car, and according to his public defender, he was pulled over twice along the way. Jason LaBar, the Pennsylvania defence lawyer in Mr Kohberger’s extradition case, said the suspect’s dad flew into Spokane, Washington, before driving down to Pullman, Washington, in a pre-planned trip ahead of the holidays. Pullman sits just over the state border from Idaho – just 15km from Moscow....

Bryan Kohberger has filed a sexual harassment complaint and is begging for a transfer after a fellow inmate threatened to “-—- -–-” him, and another made a crude sexual remark within days of his arrival at Idaho’s hellhole max security prison. The convicted killer of four University Idaho undergrads had barely made it one night in his maximum security prison before requesting to be moved to another part of Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Boise on July 30, according to documents obtained by People. The request complains of “minute-by-minute verbal threats/harassment,” as well as prisoners flooding their own cells with...

Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to four life sentences without the possibility of parole on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to the murders of four University of Idaho students in 2022. The surviving roommates and families of the victims delivered emotional statements at the sentencing hearing, held in a courtroom in Boise. When given the opportunity to speak, Kohberger declined to do so. Kohberger pleaded guilty earlier this month to the murders of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves as part of a plea deal that spared him from the death penalty. He was in the courtroom Wednesday...

Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger has accepted a plea deal to spare his life in the murders of four University of Idaho students, two sources close to the case told Fox News Digital Monday. Kohberger, 30, is accused of killing Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in a 4 a.m. home invasion attack on Nov. 13, 2022. Goncalves' family, in a Facebook page her parents created after the murders, condemned the deal, which spares Kohberger's life. "We are beyond furious at the State of Idaho," a new post reads. "They have failed...

Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger has accepted a plea deal to spare his life in the murders of four University of Idaho students, two sources close to the case told Fox News Digital Monday. Kohberger, 30, is accused of killing Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in a 4 a.m. home invasion attack on Nov. 13, 2022. Goncalves' family, in a Facebook page her parents created after the murders, condemned the deal, which spares Kohberger's life. "We are beyond furious at the State of Idaho," a new post reads. "They have failed...

Bryan Kohberger has reportedly accepted a plea deal, agreeing to cop to the vicious murders of four University of Idaho undergrads in 2022. The deal will make Kohberger safe from the death penalty, but he must plead guilty to four murders and waive his right to appeal, and he will serve life in prison without the possibility of parole, NewsNation reported. The deal is a shocking twist in a hard-fought case in which prosecutors accused Kohberger of sneaking into a rental home in nearby Moscow, Idaho, and fatally stabbing Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves.

A surprise second eyewitness has emerged in the Idaho student murders case and could testify against Bryan Kohberger at trial later this year. A woman claiming to be the Idaho DoorDash driver who dropped off food to victim Xana Kernodle minutes before a home invasion stabbing spree killed her, her boyfriend, and two roommates, has emerged as a surprise second eyewitness to testify at Kohberger’s upcoming murder trial, and she told police she saw him at the scene. The purported driver revealed herself in a police bodycam video from an alleged DUI stop taken in September 2024 and posted weeks...

In newly filed court documents, prosecutors say they will use evidence of an apparent knife purchase and a selfie that they believe link Bryan Kohberger to the murders of four University of Idaho students. Kohberger is charged in the murders of Mount Vernon native Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, who were stabbed to death in the early morning of Nov. 13, 2022, at a rental home near campus in Moscow, Idaho.

New findings in the Idaho college murder case have emerged. Attorneys for Bryan Kohberger—who has been accused of fatally stabbing University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin at a rental home in 2022—said an investigator discovered DNA evidence from three individuals under Mogen's fingernail.

Bryan Kohberger has autism, according to his lead defense lawyer, who is arguing the diagnosis means he should not face the possibility of the death penalty if he is convicted of the murders of a group of University of Idaho students who were killed in a 4 a.m. home invasion attack in November 2022. “Bryan C. Kohberger, by and through his attorneys of record… hereby moves this Court to strike the death penalty as a sentencing option in his case because Mr. Kohberger’s autism spectrum disorder (ASD) reduces his culpability, negates the retributive and deterrent purposes of capital punishment, and...

Idaho lawmakers have advanced a bill to make the state's newly revived firing squad its main method of execution as the quadruple murder trial of aspiring criminologist and alleged co-ed killer Bryan Kohberger approaches. The bill, H0037, has advanced to the Idaho House floor after clearing the Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee Tuesday. Bill sponsor Rep. Bruce Skaug, who previously pushed for legislation that restored the firing squad as a backup option to lethal injection, argued that the botched lethal injection of condemned serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech last year highlights problems with that method. Creech was first sentenced to...

University of Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger looked scruffy in a new mugshot after being flown hundreds of miles in preparation for his trial. Kohberger, 29, was flown Sunday to Idaho’s capital, Boise, after being granted a change of venue to take his trial away from Latah County, where he’s accused of brutally stabbing the four students in their rental home in Moscow. Kohberger was seen arriving in Boise on a small plane and was transferred to a Black SUV in an orange jumpsuit and cuffs. A new mugshot taken on his arrival at the Ada County Sheriff’s Office shows...

Bryan Kohberger—the man charged in the gruesome homicides of four University of Idaho students last November—waived his right to a speedy trial during an appearance in Latah County Court on Wednesday. Asked by the judge if he was comfortable waiving this right, Kohberger responded, “Absolutely.” As a result, Kohberger’s trial, which was initially set to begin on Oct. 2, is now postponed indefinitely. In May, Kohberger was indicted by a jury on four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary and was arraigned shortly after. At his arraignment, he didn’t enter a plea, requiring the judge to...

Bryan Kohberger’s alibi has just been released. He said that at the time that four University of Idaho students were murdered, he was driving. He doesn’t say where he was driving. He doesn’t say who might have seen him when he was driving. He doesn’t give any details about his driving at all. He only says that he was driving.Now listen to the lyrics of this 1980 song “Drivin'” by Pearl Harbor and the Explosion. The lyrics are exactly the same as Kohberger’s alibi.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZDka84E4bg

University of Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger has “no connection” to the victims, his defense team insisted in court documents filed ahead of the former graduate student’s hearing on Tuesday. Investigators in the high-profile case failed to disclose the precise means by which they identified Kohberger, 28, as the primary suspect in the Nov. 13 stabbing spree that killed Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, Kohberger’s defense alleges in the June 22 filing, according to Fox News Digital. “It remains unclear what the police first relied on in focusing their investigation on Mr....

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the gruesome University of Idaho murders, according to a new court filing. Kohberger is accused of stabbing to death four college students in an off-campus house on Nov. 13, 2022. Kohberger's trial is set for Oct. 2.

The brutal killings of four University of Idaho students have captured the attention of the nation as suspect Bryan Kohberger awaits his trial. But two survivors of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy warn his murders bear an eerie resemblance to the FSU sorority house killings. “There have been a lot of mass murderers, but [Kohberger] seemed to almost pick a murder that mirrored one of Bundy’s murders. Is that a coincidence? I don’t know,” survivor Karen Pryor said on Fox Nation’s “Parallels of Evil: The Bundy and Idaho Killings.”