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CHESTNUTHILL TWP., Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- A 28-year-old antheral was arrested Friday successful Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains portion connected first-degree execution charges successful the killings of 4 University of Idaho students past month.
Bryan Kohberger appeared earlier a justice earlier Friday. Court documents amusement the justice ordered Kohberger's extradition to Idaho wherever helium volition look transgression charges.
Bryan Kohberger
Monroe County Correctional Facility
Sources accidental that authorities knew who they were looking for and had tracked Kohberger to his parent's location connected the 100 artifact of Lamsden Drive successful Chestnuthill Township, Monroe County.
Law enforcement sources told ABC News constabulary successful Idaho identified Kohberger arsenic a suspect, astatine slightest successful part, by utilizing DNA technology. They tracked him to Pennsylvania done his vehicle.
The FBI had been watching the location for respective days earlier a specialized squad of authorities troopers and national agents moved successful and took him into custody astir 2 a.m., sources say.
Authorities are inactive moving to analyse however Kohberger was connected to the victims.
Idaho authorities person been looking for a achromatic Hyundai Elantra successful transportation with the murders.
A neighbor, who did not privation to beryllium identified, tells Action News that 1 was towed from the Kohberger location connected Friday morning.
"The tow motortruck came, they towed the car. We were amazed due to the fact that we didn't cognize what was going on," she said.
When shown a representation of an Elantra, she said, "Yes, that's the car."
"We've seen the proprietor thrust that car truthful galore times," she said.
The neighbour said she didn't cognize Kohberger but she had seen him successful and retired of the location successful caller weeks. She said his parents are a "very saccharine couple."
Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen were killed Sunday disconnected field astatine the University of Idaho.
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The stabbing deaths shook the tiny municipality of Moscow, Idaho, a farming assemblage of astir 25,000 radical - including astir 11,000 students - tucked successful the rolling hills of bluish Idaho's Palouse region.
The victims, Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kernodle's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20; were apt dormant erstwhile they were each stabbed aggregate times successful the aboriginal hours of November 13, authorities person said.
Some of the victims had antiaircraft wounds, a coroner has said. There was nary motion of intersexual assault, constabulary said
The killings happened successful the girls' off-campus house.
Two different roommates -- who constabulary said are not suspects -- survived and apt slept done the murders, according to officials. The survivors were connected the crushed level portion the 4 victims were connected the 2nd and 3rd floors.
Goncalves' household tells ABC they don't cognize the fishy but are looking into him. The household says they are "happy, relieved, and thankful."
Kohberger is simply a Ph.D. pupil astatine Washington State University, which is simply a abbreviated thrust crossed the authorities enactment from the University of Idaho.
Kohberger received his bachelor's grade successful 2020 from DeSales University adjacent Allentown, Pennsylvania, and completed his postgraduate studies successful June 2022. The assemblage is located astir 40 miles southbound of wherever helium was arrested.
"As a Catholic, Salesian community, we are devastated by this senseless tragedy," the assemblage said successful a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims' families during this hard time."
According to ABC News, a idiosyncratic connected Reddit identifying themselves arsenic Bryan Kohberger and a criminology pupil astatine DeSales University posted aggregate times respective months agone recruiting "research participants" for a assemblage study.
In the posts, which were made starting successful May 2022, the idiosyncratic asked for accusation to assistance a "research task that seeks to recognize however emotions and intelligence traits power decision-making erstwhile committing a crime." The posts linked to a survey that asked elaborate questions astir committing crimes.
A root tells ABC News that instrumentality enforcement is alert of the Reddit posts.
RELATED: A timeline of the killings of 4 University of Idaho students
Police said they person received astir 20,000 tips done much than 9,025 emails, 4,575 telephone calls, and 6,050 integer media submissions, portion having conducted implicit 300 interviews successful the lawsuit of the 4 students slain successful an off-campus home.
Fears of a repetition onslaught prompted astir fractional of the University of Idaho students to power to online classes for the remainder of the semester, abandoning dorms and apartments successful the usually bucolic municipality for the perceived information of their hometowns.
Safety concerns besides had the assemblage hiring an further information steadfast to escort students crossed field and the Idaho State Police sending troopers to assistance patrol the city's streets.
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ABC News, the Associated Press and the CNN Wire contributed to this report
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