Idaho murders: What we know about suspect Bryan Christopher Kohberger - CBS News

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Suspect arrested successful Idaho pupil murders

Suspect arrested successful murders of 4 University of Idaho students 04:25

More than six weeks aft four assemblage students were slain successful an off-campus location successful Moscow, Idaho, constabulary person arrested a suspect, Bryan Christopher Kohberger, successful transportation with the murders.

The 28-year-old was arrested connected a fugitive from justness warrant, Pennsylvania State Police announced Friday. Police said they were assisting the Moscow constabulary department, the Idaho State Police, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation successful the apprehension. A instrumentality enforcement root told CBS News Kohberger was arrested astatine his parents' location successful Albrightsville, Pennsylvania.

Kohberger appeared successful beforehand of a Pennsylvania justice connected Friday and was remanded without enslaved to Monroe County Correctional Facility, wherever helium is awaiting extradition to Idaho, constabulary said.

Kohberger is facing charges of 4 counts of first-degree execution and felony burglary, said Latah County authoritative Bill Thompson successful a Friday press conference.

Who is Bryan Kohberger?

Kohberger was calved connected Nov. 21, 1994. In 2018, helium finished an associate's grade successful science astatine Northampton Community College, past went connected to implicit a bachelor's grade astatine DeSales University successful 2020. He past did further postgraduate studies astatine the university, completing those successful 2022, a typical for DeSales confirmed. The typical did not accidental what helium studied oregon majored in.

At the clip of his arrest, Kohberger was a Ph.D. criminology pupil and teaching adjunct astatine Washington State University's Pullman campus, which is lone astir a 15-minute thrust from Moscow, Idaho. Moscow Police Chief James Fry confirmed successful a Friday day property league that Kohberger lived successful Washington state.

Another postgraduate pupil successful the criminology and transgression justness section astatine WSU told the AP that the quality of Kohberger's apprehension was "pretty retired of near field."

Ben Roberts said helium took respective courses with Kohberger aft the 2 started the programme unneurotic successful August. Kohberger "was ever looking for a mode to acceptable in," Roberts told the AP.

Roberts said Kohberger would "find the astir analyzable mode to explicate something."

"He had to marque definite you knew that helium knew it," Roberts added.

Where does the probe stand?

During Friday's property conference, officials were wary of sharing galore details of the investigation, including those that led to Kohberger's arrest. Fry said that the accusation was not being shared to sphere the integrity of the probe and to enactment successful enactment with Idaho law.

Police denote apprehension successful murders of 4 University of Idaho students 24:38

The constabulary main said immoderate of the 19,000 tips that constabulary received were integral to arresting Kohberger, but declined to accidental erstwhile helium became a fishy oregon what brought him to their attention. Law enforcement sources told CBS News that forensic investigation allegedly linked Kohberger to the transgression country successful Idaho.

Those sources told CBS News that FBI agents had conducted surveillance operations connected Kohberger successful Pennsylvania, tracking his movements connected the days earlier helium was taken into custody. Fry said that it was a "fairly sleepless mates days" starring up to Kohberger's arrest.

"I person religion successful those agencies crossed the nation, I person religion successful our officers, I person religion successful the FBI, and they did a large job," Fry said.

Fry said constabulary person not recovered the execution weapon, but that they had recovered a Hyundai Elantra. Investigators said respective weeks agone that they were looking for the occupant oregon occupants of a 2011-2013 achromatic Hyundai Elantra that was "in the area" erstwhile the students were killed.

More information, including the factual ground for the charges that were filed, volition beryllium revealed erstwhile a probable origin affidavit is unsealed, which won't hap until Kohberger returns to Idaho and is served with an apprehension warrant there. Kohberger is adjacent expected to look successful tribunal successful Pennsylvania connected Tuesday afternoon.

Fry besides declined to accidental if determination was immoderate imaginable transportation betwixt the victims and Kohberger, and did not stock a motive for the killings.

"These murders person shaken our assemblage and nary apprehension volition ever bring backmost these young students. However, we bash judge justness volition beryllium recovered done the transgression process," Fry said.