Overview

• Kohberger entered guilty pleas on July 2, foregoing a trial and avoiding the death penalty in the November 2022 killings of four University of Idaho students
• Under the agreement he will receive four back-to-back life terms and an additional sentence of up to ten years for burglary
• The plea deal ends the trial scheduled for August and resolves years of venue disputes and death-penalty debates in Latah County
• Prosecutors linked Kohberger to the crime through mobile phone data, surveillance footage and multiple sightings of his white Hyundai near the Moscow, Idaho, home
• Families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin voiced outrage at the negotiated resolution and lamented that the motive for the attack remains unknown