Overview

• A Boise judge on July 23 imposed four consecutive life sentences without parole and ordered about $200,000 in restitution to the victims’ families.
• Kohberger was a 30-year-old criminology PhD candidate at Washington State University when investigators say he carried out the stabbings.
• Authorities traced DNA on the knife and cell-phone tower data placing his phone near the Moscow, Idaho home multiple times.
• Autopsies showed the four University of Idaho students, all aged 20 or 21, were likely asleep when attacked and bore defensive wounds.
• Victims’ relatives and President Trump have publicly pressed Kohberger to explain his motive, which he has declined to reveal.