Idaho Murders: Search for Justice as Bryan Kohberger prepares to go on trial
MOSCOW, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in their off-campus home, is set to stand trial this summer.
Senior Investigative reporter for Criminally Obsessed Anne Emerson, KOMO News Senior Reporter Chris Daniels, and expert criminologist Jeffrey Ian Ross speak in this documentary from The National News Desk ahead of Kohberger’s trial.
The students, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, and Kaylee Goncalves, were murdered while they slept in their Moscow, Idaho, home on Nov. 13, 2022. The crime sent shockwaves through the small community and college campus.
The call to police initially came for an unconscious person. Officers with the Moscow Police Department responded and originally did not believe there was an active threat. It wasn't until much later that people started looking at the incident in a different way, and a criminal investigation got underway.
The investigation eventually led to Kohberger, a criminology graduate student at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., which is about a 20 minute drive from Moscow. Kohberger was arrested on Dec. 30, 2022, at his parent’s home in Pennsylvania after a weeks-long search.
As Kohberger's trial is set to begin with jury selection on July 30, and opening statements on Aug. 11, 2025, new evidence including 911 calls recently released, is painting a better picture of what happened that night.
If convicted, Kohberger faces the death penalty in Idaho.
