(NewsNation) — The brutal 2022 killings of four University of Idaho students sent shockwaves done the tight-knit assemblage of Moscow, Idaho, successful a lawsuit that has commanded the attraction of the state years later.

Bryan Kohberger is accused of murdering Kaylee Goncalves, 22; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20. The students were recovered with fatal stab wounds successful an off-campus rental home successful the aboriginal greeting hours of Nov. 13, 2022.

A small implicit a period aft the killings, Kohberger was arrested astatine his parents' location successful Pennsylvania connected Dec. 30 and extradited to Idaho. He present faces 4 charges of first-degree execution and 1 complaint of burglary.

Per NewsNation's Brian Entin, Kohberger has accepted a plea deal successful the case. He volition plead blameworthy to the charges successful speech for the prosecution dropping the decease penalty.

University of Idaho students be party, bent retired astatine sports bar

Nov. 12, 2022: Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle, who were dating, attended a enactment astatine the Sigma Chi fraternity location astir 8 p.m. About 2 hours later, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves hung retired astatine the Corner Club, a section sports barroom successful Moscow, for a fewer hours.

University of Idaho students stabbed

Nov. 13, 2022: Video shows Mogen and Goncalves ordering nutrient astatine astir 1:40 a.m. from Grub Truck, a section vendor. They tin beryllium seen chatting with each different and different radical adjacent the motortruck portion waiting for their food. They past utilized a “private party” to drawback a thrust home.

At astir 1:45 a.m., Chapin, Kernodle, Mogen and Goncalves get backmost astatine their off-campus rental location connected King Road. The 3 women lived astatine the location with 2 different roommates. Chapin, Kernodle's boyfriend, was staying the nighttime there.

Investigators judge the 4 students, thought to beryllium sleeping astatine the time, were fatally stabbed betwixt 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. According to the coroner, determination was no motion of intersexual assault.

Just earlier noon, the 2 surviving roommates woke up and recovered 1 of the victims connected the 2nd level unresponsive. Other friends were called implicit to the house. At 11:58 a.m., idiosyncratic called 911 connected 1 of the surviving roommates’ phones astir an “unconscious individual.”

Responding officers discovered a bloody country and the 4 students dead.

University of Idaho stabbing victims identified

Kaylee Goncalves

Credit: @kayleegoncalves Instagram

Nov. 14, 2022: Police identified the students killed arsenic Goncalves, Mogen, Kernodle and Chapin.

The University of Idaho released the pursuing accusation astir the victims:

• Chapin was a freshman from Mount Vernon, Washington. He was a subordinate of the Sigma Chi fraternity majoring successful recreation, athletics and tourism management.
• Kernodle was a inferior from Post Falls, Idaho. She was a subordinate of Pi Beta Phi sorority majoring successful selling successful the College of Business and Economics.
• Goncalves was a elder from Rathdrum, Idaho. She was a subordinate of Alpha Phi sorority majoring successful wide studies successful the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences.
• Mogen was a elder from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. She was a subordinate of Pi Beta Phi sorority majoring successful selling successful the College of Business and Economics.

Weapon revealed successful University of Idaho killings

Nov. 15, 2022: Moscow constabulary announced the slayer utilized a weapon oregon different “edged weapon” successful the attack. Days later, investigators officially named the origin of decease “homicide — murder.”

Boise State University students, on with radical who knew the 4 University of Idaho students who were recovered killed successful Moscow, Idaho, days earlier, wage their respects astatine a vigil held successful beforehand of a statue connected the Boise State field connected Nov. 17, 2022, successful Boise, Idaho. (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)

Nov. 22, 2022: The University of Idaho said students could take betwixt in-person oregon distant learning done the extremity of the semester. Twenty-five to 40% of students decided not to instrumentality to campus, according to reports. Idaho pupil Megan Stanley told NewsNation: “There’s truthful overmuch tension, there’s truthful overmuch fear. With a mates of weeks near successful the semester and finals approaching, the field should beryllium afloat of students and truly lively. And I consciousness similar I’m lone seeing a fistful of students walking around.”

Manhunt for Idaho assemblage slayer begins; Bryan Kohberger gets pulled over

Dec. 7, 2022: The Moscow Police Department asked the nationalist for assistance successful uncovering a white 2011-2013 Hyundai Elantra that was spotted adjacent the execution scene. Investigators believed the occupant oregon occupants of the car whitethorn person “critical accusation to share.”

Dec. 15, 2022: Bryan Kohberger was pulled implicit twice wrong a nine-minute timespan connected I-70 successful Indiana. He wasn’t fixed a summons for either postulation halt and was fto spell by authorities. Indiana State Police aboriginal released assemblage camera footage of Kohberger’s 2nd halt successful a achromatic Hyundai Elantra.

Dec. 28, 2022: With nary fishy successful custody weeks aft the Idaho murders, the tiny assemblage municipality of Moscow remained connected edge. Moscow constabulary said lone constricted accusation astir the probe could beryllium shared.

“It’s inactive precise sad, scary, inactive locking our doors, which is new, ne'er did before,” Moscow nonmigratory Hans Winckler told NewsNation.

Bryan Kohberger arrested successful transportation to killings

Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, is seen successful a booking photograph aft helium was arrested Dec. 30, 2022, successful Pennsylvania. (Photo by Monroe County Correctional Facility via Getty Images)

Dec. 30, 2022: Authorities successful Monroe County, Pennsylvania, arrested Kohberger, past 28, of Pullman, Washington, successful transportation with the Idaho assemblage killings. Kohberger, a Ph.D. criminology student astatine Washington State University, was charged with 4 counts of first-degree execution and 1 number of felony burglary.

Sources confirmed to NewsNation’s Brian Entin that Kohberger was connected termination ticker successful the Pennsylvania jailhouse wherever helium was being held. At 1 point, Kohberger, who had a “blank stare,” asked officers whether anyone other was arrested.

Jan. 3, 2023: Latah County Magistrate Judge Megan Marshall issued a sweeping gag order related to the case. The bid prohibited attorneys, investigators and instrumentality enforcement unit from talking with media outlets oregon issuing statements unless they were straight quoting a tribunal document.

Jan. 4, 2023: Kohberger was extradited to Idaho to look charges. He was taken to Latah County Jail successful Moscow, little than 2 miles from the tract wherever the killings took place. Kohberger was formally charged successful transportation with the students' deaths and denied bail during his archetypal tribunal appearance.

DNA led to Bryan Kohberger's arrest: Affidavit

Jan. 5, 2023: The affidavit detailing allegations against Kohberger was unsealed. Court records showed that investigators identified Kohberger arsenic the fishy done a operation of DNA grounds astatine the scene, cellphone records and the suspect’s achromatic Hyundai Elantra.

Authorities said they recovered a “tan leather weapon sheath” with “a azygous root of antheral DNA left” connected it. They compared the DNA sample to DNA belonging to Kohberger’s begetter from trash astatine the Kohberger household residence successful Pennsylvania to amusement a familial link.

Jan. 11, 2023: University of Idaho students instrumentality to field for the archetypal time of people aft wintertime break. The dean of students told NewsNation that astir students who feared coming backmost to field aft the killings were feeling harmless capable to return.

Bryan Kohberger indicted by expansive jury

May 17, 2023: A grand assemblage indicted Kohberger connected 4 counts of first-degree execution and 1 number of burglary successful transportation to the killings — the aforesaid charges prosecutors announced successful December.

May 22, 2023: Kohberger declined to participate a plea successful court, alternatively electing to stand soundless astatine his arraignment. That determination led the justice to participate not-guilty pleas for the execution and burglary charges against Kohberger.

June 23, 2023: An Idaho justice denied a petition from aggregate quality outlets to assistance the gag order, but helium did narrow its restrictions. Judge said it was good advised to support attorneys progressive successful the lawsuit from making statements astir it, but helium called the archetypal gag bid that included barring instrumentality enforcement and others related to the lawsuit from talking with the property “overbroad and vague successful immoderate areas.”

Prosecutors question decease punishment for Bryan Kohberger

June 26, 2023: Prosecutors said they would seek the decease penalty against Kohberger. In a tribunal notice, the authorities said it recovered respective aggravating factors successful the stabbing deaths, which is simply a request nether Idaho instrumentality successful the pursuit of the decease penalty.

If Kohberger is recovered guilty, jurors whitethorn person to see that a punishment of the decease punishment could mean a anticipation it would beryllium carried retired by firing squad pursuing the transition of an Idaho bill.

Motion to disregard Bryan Kohberger case

July 25, 2023: Kohberger’s attorneys filed a question to dismiss the expansive assemblage indictment against their client, arguing the expansive assemblage was misled astir the modular of impervious oregon what the authorities needs to person jurors of to unafraid an indictment.

Aug. 2, 2023: In a court filing, a defence lawyer said Kohberger has “long had a wont of going for drives alone” and was doing conscionable that astatine the clip of the killings. “He was out, driving during the precocious nighttime and aboriginal greeting hours of November 12-13,” attorney Anne Taylor wrote. She aboriginal added, “Mr. Kohberger was retired driving alone.”

According to the affidavit, cellphone records placed Kohberger adjacent the transgression country astatine slightest a twelve times earlier the killings and backmost astir the King Road location again from 9:12 a.m. to 9:21 a.m. connected Nov. 13. There were besides windows of clip erstwhile his telephone was believed to beryllium retired of service.

Aug. 23, 2023: Kohberger waived his close to a speedy trial.

Sept. 7, 2023: University of Idaho officials again decided to clasp disconnected connected the demolition of the King Road house wherever the killings took place. This is the 2nd clip the assemblage delayed the tear-down. A caller demolition day was not released, but the assemblage committed to waiting to destruct the house until astatine slightest mid-December. Goncalves’ parents fought to intermission the demolition, insisting it would beryllium “good for the case.”

Bryan Kohberger proceedings delayed

Oct. 2, 2023: Kohberger’s proceedings was originally scheduled to begin successful Moscow, but his determination to waive his close to a speedy proceedings pushed backmost the proceedings date.

Oct. 26, 2023: Kohberger’s request to dismiss the indictment connected to the killings was denied, meaning the indictment against the suspected slayer remained.

The justice besides decided to support cameras successful the courtroom, saying helium would “take much control” of them.

Oct. 31, 2023: In a news release, the University of Idaho said Kohberger’s proceedings was delayed “indefinitely.” With the extension, the FBI returned to the King Road house to stitchery measurements and images arsenic portion of the quadruple homicide investigation.

University of Idaho killings: One twelvemonth later

Nov. 13, 2023: Thousands of radical gathered astatine the University of Idaho to clasp a vigil for the slain assemblage students 1 twelvemonth aft their deaths.

Dec. 1, 2023: A critical DNA deadline was acceptable for Dec. 1. A justice ordered prosecutors to crook implicit DNA grounds successful the lawsuit by the date. Investigators utilized genetic genealogy, which looks astatine nationalist DNA sites to physique a household histrion to constrictive down a suspect, to place Kohberger.

Dec. 15, 2023: Judge ruled the expansive assemblage indictment was conducted decently and volition stand. Kohberger’s attorneys antecedently filed motions asking the justice to propulsion retired the indictment.

Prosecutors against Kohberger asked for his proceedings to beryllium scheduled for the summer of 2024. Their extremity was to person the trial’s clip framework debar the world calendar for the assemblage and surrounding precocious schools.

Idaho location destroyed

Dec. 28, 2023: The University of Idaho demolished the home wherever 4 of its students were fatally stabbed. Neither the defence nor the prosecution contested the demolition, but astatine slightest 2 of the victims’ families argued the demolition should beryllium postponed until aft Kohberger’s trial.

Jan. 3, 2024: NewsNation learned exclusively that aft the Idaho location was demolished, the remaining pieces of the location were taken to a coagulated processing installation and buried heavy underground owed to interest that immoderate radical whitethorn effort to instrumentality souvenirs from the scene.

Bryan Kohberger's courtroom battle

Jan. 12, 2024: Kohberger's lawyers asked the court to unseal a question to disregard the case. The defence argued the nationalist has a close to beryllium informed connected the question and pleadings, contempt the gag order that is successful spot successful the case.

Jan. 26, 2024: Kohberger made a second attempt astatine getting charges against him thrown out, claiming determination was improper behaviour during the expansive assemblage proceedings. The question was aboriginal denied.

Kohberger’s defence squad besides pushed backmost against the anticipation of a summertime trial, citing the overwhelming measurement of evidence, including 51 terabytes of data, to beryllium examined.

Jan. 31, 2024: Kohberger’s defence filed a “change of venue” motion. Instead of asking to determination the proceedings retired of Latah County, the defence asked to bring successful jurors from extracurricular the county, pointing to “extensive, inflammatory pretrial publicity” that whitethorn power a section jury.

Bryan Kohberger successful court, attorneys inquire for venue change

Feb. 28, 2024: The 29-year-old appeared successful tribunal to discuss the timeline for the killings connected trial. His attorneys pushed for a venue alteration and discussed the investigative familial genealogy grounds successful the case.

March 1, 2024: The victims' families shared choler implicit continued uncertainty successful the trial, saying they privation justness for their loved ones.

April 5, 2024: Attorneys argued over questions successful a telephone survey intended to gauge however overmuch locals cognize astir the transgression lawsuit against Kohberger.

April 10, 2024: Lawyers returned to court aft prosecutors argued the survey violated the lasting gag order. Judge said the survey questions were excessively circumstantial and jeopardized Kohberger’s close to a just proceedings if the proceedings remained successful Latah County.

Kohberger’s nationalist defender, Anne Taylor, indicated that she conducted the survey arsenic portion of an effort to get the proceedings moved from the county, fixed the media attraction the lawsuit has created.

Bryan Kohberger's caller alibi

April 18, 2024: Kohberger submitted a caller alibi, claiming helium was retired driving the nighttime 4 Idaho students were murdered.

In the alibi, Kohberger’s ineligible squad claimed helium likes to spell retired for hikes and late-night drives and that helium was retired watching “the satellite and the stars” the nighttime of the murders. They disputed that Kohberger was adjacent the victims’ location erstwhile constabulary believed the transgression happened and said helium was driving successful the country of Pullman, Washington, respective miles westbound of the assemblage successful Moscow, Idaho.

April 23, 2024: Judge ruled Kohberger's squad could resume telephone surveys of imaginable jurors.

Defense questions grounds successful Bryan Kohberger case

May 3, 2024: Kohberger's defence claimed evidence is being withheld by the prosecution.

May 23, 2024: In a pretrial hearing, a Moscow constabulary detective admitted that, conscionable the time before, helium came upon cellphone data that had not antecedently been discovered and written into a ceremonial constabulary report. There was nary connection connected what that information revealed oregon whether it was applicable to establishing Kohberger’s whereabouts.

June 27, 2024: It was announced that Kohberger's trial is expected to commencement successful June 2025.

University of Idaho unveils healing garden

Aug. 23, 2024: The University of Idaho unveiled a campus healing garden successful representation of the 4 students. The Vandal Healing Garden and Memorial was designed, vetted and built by students successful the College of Art and Architecture Design-Build Program with guidance from module and alumni.

Aug. 30, 2024: Kohberger's squad renewed push for a alteration successful venue, asking the tribunal to determination his upcoming execution proceedings to Boise. Victims' families protested moving the trial retired of Moscow.

Judge grants venue alteration successful Bryan Kohberger case

Sept. 6, 2024: Kohberger’s attorneys filed challenges to the state’s superior punishment plan. In 13 filings, they argued that “Idaho has nary viable method for killing” successful a decease punishment case, adding that the state’s decease punishment program violates the U.S. Constitution.

Sept. 16, 2024: Judge granted a venue change for Kohberger, saying the monolithic publicity of the lawsuit would marque it hard for his lawyers to find impartial jurors successful Latah County and would besides apt origin hardship connected the section courthouse staff. 

Sept. 19, 2024: The tribunal announced Kohberger's proceedings will beryllium livestreamed. No extracurricular filming, however, volition beryllium permitted successful the courtroom oregon successful court-controlled floors and areas of the Ada County Courthouse.

Sept. 26, 2024: Judge Steven Hippler allowed Kohberger to deterioration civilian clothes for the adjacent proceeding lone and that aboriginal decisions astir his attire would beryllium made anterior to each hearing, based connected information concerns.

Bryan Kohberger proceedings postponed again

Oct. 9, 2024: The Idaho justice proceeding the aggregate execution lawsuit against Bryan Kohberger postponed the proceedings from June to August of 2025.

Oct. 17, 2024: As the 2nd day of the stabbing deaths of 4 University of Idaho assemblage students neared, their families asked for assistance to spend question costs to be the proceedings successful Boise. Two families acceptable up fundraising pages to money their travels.

Nov. 7, 2024: In a Boise courtroom, Kohberger's attorneys claimed the state lacks the means to transportation retired humane executions, arguing helium could look decease by firing squad.

University of Idaho killings: Two years later

Nov. 13, 2024: Wednesday marked the two-year day since the 4 students were stabbed to decease wrong their off-campus housing. At this point, the proceedings had not started, with an expected commencement day of Aug. 11, 2025.

Overview of the Vandal Healing Garden and Memorial connected Aug. 21, 2024. (Credit: University of Idaho)

Nov. 16, 2024: New benches, including a "Bestie Bench," were enactment up successful grant of the 4 students killed. They place Lake Coeur d’Alene, wherever the 4 spent overmuch of their time, according to the Idaho Statesman.

Nov. 17, 2024: Kohberger's attorneys filed aggregate motions to suppress cardinal grounds successful the case, including DNA samples and integer records. They allege constabulary officers deliberately withheld oregon misrepresented captious accusation erstwhile obtaining hunt warrants.

Bryan Kohberger tin look decease penalty

Nov. 20, 2024: Ada County Judge Steven Hippler ruled that Kohberger could look the decease penalty if convicted, contempt his defence team's efforts to region that option.

Jan. 10, 2025: Kohberger's lawyers said prosecutors should beryllium sanctioned implicit their nonaccomplishment to manus implicit required adept witnesser disclosures. They claimed this enactment Kohberger successful a presumption wherever helium volition beryllium "greatly prejudged" during his trial. His squad wanted the justice to exclude immoderate of the state's adept witnesses from testifying arsenic a sanction.

Bryan Kohberger successful court, attorneys situation DNA evidence

Jan. 24, 2025: Kohber's defence squad argued again that search warrants obtained successful the case were tainted by constabulary misconduct. They claimed determination was nary warrant for respective phases of the search. If successful, the determination could disrupt the prosecution's lawsuit up of the August trial.

Prosecutors privation to bounds Bryan Kohberger’s alibi evidence

Feb. 25, 2025: Prosecutors said Kohberger should not beryllium capable to person an alibi defense unless helium takes the basal during his trial. Prosecutor Bill Thompson besides asked a territory justice to bounds grounds connected immoderate psychiatric evaluations Kohberger mightiness person undergone and immoderate arguments astir an alternate perpetrator.

Bryan Kohberger, the antheral accused of fatally stabbing 4 University of Idaho students, is escorted into tribunal for a proceeding successful Latah County District Court connected Sept. 13, 2023, successful Moscow, Idaho. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool, File)

March 4, 2025: A justice warns attorneys to halt filing truthful galore sealed documents successful the Kohberger case. "This runs antagonistic to the public's First Amendment rights to cognize what is going connected successful its courts," said Hippler, according to the Associated Press.

March 5, 2025: Kohberger's defence squad could inquire a justice to instrumentality the decease punishment disconnected the array owed to an autism spectrum disorder, according to a sealed tribunal filing. The papers is labeled a "Motion to Strike the Death Penalty Re: Autism Spectrum Disorder."

It is not wide if Kohberger has autism oregon if this is simply a diagnosis that his attorneys are seeking.

More Bryan Kohberger documents released

March 7, 2025: More proceedings documents were released successful the Kohberger case, including substance messages betwixt the surviving roommates during the onslaught and 911 telephone transcripts.

Text messages between Idaho surviving roommates released arsenic portion of latest Bryan Kohberger papers release.

Steve Goncalves, whose girl was 1 of 4 radical killed, told NewsNation elder analogous Brian Entin that helium recovered retired astir the quality on with the remainder of the world.

"We didn't perceive a word," Goncalves said during an quality connected "Banfield." "My woman has said from the precise opening that hopefully the 911 ne'er came out, and if it did travel out, astatine slightest she would beryllium prepared."

Attorney Shanon Gray told Entin, 'I'm conscionable pissed. You know, communal decency... Victim advocates should interaction maine and the victims' families to fto them cognize astir immoderate of the worldly that's coming down truthful they're not conscionable amazed by it."

Bryan Kohberger successful court, August proceedings to beryllium livestreamed, plea woody accepted

May 15, 2025: In a last pretrial, a justice decided that the trial for Kohberger volition beryllium livestreamed. The justice said the assemblage enactment won't beryllium included successful the unrecorded stream, but the nationalist tin ticker from a country that volition beryllium wrong the courtroom.

The assemblage volition not initially beryllium sequestered, but the tribunal volition person a program successful spot successful lawsuit it becomes indispensable owed to media coverage. The proceedings is acceptable to instrumentality spot successful Boise, Idaho, aft it was moved from Latah County, which is wherever the murders took place.

Each broadside has besides presented projected assemblage questions, but those documents person not been unsealed.

June 30, 2025: Kohberger accepted a plea woody offered to him successful the case, per NewsNation's Brian Entin. Prosecutors person dropped the decease punishment successful speech for him pleading blameworthy to the execution and burglary charges against him.

Kohberger indispensable besides hold to a beingness condemnation successful situation without the anticipation of parole and indispensable waive his close to an appeal.

The tribunal proceeding for a alteration of plea volition instrumentality spot July 2.