The suspect in the murders of four University of Idaho students in November is scheduled to appear in a Pennsylvania court today.
28-year-old Bryan Kohberger’s attorney says he plans to waive an extradition hearing so he can be quickly brought to Idaho to face murder charges.
Kohberger, a Ph.D. student and teaching assistant in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University, was taken into custody early Friday morning by a SWAT team at his parents’ Pennsylvaia home.
During a news conference Friday, Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson said investigators believe Kohberger broke into the University of Idaho students’ home near campus “with the intent to commit murder.” The bodies of the students — Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin — were found on Nov. 13, several hours after investigators believe they died.
Kohberger’s attorney, chief public defender Jason LaBar, said Kohberger plans to tell a judge in Monroe County, Pa., on Tuesday that he will waive his extradition hearing so he can be quickly brought to Idaho to face the charges and is eager to be exonerated.
Kohberger is being held without bond in Pennsylvania and authorities say he will be held without bond in Idaho once he is returned.
