MOSCOW, IDAHO – A man was arrested overnight Friday in connection to the off-campus murders of four University of Idaho students on Nov. 13.
Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old Pullman resident and Washington State University graduate student, was found by authorities in a home in Chestnuthill Township, located in eastern Pennsylvania, and he appeared before a judge Friday morning, officials said. He is being held without bond.
Pennsylvania State Police said Kohberger was arrested on a fugitive from justice warrant. Idaho law enforcement confirmed the arrest during a press conference Friday in Moscow.
ABC News reported police identified Kohberger as a suspect through DNA and tracked him to Pennsylvania through his vehicle. The FBI had been watching the home where Kohberger was located for several days before making the arrest.
The four roommates found stabbed in their off-campus rented apartment were Mount Vernon’s Ethan Chapin, 20, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho’s Madison Mogen, 21, Avondale, Arizona’s Xana Kernodle, 20, and Rathdrum, Idaho’s Kaylee Goncalves, 21. Police said they informed the victims’ families of the news before it became public.
“For a lot of law enforcement, it was a very sleepless couple of days leading up to what we were doing.”
The University of Idaho and WSU are less than 7 miles apart, according to Google. WSU said Kohberger recently completed his first semester as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology.
