On Friday, Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was arrested for his suspected involvement in the murders of four University of Idaho students. Kohberger is a Ph.D. student at Washington State University’s Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, located just eight miles from where the students were found stabbed to death.
The victims – Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, and Xana Kernodle, 20 – were all found dead in a home on King Road between 3 am and 4 am on November 13th. It’s unclear what exactly happened during those hours before the bodies were discovered but it’s certain that it was a cruel and brutal crime.
Kohberger’s arrest came after an FBI investigation into the case had been underway for weeks. He was found at his parents’ home in Albrightsville—a gated community in eastern Pennsylvania—and taken into custody by local police around 1:30 am on Friday.
The suspect arrested Friday in connection to the murders of four University of Idaho students studies criminal justice at Washington State University and appeared to be hiding out at his parents’ home in eastern Pennsylvania after the killings.
Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, is a PhD student at the department of criminal justice and criminology, according to the WSU website.
The college town of Pullman, Washington, is about eight miles from the King Road home where Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, and Xana Kernodle, 20, were stabbed to death between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. on Nov. 13.
The fact that Kohberger was studying criminal justice as part of his doctoral program raises some troubling questions about how this tragedy could have occurred. How did he manage to slip through the cracks? How could someone studying criminal justice commit such a heinous act? Unfortunately, these are questions we may never get answers to.
