Bryan Kohberger to plead guilty to killing 4 University of Idaho students to avoid death penalty, multiple media report

BOISE Idaho AP Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty multiple media outlets released Monday The news was delivered to families of the casualties in a letter according to ABC News Kohberger is accused in the stabbing deaths of Ethan Chapin Xana Kernodle Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves at a rental home near campus in Moscow Idaho in November Autopsies evidenced the four were all likely asleep when they were attacked particular had defensive wounds and each was stabbed multiple times Goncalves family expressed outrage in a Facebook post We are beyond furious at the State of Idaho They have failed us Please give us certain time This was very unexpected Kohberger then a criminal justice graduate attendee at Washington State University was arrested in Pennsylvania weeks after the killings Investigators explained they matched his DNA to genetic material recovered from a knife sheath unveiled at the crime scene