Bryan Kohberger, who’s accused of killing 4 University of Idaho college students at a house close to campus in November, appeared in an Idaho court docket Thursday for the second time.
A preliminary listening to for his case was set for June 26. He waved his proper to a speedy preliminary listening to, along with his protection staff asking the court docket for time to organize for the case.
Kohberger, 28, is charged with 4 counts of first-degree homicide within the deaths of scholars Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, who had been stabbed on the girls’s rental residence in Moscow, Idaho. He additionally faces a rely of felony housebreaking.
One of Kohberger’s neighbors in Pullman, Washington, stated the suspect spoke to him in regards to the killings days after they occurred.
“He brought it up in conversation,” the neighbor, who requested to not be recognized, informed CBS News on Wednesday. “[He] asked if I had heard about the murders, which I did. And then he said, ‘Yeah, seems like they have no leads. Seems like it was a crime of passion.'”
“At the time of our conversation, it was only a few days after it happened so there wasn’t much details out,” the neighbor stated.
Kohberger was arrested on Dec. 30 at his household’s residence in Pennsylvania — greater than a month after the Nov. 13 murders. An affidavit detailing how police tracked down the suspect was unsealed after he was extradited to Idaho.
Now, a dean on the University of Idaho says the administration’s purpose because the spring semester begins is to return a way of normalcy for college kids, and that security is a prime precedence.
“It was a shock for many of our students … that something like this would happen here,” stated Dean of Students Blaine Eckles.
Eckles stated the sheriff’s workplace within the county can have a presence on campus and that the college employed extra campus safety officers. He additionally stated they’re nonetheless “in very close partnership” with the Moscow Police Department.
Luisa Garcia contributed to this text.
