On November 12, four University of Idaho students, Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, and Madison Mogen, were seen at a party at Chapin's fraternity, Sigma Chi. The next morning, the four were found dead in an apartment house on King Road. On December 30, Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, a resident of Pullman, Washington and a doctoral student at Washington State University, was apprehended by Moscow police in connection with the quadruple homicide. DNA evidence and surveillance footage linked Kohberger to the crime and he is currently being held without bail. The families of the victims are struggling to understand why the lives of "four beautiful people" were taken so brutally.
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Moscow Police have arrested Bryan Christopher Kohberger in connection with the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students. Police believe the victims were attacked while asleep, and that this was an isolated, targeted attack. They have received over 16,500 tips and reviewed 113 pieces of evidence, 4,000 photographs, and multiple 3-D scans in the investigation. Social media rumors and speculation have been a distraction, and police have asked for help from the public in locating a white 2011-2013 Hyundai Elantra seen near the crime scene.
A person of interest has been taken into custody in Pennsylvania in connection with the November 13 slayings of four University of Idaho students, shocking the small college town of Moscow, Idaho. Kristi Goncalves, the mother of one of the victims, expressed her frustration with the Moscow Police Department, who are currently sorting through tens of thousands of registered vehicles that fit the criteria of one spotted near the residence the night of the attacks. The investigation is ongoing.