The Brief
- A judge has ordered Bryan Kohberger to serve life in prison without parole for killing four University of Idaho students.
- Kohberger took a plea deal to avoid the death penalty and admitted to murdering Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves and Ethan Chapin in late 2022.
- Friends and relatives delivered powerful statements of love, anguish and condemnation at the sentencing hearing Wednesday.
BOISE, Idaho – Bryan Kohberger, the masked man who sneaked into a rental home near the University of Idaho campus and stabbed four students to death in late 2022, faced the families of his victims in court Wednesday before he was sentenced to life in prison.
Whether those families will get any answers about why he did it or how he came to target the home on King Road in Moscow remains to be seen. But Kohberger, 30, was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves and Ethan Chapin in the rural college town of Moscow.
He pleaded guilty earlier this month in a deal to avoid the death penalty. He has an opportunity to speak at the sentencing — as do the loved ones of his victims.…