Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, has been arrested in Scranton, Pennsylvania in connection with the Nov 13 murders of four University of Idaho students.
According to a high-ranking law enforcement source, Kohberger was taken into custody by local police and the FBI at 3 am and appeared in court on Friday morning.
Kohberger does not attend the University of Idaho, but he is a graduate student at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, which is only a 15-minute drive from the rental home where the four students were stabbed to death.
The victims, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves, and Madison Mogen, were found stabbed to death in their sleep in a rental home just yards from the University of Idaho campus.
The attacks are believed to have been targeted, and the Moscow Police Department, the FBI, and the Idaho State Police have been working on the case.
A press conference is scheduled in Moscow, Idaho at 4 pm (ET) to announce a major break in the case.
According to a detailed timeline released by the Moscow Police Department, Goncalves and Mogen went to a bar downtown and returned home at 1:56 am, while Kernodle and her boyfriend, Chapin, returned to the home at 1:45 am after attending a party at the Sigma Chi house on campus.
The four students were each stabbed multiple times in the torso and are believed to have been ambushed in their sleep with a large fixed-bladed knife between 3 am and 4 am.
Two surviving female roommates, who lived on the basement level, appear to have slept through the attack.
Investigators have focused on finding the occupants of a 2011 to 2013 white Hyundai Elantra that was seen near the home at the time of the murders.
The Moscow Police Department has said that the attacks were “targeted.”
The victims were all students at the University of Idaho and were members of various sororities and fraternities.
Chapin was a freshman studying recreation, sport, and tourism management, Kernodle was a junior majoring in marketing, Mogen was a senior studying marketing, and Goncalves was a senior majoring in general studies.
Goncalves had been set to graduate early in December and had a marketing job lined up in Austin, Texas.
