Idaho College Murder Suspect Indicted on Murder and Burglary Charges

Idaho College Murder Suspect Indicted on Murder and Burglary Charges
Bryan Kohberger, (L), who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, looks toward his attorney, public defender Anne Taylor, (R), during a hearing in Latah County District Court in Moscow, Idaho, on Jan. 5, 2023. Ted S. Warren/AP Photo, Pool
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BOISE, Idaho—A grand jury has indicted a man who was already charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, allowing prosecutors to skip a planned week-long preliminary hearing that was set for late June.

Bryan Kohberger was arrested late last year and charged with burglary and four counts of first-degree murder in connection with the Nov. 13, 2022, killings of Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves at a rental home near the University of Idaho campus. At the time, Kohberger was a graduate student studying criminology at nearby Washington State University, and the killings left the close-knit communities of Moscow, Idaho, and Pullman, Washington, reeling.