Boise, Idaho (AP) – More than two years later The stabbing deaths of four students from the University of Idaho Shocked the rural community of Moscow, Idaho, the former criminal student being charged in the murders, is expected on Wednesday in court to argue in a deal to prevent the death penalty.
Bryan Kherberger agree with the plea In the last few days, just a few weeks before his trial would start, after his lawyers had tried it, but failed to have hit execution as a possible punishment. The deal attracted mixed reactions from the families of the victims, ranging from support to indignation.
“Bryan Kherberger who is confronted with a life in prison means that he could still speak, form relationships and enter the world,” wrote Aubrie Goncalves, the 18-year-old sister of victim Kaylee Goncalves, in a Facebook message. “In the meantime, our loved ones have been silent forever. That reality sticks deeper when it feels as if the system protects its future more than honoring the past of the victims.”
The small agricultural community Van Moscow, in the Northern Idaho Panhandle, had not had a murder in about five years when Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison were found to be found in a rental home near the campus on November 13, 2022. Autopsies showed that the four victims were all likely to sleep. Some had defensive wounds and each was stabbed several times.
Long before sunrise Wednesday, reporters set cameras outside the courthouse in Boise and stood together with those who held a chair for the hearing.
The murders grabbed headlines around the world and went on a national hunt, including an extensive effort to detect A white sedan Spotted on surveillance cameras that repeatedly drive through the rental home. The police said they used genetic genealogy to identify Kherberger as a possible suspect and access to mobile phone information to determine his movements in the night of the murders.
At the time, Kherberger graduated from a criminal law at nearby Washington State University that had just completed his first semester and was an teaching assistant in the criminology program.
Kherberger what Arrested in PennsylvaniaWhere his parents lived, weeks later. Researchers said they corresponded to his DNA with genetic material that was recovered from a Messchede found at the crime scene.
Online store data showed that Kherberger had bought a knife in military style months earlier,-if a sheath like that on the spot.
No motive has emerged for the murders, nor is it clear why the attacker two roommates saved who were at home. There was also no indications that he had a relationship with one of the victims, who were all friends and members of the Greek system of the university.
Authorities have said that data on mobile phones and security video showed that Kherberger visited the neighborhood of the victims at least a dozen times before the murders, and that he traveled in the same area That night.
The lawyers of Kherberger said he just on one Long ride alone Around the time the four were killed.
Kherberger will appear on Wednesday before Idaho Fourth judicial district judge Steven Hippler in Boise, where the case was moved because of pretrial publicity in North Idaho. Hippler must approve the plea. If Kherberger argues as expected guilty, he would probably be convicted in July.
Although the Goncalves family opposed the agreement and said they would try to stop it, they also argued that such a deal would require Kherberger to make a complete confession, describe the facts of what happened and to provide the location of the murder weapon.
“We deserve to know when the start of the end was,” they wrote in a Facebook message.
Chapin’s family – One of the three triplets Who went to university together – supports the deal, said their spokesman, Christina Teves, Tuesday.
Lawyer Leander James, who can represent the mother and stepfather of, refused to give their opinion, but said that he would deliver a statement after Wednesday’s hearing. Mag’s father, Ben Mag, said CBS News that he was relieved by the agreement.
“We can actually place this behind us and not have these future dates and future things that we don’t want to be, where we should not be there that have to do with this terrible person,” he said. “We can just think about the rest of life and have to try to find out how to do it without Maddie and the rest of the children.”
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