The student homicides case that brought the college town of Moscow, Idaho, into the national spotlight has come to a close.

Bryan Kohberger early this month pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary, and admitted to fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students. Police found seniors Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen, both 21; junior Xana Kernodle, 20; and freshman Ethan Chapin, 20, dead in an off-campus Moscow home the morning of Nov. 13, 2022.

Kohberger will be sentenced for those crimes in a hearing that begins today.

As part of the plea deal, the 30-year-old former graduate student at Washington State University in Pullman, across the Idaho state line, avoided a jury trial and no longer faces the death penalty as a possible senten

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