Man charged in Idaho student murders to waive Pennsylvania court appearance

Bryan Kohberger, the 28-year-old criminology graduate student charged first-degree murder in the macabre killings of four University of Idaho students, plans to waive an appearance in court in Pennsylvania on Tuesday where Idaho prosecutors will request his extradition, his lawyer indicated on Saturday.

The Daily Beast reported on Saturday that Kohberger took courses by the famed forensic psychologist Katherine Ramsland, who has written 68 books including How to Catch a Killer, The Psychology of Death Investigations, and The Mind of a Murderer.

Kohberger is a PhD student in the department of criminal justice and criminology at Washington State University, about nine miles from the Idaho university campus. He graduated with an associate of arts degree in psychology in 2018.

Moscow police requested public help on 7 December. Within a day it was sending tips to a special FBI call center due to the volume.

Much about the brutal killings remains shrouded in mystery. A police timeline of the evening revealed that two of the victims, Goncalves and Mogen, had stopped at a food-truck on the way home from a bar around 2am. Chapin and Kernodle returned to the house around 1.45am.

Police then found two victims on the second floor, and two on the third floor. Autopsies showed that all were likely asleep when they were attacked. Each was stabbed multiple times, some had defensive wounds and there was no sign of sexual assault.

On Saturday, LaBar cautioned people against passing judgment on the case until a fair trial is held. The case has generated massive amounts of speculation on social media, with would-be sleuths frequently trying to pin the blame for the deaths on various friends and acquaintances of the victims.