Idaho suspect arrested in Pennsylvania on first degree murder charges
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
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🗓️ 31 December 2022
⏱️ 95 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's been nearly seven weeks since four University of Idaho students were brutally |
| 0:05.5 | stabbed to death, likely as they slept, leaving some students to afraid to return would |
| 0:10.7 | have been a quiet college campus. |
| 0:13.1 | But late today, authorities arrested a suspect in the killings. |
| 0:17.2 | I'm Pam LaBralne and for Anderson tonight and I'm just getting new information from |
| 0:21.4 | a source familiar with the investigation we're learning that the suspect actually drove |
| 0:26.5 | cross-country from Idaho to his parents' home in Pennsylvania and arrived there around |
| 0:31.9 | Christmas. |
| 0:32.9 | The source told me it was a combination of DNA found at the crime scene as well as the |
| 0:37.9 | car that helped authorities figure out who their suspect was last week. |
| 0:42.4 | And that is when law enforcement got together to sort all this out and then they made the |
| 0:46.3 | arrest culminating in everything happening today. |
| 0:49.2 | So they announced the arrest of Brian Coburger. |
| 0:52.8 | This right here is his booking photo. |
| 0:54.9 | He is a graduate student from Washington State University, less than 10 miles from where |
| 1:00.2 | the four victims attended school. |
| 1:02.6 | He was arrested in Pennsylvania on four counts of murder in the first degree plus a separate |
| 1:07.3 | charge of felony burglary. |
| 1:09.7 | As we said, sources tell CNN, his DNA was matched to DNA recovered at the scene of the |
| 1:15.2 | deaths. |
| 1:16.2 | And tonight, law enforcement is asking for the public's help with uncertainty still surrounding |
| 1:20.6 | the case, including motive and location of the murder weapon. |
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