In the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were brutally

slain in an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho.

The victims, 20-year-old's Ethan Chapin and Xana Kronautil, and 21-year-old's Madison Mogan and

Kaylee Gonsalvis, were found stabbed to death in their beds.

Each had sustained multiple stab wounds inflicted with a pretty large knife, according to the

Laythaw County coroner.

Two other roommates in the house survived.

One reported hearing cries, and upon opening her door, seeing a masked man clad in black

walk past her and exit the home at around 4 a.m. There was no sign of forced entry.

The shocking crime scene, a quiet college townhouse turned grisly murder site, left the

community in fear and garnered national attention. For weeks, authorities had no named suspect. Investigators

worked around the clock, tracing every lead they could find. A critical break came with

surveillance footage of a white Hyundai Allantra, repeatedly seen near the crime scene at the time

of the murders. As the investigation intensified, forensic analysts discovered a leather knife sheath at the scene

next to one of the victim's bodies. On that sheath, they recovered a single male DNA profile.

Using this DNA and some old-fashioned detective work, police gradually honed in on a suspect.

Brian Christopher Coburger, a 28-year-old PhD student studying criminology at nearby Washington

State University, emerged as the prime suspect.

In late December 2022, six weeks after the murders, a surveillance and DNA trail led law enforcement

across the country to Pennsylvania, where Koeberger had

driven to spend the holidays with his family.

On December 30, 2022, a SWAT team stormed a quiet residential neighborhood in Albrightville,

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