Kohberger has left Monroe County jail, reports say
Bryan Kohberger, the Monroe County man charged in the stabbing deaths of four Idaho college students, is no longer in the Monroe County Correctional Facility, according to several media reports.
CNN and other media outlets are reporting that Kohberger left the jail this morning and was turned over to Pennsylvania State Police, according to jail warden Garry Haidle. CNN is reporting that Kohberger is on a flight to Idaho, where he is expected to be arraigned on four murder charges.
Kohberger, 28, has been charged in the Nov. 13 deaths of four University of Idaho students.
Kohberger, a former Pleasant Valley High school student who later worked as a security guard in the district, was arrested early Friday morning at his parents’ house in Indian Mountain Lakes in Chestnuthill Township.
He waived extradition Tuesday in a hearing in Monroe County Court in Stroudsburg and returned to the Monroe County Correctional Facility where he has been housed since his arrest.
Kohberger, a Ph.D. student in criminology and teaching assistant at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and a felony count of burglary in connection with the deaths.
The University of Idaho students - Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho; Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Xana Kernodle, 20, of Post Falls, Idaho; and Ethan Chapin, 20, of Conway, Washington - were close friends.
Mogen, Goncalves and Kernodle lived in the three-story rental home with two other roommates. Kernodle and Chapin were dating and he was visiting the house the night the four were stabbed to death.
Autopsies showed all four were likely asleep when they were attacked. Some had defensive wounds and each was stabbed multiple times. There was no sign of sexual assault, police said.
Pullman is about 10 miles west of Moscow.
Kohberger was being held in Monroe County Correctional Facility without bail after his arrest on Friday. Idaho authorities said Friday that he will be held without bail in Idaho, where he will face charges in the death penalty case.
The court documents are sealed until Kohberger is arraigned in Idaho.
The three arrest warrants police used when they picked up Kohberger Friday - one for him, one for his vehicle, a white Hyundai Elantra, and one for his parents’ residence - were sealed for 60 days on Tuesday by a Monroe County judge.
During a news conference in Moscow on Friday, Chief James Fry of the Moscow Police Department said a murder weapon has not been found.
The case has attracted national attention, with many outlets delving into Kohberger’s background.
Kohberger earned a degree in psychology at Northampton Community College, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology and masters in criminal justice from DeSales University.
Kohberger was home for winter break from Washington State University when Pennsylvania State Police and the FBI picked him up on Friday. He had started in the doctoral program at WSU in August.
His Monroe County lawyer, county Chief Public Defender Jason LaBar, reported that Kohberger’s father flew to Colorado to drive him back to Pennsylvania in a white Elantra, a clue that led police to him. The car has been impounded by police.
After Tuesday’s hearing, Labar said that when Kohberger arrives in Idaho he would be represented by Ann Taylor, the chief public defender in Latah County, Idaho.