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An American criminology student, who shocked the United States by murdering four students without ever revealing his motivations, was sentenced to incompressible life on Wednesday. They had been killed during their sleep with a stab.
(Keystone-ATS) After two and a half years of silence, the 30-year-old man pleaded guilty for this quadruple murder committed in November 2022, who had terrorized the small town of Moscow, in Idaho (northwest). This decision allowed him to avoid the death penalty.
The story had fascinated the United States of America: the bodies of two women aged 21 and another, as well as a man of the same age, both in a relationship, had been discovered in a house, backed with stabs. These unexpected students were killed in their sleep, without it waking up their two other roommates.
The investigation had patinated for two months, before the police stopped the suspect on December 30, 2022, thousands of kilometers from the crime scene at his parents in Pennsylvania. The murderer studied at the time of the facts at the University of the State of Washington, with the ambition of passing a doctorate in criminology.
DNA confused
He was confused by his DNA on a knife case recovered from crime. A video also shows a car similar to his circulating in the victims district at the time of the murders.
But in addition to these elements, the investigation has never been able to establish a mobile and he has always kept silent. This behavior visibly exasperated the judge, who portrayed him on Wednesday as a “coward” looking for attention.
“The more we strive to seek an explanation for the inexplicable, the more we try to extract a reason, the more we give it to power and control,” said the magistrate, believing that it is “to end the 15 minutes of glory of Mr. Kohberger”.
“It is time for him to be condemned to ignominy and the isolation of a perpetual incarceration,” he insisted, calling not to decline this case in book or documentary. “I sincerely hope that no one will lower to offer him this notoriety that he wants,” he concluded.
The guilty pleading agreement had been strongly disputed by certain families of victims. Relatives of one of the victims claimed the death penalty and pushed in favor of a law promulgated in the spring in Idaho, who provides that the death row inmates be killed by an execution peloton.
