Quadruple murder in the USA: Bryan Kohberger will not be executed: “We are more than furious”

Bryan Kohberger will not be sentenced to death and there will be no trials. Suspected of having murdered four students in a small university town in the northwest of the United States, the 30-year-old man will soon plead guilty, as part of an agreement with the prosecutor. The ex-student in criminology was to be tried in August for this quadruple murder committed in Moscow, Idaho, in November 2022. His recognition of guilt should be formalized during a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, according to CNN.

The agreement implies that Kohberger pleads guilty to four counts of murder in exchange for which, the state of Idaho renounces to require the capital punishment. The ex-student also renounces his right to appeal, according to a statement from the family of a victim, Kaylee Goncalves. “After more than two years, this is how it ends, with a secret agreement and a precipitated attempt to close the case without the families of the victims having their say on the details of the agreement,” said the press release.

The story had shocked America The bodies of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen – both 21 years old – Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin – 20 years each and as a couple – had been discovered larded with stabs. These unexpected students were killed in their sleep, without it waking up their two other roommates.

The investigation had patinated for almost two months before the arrest of Bryan Kohberger. “We are more than furious against the state of Idaho. They dropped us down, “added Kaylee Goncalves’s family on social networks, share their anger against the local prosecutor’s office. The relatives of the young woman demanded the death penalty. They pushed in favor of a law promulgated in the spring in Idaho, who provides that the death row inmates are killed by an execution peloton.

“This resolution is our sincere attempt to do justice to your family. This agreement guarantees that the accused will be found guilty, will spend the rest of his life in prison, and will not be able to submit to you, you and the other families, to the uncertainty of decades of post-Condamnation appeal, “replied Moscow prosecutor Bill Thompson, according to” Idaho Statesman “. “We cannot imagine the weight that this affair has pushed on your family,” he added.

Two and a half years after the murders, the accusation still has no mobile concerning Kohberger, who has always kept silent. He was charged because the investigators found his DNA on a knife case recovered at the crime. A video also shows a car similar to his circulating in the victims district at the time of the murders. The student had been arrested on December 30, 2022 with his parents, in Pennsylvania, more than 4,000 kilometers from Moscow. At the time of the murders, he studied about fifteen kilometers from this city, at the University of the State of Washington, with the ambition to pass a doctorate in criminology.