Overview
- On Nov. 13, 2022 four University of Idaho students were found fatally stabbed in an off‑campus home in Moscow, Idaho.
- Investigators arrested Bryan Kohberger on Dec. 30, 2022 after DNA on a Ka‑Bar knife sheath and surveillance and phone data tied him to the scene.
- Kohberger pleaded guilty in 2025 and was sentenced on July 23, 2025 to four consecutive life terms without parole plus additional burglary time.
- On Monday, July 27, 2026 Kohberger filed a handwritten petition in Ada County District Court seeking to withdraw his guilty plea and alleging ineffective counsel, a move that will face Idaho's strict post‑conviction standards to show manifest injustice.
- Netflix’s three‑part series The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare, released July 29, 2026, uses bodycam footage and family interviews to center the victims’ stories while families publicly reject Kohberger’s new claims and urge remembrance and accountability.