Overview
- Four University of Idaho students were fatally stabbed in an off‑campus house on November 13, 2022, leaving two roommates alive who have described lasting trauma and survivor’s guilt.
- Investigators arrested Bryan Kohberger on December 30, 2022, after forensic teams matched touch DNA from a Ka‑Bar knife sheath to his family through public genealogy data and confirmatory testing of trash from his parents’ home.
- Police also identified a white Hyundai Elantra on neighborhood surveillance and examined Kohberger’s cellphone tower data that showed unusual location patterns around the King Road house in the hours of the attack.
- Kohberger pleaded guilty in July 2025 to four counts of first‑degree murder and was sentenced to four consecutive life terms without parole, a resolution that ended a public trial and left the motive officially unexplained.
- On July 27, 2026, Kohberger filed a petition seeking to withdraw his plea alleging ineffective assistance of counsel, and the July 29 Netflix three‑part documentary has renewed public attention, divided families over the plea, and increased the chance of further court proceedings or scrutiny of investigatory evidence.