Bryan Kohberger to plead guilty in murders of 4 Idaho university students
The news was delivered to families of the victims in a letter from prosecutors, according to ABC News.
A change of plea hearing was set for Wednesday. Kohberger's trial had been set to begin in August.
Kohberger, 30, is accused in the stabbing deaths of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves at a rental home near campus in Moscow, Idaho, in November 2022.
Autopsies showed the four were all probably asleep when they were attacked, some had defensive wounds and each was stabbed multiple times.
Goncalves' family expressed outrage in a Facebook post: 'We are beyond furious at the State of Idaho. They have failed us. Please give us some time. This was very unexpected.'
Kohberger, then a criminal justice graduate student at Washington State University, was arrested in Pennsylvania weeks after the killings.
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