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The Independent
02-07-2025
- The Independent
Idaho murder victim families frustrated at not being consulted in Kohberger plea deal
Steve Gonvalves, father of Idaho murder victim Kaylee Goncalves, spoke to the press outside of the Idaho courthouse after a plea deal was offered and accepted by Bryan Kohberger on Monday. Gonvalves, along with the other four families, was enraged that they were not consulted on the terms of the plea deal that would sentence Kohberger to a lifetime in prison. He claimed that the prosecuting attorney did not give "the common courtesy to negotiate with [the families]". Bryan Kohberger appeared in court on Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025, to plead guilty to killing four Idaho college students in December 2022. Speaking to the press outside the courthouse, Mr. Gonvalves said, "We didn't agree to this. We didn't agree on any of it."
Al Arabiya
01-07-2025
- Al Arabiya
Suspect in murders of four Idaho college students to plead guilty
Former criminology graduate student Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to killing four Idaho college students in 2022, a move that would spare him the death penalty under a deal with prosecutors, according to the family of one of the victims. Kohberger, 30, was pursuing a doctoral degree in criminal justice at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, about 8 miles (13 km) across the border from Moscow, Idaho, where the four victims attended the University of Idaho. In a case that drew national attention, Kohberger previously pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges. The three young women, who had been roommates, and a young man, who was the boyfriend of one of the women, were fatally stabbed in an off-campus house where the women lived on November 13, 2022. The victims — Ethan Chapin, 20, of Conway, Washington; Xana Kernodle, 20, of Avondale, Arizona; Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho — all suffered multiple stab wounds. Two other women in the house at the time survived. The Goncalves family, in a statement shared by their attorney, said they had received a letter from prosecutors about Kohberger agreeing to plead guilty, confirming an ABC News report from earlier on Monday. The attorney declined to share the letter, but according to the ABC News report, Kohberger has agreed to four consecutive life sentences and has waived his right to appeal. Citing the letter, ABC reported that prosecutors expect Kohberger to be sentenced in late July if he enters the guilty plea as planned at a hearing on Wednesday. The Goncalves family accused the prosecutors of mishandling the plea deal. 'After more than two years, this is how it concludes — with a secretive deal and a hurried effort to close the case without any input from the victims' families on the plea's details,' the Goncalves family said. 'Adding insult to injury, they're rushing the plea, giving families just one day to coordinate and appear at the courthouse for a plea on July 2.' Kohberger's trial was expected to start on August 18. His attorney and the Idaho attorney general's office did not immediately comment. A court administrator had no information to release. The crime stunned the small college town of Moscow. Kohberger was arrested weeks later in Pennsylvania, where he was visiting his family, and flown to Idaho to face charges.
South China Morning Post
30-06-2025
- South China Morning Post
Bryan Kohberger pleads guilty in murders of 4 Idaho university students
Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty, multiple media outlets reported on Monday. 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.
South China Morning Post
23-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Boeing reaches deal to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes
The United States Justice Department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the company to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading US regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people, according to court papers filed on Friday. The Justice Department said in a court filing that it had reached an 'agreement in principle' that will require the company to pay and invest more than US$1.1 billion. In return, the department will dismiss the criminal case against the aircraft manufacturer. The deal still needs to be finalised. 'The agreement guarantees further accountability and substantial benefits from Boeing immediately, while avoiding the uncertainty and litigation risk presented by proceeding to trial,' Justice Department lawyers wrote in court papers. Paul Cassell, a lawyer for many of the families in the long-running case, had previously said his clients strongly oppose dropping the criminal case. 'Dismissing the case would dishonour the memories of 346 victims who Boeing killed through its callous lies,' Cassell said in a recent statement. Many relatives of the passengers who died in the crashes, which took place off the coast of Indonesia and in Ethiopia less than five months apart in 2018 and 2019, have spent years pushing for a public trial, the prosecution of former company officials, and more severe financial punishment for Boeing.
Daily Mail
21-05-2025
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Idaho murder victims' loved ones react to bombshell Bryan Kohberger twist that could upend his trial
The friends and families of the Idaho murder victims have voiced their frustration at the latest twist in the Bryan Kohberger trial that threatens to upend the case. A recent Dateline show had revealed new details about the killings, including the suspected killer's phone records, porn choices and online searches for Ted Bundy.
