Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder in the fatal stabbing of four University of Idaho students in 2022. He agreed to the plea deal just weeks before his trial was to begin to avoid the death penalty,

Originally from Pennsylvania, Kohberger was a Washington State University Ph.D. student of criminology who lived just 10 miles west of the students on the other side of the Idaho-Washington state line in Pullman. Prosecutors in court records have alleged the four murders occurred within a 13-minute span.