Image Credit: Monroe County Correctional Facility credit/Shutterstock Bryan Kohberger, the former criminology Ph.D. student charged with the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students, was granted a plea deal to avoid the death penalty in June 2025. He is expected to be sentenced to four consecutive life sentences. After the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, Bryan was arrested at his parents' home in Pennsylvania on December 30, 2022. He is the youngest child of Michael Kohberger Jr.