HARRISBURG, Pa. — A 28-year-old criminal justice graduate student was arrested in eastern Pennsylvania on Friday as a suspect in the mysterious stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students last month, authorities said.
DNA evidence played a key role in identifying Bryan Christopher Kohberger as a suspect in the killings, and officials were able to match his DNA to genetic material recovered during the investigation, a law enforcement official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the ongoing investigation.
The students - Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin - were stabbed to death at a rental home near campus in Moscow, Idaho, sometime in the early morning hours of Nov.