Bryan Kohberger, who was a graduate student at nearby Washington State University, pleaded guilty to murder in the killings that terrified the Idaho campus and set off a nationwide search, which ended weeks later when he was arrested in Pennsylvania.

Kohberger avoided the death penalty when he pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students.

Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty Wednesday to murder in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students.