The man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students in 2022 pleaded guilty on Wednesday to first-degree murder in a deal with prosecutors that spares the former criminal-justice doctoral student from the death penalty.

A criminal justice student who avoided a potential death sentence by pleading guilty Wednesday to the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students carefully planned the attack for

Bryan Kohberger and his defense attorneys insisted on his innocence in the fatal stabbings of four University of Idaho students in their off-campus home.