Bryan Kohberger, the man charged in the fatal stabbings of four University of Idaho students, was moved on Sunday from rural Latah County to Ada County, where his upcoming trial will be held after a judge granted his defense team a change of venue.
Kohberger was seen arriving in Boise on a small plane and being transferred to a black SUV while wearing an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs. Boise, where the new murder trial will unfold, is roughly 300 miles from where the crimes occurred.
Kohberger is now in the custody of the Ada County Sheriff’s Office, according to online jail records, after previously being held in a jail in Moscow, Idaho, since January 2023.
Latah County District Judge John Judge granted the defense’s request for a change of venue earlier this month, citing a number of factors that he said collectively were in favor of moving the trial to a larger courthouse, further removed from the location of the crime.
IDAHO JUDGE RULES ON BRYAN KOHBERGER’S MOTION TO CHANGE VENUE IN STUDENT MURDER TRIAL
Bryan Kohberger is led to an awaiting Ada County Sheriff vehicle at Boise Airport in Boise, ID on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
Kohberger is accused of entering an off-campus rental home around 4 a.m. on that date and fatally stabbing 21-year-olds Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves as well as 20-year-olds Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.
Kohberger, who is accused in the murder of four University of Idaho Students in 2022, has had his trial moved from Latah County to Ada County. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
Police arrested Kohberger six weeks after the killings at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania, where he was spending winter break.
Bryan Kohberger is now in the custody of the Ada County Sheriff’s Office, according to online jail records. (Ada County Sheriff’s Office)
IDAHO MURDERS SUSPECT BRYAN KOHBERGER GETS NEW JUDGE IN CHANGE OF VENUE IN STUDENT STABBINGS TRIAL
Authorities have said that cellphone data and surveillance video shows that Kohberger visited the victims’ neighborhood at least a dozen times before the killings; that he traveled in the region that night, returning to Pullman, Washington, along a roundabout route; and that his DNA was found at the crime scene.
Madison Mogen, top left, smiles on the shoulders of her best friend, Kaylee Goncalves, as they pose with Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, and two other housemates in Goncalves’ final Instagram post, shared the day before the four students were stabbed to death. (@kayleegoncalves/Instagram)
His lawyers said in a court filing he was merely out for a drive that night, “as he often did to hike and run and/or see the moon and stars.”
Kohberger was a criminology Ph.D. student at Washington State University, just 10 miles away across the state line at the time of the murders. He could face the death penalty if convicted.
Fox News’ Michael Ruiz and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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