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According to the online publication MEDIAite the FBI has arrested a 28-year-old man identified as Bryan Kohberger in Monroe County, Pennsylvania in the Poconos Mountain area. He is being charged with the brutal murders of four Idaho college students.

He was arraigned on Friday morning when his identity was first disclosed to the public. The judge ordered that he be extradited to Idaho for trial.

There have been reports that Kohberger is a college student, but he did not attend the University of Idaho where all four of the victims were students.

The brutality of the case horrified the public. And families of the Idaho college students have been hoping for answers.

Web detectives get involved

Many of the details were not immediately made public by police. There has been widespread public speculation on the case for over a month. And web sleuths have been sharing their theories.  

Last week a University of Idaho professor filed a defamation lawsuit against TikToker Ashley Guillard for accusing her of the murder.

Online records show Bryan Kohberger pursuing a criminal justice doctorate at Washington State University in Pullman. This is less than 10 miles from the scene of the murders in Moscow, Idaho. And someone with the same name received a Master of Arts in Criminal Justice from DeSales University in 2022.

The investigation was led by the Moscow Police Department. They received support from Idaho State Police and local FBI offices.

Police could not find the weapon used in the crime, but they said a fixed-blade hunting knife was believed to have been used.

Earlier this month, the Moscow Police Department announced they were looking for a white Hyundai Elantra. And believed the owner of the vehicle had important information related to the case.

The victims were Idaho college students

The victims were Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20. The girls were roommates. And Chapin was Kernodle’s boyfriend who was sleeping over the night of the attacks.

They were all found stabbed to death on Nov. 13 in Moscow, Idaho.

Authorities say the four victims died between 3 and 4 a.m. And were not discovered by roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke until much later that morning.

They were apparently killed while they were sleeping in two separate bedrooms of the off-campus housing. And the coroner’s report claimed some of them had defensive wounds.

Few details are available in this breaking story. The Moscow Police Department has scheduled a 1 pm PT (4 pm ET) press conference to update the new developments in the case.