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Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28 is the prime suspect in the murders of 4 Idaho university students. He was nabbed at his home in the Poconos by SWAT teams. And has been identified as a Ph.D. student at Washington State University (WSU), in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology.

He is being held in Monroe County Jail in Stroudsberg, Pennsylvania. Kohberger is due in court on Tuesday for arraignment. And awaits extradition back to Idaho.

Chief James Fry of the Moscow Police said on Friday that police have searched Kohlberger's office at WSU. And cops also raided his apartment in Pullman, Washington, less than 10 miles from the murder scene. 

Investigators are now looking through the suspect's background, banking records, phone, texts, and email communications. They are continuing to build the case.

Chief public defender Jason LaBar says Kohberger won’t fight extradition. And is eager to be exonerated of the brutal slayings in Idaho.

LaBar said in a statement that “Mr. Kohberger has been accused of very serious crimes, but the American justice system cloaks him in a veil of innocence. He should be presumed innocent until proven otherwise, not tried in the court of public opinion.'

Criminal justice background

The suspected killer graduated from DeSales University in Pennsylvania in May 2022 where he earned a Master of Arts in criminal justice. 

Kohberger graduated from community college with a psychology degree in 2018. And went on to study psychology and criminal justice at DeSales.

And studied the details of forensics, DNA, and other evidential procedures that aid prosecutors to secure convictions.

He extensively studied the details of forensics, DNA, and other evidential procedures that aid prosecutors to secure convictions.

In both DeSales and WSU, he had some top-notch teachers.

One of his professors was renowned forensic psychologist Katherine Ramsland who wrote “The Mind of a Murderer,” “How to Catch a Killer,” and “Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer.”

Dr. Ramsland developed a relationship with the notorious BTK killer, Dennis Rader, when she co-wrote a book with him.

Rader was arrested in 2005 and he finally confessed to 10 killings between 1974 and 1991. The initials he used to taunt police, BTK, stood for "bind, torture, kill."