Bryan Kohberger, a criminology graduate student charged in the November slayings of four University of Idaho students, waived his right to an extradition hearing in a Pennsylvania court on Tuesday, speeding up his transfer to Idaho to stand trial.
The chief public defender in Monroe County, Pennsylvania said his client is eager to be exonerated and plans to tell a judge in Pennsylvania that he will waive his extradition hearing so he can be quickly taken to Idaho.
"We believe we've got our man," said Dahlinger, adding that investigators obtained samples of Kohberger's DNA directly from him after he was arrested. "There's a lot of layers to figuring out how to make that happen and a lot of players involved in that, and so I just I can't speculate to how quickly that could occur," Dahlinger said last week.
His parents, Michael and Maryann, and his two older sisters, Amanda and Melissa, said in a statement released Sunday by his attorney that they "care deeply for the four families who have lost their precious children. There are no words that can adequately express the sadness we feel, and we pray each day for them."
The students were: Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho; Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Xana Kernodle, 20, of Post Falls, Idaho; and Ethan Chapin, 20, of Conway, Washington. They were close friends and members of the university's Greek system.
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