Bryan Kohberger Live Hearing: Idaho murder suspect fights to delay trial because he fears 'mob mentality'

Bryan Kohberger became a household name across America when police raided his parents' home in December 2022 and arrested him for the murders.

Kohberger was a doctoral student in criminology at Washington State University.

He is accused of stabbing Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin to death on November 13 in an off-campus student apartment building in Moscow, Idaho.

He has pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder.

People from Kohberger's past paint a picture of a bullied loner who overcame his addiction. Fellow students from his time, just across the Idaho border in Washington, describe him as a criminology fanatic who “scared people.”

Since the 28-year-old now faces the death penalty in this case, The Independent asks: Who is Bryan Kohberger really?

The site where the murders took place was demolished in December last year.

On the eve of the hearing, NewsNation's Brian Entin went to the home where Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were killed.

Some of the victims' families opposed the demolition at the time and demanded that the house be preserved until after Kohberger's trial.

Prosecutors reject a request to move Kohberger's trial out of the district where he is accused of killing the four University of Idaho students in 2022.

They object to moving the trial to Ada County, home of Boise, more than 300 miles from Latah County, where the murders took place.

Prosecutors said the court should refuse to “move itself, the state and dozens of witnesses hundreds of miles just to face another jury with similar media exposure.”

Prosecutors added in the filing that Kohberger's team used faulty poll data in its requests to move the trial and that the families of the slain students' interest in justice would be compromised if the case were moved elsewhere.

Bryan Kohberger's lawyers will fight today to have his trial moved from Moscow in Latah County to the state capital of Boise or another major Idaho city.

They claim that a “mob mentality” developed against him in Latah County after questioning potential jurors and claim that he will not receive a fair trial.

In a motion filed last week, Kohberger's lawyers said their investigation found there could be violence in the area if he is found not guilty.

Potential jurors said there would “probably be a riot” and “they would burn down the courthouse.”

Andrea Cavallier has the details.

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