The long-awaited trial for accused quadruple murderer Bryan Kohberger has been delayed by two months after his attorneys won their bid for a change of venue.
The trial for 29-year-old Kohberger was originally set to begin in June 2025, but has been pushed back to August 11 of that year, Ada County Judge Steven Hippler ruled Wednesday, according to the filing reviewed by the Lawyer Herald. It will run until Nov. 7.
In September, Judge John Judge sided with the defense when he granted their motion for a change of venue over fears Kohberger would be denied a fair trial in Latah County for the alleged killings of University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, at their off-campus apartment in November 2022.
Mogen, Goncalves and Kernodle were roommates at the Moscow, Idaho residence, and Chapin – Kernodle's boyfriend – was spending the night, when they were slaughtered in their sleep, authorities determined.
Kohberger, a former Ph.D. student in criminology at Washington State University, was arrested for the murders six weeks later, after DNA evidence, surveillance video and cell phone records allegedly tied him to the scene of the crime.
He was taken into custody while visiting his parents in Pennsylvania on Dec. 30, 2022.
Kohberger pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary in the college students' slayings.
A motive remains under investigation.
