Bryan Kohberger faces pretrial hearing for Idaho murders
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The identity of the alternate suspect named by Kohberger and the evidence his defense team claims links this person to the grisly killings remain a mystery.
Idaho college quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s phone searches, saved photos and a bizarre selfie taken by the criminology student were revealed in a report by NBC News’ Dateline ahead of his trial set to begin in August 2025.
Digital materials and documents obtained by "Dateline" track the suspect's movements before and after four University of Idaho students were killed in 2022.
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When asked why he didn’t contact law enforcement, the suspect responded that you “shoot, shovel and shut up,” an affidavit said.
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While being interviewed by authorities, Bruce admitted to murdering Shelton and said he dumped the dead man's remains in the Salmon River.