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A group of residents from Pennsylvania are scheduled to appear in court for a series of hearings to determine if they will be required to journey to Idaho for Bryan Kohberer’s upcoming trial for four murders.
Kohberer, a 30-year-old former criminology Ph.D. student and native of Pocono Mountains, returned home from Washington State University during the time frame between the killings of four University of Idaho students on November 13, 2022, and his subsequent arrest on December 30 of the same year.
Court records indicate that seven individuals from Pennsylvania have been summoned to testify. Among them, at least five have been called to testify on behalf of the defense. Each of these individuals will have an opportunity to present their arguments to a judge in Pennsylvania as to why they should not be required to travel before being compelled to testify.
Initially, DeSales University professor Marie Bolger had also been summoned to court, but her name was removed from a later filing. In a 2023 interview with the Daily Mail, Bolger said Kohberger was one of her brightest students and one of only two she had recommended for Ph.D. programs in a decade as a criminology professor.
University of Idaho students, from left, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves. All four were stabbed to death in an off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13, 2022. (Jazzmin Kernodle via AP/Instagram/ @kayleegoncalves)
Bolger told the outlet she had never met Kohberger in person and had only taught him over email and Zoom during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. She helped him work on his graduate thesis, which centered on “how and why criminals commit their crime,” she said.
Kohberger obtained a master’s degree from DeSales before moving on to Washington State University, about 10 miles from the off-campus home where he is accused of killing Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.
