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Idaho judge lifts sweeping gag order in Bryan Kohberger’s quadruple murder case.

LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO, JUL 16 – Judge Steven Hippler lifted the gag order to protect public and press rights after Kohberger pleaded guilty to killing four students and faces life imprisonment without parole.

  • At a hearing on July 17, 2025, Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder, admitting the November 2022 killings of four University of Idaho students at a Moscow rental home.
  • A new book reveals Kohberger honed burglary skills in his teens to fund a heroin addiction, and crime novelist James Patterson said he broke into houses in Pennsylvania.
  • Before the murders, Bryan Kohberger cased the rental home about a dozen times, later admitting he broke in through a sliding door at 1122 King Road and killed four friends.
  • A judge in Moscow lifted the gag order on Thursday, and Judge Steven Hippler warned that reviewing sealed material after sentencing could take time.
  • This coming week, Bryan Kohberger is set to be sentenced on July 23, 2025, facing a plea deal that includes four consecutive life sentences and ten years without parole.
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