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What we know about the man charged in the Idaho quadruple murders

Jan 05, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -28% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -28% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -31% Negative

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53% : "On behalf of the WSU Pullman community, I want to offer my sincere thanks to all of the law enforcement agencies that have been working tirelessly to solve this crime," said Elizabeth Chilton, chancellor of the WSU Pullman campus and WSU provost.
50% : "Moscow Police Chief James Fry confirmed in a news conference that Kohberger lived in Washington state, and the college said that university police assisted Idaho law enforcement officials in executing a search warrant at Kohberger's on-campus apartment and office on Friday.
50% : In a statement LaBar shared Sunday on behalf of Kohberger's parents and two sisters, the family said they were praying for the families of the victims, and said they "have fully cooperated with law enforcement agencies" in the investigation.
48% : "We have fully cooperated with law enforcement agencies in an attempt to seek the truth and promote his presumption of innocence rather than judge unknown facts and make erroneous assumptions.
44% : Law enforcement sources told CBS News that forensic analysis allegedly linked Kohberger to the crime scene in Idaho, and the affidavit unveiled after his extradition to Idaho shows that DNA was found on a knife sheath left at the scene of the murders.
42% : In a separate statement released the following day, WSU's Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology said it was "relieved that justice will be carried out.""The Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University is aggrieved by the alleged horrendous acts of one of its graduate students," read the Dec. 31 statement, which was posted to the department's homepage on the university's website.

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