BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to murder Wednesday in the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in 2022 that terrified the campus and set off a nationwide search, which ended weeks later when he was arrested in Pennsylvania.

Kohberger admitted to the slayings before entering a formal guilty plea in a deal with prosecutors that will allow him to avoid the death penalty.

Photos from the case of Bryan Kohberger, the Poconos native charged with murder in the killings of four University of Idaho students.