RELATED | Who were the four students killed at the University of Idaho? A look into their livesĪnd Kohberger’s old neighborhood is left to try to make sense of a senseless act. Today, Kohberger is charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of four college students: U of I seniors Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, each 21, junior Xana Kernodle, 20, and freshman Ethan Chapin, 20. He sat up front and mostly kept to himself. They remembered the quiet, heavyset boy who was picked on over his weight. For years, their children took the same route to school from the same corner bus stop as him. Neighbors of the red-roofed, four-bedroom home on an acre in nearby Effort, Pennsylvania, where Kohberger was raised, were just as astounded.

“Out of all the schools, out of all the areas, why? It’s disappointing, and I don’t know if we’ll ever find out why.” “For the community here, it’s devastating,” said John Gress, the principal of Pleasant Valley High School when Kohberger graduated in 2013. But unlike the sister cities of Moscow, Idaho, and Pullman, Washington, grieving together, Kohberger’s hometown was made to ache in isolation. Four college campuses were entangled in the tragedy. One tormented community grew to three as news surfaced that Kohberger, a Washington State University graduate student, was arrested in eastern Pennsylvania some 2,500 miles from the crime scene. RELATED | A timeline of the killings of four University of Idaho students The 28-year-old alleged killer hails from the area’s bundle of townships and was staying with his parents when law enforcement burst in and ended a seven-week manhunt. Instantly, a quaint community used to the calm of its remote geography became a new epicenter in the widening investigation into November’s University of Idaho homicides. In December, Kohberger was taken into custody in the cover of night. Day, a quote from the holiday’s inspiration still featured on the district’s public message board: “Darkness cannot drive (out) darkness only light can do that.” Situated below the forested hillsides in Brodheadsville lies the Pleasant Valley School District’s two-story brick campus, where Bryan Kohberger went to school and later worked. shifted its gaze to this rural region, a shame has fallen over its residents, the result of an incomprehensible crime on the other side of the country. ( Idaho Statesman) - A dense, gray cloud settled above Monroe County in the first days of February, blocking the sun’s attempts to break through.

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