Kohberger seemed particularly interested in three killers: Ted Bundy, the BTK Killer and Elliot Rodger. Through them, he identified with a narrative arc that "rejection moves to resentment moves to obsession moves to control moves to violence moves to infamy," Toles said.

The Idaho judge overseeing Bryan Kohberger's murder case in the death of four college students has lifted a gag order that was in place since early 2023.

A state district judge in Idaho lifted the gag order that largely obscured the case of Bryan Kohberger, who recently pleaded guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students in an off-campus house in November 2022.

An Idaho judge has lifted a sweeping gag order in Bryan Kohberger’s quadruple murder case. Kohberger avoided a potential death sentence by pleading guilty earlier this month to the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students at a rental home near campus in 2022.

It took me a minute, and then I said, ‘You know that name is very familiar. I think I’ve talked to Bryan Kohberger before,’” Jenkins recalled.

Bryan Kohberger avoided a potential death sentence by pleading guilty​ to the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students.

On Thursday, a judge in Idaho ruled to lift the gag order that has been in place for Bryan Kohberger’s case since the 30-year-old was arrested nearly three years ago.

Now, Kaylee's father said the family is grappling with the change and trying to move on. When the couple heard Kohberger admit to the killing of their daughter, it was hard to hear, and wished Kohberger would have had to "say the victims' names," Kristi Goncalves told the "Today" show.

The Tribune's Marty Trillhaase and Matt Baney discuss the plea deal worked out in the Bryan Kohberger case and speculate about what might come next.