Police violate their silence in the case of the University of Idaho University after Judge Stephen Hipler canceled the Non -discretion order, revealing information about the state of the investigation and interactions with the eligible killer Brian Cochberger.
The order, also known as a blunder order, banned police and prosecutors from talking about the case with a high profile that covered the nation.
“We were focused on the victims and brought justice to the victims,” Moscow police chief Anthony Dalinger told Abc News. “That was our focus … It was our mission … So this mission was fulfilled.”
Idaho statesman/TNS via Getty Images, File – Photo: Four students from Idaho University were killed in a house outside King Road’s campus in Moscow, Idaho, in November 2022.
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Asked if the police were able to find a clear motive, Dalinger replied that he could not answer.
All documents in the case that has been sealed will be sealed so far. Police in Moscow said they were later preparing to release a large amount of information.
“We are committed to being transparent when we can be,” Dalinger said.
Looking forward to Kochberger’s sentence next week, Dalinger said, “It is our hope that not only families but also friends, even the Moscow community and all the communities that have been affected by this, can begin to treat and bring some closure to this horrible act.”
Kyle Green, a pool via Reuters – photo: Brian Kohberger, accused of the killings of four students from the University of Idaho, appears in the courtroom of Ada County, Boyz, Idaho, July 2, 2025.
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Hipler’s decision to terminate the bluff order on Thursday came six days before Kohberger’s sentence. Kochberger, who pleaded guilty to all charges of changing a legal basis on July 2, will return to court for his sentence on July 23. As part of the legal basis, the Kochberger will be sentenced to four consecutive life sentences under the four first -degree killings and the maximum sentence of 10 years in the first -degree preford number.
At the July 2 hearing, Hipler asked Kochberger how he prayed for each murder count and baptized the four students: the roommates Kaylee Gonkalvs, Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodel and the boyfriend of Kernudell, Ethan Chapin. Kochberger quickly said “guilty” every time.
All students were stabbed to death at the home of girls outside the campus in the early hours of November 13, 2022. Kohberger was arrested nearly seven weeks later.
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Gary Jenkins, the former Pulman, Washington, police chief and current police chief at Washington State University, also opened for ABC News, shedding light on his own interaction with Kochberger, who was a doctor of criminology. Student at WSU during the killings.
Kochberger was one of the four students who Jenkins interviewed Zoom for an internship position in April 2022, but the chief did not choose it.
“This particular position, she requires someone who can develop trust and contact my staff, and these are police officers,” Jenkins said. “In a conversation with [Kohberger]He had no real conversational way for him. He did not come across a particularly personalized one, and I just didn’t think he would be able to develop this confidence and approximation. “
Months later, on December 20, 2022, Jenkins said he had received “chills” when Kohberger’s name was brought up in the four -time investigation.
“The hair on the back of my neck stood up,” Jenkins said.
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“His name definitely called me. And I told them I had interviewed Brian Kohberger. … I had his resumption and a motivational letter for the internship position,” he said.
Jenkins also said he had knowledge of problems with Kohberger’s behavior and relations with classmates and teachers.
“There were several criminal justice teachers who control this doctoral program that felt exactly responsible because they decided to recognize it in WSU,” Jenkins said. “I am a law enforcement specialist. I interviewed him and couldn’t tell you what was ahead and I didn’t know how they could. But they still had a very deep sense of responsibility, feeling that they had to know.”
Kohberger’s lawyers said they would not talk until the sentence was completed.