PA STROUDSBURG – After giving up his right to an extradition hearing the day before, a criminology graduate student accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November is no longer being detained in a Pennsylvania jail as of Wednesday morning.

In order to expedite his transportation to Idaho to face trial, Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old Ph.D. candidate and teaching assistant at Washington State University, renounced his right to an extradition hearing in a Pennsylvania court on Tuesday.

Around 9 a.m. EST on Wednesday, a jail official informed ABC News that Kohberger was no longer being held at the Monroe County, Pennsylvania jail. The jail official reported that he left on a plane on Wednesday morning.

During the weeks that investigators appeared to be baffled by the inexplicable and horrific stabbings on November 13, University of Idaho students and the local community lived in fear. However, after looking for a white vehicle observed close to the time of the killings and examining DNA evidence at the scene, Idaho police seemed to make progress.

According to the investigators, they are still searching for a murder weapon and a reason for the crimes. After Kohberger arrives in Idaho and an affidavit is unsealed, further information regarding the case is anticipated to be made public.

But since an Idaho magistrate judge on Tuesday evening issued a so-called gag order prohibiting officials from speaking publicly about many aspects of the case outside of court, lawyers, law enforcement officers, and other parties involved in the case won’t be able to discuss the affidavit or other court documents.

When a judge believes that pretrial publicity may hinder a defendant from receiving a fair trial, they may issue the orders.

Kohberger admitted to being charged with four counts of first-degree murder as well as a burglary charge during a brief hearing on Tuesday in a Pennsylvania courthouse while wearing a red jumpsuit and having his wrists chained in front of him.

After the Idaho college murders, a former student of Bryan Kohberger reports a sudden change in demeanor.

Kohberger was detained in a jail in Monroe County, Pennsylvania until his extradition after being apprehended by state police at his parents’ house in eastern Pennsylvania on Friday.

Behind the defense table in the front row of the courtroom gallery were Kohberger’s parents and sisters. As he entered the courtroom, his mother and sister Melissa started crying and embracing each other close. A box of Kleenex was delivered to them by a sheriff’s officer. Kohberger cast a fleeting glimpse at his loved ones as he was escorted out of the courthouse.

Prosecutors in Latah County, Idaho, have stated that they think Kohberger broke into the victims’ house nearby the university with the intent to kill them.

The students were: Ethan Chapin, 20, of Conway, Washington; Xana Kernodle, 20, of Post Falls, Idaho; Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho. They belonged to the university’s Greek system and were good friends.

The three-story rental house housed Mogen, Goncalves, and Kernodle along with two other roommates. Chapin had come over to the house that evening; the two were dating.

Moscow, Idaho, a small rural town, has been devastated by the deaths, and authorities have given little information about their investigation. Even though a suspect had not been identified, the Moscow Police Department received harsh criticism for weeks for reassuring terrified citizens that there was no risk to the neighborhood.

Despite the fact that the university employed more security to accompany students around campus, nearly half of the 11,500 total students temporarily abandoned the school in favor of the alleged security of online courses.

Online, would-be sleuths made their own ideas in an effort to fill the hole; some of them targeted the friends and acquaintances of the murdered teenagers with harsh and false accusations.

According to the Monroe County top public defender, his client is eager to be cleared. The public lawyer, Jason LaBar, argued that Kohberger should be treated as innocent and “not prosecuted in the court of public opinion.”

Kohberger will be represented by the top public defender in Kootenai County, Idaho, following his extradition, according to LaBar, who called him “an ordinary guy” following the hearing on Tuesday.

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