After two and a half years of desperately searching for answers in the deaths of four Idaho college students, the case reached a bitter resolution as Bryan Kohberger admitted guilt for the first time.

Kohberger, a 30-year-old former PhD student of criminology, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary in Latah County, Idaho, where the gruesome discovery in a Moscow home first captured national attention.