Suspect in U. of Idaho slayings arrested: who is this guy

The suspect in the murders of University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, has been arrested. He is Bryan Kohberger whose age has been listed both as 25 and 28, so it isn't clear, nor important how old he is.

Kohberger was taken into custody in Scranton, PA, NBC news reported Friday.

The bodies of the four students were discovered a week before Thanksgiving by a friend in the Kings Road rental home in Moscow, ID.

Local Moscow police had been joined by the FBI and State police in a huge investigation to find the killer since the brutal killings, that likely took place while they were asleep. There had been about 20 thousand tips and thousands of pieces of evidence but little information was released to the public during the entire investigation. Law enforcement sources told the media that the horrifying crime scene was “the worst they’ve seen.”

A Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team entered the residence where Kohberger was staying and took him into custody at about 3:00 p.m. Friday. Cops seized a white Hyundai Elantra that matched the description of the vehicle that police had said they were seeking out from the scene.

The suspect appeared briefly in a Monroe County court a few hours after his arrest and he is being held without bail and due to be extradited after a January 3rd hearing.

According to online records, the suspect was pursuing a PhD in criminal justice at Washington State University in Pullman, which is less than 10 miles from Moscow. A man with the same name is also listed as having received a MA in criminal justice from DeSales University in Center Valley, PA, this year.

Police say the students were murdered sometime between 3 and 4 a.m. but they were not discovered by roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke until much later that morning. Mortensen and Funke had become worried when they could not reach their friends and called police, who made the grim discovery on November 13th.

Hopefully, law enforcement has the right person in custody and he receives the justice he deserves.

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Christians 1, U. of Idaho 0: free speech wins

The University of Idaho [go Potato Heads!] has been ordered to pay $90,000 as part of a settlement the Alliance Defending Freedom brought on behalf of Christian law students and a professor after the university's civil rights investigation office issued "no-contact" orders against them.

According to a report by the Columbian, the settlement ends a case brought to the school by three law students who are members of the Christian Legal Society student group, along with a law professor who is the group's faculty advisor.

Beyond paying the $90,000, the university has also rescinded the “no-contact” orders as part of the settlement.

The group filed its lawsuit in April, maintaining that the university had illegally punished them for expressing their religious beliefs, which included their support for the traditional idea that marriage is between one man and one woman.

The ADF noted that the university issued the no-contact orders after a woke student was offended by the group's requirement that its officers agree with Christian doctrine, in spite of it being a Christian group. In this case, the belief about marriage being between a man and a woman, not two men, two women or any other combination of people or woodland creatures, etc.

Moreover, after disclosing this information, the Christian Legal Society’s beliefs were also publicly denounced by the student and several others at a panel with the American Bar Association.

“Today’s university students will be tomorrow’s leaders, judges, and school administrators, so it’s imperative that university officials model the First Amendment freedoms they are supposed to be teaching their students,” ADF Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer said in a statement.

“We’re pleased to settle this case favorably on behalf of Peter, Mark, Ryan, and Professor Seamon, and we hope that it will encourage all public universities across the country to support the constitutionally protected freedom of students and professors to share their deeply held beliefs on campus,” Langhofer said.

Christian Legal Society attorney Laura Nammo also reacted to the settlement, stating, “If we are to repair the current culture of political polarization, conversations among persons with differing viewpoints are essential.”

But different viewpoints are precisely what freaks out the woke left, as evidenced in what we're now learning about Twitter's pre-Musk past.

“University officials’ censorship of such conversations needlessly exacerbates polarization and harms all students’ ability to learn from one another,” Nammo added.

It's about time the Constitution got some R E S P E C T.

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