Prosecutors amassed a mountain of damning evidence and key legal victories against Bryan Kohberger in the weeks before they offered him a plea deal for the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students.

Bryan Kohberger was already on the radar of investigators before a dirty Q-Tip provided them with the evidence they needed to secure an arrest warrant, prosecutor Bill Thompson said in court.

A criminal justice student who avoided a potential death sentence by pleading guilty Wednesday to the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students carefully planned the attack for