Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murder in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty, an attorney for one victim's family said Monday.

The 2022 killings drew police into a search and upended the lives of people in Moscow, Idaho, as the case became a true-crime sensation.

Bryan Kohberger, the man charged with killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, is expected to plead guilty as part of an agreement with prosecutors that would allow him to avoid the death penalty,