Prosecutor Bill Thompson was asked to present to the court the “factual basis” for the state’s case if it had proceeded to trial.

More than two years after Bryan Kohberger slaughtered four college students at their home in Moscow, Idaho, he stood in front of the victims’ families and for the first time, admitted to the heinous murders.

Bryan Kohberger agreed to the plea deal just weeks before his trial was to begin, after his attorneys tried but failed to have execution stricken as a possible punishment.