Idaho murders: Suspect Bryan Kohberger returns to court on Thursday

University of Idaho quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger is due back in an Idaho courtroom on Thursday.

University of Idaho quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger is due back in a Latah County, Idaho, courtroom on Thursday.

The 28-year-old faces first-degree murder and burglary charges and has not yet entered a plea.

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Kohberger was arrested on Dec. 30 in his home state of Pennsylvania in connection to the quadruple murders that captivated the nation. Kohberger, a Ph.D. student in Washington State University's department of criminal justice and criminology at the time, was visiting his family in Pennsylvania for the holidays.

PHOTO: Bryan Kohberger, left, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, looks toward his attorney, public defender Anne Taylor, right, during a hearing in Latah County District Court, Jan. 5, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho.
Bryan Kohberger who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, looks toward his attorney, public defender Anne Taylor, right, during a hearing in Latah County District Court, Jan. 5, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho.
Ted S. Warren/AP

A law enforcement source told ABC News that federal investigators saw Kohberger throw out garbage into neighbors' trash bins in the middle of the night as they surveilled him in Pennsylvania in the days leading up to his arrest.

PHOTO: Security and police stand guard at the entrance of a private community after Pennsylvania State Police arrested Bryan Kohberger, a suspect wanted in the killings of four University of Idaho students, in Albrightsville, Pa., Dec. 30, 2022.
Security and police stand guard at the entrance of a private community after Pennsylvania State Police arrested Bryan Kohberger, a suspect wanted in the killings of four University of Idaho students, in Albrightsville, Pa., Dec. 30, 2022.
Eduardo Munoz/Reuters

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Kohberger has since been extradited to Idaho in connection to the Nov. 13 slayings.

Roommates Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen, as well as Kernodle's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, were all stabbed to death in the girls' off-campus home in the middle of the night. Two other roommates survived, including a young woman who saw a masked figure inside the house.

PHOTO: A private security officer, right, walks to his car after talking the occupants of another vehicle at left, Jan. 3, 2023, in front of the house in Moscow, Idaho where four University of Idaho students were killed in Nov. 2022.
A private security officer, right, walks to his car after talking the occupants of another vehicle at left, Jan. 3, 2023, in front of the house in Moscow, Idaho where four University of Idaho students were killed in Nov. 2022.
Ted S. Warren/AP

MORE: Idaho murders: What we know about the suspect

At Kohberger's first Idaho court appearance last week, charges were read for the murders of each student. The judge said each victim was "stabbed and murdered with premeditation with malice and forethought." Families were overcome with emotion as their children's names were read.

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