Sources say that authorities knew who they were looking for and had tracked the man down to Pennsylvania using DNA matched to the crime scene.
The warrant was issued through the Moscow Police Department and the Latah County Prosecutor's Office.Moscow's deputy city supervisor, Tyler Palmer, called the arrest a "tremendous sigh of relief for a community holding its breath for more than six weeks.""You all now know the name of the person who's been charged with these offenses," Thompson said. Please get that information out there.
The police department's announcement of the news conference comes a day after police said they have received about 20,000 tips through more than 9,025 emails, 4,575 phone calls, and 6,050 digital media submissions, while having conducted over 300 interviews in the case of the four students slain in an off-campus home.
The killings happened in the girls' off-campus house. Property managers there said Friday they had been told there was a major development in the case and the planned remediation process will need to be halted temporarily. The cleaning company had just set up and had not started cleaning yet.
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