Suspect in murder of four Idaho students arrested in Pennsylvania

• The Correspondent's Look The mystery of Idaho: four students stabbed and no clues to the murderer a month later

A suspect in the murder of four university students in an Idaho town

, federal agents confirmed to various US media.

This is Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old man who had been followed for some time.

A SWAT team - an elite police unit - entered the place where they knew the suspect was, arrested on the other side of the country, in Monroe County,

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They happened at dawn on November 13 in Moscow, a town with two-thirds of the university population.

Two of the victims are known to have been at a downtown bar on Saturday night and two others were at a University of Idaho fraternity where they were studying.

The four of them returned around two in the morning to the house they shared with two other students.

Hours later, the two survivors of the tragedy who were sleeping in the basement of the house called "friends at the residence because they believed that one of the victims on the second floor had fainted and was not waking up," according to the local police account. .

: two on the second floor and the other two on the third floor.

With no clue to the perpetrator or perpetrators of the massacre, the families of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, also 20,

, with the FBI, Moscow and Idaho police involved.

The arrest could put an end to the mystery and restore a sense of calm to a town that was greatly shaken after the event.

Many of the University of Idaho students decided not to return to campus after the murders, terrified that a killer was on the loose in the area.

A white Hyundai Elantra from between 2011 and 2013 with unknown registration

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Until now it was the only known lead that federal agents were following.

The suspect appeared before a judge the same Friday morning.

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