Idaho student murders suspect Bryan Kohberger has accepted a plea deal to spare his life in the murders of four University of Idaho students, two sources close to the case told Fox News Digital Monday.

Kohberger, 30, is accused of killing Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in a 4 a.m. home invasion attack on Nov. 13, 2022.

Goncalves’ family, in a Facebook page her parents created after the murders, condemned the deal, which spares Kohberger’s life.

“We are beyond furious at the State of Idaho,” a new post reads. “They have failed us. Please give us some time. This was very unexpected.”

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Members of Kernodle’s family also condemned the plea deal. Her aunt, Kim Kernodle, told TMZ that relatives were vehemently opposed to the idea when Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson’s office first raised it over the weekend.

All four had been stabbed multiple times with a large knife. Police recovered a Ka-Bar sheath that they allege had Kohberger’s DNA on it near Mogen’s body.

Kohberger was studying for a Ph.D. in criminology at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. That’s 10 miles up the road from Moscow, Idaho, where all four victims were undergrads at the University of Idaho.

“By taking a plea deal, Bryan Kohberger has insulated himself from a sentence that would require his execution,” said Edwina Elcox, a Boise defense attorney who said the deal came as a surprise. “Only a jury can sentence him to death. Regardless, he will likely spend the rest of his life in prison, without the possibility of ever being in society again.”

She said she hopes the process brings peace to the families after the horrifying crime.

“They will not have to go through the stress of a trial and the virtually guaranteed appeal process, in the event Kohberger was convicted at trial,” Elcox told Fox News Digital.  “The judge will take his guilty plea and then set a hearing for Kohberger to be sentenced. He can absolutely expect to spend the rest of his life behind bars.”

The plea deal came as a surprise – prosecutors had not telegraphed the move and fought hard to keep the death penalty on the table in pretrial proceedings.

Kohberger’s defense failed repeatedly to have it removed, revealing his autism diagnosis and crying foul over discovery deadlines it claimed that prosecutors missed.

“If they don’t get the why, this is the most incomprehensible deal of all time,” said Paul Mauro, a retired NYPD inspector who is following the case.

If Kohberger agreed to truthfully explain what happened, that could be a reason for the deal to have materialized so unexpectedly, he said. Especially with opposition from at least one family, he said. 

Ted Williams, a Fox News contributor and a former Washington, D.C. homicide detective who has been following the case since the beginning, agreed.

“These four kids did not deserve to die this way, and as a part of any plea, he should be required to tell when, how and why he committed these offenses,” he told Fox News Digital. “I think that should be a part of any plea – he owes those families, and the public.”

The latest development comes hours after a hearing in Pennsylvania to determine whether witnesses there can be compelled to travel to Idaho to testify in a trial that would have started on Aug. 18.

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The college friends who found four University of Idaho students dead in a bloody crime scene just steps off campus have broken their silence — years after the slayings and weeks before the suspect’s trial.

Hunter Johnson, now 24, and Emily Alandt, 23, were called to the house at 1122 King Road on Nov. 13, 2022 by two surviving roommates, identified in court documents only as DM and BF.

Johnson and Alandt’s names were also redacted, but they broke their silence in an interview with People over the weekend and are both expected to appear in an upcoming documentary about the case.

Johnson was staying at Alandt’s off-campus apartment the night of the murders and told the magazine he had an unusual gut feeling to lock their door that night. It was something he usually didn’t think about, he said.

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“That’s something I’ve never done in my life there,” he told the outlet. “There was no noise. I don’t know why, but something in my soul told me that I should go lock my door.”

That was at 3 a.m. An hour later, an aspiring criminologist named Bryan Kohberger allegedly crept into the victims’ home up the street and killed Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.

The suspect agreed to a surprise plea deal in the case, two sources told Fox News Digital Monday – sparing him from the potential death penalty and the families the trauma of a trial that was expected to stretch on from August until November.

DM saw a masked intruder but did not call 911 until hours later. Instead, she waited for him to leave, then ran downstairs to BF’s room. It was DM who asked Johnson to come over when they woke up.

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“I was like, what is going on? Is this real?” he told People. “Then you realize the gravity of what you just walked into. At that moment, you don’t really realize what you walked into until you really look at it and process it.”

What they entered was a bloodsoaked and brutal crime scene.

All four victims had been stabbed multiple times by what authorities described as a large knife, likely a Ka-Bar.

At least two were believed to have been asleep at the start of the attack.

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The Moscow Police Department investigation dragged on for weeks, with help from the county sheriff, state police and the FBI. By Dec. 19, authorities had secretly identified Kohberger, then 28, as a suspect — based on DNA recovered from a knife sheath under Mogen’s body.

They also allege his white Hyundai Elantra is the suspect vehicle.

They arrested him on Dec. 30 at his parents’ house in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains. Kohbeger had driven home cross-country with his dad riding shotgun ahead of the Christmas break.

At the time of the crime, he was studying for a criminology Ph.D. in Pullman, Washington, 10 miles from the University of Idaho.

Kohberger’s trial was set to begin in August. He could have faced the death penalty if convicted of any of the four counts of first-degree murder. 

The largest number of voters since 2011 say they are proud of the country, according to a new Fox News national survey.

Fifty-eight percent say they are proud of the country. That’s up 13 percentage points since June 2024 and the highest since 2011 when a record 69% were proud. By contrast, 41% are not proud. The survey was completed before recent events in the Middle East, including U.S. military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities and President Donald Trump brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.

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The increase comes from an overwhelming majority of Republicans (85%) now being proud compared to last summer (36%). That makes Republicans 30 points prouder of the country today than Democrats were a year ago (55% of Democrats in 2024). In 2011, majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents were proud.

The new survey shows 36% of Democrats are proud (61% not proud) while Independents held relatively steady with roughly 4 in 10 expressing pride.

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“Although pride in the U.S.A. seems like it should be above partisan wrangling, that’s only partially borne out by the data,” says Republican pollster Daron Shaw, who conducts the Fox News survey with Democrat Chris Anderson. “The reality is the out-party has become saltier in recent years when asked about the ‘land of the free.’ Democrats today (and Republicans last year) aren’t willing to express pride so long as the other side controls the White House.”      

Majorities across most groups are proud, especially MAGA supporters (92%), Republican men (88%), and White evangelical Christians (80%). A lack of pride is highest among women with a college degree (51% not proud), voters under age 30 (57%), and Democrats (61%).

A 68% majority of voters also agrees the U.S. is the best country in the world to live in (30% disagree). While that’s roughly where sentiment has been for the last four years, it doesn’t match the 8 in 10 who felt the same in 2015 (83%) and 2011 (84%) when the question was first asked.

In 2011, 89% of Republicans, 84% of Democrats, and 73% of Independents thought living in America was the best.  For Republicans, that number held steady at 90% today, but has decreased by 34 points among Democrats (50%), and by 13 points among Independents (60%).

Overall, one-third trust the federal government compared to nearly two-thirds who distrust it. The only time more voters trusted than distrusted the government was in 2002 (54% vs. 36%), and that was also the first time the question was asked on a Fox News survey.

Most Democrats (73%) and Independents (80%) distrust the government, while Republicans are split (47% trust, 48% don’t trust).

Even as more are proud of the country, more than 8 in 10 (85% extremely or very) are concerned about the future of the country, the highest in a list of eight concerns, albeit by one point. Almost as many say inflation is a huge concern (84%), followed by government spending (80%), Iran getting a nuclear bomb (78%), antisemitism (69%), illegal immigration (67%), domestic use of U.S. military troops (66%), and protests in U.S. cities (63%).

The future of the country is the top issue for Democrats and Independents (90% each concerned). For Republicans, it comes in fourth at 79% behind illegal immigration, Iran getting a nuclear bomb, and government spending.

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Conducted June 13-16, 2025, under the direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R), this Fox News survey includes interviews with a sample of 1,003 registered voters randomly selected from a national voter file. Respondents spoke with live interviewers on landlines (149) and cellphones (566) or completed the survey online after receiving a text (288). Results based on the full sample have a margin of sampling error of ±3 percentage points. Sampling error for results among subgroups is higher. In addition to sampling error, question wording and order can influence results. Weights are generally applied to age, race, education, and area variables to ensure the demographics of respondents are representative of the registered voter population. Sources for developing weight targets include the American Community Survey, Fox News Voter Analysis and voter file data.

As lawmakers push forward with the sweeping One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the executive director and CEO of the oldest and largest organization of public safety communications professionals warns that its failure to include funding for Next Generation 911 (NG911) is a serious national security oversight with consequences for public safety.

“This bill does many good things,” Mel Maier, executive director and CEO of APCO International, told Fox News Digital. “However, it leaves something out that’s very important, and that’s funding for Next Generation 911 and failing to modernize that first call for help.”

NG911, Maier explained, is not just a modernization project but a public safety and national security necessity as the public remains on high alert following the U.S. strike against Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

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He emphasized that NG911 is also a matter of national security, especially considering escalating global instability and the increasing threat of foreign cyberattacks.

“Next Generation 911, at its heart, is really about national security,” Maier said. “Whether it’s cybersecurity from national threat actors, or from internal actors, we need to get that information to the field-based responders out there as quickly as possible.”

Pointing to the recent concerns about sleeper cells in the U.S., Maier said that the vulnerabilities that the current system has could easily be jeopardized. 

“We know that cyberterrorists and threats are being directed against 911 today, and it’s affecting us today,” he said. “Ransomware attacks have taken down 911 centers, police departments, fire departments, EMS agencies across the U.S. We need to stop that.”

Despite these warnings, NG911 funding was not included in the current “big, beautiful bill.”

“We do believe that working with Congress in a bicameral and bipartisan way is the only effective way to make this happen,” he said. “We’ve had assurances from Congress on both sides of the aisle that this is a national priority.”

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APCO supports legislation introduced by Sen. Amy Klobuchar that contains language crafted in collaboration with public safety experts, but Maier pointed out that the bill still lacks what matters most: a funding source. 

“That bill in Sen. [Amy] Klobuchar’s office right now has foundational and fundamental language that we support,” he said. “Public safety has supported it. We’ve helped craft that language. However, it does not identify a funding source. That’s missing. Without it, it will not move forward.”

Funding remains a weak spot in the organization’s effort to modernize 911. A federal cost analysis from 2018 estimated that a full nationwide rollout of NG911 would require $15 billion. Without this investment, Maier warned, the U.S. risks a fragmented emergency response system and what he calls “a nation of haves and have-nots.”

“Some states have invested in Next Generation 911 infrastructure and technologies. Others have done nothing,” Maier said. “That leaves us with haves and have-nots across the nation. We want to have cities, communities, townships, villages, rural areas, tribal areas, territories all getting the same services. It should be across the nation, the same for everyone.”

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The current system still runs on infrastructure built in the 1960s and ’70s, which was never designed to support video, multimedia messaging, or geolocation data.

“Next Generation 911 allows that information to reach the 911 center, and then it can be pushed out to those field-based responders,” Maier said. “That information itself can be critical in getting the best information to the right person quickly enough that they can make a difference and save lives. Next Generation 911, if implemented nationwide today, will save lives today.”

President Donald Trump is pressuring his party to pass the sweeping tax cuts and spending package in time for him to sign it by the Fourth of July. The spending package includes sweeping legislation and implements many of the president’s campaign promises.

WNBA veteran NaLyssa Smith was traded by the Dallas Wings to the Las Vegas Aces, and she was clearly blindsided by the deal after reacting on social media. 

“Sick to my stomach dawg, never seen this coming but.. I love you Dallas nation, thank you 4 everything,” she wrote on X after news of the trade came out. 

It was announced on Monday that the Aces acquired Smith, who has been struggling this year, for a 2027 first-round pick. 

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The Wings have been struggling this year, owning a 1-11 record, and Smith hasn’t fared well with her new team. She was averaging 6.7 points and 4.9 rebounds, both career lows, over 18 games. 

Smith was acquired by the Wings in an offseason trade with the Indiana Fever, as Dallas tried to build a better roster around Paige Bueckers and Arike Ogunbowale. Unfortunately, the moves did not pan out, and Dallas was quick to get assets back in return.

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It’s also worth noting that Smith was playing alongside her girlfriend, DiJonai Carrington, who also joined the Wings this offseason. They were teammates previously at Baylor, and have had a relationship ever since. 

Carrington simply posted a broken-heart emoji on X when the news dropped, followed by a separate post with pictures of herself and Smith on and off the court. 

Smith, though, followed up her post explaining her shock with some positivity as she headed to Las Vegas. 

“On another note tho [sic] if I could’ve chose anywhere to go it would’ve been Vegas so hella excited 4 this new opportunity wit [sic] my goat,” Smith wrote on X. 

While Smith didn’t specifically say who she considers her “goat,” it’s a fair guess to say it’s three-time WNBA MVP and two-time league champion A’ja Wilson, who leads the Aces in her eighth season since being taken No. 1 overall out of South Carolina in 2018. 

Meanwhile, Smith was the No. 2 overall pick by the Fever in 2022, where she made the WNBA All-Rookie first team after averaging 13.5 points and 7.9 rebounds over 30.7 minutes per game. She finished third in WNBA Rookie of the Year voting. 

For the first time in her career, Smith played less than 20 minutes with Dallas, but perhaps that will change now with Las Vegas. 

The Aces are currently seventh in the WNBA standings, and fifth in the Western Conference, with an 8-8 record to start the year. 

Smith’s presumed first game with her new squad will be against her former team, as the Fever host the Aces on Thursday night in Indianapolis. 

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FIRST ON FOX: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced changes to the airport security process that will begin to take effect at some airports on Tuesday, including a new security lane for active-duty service members and TSA Precheck discounts for the uniformed services’ community.

The additional security lane will be implemented at airports located close to military installations, including San Antonio, Texas; Anchorage, Alaska; Atlanta; Austin, Texas; Colorado Springs, Colorado; El Paso, Texas; Fayetteville, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; San Diego, California; and Seattle.

There are roughly 1.13 million active-duty service members, according to a Department of Defense March report. 

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Gold Star Families, those who have lost a family member in the line of duty, will have their TSA PreCheck enrollment fee waived. The waiver includes PreCheck through providers CLEAR, IDEMIA and Telos. Additionally, active-duty Department of Defense (DOD) service members will get $25 off the TSA Precheck fee. 

Active-duty service men and women and civilian DoD staff are already eligible for complimentary TSA PreCheck. 

“This Independence Day and beyond, TSA reaffirms its commitment to ease travel for the military community through its TSA PreCheck program, by providing it free to Gold Star families, discounting it for active-duty spouses and creating expedited lanes for service members in uniform,” TSA Acting Administrator Ha Nguyen McNeill told Fox News Digital. 

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“By expanding access, easing enrollment, and partnering with our TSA PreCheck enrollment providers and industry partners, we strive to honor those who serve and the families who stand beside them.”

The “Serve with Honor, Travel with Ease” initiative will be formally announced in San Antonio, Texas, on Wednesday ahead of what is expected to be a very busy Fourth of July travel weekend.

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TSA operates under the Department of Homeland Security, and was established by President George W. Bush in 2001 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Kayla Lochte, the wife of Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte, posted on social media about “betrayal” weeks after the couple announced they were getting a divorce.

Reid on Friday posted a slideshow of “reminders” she said she was telling herself amid the divorce with Lochte.

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“You’re stepping into the best chapter of your life – you just have to heal first,” the first slide read. “Sometimes God allows the betrayal…. because it leads to the breakthrough.

“Most people have no idea what I’ve endured. Ignore their opinions. Truth always reveals itself,” another slide read. 

“Divorce isn’t the end of my story. It’s the beginning of my rebirth,” she concluded.

Reid and Lochte revealed earlier this month that they were set for a divorce after seven years of marriage. TMZ reported Reid filed for divorce earlier this year, a decision that came “after deep prayer and reflection,” she said.

“I hold marriage in the highest regard, so this has been one of the most painful, revealing, and challenging seasons of my life. I’ve been hesitant to share until I could do so from a place of healing – not from fresh, open wounds,” Reid wrote on Instagram at the time.

“Sometimes we face trials we didn’t choose or see coming. And in those moments, we’re forced to make the hardest decisions to protect our peace, our children, and our future. I’ve come to understand that staying isn’t always the most loving decision someone can make. For me, leaving was an act of love – for those around me and for myself.”

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Lochte then took to Instagram, saying the decision “hasn’t been easy.”

“I want to take a moment to acknowledge what Kayla shared. This past year has brought major changes for both of us as we’ve come to the difficult decision to end our marriage. I’m deeply grateful for the life we’ve built together and especially for the love we share for our three children,” he wrote on social media.

“Although this decision hasn’t been easy, I believe it’s the right step toward peace and well-being for us both. I remain committed to healing, growth, and co-parenting with care and respect as we move forward. Thank you to our family and friends for your continued support – it truly means a lot as we begin this new chapter.”

The couple got engaged in 2016, the same year Lochte was involved in a controversial incident at a gas station during the Rio Olympics. Lochte initially claimed he and his teammates were robbed at gunpoint, but it was determined those with the guns were actually security guards at a gas station where the swimmers had urinated outside a bathroom. Lochte eventually lost four major sponsorships, and USA Swimming suspended him for 10 months.

Lochte won his sixth and final medal in Rio, a gold as part of the 4×200-meter freestyle.

Reid was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for July 2015.

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Eva Longoria has put her figure on display in a bright pink bikini after skipping out on her pal Lauren Sánchez’s wedding weekend with Jeff Bezos.

On Saturday, Longoria, 50, was spotted enjoying a family beach day in Marbella, Spain. Her husband José Bastón, her son Santiago Enrique Bastón, and a friend accompanied the “Desperate Housewives” star.

Longoria wore a cheeky, two-piece bikini with a tan sun hat and black sunglasses.

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The actresses’ family outing came the day after Sanchez and Bezos tied the knot in Venice, Italy. Eva was notably missing from the big day after attending Sánchez’s bachelorette party in Paris, France.

The former journalist’s bachelorette party was hosted on Thursday, May 15, with dinner at the chic restaurant Lafayette’s, as the intimate gathering of 13 women featured Hollywood A-listers, including Longoria, Kim Kardashian, mom Kris Jenner and Katy Perry.

“The atmosphere was very relaxed and very Parisian,” a source shared with People. “It was a pre-wedding all-girl party for 13.”

Before Sánchez wiped her Instagram account clean and said “I do” to the Amazon founder, she shared moments from the celebration and expressed gratitude to the women who came to celebrate her.

“Forever starts with friendship, surrounded by the woman who’ve lifted me up, illuminated my path in dark times, and shaped my heart along the way,” her since-deleted caption read. 

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At the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Longoria discussed Sanchez’s bachelorette party and explained she was only able to make it for a brief moment.

“I had to pop in and out, so I wasn’t there as long, but yeah, it’s so nice to celebrate love. It’s just the best feeling in the world to be there and go, ‘Yay, love,'” she told People at the time.

While Longoria was enjoying her family beach day in Spain, Bezos and Sánchez hosted a pajama-themed party the day after their wedding on June 28.

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Sánchez and Bezos tied the knot on Friday, June 27, in front of 200 guests, with 70 people being family members. The event was full of A-list celebrities, including Kim Kardashian, Ivanka Trump, Oprah Winfrey, Orlando Bloom, Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Brady.

Bezos proposed to Sánchez with a 30-carat diamond in 2023.

W Magazine reported that Sánchez’s 30-carat engagement ring is estimated to be worth anywhere between $3 million and $5 million. The outlet reported that Sánchez had two engagement parties, one in Beverly Hills and another in Positano, Italy.

With Independence Day nearly upon us, a new Gallup poll shows that pride in America is declining, splitting along party lines.

The Gallup report shows that a record-low number of U.S. adults expressed that they are “extremely” or “very” proud to be an American. Only 41% of adults say they are extremely proud to be an American, while 17% are very proud to be an American, a nine-point drop from last year. 

The data indicate a plummeting sense of pride in America over the past decade. Furthermore, the report explained further that there is a 56-point gap between Republicans (92% extremely or very proud) and Democrats (36%). 

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Democrats are a major factor in the significant drop in U.S. pride in 2025, down 26 points from 62% last year.

Jeffrey Jones, a senior editor at Gallup, wrote that “each generation is less patriotic than the prior generation, and Gen Z is definitely much lower than anybody else.”

“But even among the older generations, we see that they’re less patriotic than the ones before them, and they’ve become less patriotic over time. That’s primarily driven by Democrats within those generations,” Jones wrote. 

As far as Gen Z Democrats, only 32% say they are extremely or very proud. Gen Z Republicans also showed less pride than previous generations of Republicans. 

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The Gallup poll added the findings were conducted before Trump’s decision to strike Iran on June 21 and “it is unknown whether Americans’ national pride has been affected by that action.”

“In addition to the 58% of U.S. adults who are extremely or very proud, 19% say they are ‘moderately’ proud, 11% ‘only a little’ proud and 9% ‘not at all’ proud,” Gallup reported. “The combined 20% on the lower end of the pride scale essentially ties the record 21% measured in 2020. Until 2018, less than 10% of U.S. adults had consistently said they had little or no national pride.”

Americans who registered as independents indicated a drop in pride since last year and has been on a steady decline over the past two decades. 

Barry Morphew has been extradited from Arizona to Colorado following a grand jury indictment charging him with the murder of his wife, Suzanne Morphew, officials said Monday.

He left the 4th Avenue Jail in Phoenix, Arizona, and was taken to the Alamosa County Jail in Colorado, the Twelth Judicial District Attorney’s Office said Monday. Suzanne Morphew, 49, vanished during a bike ride on Mother’s Day 2020. Barry Morphew was charged with murder in the first degree after deliberation on June 20.

He is scheduled to make his first appearance in court on Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. local time, officials said.

Morphew’s attorney, David Beller, previously told Fox News Digital that Morphew “maintains his innocence.”

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“Yet again, the government allows their predetermined conclusion to lead their search for evidence,” Beller said. “The case has not changed, and the outcome will not either.”

In 2023, Suzanne Morphew’s remains were located by Colorado Bureau of Investigations agents during a search in Saguache County, located in the southwestern part of the state. Many of Suzanne Morphew’s bones were “significantly bleached” when they were found, according to the indictment. Prosecutors say it’s “unlikely” that her body decomposed to a skeleton at the location where she was found.

Prosecutors said in a June 20 indictment that the chemicals butorphanol, azaperone and medetomidine were found in Suzanne Morphew’s bone marrow. They alleged that Barry Morphew used “BAM” deer tranquilizer to sedate and transport deer on his farm when he lived in Indiana.

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A spokesperson for the Alamosa County Sheriff’s Office told Fox News Digital that Barry Morphew said “he had bumped [his head] earlier this morning.”

According to the indictment, Barry Morphew admitted to using the BAM compound to tranquilize a deer from the breezeway of his house in April 2020.

Barry Morphew was also the only person with a prescription for the deer tranquilizer within the area of the state he lived in, according to prosecutors. The only two other entities with access to the BAM compound within the surrounding counties were Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the National Park Service, officials said.

“Ultimately, the prescription records show that when Suzanne Morphew disappeared, only one private citizen living in that entire area of the state had access to BAM: Barry Morphew,” the indictment states.

Barry Morphew was charged with murder in 2021, but the charges were dropped after prosecutorial misconduct. The charges were dismissed without prejudice, meaning he could be re-charged later on.

Court documents indicate Suzanne Morphew wanted to leave her husband, but was waiting for the right time. 

Fox News Digital’s Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.