Crime Tracker

Bryan Kohberger is scheduled for two court hearings in 2027 as he pursues a petition to withdraw his guilty plea regarding the University of Idaho student murders.

The Custer County Sheriff’s Office is actively responding to an alleged bomb threat at Challis High School.

In a post on social media, the Sheriff’s Office stressed that while the threat is likely a hoax, all precautions are being taken.

A man was shot while attempting to force entry into a home in the Mackay area of Custer County, Idaho, on Tuesday morning.

As Ross Allen Wardlaw of Boise faces first-degree murder charges for the deadly July 6 stabbing of Jordan Harbst on the Boise Greenbelt, a voice from his past is warning that the tragedy could have been prevented.

Hannah French, who allegedly survived a violent encounter with Wardlaw less than a year ago, is speaking out about his criminal past, arguing that the system failed both her and the 25-year-old victim.

A 41-year-old man, Ross Allen Wardlaw, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder for the stabbing death of 25-year-old Jordan Harbst along the Boise River Greenbelt.

An Idaho mother is facing murder charges after prosecutors accused her of suffocating her 18-month-old twins, who she claimed died due to a vaccine-related medical issue.

Joelseph Jenkins of Pocatello was sentenced to state prison and a lifetime ban from hunting after a multi-jurisdictional investigation into his illegal guiding scheme, which resulted in over $55,000 in profits from illegally harvested big game.

On the nearly four-hour drive from a southeast Idaho prison, Kristine Scott was optimistic. One of 15 women transferred on April 3 to a minimum security prison in Boise, Scott was told she’d work at the community reentry center and live in one of the least restrictive facilities in Idaho’s prison system. 

But when the women arrived at the South Idaho Correctional Institution, Scott said staff told them there weren’t enough beds available in the dorms. Instead, she and five other women were led to a segregated housing unit usually reserved as punishment for inmates who violate the rules or pose a safety risk — a unit known to prisoners as “the hole.”

A September trial date has been set for Stacey Wondra, the man accused in the disappearance and death of 5-year-old Michael Vaughan.

During a hearing on Wednesday morning, a Payette County judge scheduled a status conference for June 2 and a pretrial conference for Aug. 4. Jury selection and the trial are set to begin Sept. 14 at 8:30 a.m., with the trial expected to last roughly four weeks.

The self-proclaimed “psychic crime-solver” ordered to pay $10 million for falsely linking a University of Idaho professor to the 2022 Moscow student murders is challenging the jury’s verdict in higher court.