Ethan Chapin's mother says she will not attend Idaho murder trial

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June 06, 2023 View online 1/ Idaho student murder victim's mother explains why she won't attend Bryan Kohberger's trial The mother of one of the four University of Idaho murder victims has revealed she will not attend Bryan Kohberger's trial.   The 28-year-old suspect is charged with killing Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison "Maddie" Mogen, 21, in the early hours of 13 November.   "It does not change the outcome of our family, and it's energy that we need to put into healing our kids and getting back to a new family dynamic and working on that,"Stacy Chapin said on TODAY.    "We let the prosecutors do their job and we do our job in our family."   Ethan Chapin was staying at the home in Moscow, Idaho, with his girlfriend Xana Kernodle when an intruder broke into the home and brutally murdered them with a knife.   Mr Kohberger was a PHD criminology student at nearby Washington State University at the time of the murders and is set to go on trial on 2 October.   Prosecutors say that he is linked to the crime scene by DNA evidence found on a knife sheath left behind in the house, video surveillance footage and cell phone data.He has pleaded not guilty to four counts of murder and one count of felony burglary. 2/ Trump suggests he is about to be charged in Mar-a-Lago classified documents case Mr Trump's lawyers met with prosecutors on Monday in a last-ditch attempt to avoid an indictment 3/ Vomiting bug hits more than 175 people onboard cruise ship It is the third norovirus outbreak this year on a Celebrity Cruises ship, says CDC 4/ Police probe possible connection between deaths of six women in Oregon Since February six women have been found dead on the sides of roads or in wooded areas near Portland 5/ Oklahoma approves first-ever taxpayer-funded religious school Nation's first publicly funded religious school sets up a major challenge over separation of church and state  THE BIG QUESTION How did Robert Hanssen's pious life mask a career of treason? The spycraft may have been straight out of a Russian playbook, but the game first began with a stroke of pure luck on the part of US-based Soviet spooks.Unexpectedly, in 1979, a former Chicago cop – a devout and conservative family man – walked into a Soviet business in New York that was famously a front for Cold War intelligence operatives. Robert Hanssen, who'd jumped from the Windy City police force to the FBI just three years earlier, offered to hand over top-secret details to the GRU, the Soviet military intelligence organisation. For money.His information was good – so good that it would eventually lead to the executions of at least three US assets. It cemented a ruthlessly efficient, 22-year relationship between Hanssen and his handlers, "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in US history," according to the commission later established to investigate it. 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