Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty. Shanon Gray, an attorney for the family of victim Kaylee Goncalves, has confirmed that families of the victims received the news in a letter from prosecutors Monday. A change of plea hearing is set for Wednesday. Kohberger, 30, is accused in the stabbing deaths of Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen at a rental home near campus in Moscow, Idaho, in November 2022. Kohberger was arrested in Pennsylvania weeks after the killings. He had been a criminal justice graduate student at Washington State University. The plea deal thrust the small college town of Moscow back into the spotlight. News crews descended on the main street where every other store front has University of Idaho colors, flags or insignia. With summer break on, campus was quiet. But four bouquets of flowers and four candles were placed below the names of the victims etched on metal plaques at the memorial. After Kohberger was arrested in early 2023, Telisa Swan thanked authorities on her tattoo store's marquee following the weekslong manhunt. On Tuesday, Swan said she's disappointed families may not get full answers now that case may not go to trial. "But at the same time, I'm glad that he's admitting his guilt right now, finally," she said. The "death penalty would have been an easy way out for him. He should suffer in prison for a very long time." Moscow resident Luke Brunaugh, who said he lives less than a mile from where the murders happened, didn't like that prosecutors are taking the death penalty option away, saying that should be the punishment for murder. "I think it's just unfair to the families, it allows him to hide, he never had to really go to trial, he is answering to his crimes, but not to the fullest extent in my opinion," he said. Heidi Barnett said she felt trepidation when her son chose the University of Idaho as his college three years ago. Now visiting him in Moscow, Barnett said a long trail would have been very emotional for the families. "I would think life in prison sometimes would be harder, so I kind of looked at it that way. I'm not the parent, but I would be happy with that," she said. Looking back at the murders, Swan remembered the mood in the town. "Shocked and devastated is how the whole town was and you know I like I said before I never really locked my doors at night before and I have ever since," she said. "I think the town is healing, but I don't think it'll ever be the same."