The face of Col. Kedrick Wills, then-director of Idaho State Police, was broadcast across the country on December 30, 2022, during a news conference in which law enforcement announced the arrest of Bryan Kohberger for the fatal stabbing of four University of Idaho students in an off-campus home.

Bryan Kohberger became a possible suspect because of the similarities between this thwarted attack and the murders of four University of Idaho students 10 miles away