Bryan Christopher Kohberger, the 28-year-old arrested Friday in Pennsylvania in connection to the murders of four college students, has agreed to waive extradition back to Idaho but seems poised to fight the charges, issuing a statement through his attorney that he is “eager to be exonerated.”

Kohberger is facing four counts of murder for the stabbing deaths of University of Idaho students, Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20. The three women and Chapin, Kernodle’s boyfriend, were discovered stabbed to death on Nov. 13 in the home the women were renting near campus.

On Friday morning, Kohberger was arrested by the FBI and Pennsylvania State Police, arraigned by a Monroe County judge and ordered held without bail. He is a PhD student in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, just over 8 miles from the location of the murders in Moscow, Idaho.

According to authorities, Kohberger traveled to the Poconos Mountains area where his parents live for the holidays, and the FBI tracked him as he made the 2,500 mile cross country drive in a white Hyundai Elantra, the make and model of car that Moscow police had publicly identified as a focus of their investigation into the murders.

CNN reported on Saturday that the FBI tracked Kohberger for four days while police gathered probable cause for a warrant. A law…