A Washington State Court unsealed the search warrants in the University of Idaho student murder case, sooner than had been expected.
Materials found at the home of Bryan Kohberger, the murder suspect, were listed.
In the search of Kohberger’s apartment in Washington, detectives recovered human hair strands, a black glove, a computer, and a mattress cover with dark red stains that could be blood. The search of his office at the Washington State University Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology turned up nothing.
The court had initially said that the warrants were sealed to protect the integrity of the investigation and for the protection of the police and public, but a decision was made to release them and they were unsealed on Wednesday, January 18.
The search documents revealed previously undisclosed evidence that investigators found, including information about the victims and their off-campus house, DNA, blood, and shoes with diamond patterned soles.
Kohberger is accused of four first degree murders and a felony burglary count for sneaking into an off-campus house near the University of Idaho. He is charged with the murders of four students from the University of Idaho – three females and the boyfriend of one of the young women – at around 4 am on November 13, 2022.
The police say that the murders were premeditated and that the killer studied other murders to learn how to avoid arrest.
Among the items found were a nitrite black glove, Marshall’s store receipts, human and animal hair strands, a Dickies tag, a receipt from Walmart, a Bissell vacuum dust collector, a computer, and a fire stick.
Because of the blood spatter at the scene of the crime, detectives were able to convince the judge that a search warrant of Kohberger’s home and office were needed, in order to link him to the crime scene.
On the third floor of the victims’ house, where police believe the attacks started, they found a knife sheath on the bed next to two victims. The snap on the sheath later tested positive for Kohberger’s DNA.
After the murders, Kohberger returned to the victims’ house later in the day after the slayings. After finishing his semester at Washington State University, where he was a graduate student, he and his father drove cross country to Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, his parents’ home. He was arrested on December 30.
Investigators announced that the accused repeatedly messaged one of his victims on Instagram weeks before the murders but did not get a response. It is reported that he was following all his female victims on Instagram.
