BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Investigators seized stained bedding, strands of what appeared like hair and a single glove — however no weapon — once they searched the Washington state condo of a graduate scholar charged with stabbing 4 College of Idaho college students to demise, in response to newly unsealed court docket paperwork.
The search warrant for Bryan Kohberger ’s dwelling and Washington State College workplace was unsealed by a Washington state choose on Tuesday.
Kohberger is charged with 4 counts of first-degree homicide and housebreaking in reference to the slayings of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin within the neighboring city of Moscow, Idaho.
Investigators didn’t discover something noteworthy in Kohberger’s workplace at WSU, the place he was a educating assistant and graduate scholar learning criminology.
They took 15 issues from his on-campus condo, together with a nitrite-type black glove, cuttings from a pillow with a reddish-brown stain, and a stained mattress cowl.
The Washington State College Police Division searched the condo Dec. 30, the identical day Kohberger was arrested at his mother or father’s dwelling in jap Pennsylvania.
The Nov. 13, 2022, slayings of the 4 College of Idaho college students left many in the neighborhood shaken and frightened about the potential of a repeat assault. Police launched few particulars for weeks however repeatedly mentioned that they had not positioned the weapon used to commit the crime.
After Kohberger was extradited to Idaho, paperwork filed within the homicide case confirmed that police discovered the sheath of a big knife close to one of many victims. The knife itself, nonetheless, was nowhere to be discovered.
Investigators didn’t seize any weapon from Kohberger’s condo, in response to the search warrant. They did take a number of strands of “doable hair,” together with one recognized as a “doable animal hair strand.” Additionally they took some retailer receipts, a tag from an organization that makes coveralls and different work attire, and two retailer receipts. The mud bin from a vacuum cleaner, a pc tower and a “Hearth TV” stick had been collected as effectively.
Within the utility for the search warrant, Moscow Police Sgt. Dustin Baker mentioned investigators had been looking for a number of sorts of potential proof, together with photographs of the stabbing victims or their dwelling, information which may point out an curiosity in planning murders or violence, something with DNA and darkish clothes and knives.
The court docket paperwork don’t reveal if the objects collected from Kohberger’s dwelling contained any proof associated to the homicide case.
Kohberger has not but had the chance to enter a plea, and Latah County Justice of the Peace Decide Megan Marshall has positioned the attorneys and different folks concerned with the case beneath a sweeping gag order.
Kohberger is scheduled to have a preliminary listening to — the place the choose will determine if there’s sufficient proof to justify the felony prices — on June 26.