Gun, knives found during search of Idaho murder suspect's family home

June 2024 · 3 minute read

Multiple knives and a .40 caliber handgun were among the items seized from the Pennsylvania home where 28-year-old Bryan Kohberger was arrested in connection to the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students.

Additional court documents made public Thursday show that a knife, a pocketknife, and a Glock 22 handgun with three empty magazines were among the items found at the home of Bryan Kohberger's parents. The home, Kohberger's car, the garage and a shed on the property were all searched when he was arrested there on Dec. 30.

Police also took a door panel from the car, seat cushions, headrests, seatbelt, visor, brake and gas pedals, a band-aid, “maps and documents” and other items, including clothing and a shovel.

A cell phone, a laptop and two containers of a “green leafy substance” were seized from the home, along with black face masks, a black hat and several articles of dark-colored clothing and a book with “underlining on page 118.”

The newly unsealed documents were released two days after authorities first announced details about what had been seized at the home when Pennsylvania State Police arrested Kohberger, a former doctoral student at Washington State University (WSU).

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The court documents unsealed Tuesday show dark clothing, four “medical-style gloves,” and a silver flashlight were among the other items seized from the home.

Court documents released in January show investigators seized stained bedding, strands of what looked like hair and a single glove when they searched Kohberger’s apartment in Pullman.

Kohberger is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary in connection with the stabbing deaths in Moscow, Idaho.

The bodies of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were found on Nov. 13, 2022, at a rental home across the street from the University of Idaho campus. The slayings shocked the rural Idaho community and neighboring Pullman, Washington, where Kohberger was a graduate student studying criminology at WSU.

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University of Idaho officials announced last week that the house where the four students were stabbed to death in November would be demolished. The owner of the Moscow home offered to give it to the university and the school accepted, University President Scott Green said in a memo to students and employees.

University spokesperson Jodi Walker said the university is working with students and other community members to create a plan for the property’s future development that would honor the slain students.

Green also announced Friday that planning has started on a memorial for the four students. The memorial will be the focus of a garden in a location to be determined on campus grounds.

Scholarships in honor of the students are also being established.

Kohberger’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for late June. He has not entered a plea.

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