Idaho: Victim’s father wants to face the killer in court
People gave police 19,000 tips that they said helped them find Kohberger....
Items taken from Bryan Kohberger’s apartment include a stained pillow, a disposable glove and receipts.
“A reddish/brown stain on a pillow.” a “grouping of dark red spots.” a single-use glove. Several dozen hairs, at least.
According to a search warrant made public on Wednesday, those are just a few of the items that detectives reportedly took from the apartment of Bryan Kohberger, 28, the former doctorate student accused of killing four University of Idaho students.
Dec. 30, the day Kohberger was taken into custody at his Pennsylvania residence, saw the execution of the warrant.
A soiled mattress cover, a computer tower, various receipts, the dust container from a “Bissell Power Force” vacuum cleaner, a “Fire TV” stick with a cord and plug, and what’s referred to as one “possible weapon” were among the things taken from Kohberger’s apartment in Pullman, Washington, according to the search warrant.
The order, which was signed by Assistant Police Chief Dawn Daniels of Washington State University, does not expressly identify the additional hair samples as human. The document doesn’t even mention whether any had been tried.
According to investigators, the murderer of the four students would have undoubtedly been covered in blood after the shooting on November 13 in the small college town of Moscow, Idaho.
Four days after the bodies of Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, were discovered, Latah County Coroner Cathy Mabbutt concluded that they had likely been attacked with a large knife and suffered several stab wounds before passing away.
The documents state that police also searched Kohberger’s office at WSU, where he was a teaching assistant and pursuing a Ph.D. in criminal justice, but no items were seized.
Before Kohberger was taken into custody, the quadruple murder rocked the nation and stumped investigators for seven weeks.
He hasn’t yet admitted guilt. The four counts of first-degree murder involve punishments that range from the death penalty to life in prison.
Following revelations that police had used male DNA on a leather knife sheath found at a crime scene and matched it to samples found in the garbage of the suspect’s family home in Pennsylvania to link him to the killings, the document outlining the tangible evidence seized from Kohberger’s apartment surfaced.
What the police believe to be the murder weapon has not been located. They haven’t even offered a potential reason.
A preliminary hearing for Kohberger is anticipated to take place in June.
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