Authorities have uncovered a chilling collection of evidence from accused Idaho quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s Washington State University apartment, including a mattress cover with possible bloodstains, human hairs, and a single black glove, according to newly unsealed court documents.
The search warrant, released Wednesday in Washington court, reveals that police descended on Kohberger’s Pullman residence and campus office on Dec. 29—the very same morning he was taken into custody at his parents’ Pennsylvania home. Investigators seized multiple items that they believe could tie the 28-year-old PhD student to the brutal Nov.
13 slayings of four University of Idaho students.
Among the evidence collected: two cuttings from a pillow bearing a reddish-brown stain, a nitrite-type black glove, eight possible human hair strands, and an animal hair strand. Lab tests are now underway to see if these materials match anything from the murder scene.
Authorities also recovered shoes with diamond-patterned soles—identical to footprints found at the crime scene where best friends Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21, were stabbed to death in the same bed, while Xana Kernodle, 20, and boyfriend Ethan Chapin, 20, were killed in another bedroom.
A computer and data compilations about the victims were also seized, according to the warrant. The document listed items police were specifically searching for: blood or other bodily fluids, knives, sheaths, images of the victims and their home, and any electronic devices containing plans or information related to the murders.
The FBI had tracked Kohberger as he drove cross-country with his father for the holidays, later collecting DNA from the family’s trash that reportedly matched DNA on a knife sheath left at the crime scene. That, combined with phone records placing him near the Moscow, Idaho, house at least 12 times, and a Hyundai Elantra matching a car spotted near the scene, led to his arrest.
Kohberger now faces four counts of first-degree murder. He remains in jail in Moscow, Idaho, with his next court date set for June. Through his lawyers, he has signaled plans to plead not guilty, stating he “is eager to be exonerated.”
Yet a new detail has emerged: an unnamed investigator told People magazine that Kohberger reportedly slid into one of the victims’ social media DMs multiple times last October, saying, “Hey, how are you?” The victim never replied.
As prosecutors build their case, the question on everyone’s mind remains: what led a criminology PhD student from a quiet Washington campus to allegedly become the central figure in one of the most 𝓈𝒽𝓸𝒸𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 murder cases in recent memory?
