COLFAX, WA – A Whitman County court has unsealed the search warrants for the Pullman apartment and office of 28-year-old Brian Kohberger, the Washington State University criminology student who has been charged with the alleged murders of four University of Idaho students on November 13th in nearby Moscow. The warrants were initially sealed but a judge ordered the release of redacted versions of the documents today.
Kohberger is being held in the Latah County Jail after being arrested at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania and then extradited to Moscow for the alleged stabbing murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle.
According to the search warrants, investigators asked for a warrant on December 29th, the day before Kohberger was arrested.
Investigators wanted to search Kohberger’s apartment on NE Valley Road in Pullman and his office in Wilson-Short Hall on the WSU campus.
According to KXLY, they were looking for blood or other bodily fluid, or other human skin cells; knives, sheaths or other sharp tools; any images that show the murder victims or the two surviving roommates and/or the house on King Road where the crime occurred; trace evidence or DNA and data compilations “showing an interest in, or planning of, murder, violent assault, stabbing and/of cutting of people” or any data showing interest in the victims or the home in Moscow.
Police were also looking for dark clothing, which matches what the surviving roommate saw a man wearing in their home the morning of the murders.
They were also looking for shoes “with a diamond shoe pattern” which matches what investigators say they found in the home.
Investigators were looking for a lot of computer evidence and wanted to search for GPS and location data.
Police say they found a black glove; some receipts from Walmart and Marshalls that don’t reveal what he bought with them; a dust container from a vacuum; several possible hair strands, including one animal hair strand; a Fire TV stick; cuttings from an uncased pillow with reddish/brown stains; mattress covers and a computer tower, KXLY adds.
It is not clear which of those items has been tested at this time and what, if anything, investigators found.
Kohberger waived his right to a speedy preliminary hearing, which in Idaho determines if there’s enough evidence to hold someone over for trial.
That hearing is scheduled for late June.
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