Idaho police have released new neighborhood surveillance video and scores of photographs, giving the public its most detailed look yet inside the off-campus house where Bryan Kohberger murdered four college undergrads in 2022.
The Moscow Police Department turned over nearly 200 blurred and redacted crime scene photos to NBC affiliate KTVB through a public records request for documents related to the Nov. 13, 2022, murders of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.
Kohberger, a former Washington State University PhD candidate, pleaded guilty to their murders last month and was sentenced to life behind bars.
Many of the photos taken inside the since-demolished home at 1122 King Road show a typical college residence with red plastic cups, empty beer cans and strewn clothes.
But a handful of images reflect the gruesome event that unfolded there almost three years ago, with blood on hardwood floors, bedding and walls.
The innocuous image of a sliding glass door would seem to have no impact without knowing that police believe that was the entrance Kohberger used to get inside.
A neighbor’s security camera captured footage of a white car roaming the block and then speeding away — a vehicle that police now know was Kohberger’s Hyundai Elantra.
In the weeks following the students’ murders, police said little publicly about the case, drawing frustration from the public and loved ones of the victims.
Investigators, however, were looking into Kohberger, following him back to his parents’ home in Pennsylvania, where he was arrested on Dec. 30, 2022.
Moscow police also released a picture of a stunned Kohberger, wearing a hoodie and sweats at his parents’ home, handcuffed with a police officer in camouflage standing a few feet away.
The killer is now residing in solitary confinement at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution.