More details have been announced by police regarding the items seized from the Pennsylvania home of a graduate student accused of stabbing to death four University of Idaho students.
Additional court documents made public on Thursday, stated that a knife, a pocketknife, and a Glock 22 handgun with three empty magazines were 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 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, 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 28-year-old former doctoral student at Washington State University. He’s 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 Washington State University.
Kohberger’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for late June. He has not entered a plea.
Profiling Kohberger
Kohberger has been described by high school classmates as socially awkward and a heavy heroin user, and was seen by other students as an outcast in school.He was also described as a “creep” regarding his relationship with the opposite sex, and he would not want to move on after a rejection.
“I remember seeing him and thinking it was a new student. He was so heavy and he [had] lost so much weight, he almost looked sickly or like it was an obsession. Around the same time, he became more aggressive and I think he became more of an outcast at that point. He became more withdrawn,” according to Dominique Clark, who attended elementary and high school with Kohberger, the New York Post reported.
Another acquaintance of Kohberger, Rich Pasqua, said about him on FOX News:
“I met him through some friends and they told me that he was a little weird and he was a little socially awkward, I guess you could say, but he wasn’t a bad guy,” Pasqua said. “He needed a job, so I worked at a pizza shop at that time and they were hiring and I said, ‘Yeah, come on in and apply.’ And he did, and he got the job. So I worked with him for a little bit, but he was quiet, though.”
Pasqua also confirmed Kohberger’s drug use, saying they were both heroin addicts who bought heroin from the same dealers.
“I work in treatment and everything, but back then I was using. And so that’s how I know for a fact he was using. I’ve got high with him a couple of times and used with him,” he said.
He added that he and Kohberger had not spoken in years when he heard about the murders.
