Idaho State Police have released chilling new photos from the investigation into the brutal murders of the Idaho Four — including the evidence that connected the November 2022 crime to Bryan Kohberger.
A 2,356-page file released on Friday, October 31 details the painstaking process of forensics investigators as they analyzed dozens of fingerprint and DNA samples found at the scene of the crime and at Kohberger’s family home in Pennsylvania.
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The files included photos of the K-BAR knife sheath that had DNA on it, which was originally attributed to unknown Male A. (The knife itself, believed to be the murder weapon, was never recovered.)
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But more DNA was uncovered at the Kohberger home in Pennsylvania — where the killer was arrested — which revealed DNA on a used Q-Tip and coffee cup from Male E.
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“Based upon evaluation of the DNA profile … Male E cannot be excluded as being the biological father of Male A,” the report reads. “At least 99.9998% of the male population would be expected to be excluded from the possibility of being the biological father of Male A.”
The report also contains photos of a glove found outside the scene of the crime in Moscow, Idaho, as well as fingernail clippings from Kohberger’s victims Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.
The former criminology grad student, 30, pleaded guilty to the murders earlier this year and is serving four life sentences at Idaho Maximum Security Institution.