According to documents, police seized a Glock pistol, knife, mask and gloves at the family home of a murder suspect in Idaho.

A .40-caliber knife and handgun were among an extensive list of personal items seized by authorities from the home of the family of Brian Kochberger, a suspect currently detained and awaiting trial in connection with the gruesome murders of four University of Idaho students last fall. according to documents released this week.

Records filed by Monroe County, Pennsylvania authorities two months ago included warrants detailing investigators’ searches of Kochberger’s belongings immediately after his Dec. 30 arrest. Koberger was initially taken into custody at his parents’ home in Albrightsville, about 90 miles north of Philadelphia, before his final transfer to Idaho following an extradition hearing in early January. Police in Pennsylvania watched him for weeks before his arrest, documents show, noting that he arrived in the area on Dec. 16 after a cross-country trip from Washington for the winter break from school.

Police served a search warrant on the Kochberger family’s home the day after the suspect’s arrest, Dec. 31, according to documents recently released this week. The records remained closed for 60 days, in accordance with standard legal practice in Pennsylvania.

Investigators found and cataloged an extensive list of items found during the search of the house. The warrants state that in addition to the knife and Glock pistol, they also found three empty magazines, a Smith and Wesson penknife, black gloves, a black hat and a black mask on the premises. During a simultaneous search of Kochberger’s car, investigators say they found a number of other personal items, including gloves, goggles, tire irons, a shovel and a wrench, as well as tampons, a Ziploc bag, wrappers, cards and documents. order.

Previous documents released Tuesday showed Pennsylvania State Police took Kochberger’s DNA and seized a silver flashlight, four “medical grade gloves”, a white Arizona Jean Co. T-shirt, a black Champion sweatshirt, a pair of black and white pants. Nike shoes, Under Armor black socks, Under Armor black shorts, and Under Armor black boxers.

The significance of these extensive inventories in the context of the ongoing police investigation into the November quadruple murder is unclear. Search warrants unsealed Thursday said authorities were looking for a range of items that could be relevant to the investigation, including materials with blood or bodily fluids, alcohol and drugs, knives, scabbards or other weapons, and any property belonging to one of them. victims.

University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, Kaley Gonsalves, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20, were brutally shot in the early morning of November 13 at a women’s rented house in Moscow, near the university campus. The county medical examiner’s reports later determined that “acute injuries” were the cause of each of their deaths, and stated that they had each received multiple stab wounds, likely using a large knife.

Officers from the Moscow Police Department suggested that the weapon used in the killings could have been a fixed-blade hunting knife. When police arrived at the crime scene after the murders, they found a sheath containing DNA that matched a sample taken from Kochberger’s trash in Pennsylvania, according to an affidavit released in January. Documents released at the time also noted that investigators seized stained linens, locks of hair-like hair, and one glove while searching Kochberger’s apartment in Pullman, Washington, a short drive from Moscow, where he was receiving his Ph.D. degree in forensic science. Justice and Criminology at the University of Washington.

The murder weapon itself has not been located, and it is unknown if the knife that Pennsylvania officers eventually found in the Kochberger family’s home is being investigated as a possible murder weapon.

Kohberger, 28, is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary in connection with the University of Idaho murders. A sworn statement released in January summarized police interrogations of two surviving roommates of the murdered students, identified respectively as B.F. and D.M., who were both in a rented house off campus on the night of the murders.

One of them told investigators that from her bedroom doorway, she recalled “seeing a figure dressed in black clothes and a mask covering the mouth and nose of a man walking towards her.” She described the man as a man 5’10” or taller, who was “not very muscular, but athletic, with bushy eyebrows.”

A roommate said the figure walked past her while she was “in a frozen shock phase” before leaving the house through a sliding glass door at the back door. Investigators found a diamond-shaped footprint, which they potentially attributed to Vans sneakers, outside the roommates’ doorway during their subsequent inspection of the crime scene.

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