A black glove, a stained pillow and receipts from Walmart and Marshalls were among items seized from the apartment of a criminology major accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students, according to court documents released Tuesday.
Among the items investigators took from the Pullman, Washington, apartment of Bryan Kohberger were possible hair strands, a pillow with a "reddish/brown stain," a computer tower, a "nitrite type" black glove, receipts, mattress covers and an Amazon Fire TV stick, a search warrant unsealed by the Whitman County Superior Court says.
The documents come a week after Kohberger, 28, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Ethan Chapin, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20. The students were found stabbed to death in an off-campus home where most of them lived in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13.
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Kohberger, who was a graduate student studying criminology at Washington State University in Pullman, about 10 miles away from Moscow, is being held without bail. He is due back in court on June 26.
"These murders appear to have been planned, rather than a crime that happened in a moment of conflict," the affidavit reads.
If convicted, Kohberger could face the death penalty, which is legal in Idaho. Investigators have not yet revealed a potential motive behind the killings, though Steve Goncalves, the father of one of the victims, has said he believes Kohberger stalked his daughter and the others killed.
According to the documents, investigators were searching Kohberger's apartment on the Washington State campus for evidence related to the killings. Among the items listed on the search warrant were knives or weapons, any photographs or information of the victims and their house that may indicate any possible interest or planning of the brutal crimes and shoes with a diamond pattern on the sole.
"Data compilations (whether digital/electronic or on paper or other format) showing an interest in, or planning of, murder, violent assault, stabbing and/or cutting of people," the search warrant listed
The search of Kohberger's apartment in Washington state was conducted shortly after he was taken into custody on Dec. 29 in his parents' home in northeastern Pennsylvania, about 2,500 miles from where the stabbings occurred.
One of the victims' surviving roommates told authorities that she saw a tall, thin masked man with bushy eyebrows inside the house after hearing noises from another bedroom.
Authorities say they zeroed in on Kohberger as a suspect through a combination of DNA evidence left on the knife sheath, trash collected from his parents' Pennsylvania home, surveillance video, cellphone records and license-plate readers that tracked his car on a cross-country drive, according to the Jan. 5 affidavit.