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Some of the damning evidence cold-blooded killer Bryan Kohberger left behind after he murdered four University of Idaho students in the middle of the night is seen in newly released pictures.
Size 13-footprints trudging from the back door into the snow from the off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, and a left-behind knife sheath painted one of the clearest pictures of the quadruple murderer’s movements in the early hours of Nov. 13, 2022.
The photos, part of a massive 3,000-file dump from the Idaho State Police, offered a glimpse of the tragic killings before they were quickly scrubbed from the website, according to the Daily Mail, which obtained the grisly images before they were swiftly taken down.
The most incriminating items found at the bloody scene were a 13-inch tan leather knife sheath that fit a KA-BAR-style combat knife, which was the weapon used in the deadly stabbings of Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Ethan Chapin.
The sheath was found on a bed inside Mogen’s room, surrounded by blood-soaked sheets.
Forensic analysts used traces of DNA samples from the sheath to identify Kohberger as the killer.
Kohberger had purchased a set of knives months before the murders, and investigators traced it back to him.
Officials initially believed the killer left the sheath behind in an attempt to mislead the investigation, but later said Kohberger had left it behind in a panic during the frantic slayings.
During the investigation, officers found footprints in the snow leading away from the home.
The large, size 13 shoe print was also discovered inside the bloodied crime scene after detectives used a chemical agent on the floor, according to the outlet.
A Nike shoe seized by police at Kohberger’s home after his arrest matched the size of the print at the Idaho house.
Kohberger, who pleaded guilty to the quadruple murders in July, carried out the massacre in minutes, launching the attack at around 4 a.m.
He is believed to have snuck in from a sliding side doorbefore making his way upstairs to Mogen’s bedroom, where she was sleeping with Gonclaves and hacked the 21-year-olds to death, leaving the DNA-covered sheath.
Kohberger then encountered Kernodle, 20, who had grabbed a food delivery and was returning to her room on the second floor.
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The masked killer butchered Kernodle before making his way to her bedroom, where he found 20-year-old Chapin sleeping and murdered him.
The graphic images painted the closest images of the gruesome scene since the killings.
Idaho police “temporarily” removed the short-lived photo dump of the horrifying blood scene because of “privacy concerns” to allow for a further review of the files before reposting them.
“Following adjudication of the criminal case, the Idaho State Police received a large volume of public records requests seeking the photographs,” a spokesperson for the department said in a statement.
“In making the redactions, the Idaho State Police also chose to follow Judge Marshall’s permanent injunction, which required the City of Moscow to redact areas of the photographs depicting ‘any portion of the bodies of the decedents or the blood immediately surrounding them,’” the statement continued.
”After questions were raised, the records were temporarily removed for further review to ensure the appropriate balance between privacy concerns and public transparency was struck.”
Kohberger, who was a graduate student at the nearby Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, was handed four life sentences without the possibility of parole at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution.
His controversial plea deal saved him from being sentenced to death.
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