About 10 miles from where Kohberger was studying is the University of Idaho, where Kohberger is accused of killing Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21. 

Previously released court documents describe the crime scene, which spread across two floors of a six-bedroom rental home on King Road in Moscow, Idaho, as significantly bloody. The house has since been demolished.

The floor plan of Bryan Kohberger’s apartment in Pullman, Washington.

They recovered a knife sheath under Mogen’s remains which allegedly had Kohberger’s DNA on it. No murder weapon has been recovered. 

Hippler denied all of Kohberger’s attempts to attack probable cause in the search warrants.

In one instance, he knocked the defense for arguing that details about the genetic genecology techniques used to generate leads that eventually led to Kohberger were improperly withheld from the magistrate judge who issued early warrants in the case.

“The Court concludes that the search warrants are not invalid based on the omission of Defendant’s identification through IGG because that information would have only bolstered probable cause for the searches,” Hippler wrote in his decision.

Kohberger’s trial is scheduled to start in August. He could face the death penalty if convicted.