At the end of 2019 I knew I wanted to get into Japanese mystery fiction and because of the Christie connection had always planned to get a copy of this from the Locked Room International series and then it was announced that the rights had been bought by Pushkin Vertigo but that publication wasn’t due until December 2020. On January 19, Kohberger's defense team again asked to go to his apartment with a signed letter by Kohberger asking them to 'gather some of his belongings.I’d been eagerly anticipating reading this book all year. On January 10, 2023, Kohberger's defense team showed WSU law enforcement a piece of paper signed by Kohberger, 'granting (his attorneys) permission to enter his apartment to remove the WSU office keys that had been sitting on the TV stand.'ĭefense attorneys also found and took a receipt from a cupboard in the bathroom as well as paperwork items from the living room. 'Nothing was seized from the office,' reads the police report detailing the search.

While executing the search warrant, they found Kohberger's desk was empty.

Law enforcement waited for a search warrant to be amended to include the storage unit before they searched it for 'possible trace evidence and possible DNA evidence.'Īuthorities then went to Kohberger's office on the WSU campus where he had just completed his first semester as a PhD student in the school's criminal justice program. Those samples from the apartment rented by Kohberger - charged in the November killings of four University of Idaho students - were collected for further testing at the Idaho State Crime Lab.Īnother 'dark red spot' on the kitchen counter near the sink was unable to be tested at the scene but was collected for further analysis.

The video in the player above is from a previous report.

MOSCOW, Idaho - Chemical tests for blood were done on over 60 reddish brown stains at Bryan Kohberger's apartment in Pullman, Washington, on December 30, hours after he was arrested in northeastern Pennsylvania, according to newly released legal documents, CNN reported.ĭocuments show a reddish/brown stain on an 'uncased pillow ' as well as a 'brown irregular drip' found on the mattress cover both came back as preliminarily positive for blood. Additional documents have been unsealed revealing a lengthy list of items seized from the Pennsylvania home of Bryan Kohberger.

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