Episode Details

Unsealed search warrants revealed that investigators had seized a wide range of weapons, clothing, electronics and other potential evidence from Bryan Kohberger’s parents’ Pennsylvania home when he was arrested on December 30, 2022. Among the items taken were multiple knives, including a Smith & Wesson pocketknife and another knife with a leather sheath, along with a Glock 22 Gen5 .40-caliber handgun and three empty magazines. Police also collected black face masks, black gloves, dark-colored jackets, shirts and pants, several pairs of shoes and boots, a cellphone, laptops, hard drives, criminology books and numerous documents and handwritten notes. Investigators had specifically been authorized to search for weapons, clothing matching the description of the masked man seen inside 1122 King Road, shoes capable of producing the diamond-patterned footprint found at the scene, biological evidence, victim property and writings related to violence, stabbing, hostility or motive.

Authorities had also conducted an extensive search of Kohberger’s white Hyundai Elantra, removing and swabbing portions of the vehicle as they looked for blood, DNA or other trace evidence potentially transferred during the murders. Investigators seized a shovel, gloves, goggles and other items from the car and removed components including headrests, seat cushions, a seatbelt, door panel and even the brake and gas pedals for examination. The warrants did not establish that the knives or handgun recovered in Pennsylvania had been connected to the murders, and the large fixed-blade murder weapon investigators had been searching for was not identified among the seized items. Still, the returns showed how aggressively investigators had tried to test every part of Kohberger’s life after his arrest, from his weapons and dark clothing to his vehicle, computers, writings and DNA, for anything that could have strengthened or explained the developing case against him.