Law enforcement has reportedly constructed 3D models of the home where four University of Idaho students were killed in 2022 for the upcoming trial.
The home where the slayings transpired was demolished on Thursday, ahead of quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s upcoming trial, which could begin this summer. The Idaho Statesman reported that a model of the home — based on terrestrial laser scans taken by the FBI — was finished in October.
According to the news outlet, the crime scene 3D models can include blood spatter. This could allow the jury a virtual look into how the home looked on the night of the murders.
The defense has claimed Kohberger was not at the crime scene and was driving around alone the night Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, and Kaylee Goncalves were fatally stabbed at the women’s off-campus home on November 13, 2022.
However, police claim he visited the area 12 times before the slayings and that he turned off his phone on the night in question.
Investigators tested DNA from a trash can outside Kohberger’s family home in Pennsylvania against DNA found on the sheath at the crime scene. Testing determined that “at least 99.9998% of the male population would be expected to be excluded from the possibility of being the suspect’s biological father.”
Prosecutors filed court documents detailing their intent to pursue the death penalty as they deemed the slayings were “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.”
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