Blood-stained mattresses removed from home where Idaho students were slain

For months, the Moscow home where four University of Idaho students were tragically killed has remained a haunting scene—and now, new images reveal investigators removing blood-stained mattresses from the property.

The operation unfolded Friday, roughly a month after authorities were last seen hauling evidence from the off-campus house. Crews loaded two mattresses, a box, a bed frame, and other furniture into pickup trucks. Dark, dried stains were visible through white plastic wrappings covering the mattresses, according to reports.

Court documents claim that on the night of November 13, Bryan Kohberger allegedly entered the home and fatally stabbed Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20. The affidavit states that roommate Dylan Mortenson told police she believed all six housemates were in bed by 4 a.m.

Inside the home, a detective reportedly found Goncalves and Mogen dead in Mogen’s bed, while Kernodle and Chapin were discovered in Kernodle’s bedroom. A tan leather Ka-Bar knife sheath with a Marines logo lay beside them, according to court documents.

Investigators later retrieved a DNA sample from the Kohberger family’s trash in Pennsylvania, which reportedly matched his father’s DNA to the sheath. The knife itself has not been found.

Kohberger, a 28-year-old Washington State University Ph. D. student, was arrested at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania and extradited to Idaho.

He made his first court appearance Thursday and is now held at the Latah County Jail.

Earlier this week, authorities had announced a crime-scene clean-up crew would sanitize the home—but that plan was reportedly called off immediately after Kohberger’s arrest.