Overview
- Idaho State Police published the first public images of the Ka-Bar knife sheath recovered at the University of Idaho crime scene.
- The disclosure spans more than 2,300 pages and includes investigators’ handwritten notes, lab reports, and crime-scene photographs.
- Forensic testing found DNA on the sheath snap that investigative genetic genealogists used to generate a tip pointing to Bryan Kohberger.
- Authorities arrested Kohberger at his parents’ home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, on December 30, 2022, after developing the lead.
- Records also document testing of victims’ nail clippings and samples from Kohberger’s Hyundai Elantra, and note a sliding door was left open for a dog found unharmed.