Investigators seized a handgun, a pocket knife and black face masks from Bryan Kohberger’s family home in Pennsylvania, two new search warrants show. Kohberger is due to appear in court again on June 26 but new details of items seized from his parents’ house emerged after the search warrants were unsealed. Officers also seized a book with underlined writing and four sets of medical gloves recovered from the Albrightsville residence.
Kohberger is facing four murder charges for the brutal killings of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in the quiet college town of Moscow.
The newly-unsealed warrants show a set of black gloves, a black hat and another knife were also seized from Kohberger’s family home.
An earlier search warrant showed officers had found four medical-style gloves and a flashlight at his parents’ home.
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The 28-year-old was arrested nearly seven weeks after the murders on December 30, having travelled from his home in Washington State back to Pennsylvania with his father.
Police tracked him down after DNA analysis found a familial DNA match on the sheath of a Ka-Bar knife left behind at the crime scene.
Kohberger’s ex-boss said he used to practice his knife skills with fish at his former job – but wasn’t particularly good. Charles Conklin said the suspected murderer was a “loner” and struggled to keep up with colleagues at Big Brown Fish & Pay Lakes.
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Conklin said: “He was a loner, he had that kind of personality. Bryan was somewhat difficult, withdrawn, very shy.”
Kohberger, who was a teenager at the time, lasted less than a month as a fish cutter and was “never really part of the team”, according to Conklin.
He added that Kohberger used to train on the fish to cut but his knife skills never picked up.
Conklin said: “He never got the hang of it. He would train with the fish, but we never let him filet them for the customers.”
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Conklin admitted news of Kohberger’s alleged involvement in the Idaho murders was “shocking to me”.
He expressed his sympathy for the families of the victims and said the incident “makes you think.”
The suspected murderer’s former boss told Mail Online: “The news was shocking to me. You’d never want to think he could do something so crazy. Being from the area too, it makes you think. I have no words.”
The 28-year-old PhD student had been fired from his teaching position at Washington State University days before the murder due to “behavioural problems.”
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