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🗓️ 10 January 2024
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As Bryan Kohberger’s defense team tries again to get a judge to toss out the indictment against Kohberger, the home where the four murders took place is now gone.
The clapboard house located at 1122 King Road, Moscow has been torn down, with the entire front of the building razed from sight in roughly 15 minutes. According to school officials, demolition was set for during the school's winter break, when fewer students would be in the area. It took just 90 minutes in total, for the home to become a pile of rubble.
The debris, loaded up by two contractors, was taken to a secret area for disposal. The site was combed for not a single item to be left behind for the curious to find and keep as a macabre souvenir. One local who wished to remain anonymous said 'They want nothing left for ghouls to plunder.'
Some, however, are still concerned that the best evidence in this case is now gone. The home was scanned using 3D imaging to allow the jury to be brought into the home and take a virtual tour where they wouldn't have been able to go.
The families of the four students killed in the house on King Road were not in agreement on the demolition. The Goncalves and Kernodle families issued a statement before the demolition, asking the university to wait to tear the building down until Kohberger's trial is completed.
The Goncalves' family said through their attorney, that the house “has evidentiary and emotional value."
In the statement, Goncalves wrote, "The family has stressed tirelessly to the Prosecution and the University of Idaho the importance (evidentiary and emotionally) that the King Road house carries but nobody seems to care enough."
She adds that the “families' opinion isn't a priority.”
The family of Ethan Chapin, who did not live there, offered its support for the demolition. In their statement, the Chapins said the demolition was needed "for the good of the University, its students (including our own kids), and the community of Moscow."
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0:00.0 | Crime stories with Nancy Grace. |
0:07.0 | In the last hours the crime scene in Idaho in Musco were four beautiful |
0:19.4 | students were literally slaughtered most likely in their sleep, has been destroyed. |
0:27.0 | That's right, totally demolished. |
0:30.0 | Or was it? |
0:32.0 | Is there any spec left behind for scavengers seeking murder |
0:40.8 | ability? Is there anything left? Murder-A-Billa. |
0:42.8 | Is there anything left for them? |
0:46.8 | And why? |
0:48.3 | Why would they do that? |
0:50.3 | This, as the defendant, suspect number one in the quadruple |
0:54.7 | sleigh Brian Kohberger, makes a last ditch effort to the judge |
1:00.4 | to have the case thrown out of court. I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. |
1:06.5 | Thank you for being with us here at crime stories and on serious XM 111. |
1:10.7 | First of all, take a listen to this. |
1:13.0 | It took just 90 minutes time for the infamous home at 1122 King Road to become nothing more than a pile of rubble. |
1:20.0 | The debris loaded up by two contractors taken to a secret area for disposal |
1:25.1 | The site was combed for not a single item to be left behind for the curious to find and keep as a souvenir |
1:31.2 | One local who wished to remain her. |
1:33.2 | Well I hope that everything you just heard from our friends at crime online |
1:37.1 | is true. Joining me an all-star panel to make sense of what we know right now |
1:41.6 | joining me in addition to the other |
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