DNA left on a knife sheath was used to link the suspect in the killings of four University of Idaho students, according to unsealed court documents.
The murder weapon, believed to be a large fixed-blade knife, has still not been recovered, Moscow police said.
The officers went up to the third floor and saw a dog belonging to Goncalves in a bedroom. Payne said they went into another bedroom where they found the bodies of Goncalves and Mogen in the same bed with"visible stab wounds.""The sheath was later processed and had 'Ka-Bar' 'USMC' and the United States Marine Corps eagle globe and anchor insignia stamped on the outside of it," Payne wrote.
She heard Goncalves playing with her dog at about 4 a.m., and then a short time later, heard her housemate saying,"There's someone here,” the court documents said. "D.M. stated she opened her door for the third time after she heard the crying and saw a figure clad in black clothing and a mask that covered the person's mouth and nose walking towards her," according to the court documents.
That number allowed investigators to examine where his cellphone had been around the time of the slayings. A few hours later, after 9 a.m. Nov. 13, Kohberger traveled from Pullman to an area close to the crime scene and quickly returned home. The evidence was sent to the Idaho State Lab for testing and a DNA profile was compared with DNA discovered on the knife sheath.
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