strands of hair and a pillow with reddish brown stains. laura engel has the details. what did they find? we re learning the new details that have been kept under wraps for weeks in the investigation into the idaho college student murders giving us a glimpse of what police were looking for and what they found. a list of those items investigators seized in the search of the defendant s apartment include eight possible hair strands, one is identified as possibly an animal hair. the victim gonzalez had a dog in the house. fabric with dark red stains and computer tower. it was made public wednesday. police took possession of several items that could prove critical in the case against kohberger. for the first time in his arrest in pennsylvania investigators describe previously undisclosed evidence they were looking for,
what stands out to you? yeah, without question. so first of all, you re going to examine and look at those hairs. those hairs would trouble me greatly from a defense perspective. why? because whenever a suspect commits a crime, there is transference. what does that mean in english? you leave the crime scene. you go to your apartment. what do you carry or transfer from the crime scene to your apartment? in the event one of those hairs happens to be one of the people who unfortunately are dead as a result of his alleged hands, how do you explain the hair being there? second issue, right? you know there will be all types of forensics. with respect to the dog in the home. could you imagine in the event that one of those animal hairs belongs to that dog? how do you reasonably explain that animal hair would have gotten there? no, there s not a murder weapon but what do those receipts demonstrate and indicate? that he purchased something? a weapon? so there is a lot that concern me of the w
they believe it was the murders appear to have been planned. so the digital footprint could prove valuable, depending though on what they get. it could be a dud. there could be nothing on that computer tower at all. that s one of the key issues to watch out for here. what about the items seized. the hair and the what does that tell you about how they are building their case? the physical evidence could be really important. in a crime as gruesome as this, where there are stabbings involved, you ll be looking at blood evidence. you ll be looking at the hair, and the possibly animal hair. that s parent because we know that at least one of the victims had a dog and was on the scene of the crime that day. so if that is the same hair from that dog, that could be a crucial piece of evidence with prosecutors. it could be crucial. what about the fact that the actual murder weapon has not
is a criminology expert. this is somebody who knew how to hide his tracks and may have turned off his phone during the events. they can t find the pings. so they will try to point to all that. but the defense is going to be interested in the fact that there is no murder weapon. there is nothing linking him in that physical way. again, the dna evidence will be key because they have dna on the knife sheathe that was founds at the scene of the crime, but more to come on that. i watched them take this stuff out. we talked about a glove and we re assuming what might be some bloodstains. but if it is tied to the case, he was a criminology student. that just seems smart. the animal hair could be interesting. one of the victims has a dog that she shares with her ex-boyfriend. they think they found a possible strand among other hair.