Idaho murders: Boarded-up house on King Road where Brian Kochberger allegedly stabbed 4 people to be demolished

MOSCOW, Idaho – Workers boarded up a rented house off-campus in Moscow, Idaho on King Road, where four University of Idaho students were killed on Nov. 13, and on Friday the University of Idaho announced it would soon be demolished.

Photographs show plywood boards on doors and windows, and a temporary fence has been installed around the site. Security services also continue to monitor the facility around the clock.

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“The owner of the King Street home offered to donate the house to the university, which we agreed to,” university president Scott Green said in a statement. “The house will be demolished. This is a healing step that will remove the physical structure where the crime that rocked our community was committed.”

Greene said the demolition would also serve to minimize efforts to “scoop” the crime scene. In the same statement, he announced plans for a memorial and a “healing garden” to commemorate the four victims and other students who have died over the years. The location has not yet been determined.

“We are evaluating options where students can participate in the future development of the facility,” he added.

Neither the homeowner nor the property manager immediately responded to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment on Friday morning, in which case the authorities are required to hush up.

“We will never forget Xana, Ethan, Madison and Kaylee and I will do everything in my power to protect their dignity and honor their memory,” Greene said. “Together we will rebuild and continue to support each other.”

It was Saturday morning around 4 am when the masked suspect made his way into the house with a knife. Among the four victims were three housemates, 21-year-olds Madison Mogen and Kaylee Gonsalves, and Xana Kernodle, 20, and her visiting boyfriend Ethan Chapin, also 20.

According to Lata County Coroner Cathy Mabbut, they were seen at the party from Friday evening to early Saturday morning, and some of them were likely asleep at the start of the attack. She said all four were stabbed multiple times, and police later said they found a Ka-Bar sheath next to Mogen’s body.

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In a high-profile court filing, investigators testified that one of the two surviving housemates witnessed a black-clad, masked man with “thick eyebrows” emerging from the rear sliding door.

Police say the man was Brian Kochberger, then a 28-year-old doctor of criminology. University of Washington student, about 7 miles from here, out of state.

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He has since been expelled and is incarcerated in the Lata District Prison in Moscow, where a judge ordered him to be held without bail on four counts of first-degree murder and burglary.

Police say Kochberger chased the house down King Road at least a dozen times prior to the attack and returned again about five hours after the murders, hours before the first 911 call.

They say they tracked his car to the crime scene on the morning of the murder and used phone signals to trace his alleged path.

And they found DNA on a knife sheath that detectives said matched DNA collected from Kochberger’s parents’ home in Pennsylvania, where he was arrested on Dec. 30.

The six-bedroom rental house located off Greek Street of the University of Idaho was a famous party house with dozens of students coming and going on any given weekend, friends of the victims previously told Fox News Digital.

Body camera footage from Moscow police shows several encounters with victims last semester related to complaints of noise and underage drinking.

The case is due for closure, which is currently being contested by a coalition of media organizations and a lawyer for the Goncalves family.

As a result, authorities repeatedly declined to comment.

Koberger is due back in court on June 26 and could face the death penalty if found guilty of any of the murder charges.

He has not yet filed for a guilty plea, but through his former Pennsylvania attorney, he said he is awaiting rehab.