Should the Idaho crime scene be preserved for the Kohberger trial? | Banfield

The house where four University of Idaho students were brutally murdered is now the scene of controversy. The University of Idaho wants to tear it down as a step toward “healing” and wants the house gone by the start of the fall semester. However, the families of the slain students say not so fast. The father of murder victim Kaylee Goncalves thinks the house should not be torn down before the trial because the jury may want to visit the crime scene.

Objections have been raised to demolishing the house where four University of Idaho students were killed last year, with members of three of the victims’ families signaling it should be preserved until after the trial of the man charged in the deaths. Stacey Honowitz of the Florida State Attorney’s Office and NewsNation legal analyst Sara Azari weigh in on “Banfield.”

The house should not be demolished until, at a minimum, the trial is over. If I were a member of the jury, I would certainly want to visit it. As a matter of fact, many people, not necessarily students, might not mind living in a place like this, especially as it is off campus. After all, the Amityville house that saw the murder of six people was preserved and bought by different people.

Bryan Kohberger, 28, who was a Ph.D. student in criminology at a nearby university at the time, has been in jail since December, when he was arrested in the Nov. 13 killings that sent fear through the normally peaceful college town of Moscow, Idaho.

Though a suspect has been arrested and charged in the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in the middle of the night last fall, a series of mysteries remain about why the victims were targeted and what evidence prosecutors have against the suspect.

Though a suspect has been arrested and charged in the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in the middle of the night last fall, a series of mysteries remain about why the victims were targeted and what evidence prosecutors have against the suspect.

Mr. Kohberger did not enter a plea at a hearing on May 22, but he has said through his lawyers that he expects to be exonerated. His trial is scheduled to begin in October.