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Grisly leaked photos show blood-soaked rooms of Idaho college students butchered by Bryan Kohberger

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Haunting new crime scene photos have revealed blood-soaked rooms inside the house where four University of Idaho students were viciously slaughtered by cold-blooded killer Bryan Kohberger.

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WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Haunting new crime scene photos reveal blood-soaked rooms inside the off-campus house where four University of Idaho students were viciously slaughtered by cold-blooded killer Bryan Kohberger.

Nearly 3,000 previously unseen photos providing a chilling glimpse into the November 2022 murders were quietly leaked by Idaho State Police on Tuesday – then quickly scrubbed from their website, according to the Daily Mail, which obtained the grisly images before they were taken down.

The disturbing new photos show blood splattered on nearly every surface — doors, walls, furniture, mattresses, sheets, and floors — of bedrooms thrown into chaos inside what otherwise looked like a typical college residence in the city of Moscow.

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Other graphic images showed the victim’s belongings, including cell phones, laptops, shoes, and clothing stained with blood in the trashed bedrooms where Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, and Ethan Chapin were knifed to death as they slept on Nov. 13, 2022.

One of the eerie photos showed what appeared to be smeared bloody fingerprints on a white nightstand in one of the ransacked bedrooms, with blood dripping off the walls in another.

Other pictures showed what appeared to be the aftermath of a college party, with red Solo cups scattered, beer cans strewn across the staircase, and a folding table still set up for beer pong.

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Blood-soaked furniture and random articles of clothing can be seen in grisly photos from the Idaho crime scene where four college students were butchered. Picture: Idaho State Police
Blood-soaked furniture and random articles of clothing can be seen in grisly photos from the Idaho crime scene where four college students were butchered. Picture: Idaho State Police

A bedsheet and pillow are seen covered in blood. Picture: Idaho State Police
A bedsheet and pillow are seen covered in blood. Picture: Idaho State Police

A blood-stained iPhone is among the objects at the crime scene. Picture: Idaho State Police
A blood-stained iPhone is among the objects at the crime scene. Picture: Idaho State Police

Goncalves’ devastated family released a statement after the horrifying images were made public.

“Please be kind & as difficult as it is, place yourself outside of yourself & consume the content as if it were your loved one,” the family wrote in a lengthy statement on Facebook Tuesday night.

“Murder isn’t entertainment & crime scene photos aren’t content.”

A blood stained desk captured at the scene of the murders. Picture: Idaho State Police
A blood stained desk captured at the scene of the murders. Picture: Idaho State Police

A laptop that belonged to one of the students at the off-campus home where Kohberger murdered four University of Idaho students. Picture: Idaho State Police
A laptop that belonged to one of the students at the off-campus home where Kohberger murdered four University of Idaho students. Picture: Idaho State Police

A staircase that contains cans of beverages at the site of the murders of the four University of Idaho students. Picture: Idaho State Police
A staircase that contains cans of beverages at the site of the murders of the four University of Idaho students. Picture: Idaho State Police

A bed splattered with blood on the sheet and floor in one of the rooms inside the home. Picture: Idaho State Police
A bed splattered with blood on the sheet and floor in one of the rooms inside the home. Picture: Idaho State Police

Bryan Kohberger appears at the Ada County Courthouse, for his sentencing hearing, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho, for brutally stabbing four University of Idaho students to death. Picture: AP Photo/Kyle Green, Pool
Bryan Kohberger appears at the Ada County Courthouse, for his sentencing hearing, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho, for brutally stabbing four University of Idaho students to death. Picture: AP Photo/Kyle Green, Pool

The grieving family said they were told Tuesday morning the gruesome photos would be released, but the images were already public 12 minutes later when the call ended.

“That’s the ‘heads up’ we received,” the statement said.

It’s unclear why the trove of images were uploaded then removed from the department’s website.

Idaho State Police did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

Kohberger, 31, took a surprise plea deal last July, just weeks before his highly anticipated trial was set to kick off.

Kohberger copped to the quadruple killings but the deal saw him skirt the possibility of the death penalty, enraging some of the families of his victims and leaving the loved ones with no explanation for why he committed the heinous murders.

He is serving four life sentences without the possibility of parole at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution.

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