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A professional cleaning team hired to sanitize the scene of the brutal murder of four University of Idaho students was turned away from entering Friday, as news broke that a suspect was arrested in the case.
Cleaning professionals from Disaster Response arrived at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho, and barely unloaded their equipment before packing up to leave.
Shortly before their arrival on Friday, law enforcement sources confirmed that Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was taken into custody in Scranton, Pennsylvania around 3 a.m.
Kohberger’s shocking arrest– which Moscow police are set to address at a press conference Friday afternoon– comes nearly seven weeks after Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were found stabbed to death in the off-campus residence on Nov. 13.
Moscow Police Chief James Fry had previously announced plans for the cleanup at the crime scene on Thursday.
Reports about the aftermath of the grisly crime had previously made headlines, alongside photos of blood oozing down the exterior foundation of the three-story home. One of the investigators who first responded to the quadruple stabbing described the scene as the “worst they’ve ever seen.”
Anthony Whitmarsh — a cleaning expert who is not involved in the Moscow case, but has consulted on various high-profile mass shootings and murder-suicides throughout the US — described the challenges of handling such a scene.
