Idaho murders photos put police on damage control as families fume over accidental release

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Local authorities are speaking retired pursuing the accidental merchandise of graphic transgression country photographs from the 2022 murders of 4 University of Idaho students earlier this week. 

"Following adjudication of the transgression case, the Idaho State Police received a ample measurement of nationalist records requests seeking the photographs," a spokesperson for the section said successful a statement, according to the New York Post.

"In making the redactions, the Idaho State Police besides chose to travel Judge [Megan] Marshall’s imperishable injunction, which required the City of Moscow to redact areas of the photographs depicting ‘any information of the bodies of the decedents oregon the humor instantly surrounding them,’" the connection continued.

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Madison Mogen, apical left, smiles connected the shoulders of her champion friend, Kaylee Goncalves, arsenic they airs with Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and 2 different housemates successful Goncalves' last Instagram post, shared the time earlier the 4 students were stabbed to death. (@kayleegoncalves/Instagram)

"After questions were raised, the records were temporarily removed for further reappraisal to guarantee the due equilibrium betwixt privateness concerns and nationalist transparency was struck."

The mentation comes aft a trove of images showing the interior of the off-campus Moscow location wherever undergraduate students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were stabbed to decease successful the aboriginal greeting hours of Nov. 13, 2022, according to household members. 

In a statement, the household of Goncalves condemned the merchandise of the images, portion asking the nationalist to workout discretion erstwhile deciding whether to presumption the antecedently unseen evidence. 

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Bryan Kohberger appears astatine the Ada County Courthouse, for his sentencing hearing, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, successful Boise, Idaho, for brutally stabbing 4 University of Idaho students to decease astir 3 years ago.  (AP Photo/Kyle Green, Pool)

"Please beryllium benignant & arsenic hard arsenic it is, spot yourself extracurricular of yourself & devour the contented arsenic if it were your loved one," the Goncalves household said successful a statement. "Your daughter, your sister, your lad oregon brother. Murder isn’t amusement & transgression country photos aren’t content."

The families of the 4 victims antecedently asked the tribunal to forestall further merchandise of the images, according to tribunal filings.

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The location astatine 1122 King Road, wherever 4 University of Idaho students were killed connected Nov. 13, 2022, sits boarded up successful Moscow, Idaho connected Dec. 27, 2023. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

A question for a impermanent restraining bid was filed Aug. 12, which was subsequently granted by Judge Megan Marshall 3 days later. Court records bespeak a imperishable injunction barring further merchandise of definite materials was issued Oct. 1. 

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Attorneys for the metropolis of Moscow antecedently told the tribunal that portion officials whitethorn person idiosyncratic absorption to releasing the images, they are bound by Idaho’s nationalist records law, which typically lone allows constrictive privateness exemptions.

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Public records involving redacted body-camera video and photos showing portions of the interior transgression country of the location person already been released, pursuing Bryan Kohberger’s blameworthy plea successful the quadruple murders.

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In July 2025, Kohberger admitted to 4 counts of first-degree execution arsenic portion of a plea statement that spared him the decease penalty.

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Kohberger was subsequently sentenced to 4 consecutive presumption of beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole. He remains successful custody astatine the Idaho Maximum Security Prison. 

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The Idaho State Police did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.