Idaho State Police “temporarily” yanked horrifying crime scene photos of the off-campus house where Bryan Kohberger slaughtered four University of Idaho students from its website amid privacy concerns, the law enforcement agency revealed Thursday.
Thousands of previously unseen photos of the blood-soaked Moscow murder house were quietly uploaded by state authorities on Tuesday but were quickly scrubbed to further review, police told The Post.
“Following adjudication of the criminal case, the Idaho State Police received a large volume of public records requests seeking the photographs,” a spokesperson for the department said in a statement.
“In making the redactions, the Idaho State Police also chose to follow Judge Marshall’s permanent injunction, which required the City of Moscow to redact areas of the photographs depicting ‘any portion of the bodies of the decedents or the blood immediately surrounding them.
‘”After questions were raised, the records were temporarily removed for further review to ensure the appropriate balance between privacy concerns and public transparency was struck,” the statement continued.
Police vowed to re-release the photos “soon,” but didn’t provide an exact date.
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Authorities also acknowledged the frustrations expressed by the victims’ families over the shocking faux pas.
“This was a tragic case, and we do not take the impact of the crime or the release of records lightly,” the statement said.
