More than 60 warrants have been served to major companies and banks in connection to the murders of four University of Idaho students back in November, including Amazon, DoorDash, Reddit, and the owner of dating sites such as Tinder and OkCupid.
The contents of the warrants are “sealed and redacted” as part of the murder case against the 28-year-old man charged with murdering Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Ethan Chapin, 20; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, back on November 13. Though the contents are sealed, the recipients were included in recent court filings, Fox News reported.
In a 750-page order, a judge provided the same reasoning for why each warrant should remain sealed, writing that the documents “contain highly intimate facts or statements … which would be highly objectionable to a reasonable person” and that the “documents contain facts or statements that might threaten the safety of or endanger the life or safety of individuals.”
The suspect, who is not being named by The Daily Wire, was found in his parents’ kitchen digging through trash when he was arrested, prosecutors revealed last week.
Monroe County First Assistant Michael Mancuso told BRC 13 that the suspect “was found awake in the kitchen area dressed in shorts and a shirt [and] wearing latex medical type gloves and apparently was taking his personal trash and putting it into … separate zip lock baggies.”
Mancuso implied that the suspect was removing the trash to conceal his DNA. Investigators had been surveilling the home for weeks prior to the suspect’s arrest, and during that time, they searched the trash cans outside.
“A trash pull that was done days before recovered DNA profiles but not from him, only from his family members,” Mancuso told the outlet.
The news follows an unsealed search warrant that listed items taken from the suspect’s parent’s home at the time of his arrest, including a flashlight, four medical-style gloves, a T-shirt, a Washington State Cougars sweatshirt, a pair of size 13 Nike shoes, as well as Under Armour black socks, shorts, and boxers. Police also collected a cheek swab from the suspect for DNA, People Magazine reported.
Of the items taken, Mancuso said two could be important during the suspect’s trial.
“I would be keen on the shoes, the size of the shoes, comparison to any show impressions that might have been recovered at the scene that sort of thing,” he told BRC 13.
He added that the cheek swab would also play a significant role in court.
“Something that they could compare to the DNA of I believe the snap button for the sheath of the knife,” he said, referring to a knife sheath found at the off-campus residence where the victims were found stabbed to death.
Below is a complete list of those who received warrants in connection to the case, according to Fox News:
Amazon
American Express
Apple
Three warrants to AT&T
Bank of America
Banner Bank in Spokane, Washington
Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.)
Blue Ridge Knives in Marion, Virginia
Charter Communications
Coeur d’Alene Police Department Forensic Lab
Discover Bank
Ebay
Elan Financial Services
Idaho Central Credit Union
Idaho Department of Labor
Numerica Credit Union
Potlatch No 1 Financial Credit Union
Umpqua Bank
Wells Fargo
Verizon Wireless
Washington State University
DoorDash
Cloud networking company Extreme Networks
Google
Inland Cellular
KA-BAR Knives
Match Group LLC, which owns 45 dating sites like Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, PlentyOfFish and OurTime
Meta Platforms, Facebook’s parent company
Moscow Police Department Forensic Lab
Paypal/Venmo
Reddit
SnapChat owner Snap Inc.
Umpqua Bank
UPS
Two warrants to Verizon Wireless
Wal-Mart
Yahoo
Yik Yak
