Idaho Murder Families Outraged After Crime‑Scene Photos Accidentally Released

Families of the four University of Idaho students killed in the November 2022 Moscow stabbings say graphic crime‑scene photographs of the interior of the 1122 King Road house were accidentally released this week, despite prior court orders intended to keep such material tightly controlled. The family of victim Kaylee Goncalves issued a public statement condemning what they call a lapse in judgment and safeguards, urging people not to treat the images as "entertainment" and to imagine the photos depicted their own loved ones. Court records show the families previously won an August 15 temporary restraining order and an October 1 permanent injunction limiting further release of certain materials after they moved to block wider dissemination. City of Moscow attorneys told the court their hands are partly tied by Idaho’s public‑records law, which generally favors disclosure and gives them only narrow privacy exemptions, casting themselves as legal "middlemen" even as they said they personally oppose releasing such images. The leak comes more than three years after Bryan Kohberger was charged and months after he pleaded guilty in July 2025 to four counts of first‑degree murder in a deal that spared him the death penalty and resulted in four consecutive life sentences, and it is already fueling wider debate over where to draw the line between public transparency and victims’ rights in notorious homicide cases.