Demolition started Thursday on the house where four University of Idaho students were brutally murdered last year.
The sun was barely up over 1122 King Road in Moscow when excavators started dismantling the structure, photos showed.
The university announced plans to tear down the off-campus home earlier this month — 13 months after Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were found stabbed to death inside on Nov. 13, 2022.
“It is the grim reminder of the heinous act that took place there,” University of Idaho president Scott Green wrote in a school-wide memo.
The house has been set for demolition since earlier this year, when the owner of the property donated the crime scene to the university.
The defense team for Bryan Kohberger, the prime suspect in the killings, paid one final visit to the property to take photographs, measurements and drone footage before the scheduled demo, the university statement added.