Pennsylvania Police Say ‘Force Was Used’ During Search Of Home Belonging To Idaho Murder Suspect’s Parents

Police reportedly broke windows and doors as they executed a search warrant at the home belonging to the parents of the man suspected of killing four University of Idaho students.

Pennsylvania State Police Major Christopher Paris said during a Tuesday press conference that “force was used” in executing the search warrant at the parents’ home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, Fox News reported. The 28-year-old suspect, who is not being named per Daily Wire policy, has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary with the intent to commit murder.

“There were multiple windows that were broken, I believe, to gain access, as well as multiple doors,” Paris said at the press conference.

Paris also said that the suspect’s parents were home at the time the search warrant was executed and that the search began on December 29 with about 50 “tactical assets” on scene.

The suspect signed an extradition document Tuesday afternoon and waived his right to challenge his arrest, Fox reported.

Police took the suspect into custody in Albrightsville, his hometown, after driving about 2,500 miles with his father just weeks after allegedly killing Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Ethan Chapin, 20; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21.

The suspect’s attorney, Jason LaBar, told KTVB 7 that his client was pulled over twice in Indiana during the trip. In at least one of those stops, the suspect was driving.

“I don’t know whether they were speeding or not or if they were even issued a ticket,” LaBar said. “I just know that they were pulled over in Indiana almost back to back. I believe once for speeding and once for following too closely to a car in front of them.”

The suspect, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in criminal justice and criminology at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, worked as a teacher’s assistant and was reportedly a tough grader. That changed in the weeks after the murders, one former student told CNN on Monday.

“Definitely around then, he started grading everybody just 100s. Pretty much if you turned something in, you were getting high marks. He stopped leaving notes. He seemed preoccupied,” the student said. “The couple times that he did come after, or around that time period, he had a little more facial hair, stubble, less well-kept. He was a little quieter.”

The suspect previously studied psychology at DeSales University in Pennsylvania. While at DeSales, the suspect reportedly worked as a student investigator for a survey exploring motives behind crimes. One question in the survey reportedly asked, “Why did you choose that victim or target over others?” Another asked, “After committing the crime, what were you thinking and feeling?”

‘Romeo And Juliet’ Stars, Who Were 15, 16, Sue Over Nude Scene

The stars of the hit 1968 movie “Romeo and Juliet,” who were only 15 and 16 when the movie was filmed, are suing Paramount Pictures, claiming they were filmed nude without their knowledge.

Olivia Hussey, 71, and Leonard Whiting, 72, filed their lawsuit Friday, just before the December 31 deadline. The lawsuit claims director Franco Zeffirelli, who died in 2019 at 96, had told the actors there would be no actual nudity in the film, that their bedroom scene would feature them wearing flesh-colored underwear. The lawsuit contends that as the filming wound to a close, Zeffirelli asked them to perform nude with body makeup, threatening that without doing so, “the Picture would fail,” Variety reported.

“What they were told and what went on were two different things,” Tony Marinozzi, the actors’ business manager stated of Zeffirelli. “They trusted Franco. At 16, as actors, they took his lead that he would not violate that trust they had. Franco was their friend, and frankly, at 16, what do they do? There are no options. There was no #MeToo.”

“Nude images of minors are unlawful and shouldn’t be exhibited,” Solomon Gresen, the actors’ attorney, declared. “These were very young naive children in the ’60s who had no understanding of what was about to hit them. All of a sudden they were famous at a level they never expected, and in addition they were violated in a way they didn’t know how to deal with.”

In 2018, Hussey told Variety of the nude scene, “Nobody my age had done that before. It was needed for the film.” She called Zeffirelli a “genius. He just brought things to life. That’s what I loved about Franco. He hired always the most perfect person to do the role, which ever role it was. And then he let that actor do what they felt.”

“I think it was such an amazing experience,” she added. “I used to say to Franco, I don’t want to work with anyone but you. I can do anything for you because you understand me. I mean if I could have, I would have just worked with Franco.”

In the years since the movie, Hussey, married to rocker David Eisely and a grandmother and mother of three children, has successfully fought stage four breast cancer; she also declared bankruptcy after her business manager and his wife swindled her.