The house at 1122 King Road is a grim reminder of the slayings, which is now boarded up, fenced in and guarded 24 hours a day.

Some critics of the decision, including several family members of the victims, want the house to remain standing until the suspected killer, Bryan Kohberger, goes to trial.

However, keeping the house standing could prove to be a “logistics nightmare” that does not impact the jury in the long run, one expert said.

Other high-profile murder cases have involved jury visits to the scene of the crime with mixed results.

O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder charges in his early 1990s trial for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.

Jurors convicted Alex Murdaugh in the shooting deaths of his wife and son after visiting the family’s Moselle estate earlier this year, where prosecutors said the disgraced South Carolina lawyer gunned them down near the dog kennel.

The Simpson case was unique, said David Gelman, a Philadelphia-area defense attorney who has been following the Idaho case, because it was so highly publicized and because the defense was able to pepper the house with family photos in an effort to make the defendant look better to jurors.

He said in a shooting case, if there were a dispute over distances or angles, a firsthand look could help jurors.

Otherwise, he told Fox News Digital, it is a logistical “nightmare.” Jurors, alternates, the judge, the lawyers, law enforcement and other courtroom staff need to be transported and kept secure, fed, and accommodated for bathroom breaks. He does not think it is always useful for jurors’ understanding of the case.

“Nobody wants to do it,” he said. “To say it’s rare – it’s a unicorn.”

After serving as both a prosecutor and a defense attorney, he said he has only tried one case where jurors were taken to the scene.

He successfully prosecuted an arson suspect accused of lighting a house on fire with victims inside. It was the defense who insisted on going to the scene.

“I don’t think it did anything,” she said. “I think it was theatrics. I think it was the defense attorneys were grasping for straws.”

He successfully prosecuted an arson suspect accused of lighting a house on fire with victims inside. It was the defense who insisted on going to the scene.

Jurors, during their deliberations, did not ask any questions about the scene, he said.

“Usually when you go to trial it’s at least a year after the allegation occurred,” he said. “So by that time the scene is done. You’re not gonna have yellow tape everywhere, you’re not gonna have bloodstains, and you’re not gonna see anything.”

Other experts have told Fox News Digital that the university’s bid to demolish the building is a decision that prioritizes the school’s aim to “move on” above the potential impact a firsthand look at the crime scene could have on jurors in the case against Kohberger.

“Being able to visit the crime scene in certain cases is extremely important,” said Edwina Elcox, a Boise-baseddefense attorney whose clients have included Idaho’s “cult mom” killer Lori Vallow. “Video and pictures can help, but may not accurately depict the scene in the way an in-person visit can do. The house should be preserved until the trial concludes or Kohberger pleads guilty.”

Police arrested Kohberger on Dec. 30, weeks after the murders, after he took a cross-country road trip with his dad back to his family home in Pennsylvania.

At the time of the slayings, he was studying for a Ph.D. in criminology at Washington State University, about a 10-mile drive from the King Road house.

He allegedly killed the four students across two floors in the three-story building, sparing two other housemates, one of whom told police she saw a masked man while peeking out her bedroom door.