Bryan Kohberger is charged with murdering four University of Idaho students last November in an off-campus apartment. His DNA result matched the DNA found on the crime scene.
The DNA result of the suspect matched the DNA result left at the crime scene
The prosecutors claimed that the DNA result sample taken from Bryan Kohberger matches the DNA result found on the knife left behind at the crime scene where four Idaho students were murdered last November.
The police the former Ph.D. criminology student who stabbed to death Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin at an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho. The accused pled not guilty, was a Ph.D. student at Washington State University, eight miles away from the crime scene.
Investigators previously linked the accused through the DNA of his father using genetic genealogy. The DNA of his father was taken from the trash outside their home in Pennsylvania days before the accused was arrested.
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Kohberger’s trial is on October 2, 2023
The authorities arrested Kohberger after using that DNA result match in addition to the surveillance camera footage and the cell phone pings of the accused to connect him to the crime. The police have not announced the motive for the murders.
Investigators said they found the knife in the bed of the crime next to Mogen and Goncalves. After the DNA result sample came back without a match in the FBI’s genetic database CODIS. The FBI sent the DNA sample to a private DNA service to identify possible family members of the suspect based on genetic data.
Investigators went to the suspect’s parents, where they found a DNA that pointed to the 28-year-old Bryan Kohberger.
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