A DNA knife pod that was found in the Apartament house where the Royal Killer, the Defensor Lawyers of the Suspect from Idaho, Bryan Kohberger, could have planted four students from the Idaho University in 2022.
The claim was made in a motion filed this week by the County Prosecutor of Latah, Bill Thompson, who wrote that the dissemination of a defense expert revealed that Kohberger’s lawyers will not challenge that the DNA found in the sheath belongs to the suspect.
On the other hand, “the defense plans to argue that the DNA in the knife sheath does not prove that the defendant was on the crime and the sheath of the knife itself could have been planted by the true author,” Thompson wrote.
A gag order prevents those involved in the case to speak publicly, and it is not clear how the defense can respond to the characterization of the prosecution of its defense expert. But the dissemination of a potential defense strategy occurs when judicial documents have been revealed in recent weeks, producing new information about the case.
Last week, the published documents included a transcription of 911 and a text exchange between two roommates who were at home outside the campus in Moscow when their students, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, were fatally stabbed in the early morning of November 13, 2022.
Prosecutors have not detailed a reason for Kohberger, who was a doctoral student of Criminal Justice at the nearby Washington State University.
The homicidal weapon, which is believed to be a large fixed leaf knife, has not been recovered, said Moscow police.
The authorities said that the male DNA discovered in a knife pod found in the house was used to link Kohberger with the stabbing and that they had been tracking their car, a Hyundai Elantra White Hyundai and the use of cell phones in the area.
Kohberger’s lawyers have said in a judicial presentation that there is no “connection” between him and the murdered students and that the DNA of other men was also found on the scene.
A judge declared himself innocent in the name of Kohberger. A trial for August 11 has been established.
Prosecutors have said they will look for the death penalty. In another motion revealed last week, the defense indicated that he would like to argue that Kohberger, 30, should not be executed if he declares himself guilty because he has an autistic spectrum disorder and would violate his constitutional rights.
