June 26, 2023, published at 12:00 AM ET
Bryan Kohberger could have been framed.
That is the explosive claim made by lawyers for the quadruple murder suspect, who say in a sensational new trial that they cannot rule out that DNA found on the knife sheath used in the gruesome murders was not placed there by the police!
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But in a June 22 appeal filed with the court — and obtained by RadarOnline.com — Kohberger’s attorney Elisa G. Massoth scolded prosecutors for excluding key details about the DNA results.
She even suggested that police officers assaulted their client without sufficient evidence.
“The state apparently thinks they don’t need to explain how they thought Mr. Kohberger’s DNA was on the sheath,” Massoth wrote to Latah County Magistrate Judge Megan Marshall, who is overseeing the case.
Presumably the defense is expected to accept at face value that the sheath had touched DNA awaiting testing by all the myriad resources of the FBI.
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“In addition, the defense must guess whether the state directed its investigation at Mr. Kohberger through a bizarrely complex DNA strand experiment or through his misidentification of the vehicle in this case.”
Massoth added: “What the state’s argument is asking this court and Mr. Kohberger to assume is that the DNA on the sheath was placed there by Mr. Kohberger, and not by anyone else during an investigation that hundreds of law enforcement members and apparently at the same time. at least one lab the state refuses to name.”
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“Mr. Kohberger has reason to be extremely suspicious of the (Investigative Genetic Genealogy) IGG used in this case,” Massoth wrote.
“Rather than seeing it as some sort of complex tree construction leading up to him, it’s much more like a lineup where the government already knew who they wanted to target.
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“Instead of letting someone blind to that fact do the investigation, the FBI chose to do it themselves.
“This is similar to the police pulling Mr. Kohberger and five of his cousins off the street and then pointing them at him.”
The butchered bodies of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison May, Xana core modelAnd Ethan Chapin were found on November 13, 2022 in a rental home near the University of Idaho campus.
Kohberger faces the death penalty if found guilty.