Suspected Idaho killer Bryan Kohberger is asking the judge in his quadruple murder case to dismiss the charges again.
Kohberger is due back in court today for multiple hearings, some of which will be closed to the public.
At 3pm EST, a hearing will be livestreamed during which the judge is expected to rule on his recent application for the charges to be dismissed.
A trial date has not yet been set. Kohberger is accused of murdering students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin on November 13, 2022.
The killings shocked America and the world. All four students had been brutally stabbed in their rented student house by a mystery killer who broke in in the middle of the night.
Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger will return to court in Idaho today
The former criminology PhD student is accused of fatally stabbing Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Maddie Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin , 20, on November 13. Victims (L-R) Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen (on Kaylee’s shoulders) Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle
Kohberger was arrested in December 2022 after police matched a DNA sample left at the scene to his father.
They were alerted to him by his car – a white Hyundai Elantra, similar to one seen in the area on the night of the murders.
He denies the killings but is yet to make any public statement himself.
Kohberger was a PhD criminology student in the area at the time.
His team previously filed a motion to dismiss the charges, contending in part that the jury was biased, that jurors were given inadmissible evidence, and that they didn’t use the right legal standard when they decided to indict.
The defense also previously revealed they would be contesting the notion that Kohberger’s DNA was left at the scene on the knife sheath, and also argue DNA from three other unidentified men was also found at the Idaho crime scene.
Kohberger was arrested some 2,300 miles from the crime scene in Pennsylvania. He was attending college in nearby Washington State
The delays came amid fears that a premature demolition would compromise a successful prosecution by depriving the defense of adequate time to gather what evidence it needed
They are also demanding more information on how the FBI used the DNA to create family trees that led them to Kohberger and his father, for an early-morning arrest in Pennsylvania almost a year ago to the day.
It’s been over one year since college students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were brutally murdered in their off-campus home.
Kohberger, a former PhD criminology student at nearby Washington State University, was arrested during a raid on his parents’ home in Poconos Mountains, Pennsylvania, on December 30.
Detectives relied on genetic genealogy to build their case against him, using genetic genealogy to create a a DNA profile from the DNA left on a knife sheath at the scene.
The FBI tracked down Kohberger by tracing his distant relatives through genetic genealogy databases – and then secretly collected a sample of his father’s DNA to confirm his identity.
Police say they also matched Kohberger’s DNA to the knife sheath after his arrest.
Investigators also pieced together cellphone data and surveillance video that they say links Kohberger to the slayings.
The house where four University of Idaho students were killed last year was demolished Thursday, despite protests from some of the victims’ families