DNA from the home where four University of Idaho students were murdered last year was reportedly linked to the prime suspect in the quadruple slaying.
According to Fox, Bryan Kohberger’s cheek swab is a “statistical match” to DNA from a knife sheath recovered from the crime scene — as it is 5.73 octillion times more likely to belong to him than not. “Crime Stories” host Nancy Grace claimed that Kohberger’s DNA was also located in victim Maggie Mogen’s bedroom, under her body, and under a comforter.
“Placing him, in my mind, at the scene of the four murders,” Grace said.
Grace told Fox that Kohberger took a “circuitous” route home after the murders, which she speculated was done so he could discard the murder weapon.
“We also believe he returned to the scene,” she said. “I wonder if it was to retrieve the sheath.”
Kohberger, a Ph.D. criminal justice student at Washington State University, was arrested in December in Pennsylvania for murdering Mogen, Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle at the women’s off-campus home.
He is believed to have turned off his phone during the November 13 murders. However, police claim he visited the area 12 times before the slayings.
Kohberger was arrested after a cross-country trip with his father from Idaho to Pennsylvania. During their trip, Indiana police pulled over the pair twice. Sources claimed the FBI requested the traffic stops to view possible injuries on Kohberger’s hands.
Kohberger is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary. He remains jailed without bail. His trial is scheduled to begin on October 2.
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