Nancy Grace says Bryan Kohberger’s defense of having a yet-to-be-named alibi when four University of Idaho students were murdered “stinks to high Heaven.”
As CrimeOnline previously reported, Bryan Kohberger’s legal team filed documents Monday claiming an alibi puts him in a different place during the quadruple slaying. His lawyers wrote that they will prove Kohberger was elsewhere through their expert witnesses and by cross-examining the state’s witnesses.
Though Kohberger’s legal team wrote that “he could not have committed the crime of which he is accused,” the latest filing does not disclose what specific evidence they will present to prove this or his alibi, which they say does not place him at the crime scene.
“This stinks to high Heaven.” Grace told Fox News Digital. “This is what [Kohberger’s legal team] are saying: ‘Hey, we have an alibi but we’re not going to tell you what it is.'”
“He has been sitting behind bars, gnashing his teeth and twisting his tail to come up with an alibi, and even now, they’re not divulging it….Why? Because there’s not an alibi.”
Grace added that Kohberger’s defense implied that DNA may have been planted at the crime scene to frame him, even though the DNA was obtained before he was “ever identified as a defendant.”
Kohberger, a Ph.D. criminal justice student at Washington State University, was arrested in December in Pennsylvania for fatally stabbing Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, and Kaylee Goncalves at the women’s off-campus home on November 13, 2022.
He is believed to have turned off his phone during the murders. However, police claim he visited the area 12 times before the slayings.
Police arrested the defendant after a cross-country trip with his father from Idaho to Pennsylvania. During their trip, Indiana police pulled over the pair twice.
Kohberger is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and burglary. Prosecutors filed court documents detailing their intent to pursue the death penalty as they deemed the four slayings were “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.”
Kohberger remains jailed without bail. His trial is scheduled to begin in October.
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[Featured image: Bryan Kohberger enters the courtroom for a motion hearing regarding a gag order, Friday, June 9, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022. (Zach Wilkinson/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP, Pool)[
*Additional reporting by Jacquelyn Gray*
