Brian Kohberger is facing an important hearing date in April, the reveal of new information on his alibi.
Last month, prosecutors asked for more information from Kohberger’s legal team on a possible alibi, while Judge John Judge set an April 17 deadline for Kohberger’s legal team to provide documents.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, Kohberger, a Ph.D. criminal justice student at Washington State University at the time, was arrested in December 2022 for fatally stabbing University of Iowa students, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin, and Kaylee Goncalves at the 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 from Idaho to Pennsylvania with his father. During their trip, Indiana police pulled over the pair twice.
“It strains credulity that this guy, who is on trial for one of the most savage murders of this century, seemingly so random so brutal, is taking about two years to come up with an alibi witness, in what is, you know, the trial of his life,” DailyMail columnist Maureen Callahan told Nancy Grace on Friday’s “Crime Stories.”
“In a post-911 world, we live in a 24/7 surveillance state, whether or not he left his phone at home or left off, his car was spotted on surveillance cams. Blood with a 99.998% chance of belonging to a biological male in his bloodline was found at the crime scene. He was stalking at least one of these victims on Instagram well before the murders.”
Last year, Kohberger’s legal team filed documents claiming an alibi put him in a different place during the quadruple slayings. His lawyers wrote that they would prove Kohberger was elsewhere through their expert witnesses and through 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 filing didn’t disclose what specific evidence would prove he was not at the scene.
“[Kohberger] did not have to say anything, and he certainly didn’t have to present an alibi. He decided he wanted to,” high-profile Boise attorney, Tara Malek, added.
“What they said instead was,’ I’d like to take drives at night,’… what does that do? What it does is corroborate part of the state’s case here, which is he was not home and he was in an unknown location.”
“So now instead of having to prove that Kohberger was not, in fact, home, all they have to prove is, well, he’s already admitted folks that he was out for a drive somewhere, and they just have to shore up that last little bit that where he was going and where he ended up was this house.”
Defense attorney Anne Taylor later gave the court brief information saying, “Evidence corroborating Mr. Kohberger being at a location other than the King Road address will be disclosed pursuant to discovery and evidentiary rules as well as statutory requirements.”
That location has not been revealed. Could there now be an actual witness?
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[Feature Photo: Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students, is escorted to an extradition hearing at the Monroe County Courthouse in Stroudsburg, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool)]
