Bryan Kohberger has NO CONNECTION to Idaho students, says lawyer for victim Kaylee Goncalves
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‘Nobody knew about this guy at all’: Lawyer for Idaho murder victim’s family says Bryan Kohberger HAS NO CONNECTION to any of the four students he’s accused of murdering
- Shannon Gray, a lawyer for the Goncalves family, said “no one” knew Kohberger.
- Kaylee had complained to her friends that she was being bullied
- Kohberger was arrested December 30 at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania.
- His lawyer said he denies the murders and is eager to prove his innocence.
Kaylee Goncalves’ family attorney says suspect Bryan Kohberger has no connection to any of the four students he accuses of murdering.
Kohberger faces the death penalty for four counts of first degree murder.
He denies the charges, despite DNA from the scene matching a sample taken from his home, and says he will prove his innocence in court.
While the police have presented some of their evidence against him, no motive for the murders has yet been suggested.
Bryan Kohberger faces the death penalty for four counts of first degree murder. He is due back in court Thursday in Idaho.
An attorney for the family of one of the victims says Kohberger had no connection to any of the children. Pictured from left to right, Dylan Mortensen, who survived and says he saw Kohberger at the house, Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and survivor Bethany Funke.
Now, Shannon Gray, the attorney representing Kaylee’s family, says Kohberger didn’t even know any of the victims.
“Nobody knew about this guy,” Gray said in an interview with Business Insider.
According to the probable cause affidavit filed with the court last week, Kohberger visited the students’ home on multiple occasions.
‘It appears from the affidavit that he was in the area of the house on several occasions. That’s all we know,” Gray added.
Kaylee’s family previously disclosed their fears that she was being stalked, but no stalker has ever been identified.
Steve Goncalves, Kaylee’s father, previously said in an interview that he saw a “link” between Kohberger and the victims, but did not elaborate.
Shannon Gray is the attorney representing the Goncalves family. She says no one knew about Kohberger ‘at all’
Kohberger is due back in court on Thursday. Last week, he was denied bail after a brief hearing in Idaho following his extradition from Pennsylvania, where he was arrested.
FBI agents watched his home for days before swooping in to arrest him.
His smoking gun was the DNA evidence against Kohberger; a sample found on the snap button of a knife sheath left at the scene matched 99.98 percent to DNA taken from his family’s home, which could only belong to him or his father .
At the time of the November slayings, Kohberger was living seven miles from the scene, studying at the University of Washington’s Pullman campus.
His white Hyundai Elantra also matches the car seen driving in the area on the night of the attacks, and police say he suspiciously turned off his cellphone in the hours surrounding the attack in an alleged effort to evade detection.
Kohberger has yet to enter a guilty plea or full defense, but his public defender in Pennsylvania said he was eager to prove his innocence.
He maintains the support of his family, who accompanied him in court at his first appearance.
Exclusive photos from DailyMail.com show Michael Kohberger at the family’s Pennsylvania home on Sunday, dressed in jeans and a gray hoodie emblazoned with the words “life is good” on the back.
He was seen cleaning up the mess left over from the dramatic SWAT team raid that took place at the family’s home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania on December 30.