- Judge John Judge has denied Bryan Kohberger’s request to dismiss quadruple murder charges
Suspected Idaho murderer Bryan Kohberger has denied his motion to dismiss his quadruple murder charges.
Kohberger looked emotionless as Judge John Judge made the decision Friday. The application was rejected due to concerns about delays in the case.
The judge said he is willing to set a trial date, which attorneys say could take 15 weeks.
Kohberger is accused of killing students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin on November 13, 2022.
Bryan Kohberger (far right) appeared emotionless in court, where he reappeared to face charges in his quadruple murder case
Judge John (above right) The judge rejected the request and stated that he was willing to set a date for the trial
The former criminology doctoral candidate is accused of fatally stabbing Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Maddie Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, on Nov. 13. Victims (L-R) Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen (on Kaylee’s shoulders) Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle
The murders shocked America and the world. All four students had been brutally stabbed in their rented dorm by a mysterious killer who broke in in the middle of the night.
Kohberger was arrested in December 2022 after police matched a DNA sample left at the scene to his father.
They were alerted by his car: a white Hyundai Elantra, similar to the one seen in the area the night of the murders.
He denies the murders, but has not yet made any public statement.
Kohberger was a criminology PhD student in the area at the time.
His team previously filed a motion to dismiss the indictment, claiming in part that the jury was biased, that jurors were presented with inadmissible evidence and that they did not apply the proper legal standard when deciding whether to file charges.
The defense also previously revealed that they would dispute the idea that Kohberger’s DNA was left on the knife sheath at the scene, and also claimed that DNA from three other unidentified men was also found at the crime scene in Idaho.
They are also demanding more information about how the FBI used DNA to create family trees that led them to Kohberger and his father before an early morning arrest in Pennsylvania nearly a year ago.
It’s been more than a year since students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were brutally murdered in their off-campus home.
The house where four University of Idaho students were murdered last year was demolished Thursday, despite protests from some of the victims’ families
Kohberger, a former PhD student in criminology at nearby Washington State University, was arrested on December 30 during a raid on his parents’ home in Pennsylvania’s Poconos Mountains.
Detectives relied on genetic genealogy to build their case against him, using genetic genealogy to create a DNA profile from the DNA left in a knife sleeve 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 compared Kohberger’s DNA to the knife sheath after his arrest.
Investigators also pieced together cellphone records and surveillance images that they say link Kohberger to the killings.