Bryan Kohberger's Alibi: Idaho Quadruple Murder Suspect Claims He Drove to See the 'Moon and Stars' on Fateful Night
The judge in the Bryan Kohberger trial has ruled to change the venue of the trial, leading to a new venue and new judge for the quadruple murder case.
April 18 2024, Updated 12:16 p.m. ET
Accused killer Bryan Kohberger claimed he was on a late night drive alone on the fateful evening four students were viciously stabbed in their college home in Nov. 2022, providing an alibi to prove his innocence before the quadruple murder case goes to trial.
Newly filed docs from his legal team claimed that Kohberger was driving solo "as he often did to hike and run and/or see the moon and stars" near Pullman, Washington, when Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were attacked, RadarOnline.com has learned.
The defense team argues Kohberger was nowhere near the Moscow home on the night of the murders.
His attorneys argued that Kohberger, a former Ph.D criminology student, was not in the proximity of the victims' house in Moscow when police believed the crime took place. They pledged to call a cell tower data expert they say can substantiate their claims.
Kohberger's lawyers further alleged that prosecutors haven't shared more discovery information as requested.
They said the cellphone expert's testimony will "also reveal that critical exculpatory evidence, further corroborating Mr. Kohberger's alibi, was either not preserved or has been withheld."
Kohberger allegedly fatally stabbed the four University of Idaho students in November 2022, authorities said.
When the suspect was arrested in December 2023, cops cited that a white Hyundai was seen in surveillance footage driving to and from the site of the killings that matched Kohberger's car.
Furthermore, DNA from a knife sheath left at the crime scene was traced to Kohberger.
"The sheath was later processed and had 'Ka-Bar' 'USMC' and the United States Marine Corps eagle globe and anchor insignia stamped on the outside of it," it was stated in the 19-page affidavit. "The Idaho state lab later located a single source of male DNA (suspect Profile) left on the button snap of the knife sheath."
Prosecutors have said they plan to seek the death penalty if Kohberger is convicted.
The sheath was found next to the bodies of Mogen and Goncalves.
Prior cell phone data obtained by prosecutors showed that Kohberger traveled south and left his home two hours before the murders and then turned his phone off. The device was later turned on while en route from Idaho to Pullman.
Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were fatally stabbed at their off-campus home.
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According to an affidavit, his cell pinged in the area of the 1122 King Road home where the killings took place on at least twelve occasions prior to that fateful evening.
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Kohberger has pleaded not guilty, but faces the death penalty if he is convicted.
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