One of coeducational It was slaughtered at the University of Idaho in 2022 Bombshell newly sealed court documents show that under her fingernails there was the DNA of three different people.
However, the attorney for the suspected murder says that Brian Coberger is the suspect. The tests that match the client traces say they returned with decisive results.
As a result, evidence should be removed from his trial, and they argued in a court filing published on Tuesday.
Samples taken from the nails of 23-year-old Madison Morgen give yet another twist for four students who died horribly stabbed in an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho.
It is unclear how DNA evidence got there and who it belongs to. However, if the victim fights back and hurts the attacker, a skin sample can be left under the nail.
Kohberger's lawyers filed a massive amount of claims last month to remove large evidence from a four-fold murder trial in August.
A doctoral student in criminology at Washington State University, along with housemates Kaylee Goncalves, Zana Carnodor and Ethan Capin, is being charged with killing Morgen.
DNA evidence of the left knife sheath at the scene helped guide investigators to Coberger, but now defense attorney Vika Barlow opposes the methodology used in the tests carried out on the evidence at the scene.
She said the testing method failed to link Coberger to a crime scene, and even presenting it in court could be “potentially confusing and misleading.”
The lawyer also claimed that the second lab test conducted on behalf of the defense and presented to the large ju judge ruled out that the nail DNA belonged to Kohberger.
In addition to evidence of the knife sheath, prosecutors also pointed out that Coberger's car resembles one security camera caught leaving the scene, and that cell phone records put him near the victim's home before and after the murder.
Furthermore, one of two housemates who survived the ordeal – after hearing the sound of the struggle, he spots a man with a black mask and “bushy eyebrows” out of the backdoor.
Kohberger's defense is working to cast almost all the evidence against him.
In a gust of winds in the suppression movement filed last month, his lawyer said DNA testing on the knife sheath was unreliable, suspected footage of his car was taken inappropriately, and a search warrant for his personal property, including laptops and phones, was too wide.
The lawyers also seek to ban phrases such as “murder,” “murder weapons,” “psychopath,” and even “bulging brows,” claiming it would harm the ju apprentice against the defendant.
