Mystery DNA evidence from two unidentified males was found by detectives at the crime scene of the 2022 killing of four University of Idaho students. The information may help the legal defense of Bryan Kohberger, who has been charged with the homicides, the Idaho Statesman reported. Blood DNA was discovered on a hand railing at the off-campus house where the students were stabbed to death. A glove found by police also just outside the house had blood on it from an unknown male. When police sought a warrant for Kohberger’s arrest in Dec 2022, they did not reveal the unidentified blood DNA to a magistrate judge. Kohberger’s attorney, Anne Taylor, has claimed the information was deliberately omitted when the judge considered whether to issue a warrant for Kohberger’s arrest and argued that some of the evidence should be disqualified as a result. Criminal defense expert Edwina Elcox said Kohberger’s attorney may use the discoveries to “muddy the waters” and create reasonable doubt. “That evidence could be any variety of things: It could be something, or it could be a lot of things that are nothing,” Elcox told the Idaho Statesman.
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