The knife sheath that investigators found next to two victims could indicate they were the target of the Nov. 13 quadruple homicide near the University of Idaho campus.
Criminal defense attorney Molly Parmer on new details in the Idaho murder case including the suspect stalking the victims’ home 12 timescould indicate that the killer targeted them, according to a forensic expert.
"I think that’s where the attack initiated, and that’s important," Joseph Scott Morgan, a distinguished scholar of applied forensics at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, told Fox News Digital"[It] goes to progression, and it goes to who the target was. That was perhaps the specific location he was bound for."Morgan described the moment the alleged killer's murderous rampage may have begun."It’s a very dramatic thing when you think about it," he said.
The Idaho State Police lab later identified Kohberger's DNA on the button snap of the knife, Payne wrote. A DNA profile developed from a piece of the garbage belonged to the biological father of the DNA profile found on the sheath, the affidavit says.CeCe Moore, chief genetic genealogist at Parabon Nanolabs and the founder of DNA Detectives, said the DNA evidence left on the sheath is likely"touch DNA" which comes from skin cells.
Bryan Kohberger arrives to Monroe County Courthouse in advance of his extradition hearing. He's charged with four counts of first-degree murder for the slayings of four University of Idaho students.
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