Mega Edition: The DNA/Genetics Battle Between Kohberger And The State (8/12/26)
In the lead-up to Bryan Kohberger’s trial, some of the most consequential legal fighting centered on the DNA recovered from the knife sheath found beneath Madison Mogen’s body and the investigative genetic genealogy, or IGG, process that investigators used to identify Kohberger as a suspect. Authorities had extracted a single-source male DNA profile from the sheath and later sent the sample to Othram, which developed a SNP profile that could be compared against genealogy databases that permitted law-enforcement searches. Investigators used that information to build family trees that…
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