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Bryan Kohberger Evidence Bombshell: Ka-Bar Knife Would Have Been Tossed From Court as Prosecution 'Faced Problems,' Crime Author Claims · Fresh Intelligence

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ryan Cobertur's defense team.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: knife evidence could have been thrown out asterisk, Ryan Cobertur's defense was poised to challenge the admissibility of the knife linked to the murders of four University of Idaho students had the case gone to trial.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Instead, the 31-year-old accepted a plea deal confessing to the murders of Madison, Mojan, 21, Kaylee Gonkovs, 21, Zana Kernattle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in November 2022 and receiving four life sentences in lieu of the death penalty.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Concerns over evidence handling asterisk coberger emerged as a suspect.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: After a male DNA sample was discovered on the knife sheet, found in Moden's bedroom near Bloody Cheats.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, a new book, broken plea.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The explosive search for truth behind the Idaho murder's asterisk raises questions about how this critical evidence was processed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Investigative author, Christopher Whitcomb notes discrepancies in the evidence bag's handling, which could undermine the chain of custody.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It is plausible that the chain of custody would have led to significant problems for the prosecution in presenting evidence of any kind of DNA.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Whitcomb told Fox News Digital,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He emphasized that without this evidence, the case would hinge on less compelling items like a white car and sell tower pings.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Issues identified by criminologist Brent Tervey, Asterisk Brent Tervey.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A criminologist engaged by the defense highlighted flaws in the evidence collection process.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A chain of custody form is supposed to be something that is created live.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He stated, suggesting that the evidence in question should have been ruled in admissible had the trial preceded.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Motions suffered at least 28 stab wounds, while Goncalves had 24.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Chapin experienced multiple wounds as well, and Colonel reportedly the only one awake during the assault, bore the most severe injuries with at least 67 stab wounds.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hoberger's background and confession a month prior to the murders, coberger, a graduate student at Washington State University studying criminal justice, purchased a set of knives.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Investigators later, linked the murder weapon back to him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Initially, believe to have left the sheath intentionally, co-bredger ultimately confessed to abandoning it in panic.