The emerging narrative of how police made an arrest in the University of Idaho murders is missing a key step. Here it is.
prohibiting anyone involved in the case from speaking about it, in order to encourage a fair trial. This order also applies to Kohberger’s defense team, which did not respond to a request for comment. Kohberger could enter his plea in the case as soon as Thursday.Hyundai Elantras are among the best-selling compact cars in America. White is among the most common car colors.
One of the ways investigators whittled down the vehicles’ owners was by looking for associated mobile phones that pinged cell towers near the crime scene around the time of the murder. Kohberger failed to stand out in that way, according to the affidavit. “A query of the 8458 Phone in these returns did not show the 8458 Phone utilizing cellular tower resources in close proximity to the King Road Residence between 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.,” Brett Payne, Moscow Police Department’s lead investigator, wrote, referring to Kohberger’s phone.What this likely meant was that there was no immediate reason to prioritize Kohberger over other Elantra owners. On Dec.
So the question is what happened shortly before Christmas that refocused Payne’s attention on this particular Elantra owner. The answer, according to the source familiar with the investigation, is partly that the officer got back the results from a forensic genealogy team.As court documents state, during his exploration of the house, Payne found a leather knife sheath stamped with a Marine Corps eagle containing a “single source of male DNA” on its button snap.
Since then, law enforcement agencies across the country have used the technique to identify suspects and victims in hundreds of cases. Most of these cases went cold decades ago. But regardless of how long a lab has been storing the DNA, a first step involves processing the DNA in a way that enables an upload to a genealogy database.
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