The defense attorneys of Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of the Idaho Killings of Idaho students, have filed a motion stating that he went for a solitary drive on the night and morning before the victims’ bodies were discovered. Kohberger, 28, was indicted on four counts of murder and other charges related to the stabbing deaths of the students, whose bodies were found in an off-campus home on November 13.
In the motion filed by Kohberger’s attorneys on Wednesday, they objected to a motion from the prosecution and explained that their client had a regular habit of going for nighttime drives alone. They asserted that on November 12, late into November 13, 2022, he was driving during the early morning hours.
The victims, identified as Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Kaylee Goncalves, were discovered in a home in Moscow, Idaho, after a 911 call was made just before noon.
Kohberger has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. His defense team plans to support his claim that he was not present at the location where the bodies were found with expert witness testimony, currently under analysis and investigation.
The killings deeply shocked the city of Moscow, with a population of approximately 25,000, and the University of Idaho, with around 11,000 students.
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Kohberger was apprehended in Pennsylvania in early December, more than six weeks after the murders. He was a doctoral student at Washington State University, located around seven miles away from the University of Idaho, where he had been part of the criminal justice program and served as a teaching assistant during the fall 2022 semester. Kohberger previously obtained a psychology degree from nearby DeSales University in 2020 and earned a master’s degree in criminal justice from the same institution in June 2022.
