Last month, Bryan Kohberger’s attorneys attempted to have all of the evidence against him in his murder trial thrown out on the grounds that he was identified thanks to genetic genealogy techniques which were used without proper warrants.
DNA was found at the scene on the sheath of a knife which was discovered under one of the victim’s bodies. The FBI took that DNA and compared it to DNA on some publicly available database and found a familial match which directed them to Kohberger. Subsequently, they tracked his movements as he drove to his families home in Pennsylvania where they took trash from outside the family home and ran the trace DNA to find a match for the father of the suspect. Kohberger’s attorneys argue both searches required a warrant and because authorities never had one all of the evidence that resulted from the identification of Kohberger…
