Bryan Kohberger Trial: DNA Evidence From 3 Individuals Found Under Victim’s Fingernails

New findings in the Idaho college murder case have emerged.

Attorneys for Bryan Kohberger—who has been accused of fatally stabbing University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin at a rental home in 2022—said an investigator discovered DNA evidence from three individuals under Mogen’s fingernail.

“The data consisted of three person mixture,” the defense wrote in a motion unsealed on March 4 and obtained by E! News, noting that comparison to Kohberger’s DNA was found “inconclusive,” meaning he could neither be confirmed or eliminated as one of the contributors. 

They said at least four other unnamed individuals were also tested during the investigation, with their results coming back as “inconclusive” as well. 

Kohberger’s lawyers alleged the investigator used “misleading language” when they focusing on Kohberger’s “inconclusive” results during a grand jury testimony, potentially setting up the 29-year-old for an unfair trial.