Bryan Kohberger

Ethan Chapin's mother, Stacy, opens up about the family's struggle to move forward after the tragic loss of Ethan and three other University of Idaho students.

The Defense challenged the all-important DNA evidence and subsequent search warrants used to finger Kohberger for the University of Idaho student murders. But the judge wasn't buying it.

Extra blood DNA found at the victims' house wasn't Bryan Kohberger's. It's the "bombshell" that could allow Bryan Kohberger to "walk free" at his capital murder trial - or so the headlines would have you believe. Our take: not quite but still maybe.

A court ruling expected as soon as next week may upend the case against accused University of Idaho student killer Bryan Kohberger. His defense team wants the judge to toss out DNA linking Kohberger to the scene of the 2022 quadruple murder.

"It just surprises me that they didn't find more DNA evidence." So says a respected retired homicide detective, who also explains A) why he thinks that, and B) how this evidence could still be retrieved tomorrow with the right equipment.

The first Bryan Kohberger court hearing of 2025 may be the most important yet in the Idaho student murders case. If Judge Hippler throws out the prosecution's genetic genealogy link, everything police derived from it goes too: his car, his apartment and the cell phone pings near the scene of the crime.

Bryan Kohberger's attorneys are asking Judge Steve Hippler to toss out not only the DNA evidence in the Idaho students murder case, but nearly all of the evidence collected.

The suspect in the murders of four University of Idaho students will face a judge for a hearing on whether or not his hearings set for later this week will be open to the public or not.