Shocking New Kohberger Case Details About DNA Match, "Unknown Male" Blood, and Witness, with Howard Blum | Ep. 1002
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Summary
In late January, there was a pre-trial hearing that revealed shocking new information that we have not heard before. Joining me to break down all the developments is Howard Bloom, journalist and New York Times best-selling author of When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders.
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Brian Kohlberger, the suspect accused of murdering
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But in late January, there was a pre-trial hearing
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Joining me now to break down all the developments
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I have to say, it's such a busy news time for us to be doing this.
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It just shows the significance of what happened at that hearing on January 23rd and 24th.
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I mean, I don't want to overstate it, but it's possible the prosecution's case is falling apart.
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Well, the way these authorities got to Kohlberger
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wasn't through any other evidence at the beginning, but just a little speck of DNA,
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smaller than a piece of dust that was left on the button of a knife sheath that was left behind.
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They processed it so that they could give it to an FBI laboratory.
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The FBI laboratory then, after months of not admitting what they had done,
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it was revealed in the end of January in court that they had taken this DNA
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and they had uploaded it to two websites, ancestry DNA websites,
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that prohibit law enforcement from using this DNA.
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The FBI did this, not out of any evil reasons, but just out of their zeal.
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You have to go back to the time of the killing.
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It was a murder of four young children on the loose.
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Except for this DNA, it was in many ways the perfect crime.
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They had no evidence of anyone stalking these young college students.
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All they had was this DNA, so they ran with it.
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And this DNA allowed them to open up many other doors,
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ultimately having a series of search warrants that led to the suspects,
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Brian Kohlberger's phone, his car, his apartment.
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But without that DNA, they couldn't have gotten these search warrants.
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And now the defense is saying, wait a minute, wait a minute.
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This suspect's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by the FBI's going into these prohibited websites.
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You've been suspecting that the FBI got this match between the DNA,
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the touch DNA on the knife sheath, and matched it to Kohlberger's father,
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possibly by doing something they're not allowed to do,
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which is use the commercial DNA websites that people like you and I might go to
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CeCe Moore, the original creator of genetic genealogy,
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And anyone can upload their DNA and see what's on there.
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The other two are fee-for-service private companies
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that are not allowed to be used by law enforcement.
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They'd be like, if I ever committed a crime or have a relative down the line
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who might have committed a crime, I'm going to get them in trouble.
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because the FBI seemed to be very cagey about this whole thing.
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They didn't want to turn over the results of how they got this to anybody.
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That maybe they had done something they weren't allowed to.
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Not only did they not want to turn over the results,
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they said literally that they had ripped up the evidence of their research.
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Who ever heard of it in a major murder investigation,
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And now they got a judge to give him the evidence.
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it came out in open court that the FBI violated
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argued about this investigative genetic genealogy,