Bryan Kohberger's defense team plans to argue that two people were responsible for killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022.
The revelation came during a court appearance this week. Kohberger, 30, is accused of entering an off-campus house and stabbing to death Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in the early morning hours of Nov. 13. At the time of the killings, Kohberger was a Ph.D criminology student at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, located about eight miles from the crime scene.
Kohberger's defense attorney Anne Taylor said the defense plans to call an expert witness who will testify that two weapons were likely used in the killings and that two people were likely responsible, CNN reported.
"We came across a tip that would appear to be an alternate suspect, and we're trying to work through that as rapidly as we can," Taylor said, according to CNN. "It was quite a surprise to come up with that. There's got to be more in there that I need to know were disclosed."
In other developments in the case, the judge ruled that "psychopath" and "sociopath" can't be used during the trial, ABC News reported.
The judge also ruled that purchases made on an Amazon account tied to Kohberger can be presented during the trial. ABC News has reported that, according to prosecutors, a KA-BAR knife with a sheath and a sharpener was purchased through the account eight months before the murders.
The murder weapon was never recovered in the case, but a knife sheath was left behind and prosecutors have asserted that Kohberger's DNA was found on it, ABC News reported.
