Here's why Bryan Kohberger’s Hyundai Elantra could be PIVOTAL to trial if murder weapon is not found
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: On Friday, December 30, Bryan Christopher Kohberger, 28, was arrested and charged for the brutal slayings of four University of Idaho students. While speaking to Fox News, forensic expert Joseph Scott Morgan shared some valuable insights on how a white Hyundai Elantra is an important piece of evidence in the case.
Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21 were stabbed to death on November 13 as they slept in their off-campus rental house on King Road. Kohberger, a PhD student in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the Washington State University, was arrested on four counts of first-degree murder and burglary. A white Hyundai Elantra was seized from the Pennsylvania property where Idaho murder suspect Kohberger was taken into custody, according to the Independent.
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When asked about the things that would help piece this puzzle together if police fail to recover the murder weapon, Joseph Scott Morgan told Fox News, "I think just the genetic tie back, the DNA tie back, that's solid gold, if that could put him inside of that residence just from his genetic signature and if he removed anything from that scene and went to that car."
Emphasizing the importance of the vehicle as a piece of evidence, Morgan said, "His car, they have been looking for, for a while now, that car, I want people to understand clearly how important this piece of evidence is. That car was a rolling crime scene. Because if it was used as a conveyance for him from the scene in Moscow, he got into the car and went back to Pullman even to his apartment, we can pretty accurately say that he was probably drenched in blood.”
He continued, “He was super saturated. This is four victims that were stabbed. Sharp force injuries generate a tremendous amount of trauma and of course blood, then we don't want to talk about that, but that's the reality of it. So, he would have transferred that evidence to the vehicle and the fact that he was still holding on to the vehicle, they actually found the vehicle in Pennsylvania, he travelled across the country in this thing. Very important piece of evidence there.”
When asked, "How do you determine what DNA evidence is vital and what might have been there before the crime happened?", the forensic expert told Fox News, "We know who the occupants were, those that were domicile there, we have the two individuals that were essentially, …spared and we have the four that were dwelling in the house, who of course lost their lives and then any intimate partners that were associated with the residents that lived there, their DNA would have been harvested as well.”
Morgan continued, “Then, after all of the DNA at the scene is collected, what's important is you eliminate those that you know and you look for the ones unknown. Who do you have among the samples that are unknowns. This place has been stated to have been a party house. So, you'll have like touch DNA that’s left behind, but that's fragmented DNA, I'm talking about rich DNA samples, that comes from any number of different body fluid, it doesn't just have to be blood, it can come from sweat, semen, faecal matter, any number of things and certainly skin."
In his answer to the question “Does the fact that Kohberger is a criminology PhD student complicate the case because he knows the inside of the system”, Morgan told Fox News, "He might know some about the inside of the system, he doesn't know much about forensic science, those are two different studies, so anything that he knew about forensic science is something that he kind of learned peripherally, he might know how the court system works. He might have an interesting criminal behaviour but at the end of the day it's not gonna save whoever did this from the science."
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