Astronomical DNA Match Places Bryan Kohberger Inside Murder House
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The likelihood of the DNA found on a knife sheath found inside the Idaho student murder house being someone other that Bryan Kohberger is astronomical. An STR (short tandem repeat) analysis shows the suspect's DNA is a “statistical match.”
Documents state “the STR profile is at least 5.37 octillion times more likely to be seen if (the) Defendant is the source than if an unrelated individual randomly selected from the general population is the source.” An octillion is equal to a number followed by 27 zeros.
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| 0:42.4 | In the last hours, a bombshell. And the state's case against quadruple sleigh defendant Brian |
| 0:50.0 | Coburger charged in the incredibly brutal murders of four vibrant young college students in Idaho. |
| 1:02.9 | We learn a statistical match unlike any I've ever seen has been made from Brian Coburger to |
| 1:12.0 | the bloody knife sheep DNA on the knife sheep found at the murder scene. |
| 1:20.0 | Not necessarily blood. We don't know where the DNA came from. Was it touch DNA? Was it blood? Was it from |
| 1:29.0 | sweat? I don't know that. Is it epithelial cells? I don't know. But I know that there is DNA |
| 1:36.0 | on a knife sheep found at the crime scene, not just at the crime scene where the four students were |
| 1:43.3 | slaughtered as they were getting ready for bed in their bed some of them. But it's found in the |
| 1:50.2 | bedroom of Maddie Mogan and not just in her bedroom but partially under her body and partially |
| 1:59.2 | under her comforter her bed spread. What does it mean? We also know this DNA match was obtained |
| 2:11.0 | through a fairly routine task called STR short tandem repeat analysis that's been used forever. |
| 2:19.2 | What does this mean for the prosecution? I mean it's a great thanks for being with me and joining me |
| 2:26.5 | two experts in their fields. First of all, Joseph Scott Morgan, professor for NSX Jacksonville |
| 2:32.4 | State University who has an incredible criminal justice department. Author of Blood Beneath |
| 2:39.6 | my feet on Amazon and host of a hit series Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan. Also with me |
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