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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Can Bryan Kohberger’s Defense Use Unknown DNA to Create Reasonable Doubt?

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Can Bryan Kohberger’s Defense Use Unknown DNA to Create Reasonable Doubt?
Could Bryan Kohberger have been arrogant enough to believe he'd committed the perfect crime—only to be caught off guard when investigators came knocking? His legal team is now hammering away at the discovery of unidentified male DNA at the crime scene, claiming it could introduce reasonable doubt. But does this actually shake up the case, or is it just a classic defense tactic grasping at straws?

Attorney and former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins the discussion, dissecting the legal strategy behind this new revelation. Is this DNA discovery a potential game-changer, or just a minor detail being exaggerated for effect? And what about the theory that Kohberger himself planted the evidence to mislead investigators—was he really thinking that far ahead? If so, why did he completely botch his alibi?

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.

0:05.8

The case against Koeberger, it's getting more interesting by the moment, really,

0:13.0

and we're going to talk about some of those new developments here in just a second.

0:17.4

The latest turn of events in the case, the defense is hammering away at crucial new

0:22.2

revelations, unidentified male DNA at the crime scene. Now, this isn't exactly super new. We did

0:28.8

hear about this a long time ago, but hey, let's point it out more and maybe there's something

0:34.5

to it. Well, prosecutors, rather, remain steadfast in their case against Koeberger.

0:40.2

His legal team is arguing that this unknown DNA could suggest alternative suspects

0:45.2

or, at the very least, cast reasonable doubt.

0:48.4

That's the goal.

0:49.4

But will this argument hold up in court?

0:52.2

Could this be a potential game changer?

0:55.2

Or is it just another classic defense tactic that ultimately won't sway a jury? To break it all down, the legal

1:01.5

significance of the evidence of defense's strategy and what we can expect moving forward,

1:06.1

joined by attorney and former prosecutor, Eric Fattis. Eric, when we are looking at this case and the

1:14.1

discovery of the identified male DNA, is it something that you think really could truly

1:19.4

shake up the prosecution's case? Or is it just another one of the, you know, Hail Mary's, it

1:26.0

seems to be being thrown by Ann Taylor as we continue on this journey? Yeah, Tony, you know, Hail Mary's, it seems to be being thrown by Ann Taylor as we

1:28.4

continue on this journey.

1:30.1

Yeah, Tony, you know, in first hearing about it, it kind of seems like a bomb show, right?

1:34.3

It seems like this huge deal that there's other potential male DNA at the scene.

1:40.1

But when you really dig into it and what the potential explanations are for that DNA there,

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