The University of Idaho Murders: The Strange Battle Over Investigative Genetic Genealogy
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🗓️ 18 March 2025
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Summary
Bryan Kohberger stands charged with the murders of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, and Kaylee Goncalves in Moscow, Idaho. In his case, the state and the defense have been going back and forth over the topic of investigative genetic genealogy. So what's the latest?
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| 0:36.2 | going back to Moscow, Idaho. We're going to be covering |
| 0:39.2 | the University of Idaho murders. This, of course, is the murder, the quadruple homicide of four |
| 0:44.8 | young students at the University of Idaho. The man who stands accused of that horrible crime |
| 0:50.9 | is a man named Brian Coburger. He was a PhD student studying at Washington State |
| 0:58.6 | University, not too far away. So this is a case that's gotten a lot of attention. This is a case |
| 1:05.3 | that's had a lot of filings so far, long pretrial phase. And we're going to talk about some of the |
| 1:10.1 | recent filings that have |
| 1:11.5 | come out over investigative genetic genealogy and its use in this case, and how even though the |
| 1:18.1 | defense and the prosecution are fundamentally arguing different things, they come to a rather |
| 1:23.1 | strangely similar conclusion. My name is Anya Kane. I'm a journalist. |
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