DNA found on a knife sheath at the home where four students were murdered is a 'statistical match' for Kohberger, according to the documents.
In a motion for a protective order dated June 16, prosecutors provided new details about how police and theThe recent filing says that law enforcement found the Ka-Bar knife sheath"face down and partially under both Madison's body and the comforter on the bed."
The Idaho State Police Lab located DNA on the knife and determined that it came from a single source and that the source was male. Short tandem repeat analysis was conducted to develop a profile that could be compared to others, the filing said. That profile was compared against DNA collected from Kohberger through a cheek swab following his arrest.
"The comparison showed a statistical match—specifically, the STR profile is at least 5.37 octillion times more likely to be seen if Defendant is the source than if an unrelated individual randomly selected from the population is the source," the filing says. The filing also outlines prosecutors' arguments for sealing information related to the use of investigative genetic genealogy in the case.
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