Cellphone tower knowledgeable will testify Bryan Kohberger’s cellular machine was exterior of Moscow evening of the Idaho murders, protection says

Bryan Kohberger, who’s accused of killing 4 College of Idaho college students in November 2022, was out driving west of Moscow, Idaho, the evening of the slayings, his attorney says, and the protection plans to supply a cellphone tower and radio frequency knowledgeable to partially corroborate this account, a court docket doc supporting an alibi protection filed Wednesday exhibits.

Kohberger was driving south of Pullman, Washington, and west of Moscow, Idaho, “as he usually did to hike and run and/or see the moon and stars,” his legal professional says within the doc. The 2 cities are about 10 miles aside.

Extra info on Kohberger’s location shall be shared after prosecutors present discovery proof beforehand requested, the doc says.

Attributable to a wide-ranging gag order, prosecutors, protection attorneys, and attorneys for victims’ households and witnesses are prohibited from saying something publicly, except for what’s already within the public document.

The submitting is the most recent flip within the high-profile case towards Kohberger, who’s accused of fatally stabbing 4 Idaho faculty college students early on November 13, 2022. A not guilty plea was entered final Could on his behalf, and his attorneys have indicated he intends to current an alibi as a part of his protection.

Kohberger’s public defenders a number of instances have pointed to their shopper’s purported penchant for taking lengthy drives alone late at evening. In an August filing, they wrote of the evening of the killings, “Mr. Kohberger is just not claiming to be at a particular location at a particular time.”

Nonetheless, Wednesday’s submitting outlining Kohberger’s alibi had been anticipated for months: Idaho law requires a defendant to submit in writing “the particular place or locations at which the defendant claims to have been on the time of the alleged offense and the names and addresses of the witnesses upon whom he intends to rely to ascertain such alibi.”

The choose in Kohberger’s case repeatedly prolonged the submission date, most lately setting the Wednesday deadline throughout a listening to in late February.

Kohberger, 29, faces 4 counts of first-degree homicide and one rely of housebreaking within the killings of Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20, at a house simply off the college’s principal campus in Moscow.

It is a growing story and shall be up to date.

CNN’s Dakin Andone contributed to this report.

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