The defense of Bryan Kohberger plans to present evidence from an expert in cell phone tracking to confirm his alibi on the night when four University of Idaho students were tragically killed in their off-campus residence.
Judge John Judge had previously given public defender Anne Taylor until Wednesday to file a notice she intended to use an alibi. Last summer, the defense said that Kohberger was out driving alone the night of the murders, an “alibi” both the judge previously said was “not really an alibi,” as CrimeOnline reported.
That day arrived, and Taylor filed the notice, which also said that “additional information” would come from discovery the defense has requested from prosecutors — or her expert’s testimony would “reveal that critical exculpatory evidence, further corroborating Mr. Kohberger’s alibi, was either not preserved or has been withheld.”
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Taylor’s expert, Sy Ray, is an Arizona rancher who founded ZetX Corporation, which provides tools for analytical mapping and is now owned by LexisNexis. Ray, a former police officer in Arizona, continued to work for LexisNexis for two years and now works for Burning Mountain Productions, DBA Socialite Crime Club.
Taylor opened her notice to supply an alibi by explaining that Kohberger, “an avid runner and hiker,” spent considerable time exploring the area around Pullman, Washington, where he moved for graduate school in June 2022. Once school started, she said, his activities decreased, but “his nighttime drives increased.”
“This is supported by data from Mr. Kohberger’s phone showing him in the countryside late at night and/or in the early morning on several occasions,” the filing says. “The phone data includes numerous photographs taken on several different late evenings and early mornings, including in November, depicting the night sky.”
Prosecutors have said that Kohberger’s phone was turned off for much of the night of November 13, 2022, when Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, and Kaylee Goncalves were murdered.
[Featured image: Bryan Kohberger listens to arguments during a hearing on Oct. 26, 2023. (Kai Eiselein/New York Post via AP, Pool)]