The Kohberger Claim That Even the Defense Team Called Appalling
About this episode
The episode discusses the controversial claims regarding the chain of custody of evidence in the Kohberger case and the implications for the defense.
The central allegation in "Broken Plea" is that the Ka-Bar knife sheath — the prosecution's key piece of physical evidence linking Bryan Kohberger to the murders through DNA — allegedly had chain of custody problems serious enough to be challenged at trial. It's the kind of claim that sounds explosive on a book jacket. There's one problem: the expert making it didn't include it in his own filed report. Brent Turvey, a criminologist and forensic scientist hired by Kohberger's defense, says he discovered the alleged issue after he submitted his expert analysis to meet a court deadline. The evidence bag was reportedly filled out twice — once on the bag itself and again on a sticker affixed to the front — with entries that appeared to be written in similar handwriting with what appeared to be the same pen across dates spanning November 13 through November 16, 2022. Retired NYPD Inspector Paul Mauro reviewed the same material and characterized it as a procedural challenge — the kind of technical attack you raise when there's no substantive defense available. The book's author, Christopher Whitcomb, is a former FBI Hostage Rescue Team member whose post-bureau career includes novel…
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