Bryan Kohberger Is Waiting On One Person To Speak

Whether Bryan Kohberger gets a new trial in the Idaho student murders may turn on a clump of hair, and almost every outlet is reporting that evidence wrong.

The centerpiece of his bid to undo the guilty plea is hair. He says clumps of it were found in Ethan Chapin's hands, that it wasn't his, and that his own attorneys never told him it existed before he signed away his trial.

Almost every outlet covering the Idaho student murders is reporting that wrong, and the correction matters.

There are two separate pieces of hair evidence in this case. One was recovered from Chapin's hand — and according to PEOPLE, a DNA expert hired by Kohberger's own defense tested it and found it consistent with Chapin's own reference hair. The second is a set of strands a forensic scientist found stuck to a bed frame, who told Fox News Digital the FBI lab excluded Kohberger. Those are not the same item, and the difference decides whether this petition means anything.

Tony works through what the hair could prove at its absolute best, and why the attorney for one victim's family says it isn't the exoneration it's being sold as. Unknown hair inside a home where six young people lived, with visitors coming and going, doesn't undo a knife sheath, a cotton swab pulled from a garbage can in Pennsylvania, or a purchase record from months before the killings.

There's also the part of the story that explains the timing of the plea itself. Prosecutors filed a witness list. A name appeared on it. He folded.

And the man who discovered the disputed hair wasn't a reporter or an investigator chasing the case from outside. He was working for the defense. That single fact takes the floor out from under the claim that anything was hidden.

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