Crime | Bryan Kohberger Prosecutors Reveal How Kohberger's Defense Will Explain Knife Sheath Defense will argue sheath could have been planted at the scene, prosecutors say By Evann Gastaldo Posted Mar 12, 2025 2:00 AM CDT Copied FILE - Bryan Kohberger, accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students, is escorted into court for a hearing in Latah County District Court, Sept. 13, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) Prosecutors say DNA on a knife sheath found at the scene of the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students belongs to suspected killer Bryan Kohberger. In a new filing from the state seen by CNN, prosecutors say that instead of challenging that finding, Kohberger's defense plans to argue that the presence of the sheath does not prove Kohberger was at the off-campus home where the students were fatally stabbed. Rather, the prosecutors say, the defense will argue that "the knife sheath itself could have been planted by the real perpetrator." The defense has not publicly responded to the filing, but a recent filing from the defense did ask that the prosecution not use terms including psychopath, sociopath, or even "bushy eyebrows" at trial, Fox 13 reports. Read These Next Freak accident kills a woman as she cleans her car. It landed on the 4th try. There wasn't enough fuel for a 5th. President Trump's push for a Nobel comes to a head on Friday. Mike Johnson is taking heat over a Democrat's delayed swearing-in. Report an error