What is the one piece of evidence you most want to see?

As we patiently await a trial in the murders of the Idaho 4, news coming out of the case is slow. Of course much of this is the result of the gag order in place.

Keep in mind there are two scheduled hearings for this coming Friday (Jan. 26), One is open for the public and the other is slated to be a closed-door session.

Of the two slated hearings, one is supposed to hopefully come to terms on a date for the trial of accused murderer Bryan Kohberger. Although the summer of 2024 has been mentioned numerous times now as the potential trial date start, don’t hold your breath.

With that in mind, the evidence brought to bear at the trial will of course go a long way in determining if the Pennsylvania native and former Washington State University criminology department teaching assistant is found guilty or not.

So, is there one piece of evidence you are clearly looking for so that you can feel more confident police and prosecutors in fact have the right guy behind bars?

For me, I would need one or more of the following:

1. Star witness – Is there someone who can place him in the home at 1122 King Road at the time of the murders? To date, no one has been able to do this. With all due respect to surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen, she did not clearly identify the individual she claims to have seen walk by her as she had her bedroom door open. The masked intruder was reportedly tall, had bushy eyebrows, and was wearing dark clothing. As you can see, hardly a 100 percent accurate description of the defendant.
2. Murder weapon – Unless police have it under wraps, the murder weapon to the best of our knowledge has not been located. Having that key piece of evidence and any notable fingerprints on it would go a long way in convicting someone. While the touch DNA on the knife sheath is of course of interest to many, it can be explained away in a number of ways by the defense. Stop for a moment and think about how much of your touch DNA gets spread around your home, office, businesses you visit and the like on a daily basis.
3. DNA under the nails of the victims – Once again, the gag order has prevented a large amount of evidence in the case from making the light of day. As a result, we are all speculating on what evidence there may or may not be. Assuming tests were done on the hands of the four victims, did any of them have DNA from the accused murderer under their fingernails? That would obviously be a key point of evidence the state could use to try and convict Kohberger.
4. Defendant vehicle at the scene – There has been a lot of talk that Kohberger’s vehicle circled the area of the home in the hours and minutes leading up to the murders. Do police and prosecutors have his vehicle clearly identified in the vicinity of the home? That would include either his Pennsylvania license plate (back of car only since the Commonwealth does not have front plates) clearly visible or him behind the wheel. Even if they do have such evidence, I doubt it would lead 12 jurors to vote guilty on that alone. I’ve circled places of interest countless times over the years of four decades of driving. It obviously does not make me a murderer in doing so.
5. Victim hair, possessions etc. in his apartment – With the gag order in place, it makes it all the more difficult to know what was taken from Kohberger’s apartment in Pullman early last year. Did they find any hair from the victims there? Were any possessions of the victims discovered in the home? What was on the defendant’s computer and cell phone? These of course will be things we hope to find out at trial.

While we will hopefully get a better sense of a trial date at this Friday’s court session, we will still be left with many questions. One of those big questions of course is what evidence the state has against the accused murderer.

As someone following the case, what one piece of evidence are you looking for?