{"id":2224126,"date":"2024-04-18T12:21:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspected-idaho-killers-defense-claims-cell-phone-data-provides-alibi-on-night-of-killings\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T12:23:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:23:10","slug":"suspected-idaho-killers-defense-claims-cell-phone-data-provides-alibi-on-night-of-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspected-idaho-killers-defense-claims-cell-phone-data-provides-alibi-on-night-of-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense in Idaho murder case argues that cell phone data supports alibi for suspect on night of killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsuspected-idaho-killers-defense-claims-cell-phone-data-provides-alibi-on-night-of-killings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2224126&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Defense attorneys are using\u200d cellphone evidence to support\u200b the alibi of a 29-year-old\u200d man\u200b accused of killing four University of Idaho students.\u200d The suspect claims he\u200c was driving away from the murder scene.\u2062 The defense plans to call an\u200b expert \u200bwitness to verify his mobile device&#8217;s location on\u200c the night of the killings. \u200dThe \u200dsuspect faces charges related \u2064to the murders in Moscow, Idaho. The defense for the 29-year-old \u2062suspect in the \u2062University of Idaho student murders\u2063 is relying on\u2064 cellphone data to establish an alibi. By asserting he was driving away from the crime scene, the defense aims to prove his innocence.\u200b Expert \u2062testimony regarding\u2064 his mobile \u2062device&#8217;s \u200blocation on the night of the killings will\u2062 be crucial. Charges \u200dagainst the suspect are linked to the Moscow, Idaho murders.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Defense attorneys for the 29-year-old man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022 say cellphone evidence places the suspect away from the area where the murders took place.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, who is not being named by The Daily Wire, plans to use cellphone tower data to show that he was out driving on the night the students were killed, but never went near their off-campus home, ABC News <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/amp\/US\/kohbergers-alibi-disputes-location-night-idaho-student-killings\/story?id=109369315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The suspect] was out driving in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022, as he often did to hike and run and\/or see the moon and stars. He drove throughout the area south of Pullman, Washington, west of Moscow, Idaho,\u201d Anne Taylor, the suspect\u2019s lead attorney, wrote in a new court filing.<\/p>\n<p>To back this up, the defense plans to call an expert witness \u201cto show that [the suspect\u2019s] mobile device was south of Pullman, Washington and west of Moscow, Idaho on November 13, 2022; that [the suspect\u2019s] mobile device did not travel east on the Moscow-Pullman Highway in the early morning hours of November 13th,\u201d according to the court filing.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason, the defense claims, the suspect\u2019s car could not be the one seen on video surveillance driving on the Moscow-Pullman highway on the night of the murders.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of burglary relating to the killings of Ethan Chapin, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, in the college town of Moscow, Idaho.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1713449380053000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0e-HYFsZYxlnnLDshKhFqj\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Part of the evidence that led to the suspect\u2019s arrest, mentioned in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/heres-how-police-captured-the-man-suspected-of-killing-four-university-of-idaho-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously unsealed<\/a> probable cause affidavit, showed that police were able to narrow the timeframe of the crime to between 4:00 a.m. and 4:25 a.m. and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/labour-leader-starmer-skirts-criminal-charges-over-lockdown-beer-gathering\/\" title=\"Labour Leader Starmer Skirts Criminal Charges over Lockdown Beer Gathering\">reviewed video footage<\/a> taken in the area in the time before and after the murders are believed to have occurred. Video showed a white Hyundai Elantra without a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/minnesota-lawmaker-claimed-he-was-cited-for-driving-while-black-so-police-released-bodycam-footage\/\" title=\"Minnesota Lawmaker Claimed He Was Cited For \u2018Driving While Black,\u2019 So Police Released Bodycam Footage\">front license plate<\/a> (front license plates are required in Washington and Idaho, but not in Pennsylvania, where the car was registered) in the area between 3:29 a.m. and 4:20 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle can be seen passing the off-campus residence three times before returning a fourth time around 4:04 a.m. and attempting to turn around on the road. The vehicle was next seen around 4:20 a.m. traveling away from the direction of the off-campus residence at high speed, heading in the direction of a road that eventually leads to Pullman, Washington, where the suspect attended Washington State University (WSU).<\/p>\n<p>Video footage from the WSU campus showed a white Hyundai Elantra leaving the area and heading toward Moscow at around 2:53 a.m. At around 5:25 a.m., this vehicle was again observed on five cameras in Pullman and the WSU campus.<\/p>\n<p>Police pulled records for white Hyundai Elantras registered at WSU on November 29 \u2013 just over two weeks after the murders were committed \u2013 and found one belonging to the man who was eventually arrested. Police reviewed the owner\u2019s Washington state driver\u2019s license and determined he matched the suspect\u2019s physical description provided by one of the surviving roommates.<\/p>\n<p>Police matched the suspect to the vehicle through two previous traffic stops in the months before the murders. They also learned that the suspect registered his car in Washington and received Washington plates on November 18 \u2013 five days after the murders.<\/p>\n<p>Police also reviewed cell phone data to show the suspect\u2019s phone did <em>not<\/em> ping any cellular towers near the crime scene during the relevant timeframe, but an expanded examination of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-catch-alleged-serial-killer-dubbed-the-shopping-cart-killer\/\" title=\"Police Catch Alleged Serial Killer Dubbed The \u2018Shopping Cart Killer\u2019\">cell phone data showed<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jail-trying-to-accommodate-accused-idaho-killers-vegan-diet-but-wont-buy-new-pots-and-pans\/\" title=\"Jail Trying To Accommodate Accused Idaho Killer\u2019s Vegan Diet But Won\u2019t \u2018Buy New Pots And Pans\u2019\">phone stopped reporting data<\/a> to the network at around 2:47 a.m. At that time, the white Elantra was leaving Pullman and heading toward Moscow. The phone next pinged at 4:48 a.m. in an area south of Moscow, heading back to Pullman. Cell records also showed that the suspect left his home in Pullman around 9:00 a.m. on November 13 and traveled back to Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Cell records dating back to June 2022 showed the suspect\u2019s phone was in the crime scene area on at least 12 occasions before the murders \u2013 all but one in the late evening or early morning hours.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defense team of the 29-year-old suspect charged with the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students claims that cellphone data proves he was elsewhere during the crimes. The suspect, unnamed by The Daily Wire, intends to present cellphone tower records as evidence of his whereabouts while driving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2224127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1883325190-1-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1883325190-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2224127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}