Mega Edition: Kohberger And The Drawn Out Battle Over His Cover Story (9/24/26)

The legal fight over Bryan Kohberger’s alibi became one of the more prolonged pretrial disputes in the Idaho murders case, stretching across multiple filings, deadlines and arguments over exactly what the defense was required to disclose. Prosecutors repeatedly pressed Kohberger’s attorneys for a more specific alibi, while the defense maintained that he had been out driving alone during the early morning hours when the killings occurred and later supplemented that account with references to his habit of taking nighttime drives and looking at the stars. The state argued that the notice was too vague to function as a mean...