Idaho murders suspect identified through DNA using genealogy database: Police



Law enforcement sources told ABC News that police were able to link Bryan Christopher Kohberger to the crime scene by running DNA from the crime scene through a public genealogy database. WATCH THE FULL EPISODES OF WORLD NEWS TONIGHT: https://abc.com/shows/world-news-tonight WATCH THE WORLD NEWS TONIGHT ON HULU: https://bit.ly/3iQLwPp #worldnewstonight #idaho #suspect #genealogy

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46 comments

  1. DNA is like a puzzle wrapped in a sealed box. Without it, you have no puzzle to figure out. With it, you open it up and just put the pieces together and some puzzles are harder than others.

  2. They need to do same thing to the JonBenet Ramsey case

  3. BCK IS MENTALLY ILL!
    Egocentrism
    Lack of empathy
    Need for personal satisfaction
    Need for control
    Psychopathy or psychopathic personality is an antisocial personality disorder. It is characterized by character or social behavior alteration and does not involve any intellectual abnormality. People suffering from psychopathy (psychopaths) are people who can commit very serious criminal acts without showing any sense of guilt.

  4. Shame genealogical dna databases r being used by the police. It’s such a breach of privacy. It’s like a dystopian police state show

  5. They basically took his DNA from the crime scene and used reversed engineering to build a DNA profile and link it to the genealogy database. These are huge technological advances in the field of DNA.🧬

  6. 4th amendment out the window. this country is doomed

  7. Using a private company genealogical DNA database as evidence for a state charged crime seems outside the bounds of the Constitution. Wonder why this hasn't gone to Supreme Court.

  8. The DNA evidence will probably be contested as inadmissible. There is no mention in the terms of use for these ancestry DNA tests that mentions that it can be used by law enforcement. This could be tied up in court for a long time.

  9. Was the dad the getaway driver ?

  10. Just hope the evidence is of murdering and not of snagging one of the girls lolol that would be a cockup

  11. Who is the source stating dna is found?

  12. My crazy relatives I'm not putting my DNA on one of those websites. I'd be afraid to see what connections should up.

  13. Is anyone not thinking why did his dad fly to him then they drive home for the holidays instead of him just flying home

  14. I sure as hell hope that the prosecution has a lot more than what they've disclosed because I'm not seeing a case here. I would hope that they found bloody clothing, victim blood/DNA in his car, or something to directly tie this guy to the crime. From what I understand, his DNA was found at the house but its an open party house where uninvited people come and go during parties. As far as his car goes, I'm starting to suspect that they sought out that model car, found he had one, then focused on him creating evidence to fit their narrative. So far the case is weak and if they're wasting their time with him, a real killer is free to do it again.

  15. Typical American, they like to kill.

  16. Every time I hear the comments that this guy was a student at the University of Washington and that he was studying criminology and that he had a legal mind. I keep thinking Ted Bundy. This has Ted Bundy written all over it, meaning this guy Koehberger (if he is guilty) got some bright ideas about how he would outsmart law enforcement. You got to love it when something as simple as a genealogy website and information submitted through family, genetics and DNA help the police catch an evil killer. I hope and pray that the truth comes out. I hope law enforcement is able to find every single shred of evidence against the real killer and if it is this guy I hope they fry him.

  17. I hope they fry your sorry ass. Prison is too good for you

  18. That dude still have 2500miles energy after 4 killstreak. He should've just drove his car into a tree going 120mph. No point going to court.

  19. It's an alarming database that you don't have control over. The government or private entities should not keep such records.

  20. Does he want to challenge the method used to identify him? His blood was at the scene There should be dna everywhere.

  21. its suss how confident he is about it and being so "open" to his "innocent" there are signs of a psychopath/sociopath? i haven't separated the two quite yet.

  22. CENSOR HAS ASESINADO A MEDIA HUMANIDAD.

  23. HAN MATADO A MEDIA ESPAÑA POR TU CULPA CENSOR ASESINO SATANAS GENOCIDA.

  24. Yeah nope. Never providing my dna

  25. Those genealogy databases could quite possibly have stopped a budding serial killer in the making. feel sorry to his parent.

  26. should be unconstitutional

  27. I’m totally writing him when he’s in prison.

  28. From what has already been released, I'd say that the case is very weak. DNA does not make him the murderer depending on where it was found. The house was used for open walk-in parties. He could have come for a beer, then left. The fact that his car matches 300 others in the area does not make him the killer.

  29. or the neighbors hired him to end the noise the house generated….

  30. His father flew to WA to help drive the car/evidence to PA. Like father, like son.

  31. nobody going to use those dna kits ever again! ROFL 😂🤣😂 your data is never safe.

  32. The news channels just gonna keep reporting the same thing over and over changing one word in the title😭

  33. If he is the killer, then did he really just randomly just murder people he didn’t know? He had to had known them somehow

  34. DNA doesn't lie and forensic genealogy is doing amazing things.

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  36. They drove the car through seventeen billion samples of DNA.

  37. Ya this should be illegal to use those DNA databases

  38. What dna exactly was at the crime scene? Blood? Skin? Jizz? I hate it when news stories are so vague

  39. As an Indiana resident, they must’ve been FLYING through to get pulled over twice. Everyone likes to think we’re practicing for the Indy500

  40. The father may have groomed this in some sort of way. Maybe speaking on thoughts. There is ripple affect of fascination. There is no way you spend a cross country trip with someone and not know something is off. May Jehovah Allah be with these families!!!!!! PRAYERS!!!

  41. 2:28 why does she refer to him only by his first name? It sounds kind of unprofessional especially given the nature of what he's suspected of.

  42. He is a hunter who enjoys hunting people for sport, as a hobby. That's all there is to it. It's just a hobby to him, like hunting deers or bears is a hobby for other hunters. No psychology experts are needed to explain why he did this