PHILADELPHIA - Prosecutors in Idaho said they planned to seek the death penalty against the man accused ofMr Bill Thompson, the top prosecutor in Latah County, wrote in a court filing on Monday that the nature of the November 2022 killings met the standard for the kind of aggravating factors that warrant seeking the death penalty.
The parents of at least one victim have said that they want Kohberger to be executed if he is convicted. For weeks, investigators were unable to identify a suspect, but they ultimately began focusing on Kohberger after using genetic genealogy, a technique previously used primarily in cold cases that compares crime scene DNA against profiles on consumer ancestry websites, allowing police to try to build a family tree.