Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger tries to block crucial video and Venmo payments from trial

Bryan Kohberger is now fighting to block key evidence including surveillance footage, his Venmo and Paypal activity, and his student records from his capital murder trial.

In a new motion filed Monday, the accused killers defense attacked a trove of evidence in the prosecutions case, arguing that much of it is too broad and its relevance unclear.

As part of this, the defense took aim at surveillance footage from the night of the murders on November 13 2022.

The footage, which has been circulating online but has not been released by authorities, was captured on an apartment complex on Linda Lane close to the crime scene at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho.

Prosecutors have previously revealed that a white Hyundai Elantra - matching the description of Kohbergers vehicle - was spotted circling the student home at around 4am on November 13 2022. The vehicle was then allegedly seen speeding away from the scene at around 4.20am - minutes after the slayings. 

But Kohberger is arguing the footage prosecutors want to enter as evidence is 12-and-a-half hours long making it impossible for his defense to wade through.  

The defense is also pushing back against several other surveillance videos taken from local businesses, including from Bagel Shop, Café Artista, Sunset Mart and Floyds Cannabis Co.

Footage from the Corner Club - where victims Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves spent their last night out together - and footage from the Grub Truck - where the two best friends stopped to get a late-night carbonara before heading home - is also under scrutiny. 

Bryan Kohberger is now fighting to block key evidence including surveillance footage, his Venmo and Paypal activity, and his student records from his capital murder trial 

Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin together (left) and Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen together (right)

The State has not provided any specifics related to what it intends to rely on or use as evidence, the defense argues. 

Kohberger is accused of murdering Mogen, Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in a brutal knife attack in the early hours of the morning. 

Following a series of delays, the 30-year-old criminology PhD student is finally set to go on trial this August.

He faces the death penalty if convicted.

With his trial looming, the defense has been filing a string of motions to get key evidence tossed from the case - and to get the death penalty taken off the table. 

In the new court filing, Kohberger is now seeking to also limit his bank records, Paypal and Venmo records and the bank records of the victims being presented at trial.

It is not clear what the contents of these records show or what relevance they may have to the prosecutions case.

The filing also points to a purchase made by Kohberger at sportswear company Under Armor on June 24 2022 - five months before the grisly murders.

The same month, Kohberger made a purchase from Dicks Sporting Goods, the records show.

The document does not reveal what exactly Kohberger bought from either store.

Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen at the Grub Truck hours before they were murdered

Surveillance footage captured a white 2011-2013 Hyundai Elantra around the crime scene at the time of the murders 

According to the filing, the defense also wants to stop prosecutors from presenting Kohbergers student records from DeSales University in Pennsylvania, where he obtained a Masters degree in psychology.

While at DeSales, the accused mass murderer studied under Dr Katherine Ramsland - a leading expert on the notorious BTK serial killer Dennis Rader.

There, as part of his thesis, he sent out a questionnaire delving into an individuals thoughts and feelings while committing a crime.

After graduating from DeSales, in summer 2022, Kohberger enrolled on a criminology PhD program at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington - just over the border from Moscow, Idaho.

It is not clear from the filings what the prosecution seeks to show from the DeSales student records.

The defense argues the trove of prosecution evidence includes thousands of pages of documents that are not organized in any fashion. 

This disclosure involves information related to Mr. Kohbergers calendar, course work drafts, final drafts, testing, emails, and syllabi for classes while he was student at DeSales. 

The State has not specified what out of this extensive and disorganized information it intends to use, how records contained in Mr. Kohbergers personal school Google account are business record kept in the ordinary course by DeSales, how these privacy protected education records are admissible in court.

While at DeSales, Kohberger (pictured) studied under Dr Katherine Ramsland - a leading expert on the notorious BTK serial killer Dennis Rader

The defense argues that the evidence is extensive and contains several terabytes of video and thousands of pages making it impossible for Kohbergers attorneys to go through it all. 

Mr. Kohberger urges the Court to first require the State to explain how each of these records are relevant because the mass production without specificity makes it impossible for Mr. Kohberger to effectively confront this evidence, the defense says. 

Mr. Kohberger objects to the States request that is large sweep with an free pass for admissibility. The States request is premature, excessively broad and must be denied until the request can be disclosed specifically and properly litigated.

The judge is yet to rule on the matter.

Kohbergers legal team has already tried and failed to have critical DNA evidence and Amazon shopping history tossed from the case.  

A Ka-Bar brown leather knife sheath, featuring a US Marine Corps seal, had been found next to Mogens body in her bedroom on the third floor of the home.

Touch DNA on the sheath was traced back to Kohberger using Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG), according to prosecutors. 

Following his arrest, it was found to be a statistical match.

DNA was found on a Ka-Bar knife sheath (seen in a stock image) left behind at the scene 

This chilling selfie taken by Bryan Kohberger was snapped at around 10:30am on November 13 2022 - around six hours after the murders, prosecutors say 

While the murder weapon has never been found, Kohbergers Amazon shopping history reveals he bought a Ka-Bar knife, sheath and sharpener from Amazon back in March 2022, according to a prosecution filing.

Eight months later - on November 13 2022 - investigators believe this same type of knife was used to murder the four University of Idaho students.

Following the murders, Kohberger searched to buy a replacement knife and sheath, prosecutors allege. 

As well as the DNA found on the knife sheath, prosecutors say Kohberger has been tied to the murders through his white Elantra which matches the car seen leaving the crime scene at the time of the murders.

Cellphone records also allegedly show that Kohberger may have stalked the King Road home at least a dozen times in the lead-up to the murders - and that he turned his phone off while committing the crime to try to cover his tracks.

One of the surviving roommates Dylan Mortensen also came face-to-face with a tall masked intruder with bushy eyebrows inside the student home moments after the murders.

Prosecutors plan to show jurors a creepy selfie Kohberger took around six hours after the murders.

It shows Kohberger in a white shirt buttoned up to the collar and headphones as he stands in front of a shower. He gives a chilling half smile and thumbs up to the camera.

The student home where the murders took place. Surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen came face-to-face with a masked intruder moments after the murders

Jurors should be allowed to decide if they believe he could be described as having bushy eyebrows at the time of the murders based on the photo, prosecutors say.

In another filing Monday, prosecutors revealed that they plan to call some of Kohbergers family members to testify against him at his trial. 

The State may call member(s) of the Kohberger family to testify at trial, prosecutors wrote. 

Prior to start of the trial, the State anticipates it will motion the Court, or the Court will on its own accord, generally exclude testifying witnesses from the courtroom so that they cannot hear other witnesses testimony. 

Kohberger was arrested at his parents home in the Poconos region of Pennsylvania on December 30, 2022, and was charged with the four murders. 

A not guilty plea was entered on his behalf at his arraignment.

After more than two years, his trial is finally set to get under way in Ada County in August.

Kohberger faces the death penalty if convicted - an outcome that has been welcomed by some of the victims families. 

Due to changes in state law, he could be executed by firing squad.

Kohberger is next due in court in April.