DENVER — Genetic genealogists working on the University of Idaho student murders case found "hundreds of times" more DNA than a typical case as they raced to solve the quadruple stabbing, which rocked the college town of Moscow, Idaho, as well as the nation as a whole.

"It was a catastrophic deal," said David Mittelman, the Othram founder and CEO whose work generated leads that helped authorities track Kohberger from a DNA sample he left on a Ka-Bar knife sheath discarded at the crime scene. "That's why the defense didn't want to talk about it."

Not only did police recover plenty of DNA to work with, it allowed Othram's investigators to hone in on Kohberger's family tree almost immediately.

Speaking with Fox News Digital at CrimeCon's 2025 conference in Denver, Mittelman said that w

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