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Bryan Kohberger wanted to research how small-town police run digital investigations, claiming that they were "undertrained" without realizing a private forensics lab would soon expose his attempts to hide his tracks in the Idaho student murders case, according to his own project proposals, which Idaho State Police released with a public records request.

The professor called him out after he asserted that " local police departments are undertrained," asking in the margin, "assumption or fact?" — a note that now reads as eerily prophetic.

"Little did he know, in his case, people with decades of experience and training would work his case and find the truth no matter how hard he tried to hide from it, said Heather and Jared B

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