Bryan Kohbergers appeal hangs on a clump of hair found in victims hand heres why its grasping at straws

Bryan Kohberger’s long-shot bid to reverse his guilty plea back for the murder of four Idaho college students rests on “clumps of unknown hair” found in the hands of one of his victim.But experts say he’s likely grasping at straws after taxpayers spent $5.5 million on his legal defense.Kohberger revealed on Monday that is seeking to reverse his bombshell confession from last year.In a hand-written affidavit first reported by the New York Times he claimed he was “convinced to falsely confess … by coercion, disinformation, false promises, and withholding exculpatory discovery.”Specifically, Kohberger raised “clumps of unknown hair found in Ethan Chapin’s hands; as well as failure of further inquiry,” by his legal team.A former FBI agent Chris Whitcomb — who was not connected to the case — highlighted the issue of the hairs found in the hand of the 20-year-old victim in his book about the Kohberger case, claiming it was just one of many puzzling things about the evidence surrounding the Moscow, Idaho slayings.The hair didn’t appear to match Kohberger’s since it was “about six inches in length” and was “dark blonde, light brown with reddish tint,” Whitcomb said in an interview with The Post’s Miranda Devine about the book.“Bryan Kohberger’s hair doesn’t fit any of those characteristics,” he said.More hair was found in blood on the frame of the bed left behind from Chapin’s hand, Whitcomb said.

And the hair was never DNA tested, Whitcomb claimed.The implication from Kohberger’s claim is that he believes the hairs could belong to the “real killer.” Other observers, however, have suggested that there are many more likely explanations for the hair — for example that it could one of the other victims, and it was displaced in the violence of the killings.The issue of the hair may be one of the only shots that Kohberger has to claim his constitutional rights were violated because his lawyers did not have it tested for DN...