Overview

• Judge Steven Hippler ruled that Bryan Kohberger’s family members can attend his trial, citing his Sixth Amendment right to a public trial, even though they may testify.
• Prosecutors introduced new surveillance video showing a car resembling Kohberger’s circling the victims’ home multiple times on the night of the murders.
• Cellphone tower data reportedly places Kohberger’s phone near the crime scene 23 times over four months, all after dark, including six days before the killings.
• NBC News reports Kohberger searched online for serial killer Ted Bundy and nonconsensual pornography in the weeks surrounding the murders, according to police documents.
• Judge Hippler denied prosecutors’ request for personality testing on Kohberger, citing time constraints, while the death penalty remains a possible sentence if he is convicted.