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Jeffrey Epstein was reportedly in possession of firearms at his Zorro Ranch in New Mexico even after his 2008 Florida felony conviction, raising questions about why he was never prosecuted for what authorities themselves had identified as potentially illegal gun possession. The New Mexico Survivors’ Truth Commission cited documentation indicating that Epstein maintained control over firearms at the ranch after becoming a convicted felon. A July 2009 policy concerning security at Epstein’s properties specifically noted his felony status and acknowledged that federal law prohibited convicted felons from knowingly possessing firearms or ammunition. The commission also reported that Epstein had weapons spread across multiple properties, including residences in Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and that he had previously held a concealed-carry license.
The records suggested Epstein was well aware that his conviction created problems for his ability to legally possess guns. In 2014, he emailed attorney Erika Kellerhals asking whether his civil rights could be restored so that he could own a firearm, and she reportedly told him that he could not and instead suggested hiring armed security. Other records indicated that Epstein closely tracked where weapons were stored and had previously instructed employees regarding firearms at his properties. The revelations add another unanswered question to Epstein’s post-conviction treatment: despite documentation suggesting that authorities knew a convicted felon continued to exercise control over firearms, there was apparently no resulting federal firearms prosecution before his 2019 arrest on sex-trafficking charges.
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Epstein survivor Lara Blume McGee urged British Prime Minister Andy Burnham to directly press President Donald Trump not to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, saying the possibility of clemency for the woman she accused of grooming her was deeply disturbing. McGee said Maxwell began grooming her when she was 20 and argued that Britain had a responsibility to speak forcefully because Maxwell is a British citizen. Attorney Spencer Kuvin, who has represented multiple Epstein survivors, echoed that demand and said Burnham should make clear to the Trump administration that freeing Maxwell would have consequences far beyond American politics. Their concerns were heightened by Trump’s refusal to categorically rule out a pardon and by Maxwell’s lawyers suggesting that she would cooperate more fully with investigations into Epstein’s crimes if she received clemency. Survivors viewed that possibility as an unacceptable bargain in which the person convicted of helping Epstein abuse young women and girls could potentially trade information for her freedom.
The article also placed the pardon controversy within the broader political fight surrounding Maxwell’s treatment by the Justice Department. Survivors remained angry over her transfer to a minimum-security federal prison after lengthy meetings with Todd Blanche and feared that the favorable treatment could ultimately culminate in clemency. Kuvin argued that a pardon would send a devastating message to trafficking survivors by suggesting that a convicted accomplice could receive special consideration because she possessed information about powerful people. The pressure on Burnham also came after the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a nonbinding resolution opposing any presidential pardon or clemency for Maxwell, demonstrating unusually broad political opposition to the idea. McGee and other survivors were therefore calling on the British government to add its voice to that opposition and to support a wider independent inquiry into Epstein, Maxwell and anyone else credibly implicated in their crimes.
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'Andy Burnham needs to tell Trump not to pardon my groomer Ghislaine Maxwell' | News Politics | Metro News
Bryan Kohberger’s defense asked the court to exclude testimony from Rylene Nowlin, the laboratory manager at the Idaho State Police Forensic Services Laboratory, concerning how Kohberger’s DNA allegedly came to be on the knife sheath recovered from the King Road crime scene. The defense specifically challenged Nowlin’s proposed opinion that the DNA was more likely deposited through direct transfer rather than indirectly transferred from another person or object. Kohberger’s attorneys argued that determining precisely how or when DNA was transferred went beyond the proper expertise of a traditional DNA analyst and entered an area where the forensic community lacked sufficient scientific consensus. They relied heavily on a 2024 National Institute of Standards and Technology report addressing DNA transfer, persistence, prevalence and recovery, which cautioned against analysts offering conclusions about the activity or mechanism that caused DNA to appear on an item. The defense maintained that Nowlin’s opinion would therefore be speculative, potentially misleading to jurors and unfairly prejudicial because it could make the DNA on the sheath appear more incriminating than the underlying science justified.
Kohberger’s lawyers also sought to prevent witnesses from describing the sheath evidence using terms such as “touch DNA” or “contact DNA,” arguing that those labels could misleadingly suggest that Kohberger necessarily touched the sheath himself. They further contended that Nowlin’s proposed testimony was not legitimate rebuttal evidence because her opinion about direct DNA transfer effectively supported a central part of the prosecution’s affirmative theory of the case and should have been presented and disclosed accordingly. Judge Steven Hippler ultimately declined to exclude Nowlin’s opinions, finding that expert testimony concerning the relative likelihood of direct versus indirect DNA transfer could help jurors understand the significance of the DNA evidence. However, the judge agreed that terminology such as “touch DNA,” “contact DNA” and “trace DNA” could create confusion and directed the parties to have their witnesses avoid those labels. The ruling therefore allowed Nowlin to testify about DNA transfer while restricting some of the terminology prosecutors could use to characterize the genetic material recovered from the sheath.
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U.S. Magistrate Judge Raymond E. Patricco denied Ashley Guillard’s motion to dismiss the defamation lawsuit brought by University of Idaho professor Rebecca Scofield, rejecting Guillard’s attempts to argue that the federal court lacked authority to hear the case. Guillard, who represented herself, contended that the court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction and personal jurisdiction over her, that Idaho was the wrong venue because she lived in Texas and posted her TikTok videos from there, and that the judge had demonstrated bias against her spiritual and psychic beliefs. The court disagreed, finding that Guillard had intentionally directed her accusations toward an Idaho professor and an Idaho-centered murder case and that Scofield alleged she suffered the resulting reputational, professional and emotional harm in Idaho. The judge concluded that those contacts were sufficient for the Idaho federal court to exercise jurisdiction over Guillard and that Idaho was a proper venue for the lawsuit.
Patricco also rejected Guillard’s argument that the court had improperly judged the validity of her tarot readings or spiritual practices. The judge explained that the case was not about deciding whether psychic abilities or spiritual beliefs were real; it was about whether Guillard had made actionable defamatory statements about Scofield, including accusations that Scofield had been romantically involved with one of the murdered students and had arranged the killings. At the motion-to-dismiss stage, the court was required to accept Scofield’s well-pleaded allegations as true and determine whether they stated a legally viable defamation claim, not decide whether Guillard’s accusations were ultimately true. Patricco found that Scofield had adequately alleged defamation and ruled that Guillard’s disagreements with earlier court decisions did not establish judicial bias or justify throwing out the case. On November 13, 2023, he therefore denied Guillard’s motion to set aside the court’s prior rulings and denied her motion to dismiss, allowing Scofield’s lawsuit to continue.
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In the chaotic weeks after the November 2022 murders of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, TikTok creator Ashley Guillard began posting videos in which she claimed that University of Idaho history professor Rebecca Scofield had been involved in the killings. Guillard said her accusations were based on tarot-card readings and what she described as spiritual intuition, rather than evidence produced by investigators. She went even further, falsely alleging that Scofield had been romantically involved with one of the victims and had orchestrated the murders to prevent that relationship from being exposed. Scofield had no connection to the killings, and police had not identified her as a suspect. Despite cease-and-desist demands, Guillard continued making the accusations and ultimately produced more than 100 videos promoting her theory. Scofield responded by filing a defamation lawsuit in December 2022, arguing that the allegations had damaged her reputation, caused severe emotional distress and exposed her to harassment and threats.
The lawsuit eventually became a stark example of the real-world consequences of the rampant online speculation that surrounded the Moscow murder investigation. A federal judge ruled in 2024 that Guillard's claims were defamatory and unsupported by viable evidence, and the case later went before a jury to determine damages. In February 2026, a federal jury found Guillard liable and ordered her to pay Scofield $10 million, including $2.5 million in compensatory damages and $7.5 million in punitive damages. Guillard represented herself at trial and continued to maintain that she believed her psychic conclusions were accurate, even though Bryan Kohberger had already pleaded guilty to murdering the four students. Scofield testified that the accusations had severely affected her mental health, professional life and sense of personal security. The case ultimately illustrated one of the ugliest aspects of the online frenzy surrounding the Moscow murders: an innocent person had been publicly accused of participating in a quadruple homicide based not on forensic evidence, witness testimony or police work, but on a TikTok personality's tarot readings.
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A former middle school friend of Bryan Kohberger, Jack Baylis, described Kohberger as someone who had struggled with dating and had expressed frustration toward women years before the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Baylis said the two had talked about being ignored or “ghosted” by women and about their difficulties with the dating scene. He also recalled Kohberger sending messages in which he said he had been depressed for a long time and had developed what he described as a strange sense of meaning. Baylis further claimed that Kohberger sometimes became aggressive when he drank, to the point that friends would hide his car keys, and said Kohberger had also used other drugs. The account was presented as part of an examination of Kohberger’s background and personality, rather than as evidence directly connecting him to the Moscow murders.
The discussion also explored whether Kohberger’s reported frustration with women offered any meaningful insight into his state of mind, although no established motive for the murders had been publicly proven at the time. A psychologist featured in the coverage noted that frustration over dating could be associated with some men who identified with or resembled the online “incel” subculture, but that observation did not establish that Kohberger himself belonged to such a group. The broader picture painted by Baylis was of a young man who had struggled socially, experienced depression, dealt with substance abuse and could become difficult or aggressive under certain circumstances. Those recollections attracted attention because three of the four victims were women, but they remained retrospective accounts from someone who had known Kohberger years earlier and were not, by themselves, proof of motive or guilt in the killings.
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A former CIA officer argued that Bryan Kohberger’s white Hyundai Elantra could have become one of the most important pieces of evidence in the case against him because investigators believed the vehicle had been used before and after the November 2022 murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Surveillance footage had captured a white sedan repeatedly driving near the King Road residence around the time of the killings, and investigators eventually identified Kohberger’s 2015 Hyundai Elantra as a vehicle of interest. After his arrest in Pennsylvania, authorities conducted an extensive search of the car and removed numerous components, including seat cushions, headrests, a door panel, a seat belt, the visor and even the brake and gas pedals. Former CIA officer and FBI agent Tracy Walder said investigators were likely looking for biological material hidden in areas that would have been difficult to completely clean, as well as evidence that the interior had been altered or scrubbed in an effort to destroy traces of the crime. She believed the car could potentially provide prosecutors with some of their strongest physical evidence.
The significance of the vehicle went beyond simply matching the general description of the car seen near the crime scene. Investigators hoped that blood, DNA, fibers or other microscopic material connected to the victims might have been transferred into the Elantra if the killer had driven it immediately after committing the murders. Experts noted that discovering such biological evidence would have dramatically strengthened the prosecution’s case, while finding evidence that someone had aggressively cleaned or altered the vehicle could also have become significant circumstantial evidence. The car had already played an important role in directing investigators toward Kohberger after a Washington State University officer located a white 2015 Hyundai Elantra registered to him. At the time the article was published in March 2023, however, authorities had not publicly disclosed what forensic testing of the vehicle had actually uncovered, meaning Walder’s assessment concerned what investigators might find rather than confirmed evidence already recovered from the car.
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Tyler Robinson’s defense filed its written bindover argument on August 11, 2026, responding to the state’s 28-page memorandum asking Judge Tony Graf to order Robinson to stand trial. The defense filing was submitted after the five-day preliminary hearing, during which Robinson’s lawyers challenged several important parts of the prosecution’s evidentiary presentation, particularly the reliability and interpretation of forensic evidence. During that hearing, the defense called FBI and ATF forensic witnesses and questioned the reliability and subjectivity of portions of the DNA analysis, while also emphasizing that Robinson had not emerged as an investigative suspect until he surrendered. The defense had previously highlighted the ATF finding that the bullet jacket fragment recovered during the autopsy could not be conclusively identified as having been fired from the rifle authorities linked to Robinson. Those issues formed the factual backdrop to the defense’s argument against bindover.
The central defense position was that prosecutors were asking the court to move Robinson into a capital murder trial even though significant weaknesses remained in the evidence used to identify him as the shooter and connect the recovered weapon to the killing. That stood directly against the prosecution’s position that Robinson’s alleged admissions, DNA evidence, surveillance footage and witness testimony made the bindover determination exceptionally straightforward. Importantly, the dispute was not about whether the state had proven Robinson guilty beyond a reasonable doubt; Judge Graf was deciding whether prosecutors had presented probable cause sufficient to send the seven charges to trial, a considerably lower legal threshold. Robinson’s defense was therefore attempting to persuade Graf that weaknesses exposed during the preliminary hearing were substantial enough that the state had not satisfied even that standard, while prosecutors argued that Robinson’s alleged admissions and the corroborating forensic and video evidence easily cleared it. The state is scheduled to file its rebuttal on August 18, with oral arguments before Graf set for September 1.
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yler Robinson’s defense filed its written bindover argument on August 11, 2026, responding to the state’s 28-page memorandum asking Judge Tony Graf to order Robinson to stand trial. The defense filing was submitted after the five-day preliminary hearing, during which Robinson’s lawyers challenged several important parts of the prosecution’s evidentiary presentation, particularly the reliability and interpretation of forensic evidence. During that hearing, the defense called FBI and ATF forensic witnesses and questioned the reliability and subjectivity of portions of the DNA analysis, while also emphasizing that Robinson had not emerged as an investigative suspect until he surrendered. The defense had previously highlighted the ATF finding that the bullet jacket fragment recovered during the autopsy could not be conclusively identified as having been fired from the rifle authorities linked to Robinson. Those issues formed the factual backdrop to the defense’s argument against bindover.
The central defense position was that prosecutors were asking the court to move Robinson into a capital murder trial even though significant weaknesses remained in the evidence used to identify him as the shooter and connect the recovered weapon to the killing. That stood directly against the prosecution’s position that Robinson’s alleged admissions, DNA evidence, surveillance footage and witness testimony made the bindover determination exceptionally straightforward. Importantly, the dispute was not about whether the state had proven Robinson guilty beyond a reasonable doubt; Judge Graf was deciding whether prosecutors had presented probable cause sufficient to send the seven charges to trial, a considerably lower legal threshold. Robinson’s defense was therefore attempting to persuade Graf that weaknesses exposed during the preliminary hearing were substantial enough that the state had not satisfied even that standard, while prosecutors argued that Robinson’s alleged admissions and the corroborating forensic and video evidence easily cleared it. The state is scheduled to file its rebuttal on August 18, with oral arguments before Graf set for September 1.
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The autopsy reports for University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin documented the extraordinary violence of the November 13, 2022 murders inside the King Road residence in Moscow. Spokane County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Veena Singh determined that all four died from multiple sharp-force injuries consistent with a large fixed-blade knife, including a weapon such as the Ka-Bar prosecutors said was used in the killings. Mogen suffered 28 stab wounds, including extensive injuries to her face, neck and upper body that damaged major blood vessels, a lung and her liver. Chapin suffered fewer wounds than the three women, but his injuries included devastating wounds to the neck and major blood vessels, including one wound reportedly measuring approximately seven inches deep. Singh concluded that all four victims experienced a high degree of pain or suffering before death, although Chapin's suffering was assessed as occurring to a lesser degree than that of the other victims.
The reports provided particularly disturbing new details about Kernodle and Goncalves. Kernodle suffered numerous wounds across her head, neck, chest, abdomen, back and extremities, including injuries to her heart, lung and major blood vessels, and her autopsy was the only one that specifically identified injuries consistent with defensive wounds, supporting the conclusion that she attempted to fight off her attacker. Goncalves suffered a combination of sharp-force and blunt-force trauma that the medical examiner described as more severe in certain respects than the injuries suffered by the others; her injuries included bleeding around the brain, a fractured nose, significant facial trauma and a knocked-out tooth, as well as evidence suggesting that an object had been pressed across her mouth. Taken together, the newly disclosed autopsy findings provided a much clearer medical picture of what occurred inside the house and demonstrated that this was not simply a series of quick fatal stab wounds, but an exceptionally violent attack in which the four victims suffered extensive and, in some cases, markedly different injuries before their deaths.
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