By GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO, CHIEF U.S. REPORTER
Published: 15:03 EST, 6 March 2025 | Updated: 15:03 EST, 6 March 2025
Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger wants a judge to exclude his Amazon shopping list from evidence jurors will see at his upcoming trial, according to a newly-unsealed court filing.
The Idaho murders suspect, 30, is expected to go on trial in August for the killings of University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, at their off-campus house in 2022.
His lawyer Elisa Massoth claims the Amazon evidence, including Kohberger's 'click activity,' should be banned from the trial because the term is too vague and does not 'show a full picture.'
The defense also argued the account could have been used by other 'household members.'
It's unclear what potentially embarrassing items are on the Amazon shopping list.
But NBC's Dateline has reported that Kohberger bought a Ka-Bar knife on the shopping platform in 2022, as noted by Fox News. Police had previously tried to link Kohberger to the knife sheath found under the body of one of the victims, according to court documents.
The defense's filing says the Amazon history and click activity 'amount to cherry picked limited data that does not show a full picture, compared to warrants that requested extensive data.'
'The State’s refining of all the Amazon history and Amazon click activity is out of context, incomplete, and unfairly prejudicial, thus making it inadmissible,' the defense attorney added.
The filing also argued that Amazon uses AI-driven algorithms that 'shape user behavior' and 'actively guide purchasing behavior.'
Bryan Kohberger's defense also wants the terms 'murder', 'psychopath' and 'sociopath' also banned from the trial
From left: Dylan Mortensen, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen (on Kaylee's shoulders), Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Bethany Funke
The off-campus home at 1122 King Road where the four students were found brutally murdered on November 13 2022
'This means that a user’s browsing and purchase history may not necessarily reflect deliberate intent but could have been shaped by Amazon’s algorithm,' Kohberger's lawyer concluded.
Kohberger's team is also demanding that that the bizarre two-word phrase 'bushy eyebrows' is banned from his high-profile death penalty trial.
In a series of motions, filed on February 24 and made public this week, the accused mass killer's defense made a string of requests asking the judge to block certain words and phrases from his trial.
On the proposed list of banned terms is 'murder,' 'bushy eyebrows,' 'psychopath' and 'sociopath.'
'Bushy eyebrows' was the defining characteristic that the slain victims' surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen recalled about the masked intruder she saw leaving the student house moments after the brutal murders are believed to have taken place.
According to Kohberger's defense, 'the description provided by D.M. is unreliable and should be excluded' from the courtroom.
Mortensen is expected to be a key witness when Kohberger goes on trial in August charged with the murders.
The four University of Idaho students were all found stabbed to death inside an off-campus student home at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho, back on November 13 2022.
Bryan Kohberger (seen in a mugshot) is seeking to have the phrase 'bushy eyebrows' banned from his murder trial
DNA was found on a Ka-Bar knife sheath (seen in a stock image) left behind at the scene
The brutality of the murders - and the mystery around who was responsible - plunged the small college town into fear and sent shockwaves across America.
Kohberger's team is also continuing to fight to get the death penalty off the table in the case - with their latest argument being that the accused killer has autism and that his diagnosis 'exposes him to the unacceptable risk' that a jury will convict him of murder and sentence him to death.
According to prosecutors, touch DNA found on the sheath belongs to Kohberger and was traced to him using Investigative Genetic Genealogy.
Kohberger's team has tried unsuccessfully to have the IGG evidence tossed from the trial.
The defense also pointed to blood from two unknown men also found at the King Road home - one on the handrail between the first and second floor, and the second on a glove found outside.
He has so far offered up a vague alibi for the night of the murders claiming he was driving around at night looking at the stars.
No witnesses can corroborate where he was, his attorney Anne Taylor admitted in a court filing.
As well as the DNA found on the knife sheath, prosecutors say Kohberger was also tied to the murders through his white Hyundai Elantra - matching the car seen leaving the crime scene at the time of the murders - and cellphone records placing him in the vicinity of the home.
Kohberger is next due in court in April.