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Bryan Kohberger murder narrative is ‘weird’: Harvey Levin

Liz Jassin

(NewsNation) — TMZ executive producer Harvey Levin says he’s skeptical when it comes to the evidence against Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four college students in Idaho.

Levin joined NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield on Thursday night to discuss his new series, “Strange & Suspicious,” which explores unexplained stories, including the University of Idaho murder case.

Levin clarified he’s not doubting evidence in the case, but he’s also not convinced by the prosecutor’s theories.

“I’m not saying he (Kohberger) didn’t do it,” Levin said on “Banfield.” “I’m saying the circumstances are boldly weird here.”

Kohberger faces four murder charges in connection with the November 2022 stabbing deaths of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves in their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho.

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This July 2022 photo provided by Jazzmin Kernodle shows University of Idaho students Xana Kernodle, right, and Ethan Chapin on a boat on Priest Lake, in Idaho. Both students were among four found stabbed to death in an off-campus rental home on Nov. 13. (Jazzmin Kernodle via AP)
Bryan Kohberger, left, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, appears at a hearing in Latah County District Court, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool)
Heavy equipment is used to demolish the house where four University of Idaho students were killed in 2022 on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Bryan Kohberger, left, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, looks toward his attorney, public defender Anne Taylor, right, during a hearing in Latah County District Court, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool)
FILE – A flyer seeking information about the killings of four University of Idaho students who were found dead is displayed on a table along with buttons and bracelets on Nov. 30, 2022, during a vigil in memory of the victims in Moscow, Idaho. A suspect in the killings of four University of Idaho students was arrested in eastern Pennsylvania, a law enforcement official said Friday, Dec. 30. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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Authorities in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, arrested  Kohberger, then a student at Washington State University, on Dec. 30, 2022.

Levin wants to know why Kohberger didn’t think about the screams from the victims, being a former graduate student at Washington State University’s Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology.

“Unless he planned on taking everybody out of the house, somebody’s gonna ID this guy, and it’s game over. … Circumstances are boldly weird here,” Levin said. “Unless he felt like he could take our six people, there was a huge risk. … I just don’t buy the party house theory.”

The trial is expected to start next June. If convicted, Kohberger, who entered a not guilty plea, could face the death penalty.