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Many of Bryan Kohberger’s defense witnesses don’t want to go to Idaho and testify at his upcoming murder trial – including his former boxing coach, who told a Pennsylvania judge the suspected killer never competed and just came to work out.

Jesse Harris, a boxing gym owner and contractor who Kohberger claimed to have studied under as a teen, asked a Pennsylvania judge to block his subpoena in the case based on undue hardship and the fact that it’s been almost 15 years since he saw the 30-year-old Kohberger.

Harris said his wife is fighting cancer, and he can’t step away from his business for “20 minutes,” let alone the time it would take to travel to and from Boise.

He said he never met Kohberger. The judge declared the current subpoena invalid but gave Kohberger’s lawyers a chance to amend it. Vecchio is due back in court next week. He said his 88-year-old father is “homebound” and in poor health.

William Searfoss, a jail guard who preserved Kohberger’s records from a brief stay in Pennsylvania lockup before his extradition to Idaho, will likely not need to appear. Kohberger’s attorneys need to subpoena those records themselves and not the correction officer who maintains them. He’s due back in court next week, and Kohberger’s lawyers will subpoena the records directly.

Witness for the Kohberger trial William Searfoss leavest court.

Witness William Searfoss exits the courthouse in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania June 30, 2025. Searfoss is being summoned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to testify at the trial for alleged murderer Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of stabbing four college students to death in Idaho. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

Maggie Sanders was unavailable for Monday’s hearing due to international travel. She is due in court on July 7. Her connection to Kohberger remains unclear.

Ann Parham, an advisor at Kohberger’s former high school, was ordered to testify before Monday’s hearing and will be present at trial. 

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