Thoma agreed to lure Hirte into one final conversation about the killing. Once again, he went through it detail by detail, authorities said. But this time, there was a
In the weeks following his arrest, authorities say, evidence against Hirte continued to mount. Using DNA samples taken from the sheath of Hirte's black hunting knife, authorities identified the droplets as Glenn Kopitske's blood. Though the shotgun used in the killing has never been recovered, prosecutors say they can prove that the 1992 Dodge Dynasty that Kopitske's neighbor claimed he had seen cruising down
In March, with about a dozen supportive classmates in tow and Gerry Boyle, the
Until then, he remains in jail on $400,000 bail. In one final ironic twist to the story, a few days before his arrest, Hirte received a letter from
He had wanted to study criminal justice. Now, he's spending what would have been his first semester studying the criminal justice system from the inside.