Fraser Bohm to Face Trial After Judge Rejects Motion to Drop Murder Charges in Malibu Crash

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Thomas Rubinson on Monday denied a bid to throw out murder charges against Fraser Michael Bohm , keeping intact the case stemming from a 2023 crash on Pacific Coast Highway that left four Pepperdine University seniors dead.

Defense attorneys had urged the court to find insufficient evidence to support the murder counts, seeking to undo an April ruling by another judge that sent the case toward trial. Judge Rubinson rejected the motion, leaving all charges in place.

Bohm, 22 at the time of the collision and now 24, faces four counts of murder and four counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence in the Oct. 17, 2023 crash near a stretch o

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