Four Dead Students in Moscow, Idaho - The Search for a Killer Continues

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Four University of Idaho students are brutally murdered in their home in Moscow, Idaho on November 13th, 2022. Police suspect that the murder took place between 3am-4 and their bodies are discovered by a friend that same morning around noon. Investigators believe that the murder weapon was a knife of some sort. This case is still unfolding.

In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the gruesome nature of this case, the murder weapon, making sense of the chaos of the crime scene, what police are looking for in the surveillance footage, and more.

Show Notes:

0:00 - Intro

1:25 - Background and overview of case

2:26 - The police not knowing what they were walking into

6:20 - Side door being the point of entry

8:30 - Signs of forced entry, the window, and how it could have been pried open

10:07 - Light sources

12:30 - Two roommates who survived, who was stabbed first, the murder weapon

18:26 - The style of weapon suggests that this was a targeted attack

21:34 - How do we tell who was stabbed first and what are we going to find on the other victims?

26:38 - Making sense of the chaos

28:05 - Co-mingling of blood, actions of the perpetrator, finding the knife

31:54 - Other injuries to expect in this case

35:38 - What exactly are the police looking for in the video surveillance footage?

40:38 - Outro

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0:00.0	I don't use the word carnage with great frequency, but I gotta say, what has occurred
0:29.9	up in Moscow, Idaho, is beyond belief that you've got four college students
0:41.4	that were at various stages in their college career, they were living life, they
0:47.2	were achieving those goals and they were about to cross that hill into full-on
0:53.0	adulthood, but their life, their lives ended at the hands of what can only be
1:01.4	described as a monster. Today we're gonna talk about a quadruple homicide by
1:13.2	sharp force injury. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags. I'm so glad to have
1:25.8	with me today, my friend Jackie Howard Jackie, I don't know what to say, I really don't
1:31.6	I'm a college professor. When this happened, when this event occurred, all I could do
1:39.2	is think about my students. I've been having a hard time dealing with this as a professor
1:44.6	all week long thinking about my kids at my school, I'm thinking about my child right now,
1:50.9	one of my children's in college and I can only imagine the parents of these poor, poor
1:56.9	kids what they're going through. Like my students right now, I'm away, I'm away from class
2:03.2	and I felt as though that Jackie, you and I need to have a chat as soon as we possibly could
2:08.4	about this case. Well, we both did indeed plan some time off, but you're right. This was
2:13.4	really important to address what is going on because there's so much to discuss. So before
2:19.4	we even get inside and talk about the tremendous horrendous scene that officers found, let's
2:27.8	talk about the outside scene and here's why I want to start there. There's been a lot
2:32.7	of criticism of the police because when you look at the photos of all the police cars at
2:39.5	the home, they are right up on the scene. The tape is not there yet, but there's cop cars
2:47.0	everywhere. And I've learned from you that you have to cordon off the scene because you don't
2:54.2	know what information that you're damaging, what evidence that you're damaging. But the
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