Introducing 'The King Road Killings: An Idaho Murder Mystery'

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ABC News

True Crime

3.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It began as a weekend of football, parties, late-night food and good friends -- a normal Saturday night in the college town of Moscow, Idaho. But Sunday morning, four University of Idaho students are found stabbed to death in their beds. Through friends, witnesses, video surveillance and social media footage, we get to know who the victims were and reconstruct their final hours. Presenting the first episode of the new true-crime podcast "The King Road Killings: An Idaho Murder Mystery," a series that goes behind the scenes of the investigation into the savage murders of four University of Idaho students -- a case that captivated and horrified the nation in the winter of 2022. Find new episodes weekly on Apple Podcasts (https://tinyurl.com/2p8tbm6r), Spotify (https://tinyurl.com/yc2wj534), Amazon Music (https://tinyurl.com/3akehrhk) or wherever you're listening now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Kena Whitworth, and I want to tell you about a new podcast I'm hosting for ABC.
0:05.2	The King Road Killings investigates the mysterious murders of four University of Idaho students
0:10.8	at an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho last year.
0:15.0	What happened that night?
0:16.7	How did authorities come to arrest a PhD student studying criminology?
0:21.7	And why did this case garner so much interest from people across the country and the world?
0:28.0	We're about to play you the first episode of the King Road Killings.
0:31.7	While you're listening, I hope you'll click on the link in our episode description to
0:35.4	follow along for the rest of the story and new developments as they happen.
0:39.7	Again, it's the King Road Killings from ABC News available now, wherever you listen.
0:49.8	It's a golden November day in Moscow, Idaho, a college town surrounded by rolling wheat
0:56.0	fields.
0:59.4	The University of Idaho football team, The Vandals, is playing its last home game of the season.
1:05.0	The marching band plays the fight song.
1:12.5	Thousands of people crowd into the Kibbe Dome to watch them take on UC Davis.
1:17.3	Local broadcaster SWX televised this high stakes game.
1:21.4	Every emotional day, both teams needing this victory for the postseason, there's a lot
1:26.3	riding on the lawn.
1:27.9	Moscow is a town of about 11,000 people, but it doubles in size when schools in session.
1:34.1	It has that mountain town vibe with a lot of people who love the outdoors.
1:39.3	There's tailgating outside the stadium, downtown, people are wearing black and gold vandal gear.
1:45.0	The University campus, really the whole town of Moscow is a buzz.
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