The King Road Killings | Ep. 2: The Aftermath

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True Crime

3.8 • 7.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the second episode of the new true-crime podcast "The King Road Killings: An Idaho Murder Mystery," nearly eight hours pass after the murders of four University of Idaho students before police receive a 911 call from the house. Why the delay? Who discovers the murder scene and what do they see? Police don’t offer many answers initially, except to say they believe the murders were “targeted,” and that the community is safe. But without more information, speculation starts to swirl about who killed these students and why. Media descend to report the story, and amateur internet sleuths turn this real-life tragedy into true crime entertainment – and the small town of Moscow endures a second wave of trauma. 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	This is Kena Whitworth with episode two of our new True Crime podcast, The King Road
0:05.6	Killings, about the murders of four University of Idaho students last year.
0:11.4	In episode one, you heard what authorities and witnesses have said happened in the house
0:16.8	that night.
0:18.1	In this episode, we ask why nearly eight hours passed before anyone called 911.
0:25.4	Who discovers the scene?
0:27.6	And as police stayed tight-lipped in the weeks after, speculations swirled about who killed
0:33.8	the students and why.
0:36.5	Follow the King Road Killings by clicking on the link in our episode description or searching
0:42.5	for the King Road Killings wherever you're listening now.
0:46.8	On Sunday morning, November 13th of last year, word began to spread that something awful
0:52.5	might have happened inside the house on King Road.
0:56.8	That someone or multiple people had been killed.
1:00.9	Friends started to reach out to the five roommates who lived there, checking in, hoping this
1:06.0	was all some wild campus rumor.
1:08.2	I were like, okay, let's figure it out.
1:11.8	Like, that's not panic, you know, we're gonna make sure this is actually what happened.
1:18.0	Katie, a close friend of the victims who you met in the last episode, remembers the moment
1:23.6	she first realized the tragic news might be true.
1:28.0	And I remember texting Julie.
1:31.0	See, does she was okay?
1:37.4	She obviously didn't respond, because it was in the morning.
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