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

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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