Sally Kretzeg is a reporter with the Idaho statesman. She's been covering the murders in Moscow from her home base in Boise. Four students who attended the University of Idaho were killed on November 12th. Residents are scared and rumors, persistent, distracting rumors, ginned up by internet sleuths.
Investigators are still trying to solve the brutal November killings of four college students in Moscow, Idaho. Making their work harder: the hordes of online sleuths who’ve latched on to the case.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King.
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