There were no signs of forced entry. The house had a code that you would punch in to get into it. It was a party house and so we're not sure if maybe someone knew the code. We don't know what the motive is, but police have said that they seem to have reason to think the community has nothing to worry about.
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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