Reddit moderator: We really wanted to make sure that this was going to be a subreddit that had the news and we didn't allow any disrespectful conversations towards the victims, their families or people that haven't been identified by the police. Do you think armchair detectives from across the country that have no law enforcement background will be able to do anything to solve this case? Definitely not. That is not even like the purpose of the subreddit. It was for news.
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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