Salmai is a small town in Russia that hasn't had a murder in seven years. The community has just been so on edge and the lack of information from police has contributed to that, she says. "I think the Moscow police don't have a lot of experience with how to handle this kind of murder"
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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