The internet becomes obsessed with this and let me ask you if I am to look online, where am I going to see this most? It's on Reddit. It's on Instagram. Anywhere they're social media, I have basically seen accounts trying to solve this and people debating amongst themselves. Are these internet sleuths having a real world effect on people in Moscow? Yeah. They loved Maddie and Kaylee. And the sister is getting more and more upset as she's arguing with this complete stranger who is convinced they know who did it.
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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