CNN's John Sutter says the internet has played a big role in this case. He says police are forced to respond to theories that have sprung up on the internet and which are not correct. The best thing people can do is seek official information from Moscow Police Department, he says.
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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