Behind the Badge
The Idaho Massacre
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3.6 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Idaho State Police Detective Hugh Powell takes us behind the scenes of one of the most complex investigations in recent memory — the search for answers after the tragedy on King Road. From the earliest hours of the case to the painstaking weeks that followed, Powell recounts the reality of working a true “whodunit,” the emotional toll on investigators, and the breakthrough that finally brought clarity to a community in mourning.
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| 0:00.0 | The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years, |
| 0:09.6 | until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. |
| 0:16.4 | America, y'all better work the hell up. |
| 0:18.1 | Bad things happens to good people in small towns. |
| 0:28.1 | Listen to Graves County on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
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| 0:42.0 | I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight... |
| 0:45.7 | And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke. |
| 0:49.8 | A man who robbed a bank when he was 14 years old. And a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago. |
| 0:58.5 | How can a 101-year-old woman fall in love again? |
| 1:05.3 | Listen to heavyweight on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:12.2 | On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in the |
| 1:21.0 | woods of Knoxville, Tennessee. Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row. |
| 1:27.0 | How does someone prove that they deserve to live? |
| 1:29.9 | We are starting the recording now. |
| 1:31.8 | Please state your first and last name. |
| 1:35.3 | Krista Pike. |
| 1:36.9 | Listen to Unrestorable Season 2, Proof of Life, on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:47.8 | Malcolm Gladwell here. This season on Revisionous History, we're going back to the spring of |
| 1:52.4 | 1988 to a town in northwest Alabama where a man committed a crime that would spiral out of |
| 1:58.2 | control. And he said, I've been in prison 24, 25 years. |
| 2:01.6 | That's probably not long enough. |
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