By late November, 2022, Moscow, Idaho had become something no one ever expected it to be.

A place where people were afraid to walk alone at night, where students were fleeing campus en masse,

and where a quadruple murder investigation

was consuming resources. From across the Pacific Northwest, it had been just over a week

since four University of Idaho students were brutally murdered in their off-campus home, but it felt

like a lifetime. The small college town that had prided itself

on being one of the safest places in America was now the epicenter of one of the most complex

murder investigations in recent memory. Previously on Brian Coburger, how he got here,

four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death on November 13th, 2022.

The immediate aftermath saw hardware stores selling out of locks,

students leaving campus early for Thanksgiving break,

and investigators from multiple agencies descending on a small college town

that had never seen anything like this level of violence.

The community transformed overnight from a place where people didn't lock their doors

to a place where everyone was looking over their shoulders.

I'm Tony Bruske, and this is our look back on how we got here in the case against Brian

Koberger, and this is episode three, a community

in fear. Today we're talking about how the investigation exploded in scope during late November

2022, how the FBI's involvement transformed the case into a national story, and how a routine

police patrol and nearby Pullman would identify a crucial piece of evidence,

though no one would know its significance for weeks.

The turning point came on November 16th, three days after the murders, when Moscow Police

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