This is Hidden Killers Week in review.

I look back at the most prolific stories of the week.

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.

Here now, Tony Bruske.

There's a strange quiet that settles into the lives of grieving.

It doesn't arrive all at once, not like the news that triggers it. That part comes fast

to knock at the door, a phone call, a word you can't unhear. But the quiet and sleeps in.

It lingers. It replaces the normal rhythm of things. And once it is there, it stays. You wake up to it. You go to sleep with it.

It threads through your days in ways that never fully makes sense. Stacey Chapin knows that quiet.

She lives with it. Her son, Ethan Chapin knows that quiet. She lives with it.

Her son, Ethan Chapin, he was 20 years old when he was murdered in November of 2022,

along with three of his close friends, his girlfriend, Zanerkernotel,

and her roommates, Kaylee Consolves, and Madison Mogan for college students.

Their lives extinguished in their off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho.

The house was quiet when police arrived, too quiet.

There was no forced entry, no alarm, no idea who could have done something so horrifying or why,

but there was something else missing, too.

Even after police arrested 28-year-old criminology PhD student Brian Koberger,

even after he was charged with four counts of first-degree murder, there was no confession, no admission, no insight, and ultimately no motive.

Until there finally was the confession when he realized he had no path forward in court.

That last part, it broke some people.

Other than the admission you didn't get the rest because when someone you love is taken from you your brain starts looking for patterns why them why? Why us? Why that day? And if you don't

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