New Forensic Details From the Idaho Student Murders - Part 2
America's Crime Lab
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
When four University of Idaho students were brutally murdered in their Moscow home, investigators faced a nightmare. DNA evidence from the crime scene pointed nowhere, leaving the case cold. Detectives turned to a surviving roommate’s eyewitness account and cutting-edge forensic DNA technology to generate new leads in real time. Could this breakthrough uncover the truth about one of the most shocking college murders in recent history?
America’s Crime Lab is a true crime podcast about how science solves cold cases, missing persons, and other unsolved cases. Hosted by journalist and clinical psychologist Elin Lantz Lesser, and powered by Othram’s forensic DNA lab, the show connects the science to the story, revealing what really happens in the lab and why it matters.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | I was so frantic that morning and scared death, not knowing what had happened. |
| 0:26.6 | And when I made Bina-1-1-1 call, I couldn't even get out the words. |
| 0:32.6 | And from then on, I don't remember a thing. |
| 0:34.6 | It was like my brain wiped that whole memory. |
| 0:41.7 | That was the worst day of my life. |
| 0:43.9 | And I know it always will be. |
| 0:49.8 | The murders of four college students in Moscow, Idaho, |
| 0:53.8 | shocked the community and set off a desperate manhunt for the killer. It was a brutal crime, and investigators found surprisingly little evidence at the scene. |
| 1:01.0 | Authorities didn't know who they were searching for, or why the lives of the two surviving roommates had been spared. |
| 1:08.0 | But there was one big clue left behind. |
| 1:11.6 | Police found a key piece of evidence with the killer's DNA. |
| 1:15.1 | But it wasn't leading them to a suspect. |
| 1:18.6 | Meanwhile, it seemed like whoever did this was trying to stay one step ahead of investigators. |
| 1:23.7 | The United States This is America's |
| 1:35.3 | I'm Alyn Lance Lesser. |
| 1:37.3 | This is part two of the Idaho student murder case. |
| 1:41.3 | If you missed part one, please go back and listen. |
| 1:52.4 | I'm here with producer |
| 1:53.6 | Catherine Fenalosa |
| 1:54.6 | and listening to the words of Bethany, |
| 1:56.9 | one of the surviving roommates just now, |
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