New Forensic Details From the Idaho Student Murders - Part 3
America's Crime Lab
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Weeks after the violent murders of four University of Idaho students, investigators followed a trail of DNA evidence from Moscow to Pennsylvania. A midnight police stakeout tied a graduate student to the brutal stabbings. Now the question remains: will the victims’ families finally see justice in court?
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 IHeart podcast. |
| 0:19.4 | We're not law enforcement. We're not lawyers. We're not prosecutors. We're not DNA experts. |
| 0:27.7 | We're just mom and dad. We're just mom and dad. And all we could do is trust this system. |
| 0:34.6 | You have no other choice. I mean, you could spend a lot of energy being really |
| 0:40.6 | angry or caught up in the process, but there was, there's nothing we could do. We just decided to |
| 0:50.2 | make sure that we were figuring out how to honor Ethan and kind of bring his memory along with us. |
| 1:03.6 | It's been weeks since four students were murdered in their off-campus house near the University of Idaho. |
| 1:10.4 | And for the first time, DNA from the crime scene is pointing police to a possible suspect. |
| 1:26.9 | This is America's Crime Lab. |
| 1:29.2 | I'm Alyn Lance Lesser. |
| 1:31.7 | This is part three of the Idaho student murder case. |
| 1:35.3 | If you missed the first two episodes, please go back and listen. |
| 1:48.5 | I'm here with producer Catherine Fenelosa. |
| 1:51.4 | And Catherine, when we left off, |
| 1:54.3 | Arthur had traced the suspect's family to Pennsylvania. |
| 1:57.1 | Yeah, it's just after Thanksgiving, |
| 2:00.0 | and the Moscow community is still on edge. |
| 2:02.0 | I mean, police haven't made an arrest. |
| 2:08.0 | Meanwhile, students are returning from break, and they're terrified. I mean, they're making sure their doors are locked. They're only venturing out in groups. You can just feel a real sense of panic. |
| 2:14.7 | And in the middle of all of this fear, the University of Idaho decides to hold a vigil |
| 2:20.6 | to honor the victims, Ethan, Zana, Maddie, and Kaylee. And they hold it in the school's |
| 2:26.8 | huge indoor football stadium. The school feels it's important, you know, for them all to come |
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