content warning, this episode discusses murder and violence. Two cases we've

been covering a lot of recently are of course the Delphi murders in Indiana and

the University of Idaho murders in Idaho. These cases are actually quite

different in some ways, although they both share one thing. They've attracted

intense media scrutiny and partly as a result of that intense media scrutiny,

they also both have ag orders associated with them. Now in our experience, there's

a lot of confusion understandably so about what exactly gag orders mean and what

they actually do and what the purpose is. And so today in this episode I thought

we might just basically focus on the topic of gag orders in general, but especially

as they pertain to these two cases in Indiana and Idaho and maybe look at some

of the similarities, some of the differences and also how different entities

have reacted to these gag orders. My name is Ania Keane. I'm a journalist and I'm

Kevin Greenley. I'm an attorney and this is the murder sheet. We're a true

crime podcast focused on original reporting interviews and deep dives into

murder cases. We're the murder sheet and this is the Delphi murders and the

University of Idaho murders gag orders.

What is a gag order? What exactly does this mean? Well, basically it is when the

court issues are ruling, restricting the ability of certain people to talk

about certain facts of the case in some way. It's usually like perhaps the

people who are attorneys on the case, people who are parties to the case, people

who may be potential witnesses. For whatever reasons, the court may decide that

it is proper to limit the ability of those people to go out and just say

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