The Moscow murders

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Investigators are still trying to solve the brutal November killings of four college students in Moscow, Idaho. Making their work harder: the hordes of online sleuths who’ve latched on to the case. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The police department in Moscow, Idaho, publishes a daily log of calls that come in.
0:07.1	On November 11, a DUI, a disabled vehicle, an unconscious person outside of a flat house,
0:12.9	a drug search among others.
0:14.9	Moscow is a college town.
0:17.2	November 12th is a lot of the same.
0:19.0	Loud music, officer responded.
0:21.2	Another DUI, another drug search.
0:23.3	A straight puppy that was too skittish for anyone to grab a hold of.
0:27.9	On November 13th, there's a report in the log that very rarely appears in Moscow.
0:32.9	In fact, it hadn't appeared for the previous seven years.
0:36.8	Homicide.
0:38.0	In the three weeks since, police in Moscow have foundered.
0:41.5	The homicides, four of them, are unsolved.
0:44.3	They do not have a suspect, residents are scared.
0:47.4	And rumors, persistent distracting rumors, ginned up by internet sleuths, have introduced
0:52.8	chaos into the investigation.
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