Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Body Bags: Four Dead Students in Moscow, Idaho - The Search for a Killer Continues

Episode Date: November 22, 2022

Listen to the full episode in the 'Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan' podcast feed. Four University of Idaho students are brutally murdered in their home in Moscow, Idaho on November 13th, 2022. In a brand new episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the gruesome nature of this case, the murder weapon, making sense of the chaos of the crime scene, what police are looking for in the surveillance footage, and more. Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/body-bags-with-joseph-scott-morgan/id1587763116?i=1000587127314 Listen on iHeart Podcasts: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-body-bags-with-joseph-scot-87375583/episode/four-dead-students-in-moscow-104974629/ Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4hYySrxyohdgOvkfHillx6?si=9593b6f946ea4625  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. This is Joseph Scott Morgan, host of Body Bags. This week, I'll be examining the forensics behind the Idaho murders and what we know about the crime scene. Like my students right now, I'm away. I'm away from class, and I felt as though that, Jackie, you and I need to have a chat as soon as we possibly could about this case. Well, we both did indeed plan some time off, Joe, but you're right.

This was really important. When the police entered that residence, they found something that was just mind-blowing. So two points of entry only. So that actually narrows down what the police investigators have to look at. And there's a wood line over to the left. It would have been a perfect location for somebody that had targeted this home to be able to stand back there in the dead of night because they believe this happened under cover of darkness. And a lot of people are asking questions about the two roommates who survived. The authorities were looking for what they termed

as a military-style knife. What I find interesting is the fact that in using this style of weapon, it tells me that it probably was a targeted attack because somebody had to bring that weapon with them. And those are what we refer to in forensics and in investigations as weapons of convenience. That's not what we're talking about here.

The information released by the coroner in the case says some of the victims had defensive wounds. Even the most highly skilled forensic pathologist that gets on the stand and testifies, they will always have this disclosure. But what exactly are they looking for? Someone who followed the girls when they went to the food truck? Someone who might have been outside the home?

I mean... As forensic scientists, it's your job to make sense of the chaos. But we do know they are going to have a Herculean task to be able to try to separate this out. Listen to this week's brand new Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, now on iHeart Podcast, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an iHeart Podcast.