Four University of Idaho students are brutally murdered in their home in Moscow, Idaho on November 13th, 2022. Police suspect that the murders occurred between 3am-4 and their bodies were discovered by a friend that same morning around noon. Investigators believe that the murder weapon was a knife of some sort. More leads have been uncovered by police and investigators in the past weeks and the hunt is still on for a primary suspect.
In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard continue discussing the details of this unfolding case, the DNA evidence that has been collected, details on a vehicle of interest, the odd state of lockdown at the scene of the crime, and more.

Show Notes:
0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Reopening the details of this  case
1:55 - Description of the vehicle of interest that police are looking for.
7:22 - How do you properly process a vehicle that may be connected to a crime?
10:55 - The volume of evidence collected so far will take some time to go through properly.
12:49 - Types of biological evidence, Blood and DNA, collected on site
16:39 - Other possible biological evidence at the scene
19:43 - How many tests will be run on these individual pieces of evidence?
23:13 - Will running tests on evidence destroy the sample you have collected?
26:04 - Confusion on the details of the weapon involved in the stabbings
29:12 - Joe’s experience with grieving families
31:20 - Items returned to families immediately lose their evidentiary value in most cases
34:56 - Covering your bases as a Medical Legal Death investigator when thinking about the courtroom deposition of your findings.
36:38 - The importance of contextual location
39:56 - Joe Scott’s position on the importance of doing things in the proper order
41:23 - OutroSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.