My two cents.
I’ve done a couple of podcasts about the quadruple murders in Moscow, Idaho.
I don’t have access to the case file or the evidence, but as I watch this investigation unfold, I’m alarmed by a couple of things.
First, the Moscow Police have released way too much information in this case. They tell family members who immediately jump in front of cameras to describe what they’ve been told. These are rookie mistakes by an agency over their heads in this investigation.
Secondly, they called in the FBI.
Despite what the FBI wants everyone to believe, and I have a lot of friends who are or where FBI agents, they are not experts in murder investigations. They’ve read many books about it, and television shows make them out to be, but they investigate almost no murders unless they happen on federal property or an Indian reservation. They produce profiles. Historically, these have been wrong as much as they’ve been right.
A profile is just something to consider. The problem is those small departments with little or no experience in cases like these treat it as the gospel—a grave mistake.
Hopefully, they will have found DNA on the scene from the suspect. If so, the mistakes they’ve committed thus far will be mitigated.
We can only hope.