MOSCOW, Idaho — It’s been one month since four University of Idaho students were found dead in an off-campus home, abruptly thrusting this college town into an unfamiliar spotlight that some fear may forever link it to the baffling crime the community is still struggling to comprehend.
Since Nov. 13, #MoscowHomicides and #Idaho4 have trended as social media hashtags, increasingly needing no other explanation while a nation remains transfixed. The outside attention only seems to grow with each passing week as the victims’ unthinkable stabbing deaths continue to go unsolved.
Within the bucolic North Idaho border town where residents regularly didn’t bother to lock their doors, the shocking incident has shaken their sense of security while also threatening to alter their way of life. Members of the student body and local police force have acknowledged that the city’s first homicides in seven years robbed not just the victims of their lives, but the community of its innocence.
