After four of their peers were brutally slain in their beds, many others are choosing not to return to the University of Idaho, with between 25 and 40 per cent of the total student body estimated to be staying away.
The school in the city of Moscow was left reeling after the unsolved murder of four students in a shared university house.
Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20 and Ethan Chapin were found dead in their campus accommodation on November 13.
