Four University of Idaho students are brutally murdered in their home in Moscow, Idaho on November 13th, 2022. Police suspect that the murder took place between 3am-4 and their bodies are 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 following the 19 page affidavit detailing evidence collected so far. Joe and Jackie discuss moving evidence as big as a mattress, the KA-BAR knife sheath and matching up knife inflicted wounds, history of KA-BAR knives, and more.

Show Notes:

0:00 - Intro

1:45 - Reopening the details of this case - 19-page affidavit dropped over the weekend.

2:30 - Multiple forms of evidence have been recovered including but not limited to  DNA, Cell Phone, CCTV Footage, Footprints, and the Knife Sheath.

4:00 -  What is Touch DNA?

7:32 - Has Blood evidence been found?

9:50 - What volume of DNA is needed to match a suspect from the evidence collected so far?

12:35 - Differentiation in wounds on the victim's bodies.

16:55 - Examining the mattresses that the bodies were found on, what they can reveal to a forensic expert.

21:45 - Proper handling of a piece of evidence as big as a person's mattress.

27:04 -  How do you match up wounds on a victim to a knife that may have been used to inflict those injuries? A KA-BAR knife sheath was found discarded on one of the victim's beds.

31:47 -  Before an Autopsy is conducted you perform an AP and a Lateral X-ray.

35:20 - History of the KA-BAR name and model.

37:07 - A footprint was discovered outside the surviving roommate's door. Investigators matched up the print to a Van skate shoe.

40:39 -  footprints can tell you about how a person walks, what part of the foot they walk on, and the persons gait.

42:00 - Outro

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