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Idaho 4- The University of Idaho Murders Part 2

·1 hr 22 min·5 clips

Police believed the phone returned to the King Road house between 9:12 and 9:21 a.m.

Tarella opens by saying this is the second half of their Idaho Four coverage. She tells listeners they do not have to hear it in order, though she still recommends part one for context. The episode moves quickly past recap and into what matters now: the reported vehicle, the five camera hits in Pullman and on the WSU campus, and the route that seems to snake away from the obvious path. The hosts keep comparing that path to the direct Moscow-to-Pullman drive. They land on the idea that the longer neighborhood route looks suspicious and more deliberate, especially at 5:25 in the morning. That correction matters, because the timeline only works if the drive is placed about 45 minutes after the murders were believed to have happened. The show keeps translating those numbers into everyday logic. Why take that route? Why not just go straight there if the goal was to get across town fast? That back-and-forth drives the whole conversation. One host lays out the facts and the other keeps pressing on the common-sense questions the listener would ask anyway. The episode also leans on the usefulness of Ring doorbells and other neighborhood cameras. Those devices make the route visible in a way the case probably would not have been without them. The hosts do not pretend that visibility makes the situation less grim. They keep a steady, conversational tone, but they are blunt when the planning looks bad or the explanation sounds thin. Near the end, they note that trial coverage never materialized, and that investigators and the public are still waiting on more released documents. That leaves them open to revisiting the case later as the paper trail grows. There is even talk of maybe turning that later material into a mixtape-style update. The overall effect is a fast, argument-heavy walk through the route evidence, built for listeners who want plain-language sense-making rather than distant recap.

As heard by us

A tight, skeptical look at the Idaho Four vehicle sightings, route, and timeline.

Part two stays on the vehicle sightings, the route, and the timeline around the murders. Tarella and her co-host keep the focus narrow, which helps the story stay readable even when the details get messy.

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You want a conversational part-two look at the Idaho Four case, with the camera trail and route choices laid out.

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