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As University of Idaho students return to campus, homicide detectives ask for more leads

Moscow police want students returning for finals at the University of Idaho to speak freely with investigators.

"There's probably a couple of students who are a little concerned maybe about the activities that they were involved in during that night, and they may or may not want to help this investigation for fear out of, you know, maybe getting in trouble, maybe their parents won't be happy," said Idaho State Police Public Information Officer Aaron Snell.

"We still want that information, those pictures and those videos that were taken that night," said Snell. "We're not really interested in the activities that students were doing. What we're interested in is the context of how that can help this investigation."

Snell said detectives are especially interested in information about the parties going on that night and possible routes people took in order to build a better picture of the night of November 12.

He emphasized that police are not looking to judge people for their activities that night.

Raised along the Snake River Canyon in southern Idaho, Lauren Paterson covers culture, socioeconomics and crime across the Inland Northwest, with a focus on rural, working-class, and tribal communities. Her work has been featured on NPR, Here & Now, KUOW Seattle, Oregon Public Broadcasting, NewsNation, ABC 20/20, and an Amazon Prime docuseries for her reporting on the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students.