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Authorities investigating the slayings of four University of Idaho students walked back a key detail in the grisly case — revealing Wednesday that detectives actually aren’t sure if the quadruple homicide was a targeted attack.
The stunning revelation came after local police told the public from early on in their investigation that they believe a killer or killers targeted the victims in the brutal knife attack last month at an off campus house in the college city of Moscow.
In a news release posted to their website and Facebook, the Moscow Police Department blamed the apparent change in theory on a “miscommunication” with prosecutors.
“Conflicting information has been released over the past 24 hours. The Latah County Prosecutor’s Office stated the suspect(s) specifically looked at this residence, and that one or more of the occupants were undoubtedly targeted,” Moscow police said in a press release. “We have spoken with the Latah County Prosecutor’s Office and identified this was a miscommunication.
