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4chan and the Idaho 4: The Impact of Anonymous Web Sleuthing on the Moscow Murders

"The tragic deaths of four University of Idaho students on November 13, 2022, shocked the nation and triggered one of the most intense, highly publicized criminal investigations in modern American history. Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin were brutally murdered in their off-campus rental home at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho. In the weeks of silence that followed before an arrest was made, a massive information vacuum opened. This vacuum was quickly filled by digital communities, most notably the anonymous imageboard 4chan, where users formed dedicated threads under the umbrella of "Idaho 4" to dissect every a..."

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