The University of Idaho murders have quickly become one of the most inexplicable crime stories of the last few decades: It has been more than two weeks since four students were brutally stabbed to death in the middle of the night, and yet police have no suspects and no apparent leads on any suspects.
Meanwhile, authorities are only just getting around to addressing what could be key pieces of evidence:
As authorities continue to investigate the grisly stabbings that left four University of Idaho students dead inside their home earlier this month, police said that detectives have now moved five vehicles from the crime scene to a storage location where they will continue to examine them and process evidence.
"Today, as part of the ongoing homicide investigation and original search warrant, detectives relocated five vehicles from within the police perimeter to a more secure long-term storage location to continue processing evidence," the Moscow Police Department announced in a news release posted on Tuesday.
That's right: They're moving evidence to a "more secure" location more than half a month after the killings took place.
I mean, call me crazy, but maybe leaving big pieces of evidence out in the cold, wet weather for two weeks isn't the best idea when you're dealing with a crime of this magnitude.
That's not just an armchair opinion. As one forensic expert noted:
The problem is, the longer you wait for these things, the more physical evidence becomes diminished, perhaps. ... At this point in time, I guess they're thinking there might be evidence on the interior of the vehicle, because if they found value on the exterior of the vehicle, they would have snapped them up much sooner. ...
From my perspective, the cars would've been gone two weeks ago. Because if there's value in them now, there's value in them then. ... They're just kind of out there, they're exposed to the elements, so you want to get them secured as soon as possible.
