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Taltarzac725
12-21-2022, 02:20 PM
These 4 horrific murders near a University campus in Moscow, Idaho Moscow PD Rules Out Oregon Hyundai, Sees No Connection To Student Murders (https://www.tmz.com/2022/12/21/moscow-police-rule-out-oregon-hyundai-student-murder-idaho/) bring back memories of my then Earl Wooster High School teacher's daughter's murder on my birthday of 2-24 in 1976 near the University of Nevada, Reno campus. The 2-24-1976 murder was across the street from the Nursing College at UNR. The victim had been a nursing student at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The homicide investigators looked at the Earl Wooster HS students of this English teacher but did not find anything worth pursuing. I was one of these students and got a small Memorial Scholarship in the daughter's name as did another boy in her English class in 1976. I used it at the University of Nevada, Reno in 1976-1977.

They sought a solution to the crime but never got one until a woman in a mental institution in Louisiana made a confession about the murder to a fellow inmate in order to get a better room with no one else in it. Or something like that. This was in 1979. She was eventually convicted of the murder of the nursing student.

It turned out to be the wrong person after a DNA test was done on a cigarette found at the scene around 2014 which led to a convicted rapist in an Oregon prison. He also turned out to be the killer of a number of women in the San Francisco Bay area. These murders were in early 1976.


These cases near universities bring in a lot of people interested in the case but also many false leads and possible tainting of the cases and gifts to the defense attorneys.

And also fear from people on the campus that the killer is still around. I heard that rather often in the period before the case was "solved" in 1979 when I was on that campus. But if you get the wrong person the real murderer is still out there and an innocent person is suffering in prison.

I did develop an interest in materials to help people in these kind of situations while I earned two BAs at the University of Nevada, Reno and a MA in Librarianship and Information Management from the U of Denver and a law degree from the U of MN.

I do hope that there is stuff available up in Moscow, Idaho for those drawn into this investigation for whatever reason. I would try to put myself in the shoes of someone interested in the legal system like I was back in Reno, Nevada and look at what was in the local libraries and the like and places I visited but have never been to Moscow, Idaho.

RICH1
12-21-2022, 02:32 PM
Hopefully an FBI profiler is working Overtime on this case. I find it difficult that a murder or murders can outwit the FBI…

Taltarzac725
12-21-2022, 02:37 PM
Hopefully an FBI profiler is working Overtime on this case. I find it difficult that a murder or murders can outwit the FBI…

They certainly have a lot more knowledge and tools available now in 2022 than back in 1976.

Probably get many more times though of tips that go nowhere. My hunch is that it is someone who had a grudge against these kids and who took advantage of the opportunity to get inside that house. The locks might be a very important clue.

Taltarzac725
12-21-2022, 06:05 PM
"On the Case with Paula Zahn" Crime and Injustice (TV Episode 2020) - IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13229386/)

Paula Zahn did an hour or so show on this 2-24-1976 murder and its aftermath. She interviewed a detective in charge of that investigation as well as some family members of the murdered nursing student and people who had been on the UNR campus.

Her birthday is also 2-24. Paula Zahn - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Zahn)

mtdjed
12-21-2022, 10:08 PM
Hopefully an FBI profiler is working Overtime on this case. I find it difficult that a murder or murders can outwit the FBI…

FBI Hmmm! I thought that was an "Insurance" agency.

Taltarzac725
12-21-2022, 10:19 PM
I remember the Reno homicide people seemed to focus first on the habits of the victim and whether or not she was involved with drugs, prostitution or with poor choices for boyfriends. Gambling debts maybe too but she was only 19. What vices may have made her a target?


Her mother was rather ****ed when talking about this to us students after she returned to work as our English teacher.

Taltarzac725
12-22-2022, 04:52 PM
https://www.washoesheriff.com/resources/files/2019%20Resource%20Guide.pdf

I find the Washoe County Sheriff's Office has a lot of resources for victims/survivors and those just interested in the justice system. Washoe County Sheriff's Office (https://www.washoesheriff.com/)

Staying Safe (https://www.washoesheriff.com/staying-safe.php)

Could be a guide for other communites.

Taltarzac725
12-22-2022, 10:50 PM
In July 1989, I went to the national law library convention about 6 weeks after I graduated from the U of MN Law School in May. This was in Reno, Nevada that year. Strange co-incidence which brought back a lot of memories of the University of Nevada, Reno. Also there were people from Information Access Company selling products to libraries. I had worked there before law school. They were based in Belmont, CA back in the 1980s.

NotGolfer
12-23-2022, 08:20 AM
I wonder if they have DNA.....which now can trace people successfully. I know this isn't a case like we see on t.v. but it does seem weird nothing (at least to us outsiders) is progressing with this. I guess I watch too much "true crime" shows but truly this case is a canundrum. Scary too for the citizens and students of that community. One thing is....it was a crime of passion, so possibly someone they knew or crossed paths with.

Taltarzac725
12-23-2022, 08:27 AM
I wonder if they have DNA.....which now can trace people successfully. I know this isn't a case like we see on t.v. but it does seem weird nothing (at least to us outsiders) is progressing with this. I guess I watch too much "true crime" shows but truly this case is a canundrum. Scary too for the citizens and students of that community. One thing is....it was a crime of passion, so possibly someone they knew or crossed paths with.

Sounds accurate. Think each of their bed rooms had locks on them. Apparently The Individual Rooms Inside The Murder House In Moscow, Idaho Had Locks So The Killer Or Killers Had To Get Through The Outside Door Then Into The Individual Rooms. Two Other Ppl In The House Heard Nothing 4 Stabbed Dead. (https://groups.google.com/g/alt.true-crime/c/yKOHfn6Anl0)

It sounds like the murderer knew the inside of the house and the people inside.