ISBN-13: 9780063346697
The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of theUniversity of Idaho Murders, offering a memorable, thoughtful dive into our societal fascination with true crime, the medias seeming blood-frenzy, and the future of homicide investigations, while cultivating an intimate look into the minds and hearts of the victims and their suspected killer alike.Just after400 amon November 13,2022,four University of Idaho studentswere viciously stabbed to death in an off-campus house.The killings wouldshakethesmall blue-collar college town of Moscow, Idaho, dominate mainstream news coverage, and become a social media obsession, drawing millions of clicks and views. While a reticent Moscow Police Department, the FBI, and the Idaho State Police searched for the killer, unending conjecture and countless theories blazed online, in chatrooms and platforms from Reddit and YouTube toFacebookand TikTok. For more than a month, the clash of armchair investigators andlaw enforcementprofessionals raged, until a suspecta 28-year-oldPh.D.candidate studying criminologywas arrested at hisfamily home2,500 miles away in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania on the day before New Years Eve.While Idaho Sleptis a thought-provoking, literary chronicle of a small-town murder investigation blistering beneath the unceasing light of international interest, as traditional investigators, citizen sleuths, and the true-crime media actedsometimes together, often in conflictto uncover the truth. As J. Reuben Appelman brings this terrible crime into focus, he humanizes the four victims, examining the richness of their lives,dissects the mind and motivations of their presumed killer, andexplores the world of northern Idaho, a rugged, deeply conservativestrongholdsteeped in Christian values and American patriotism.Going deep inside the case, Appelman addresses a crucial question With so many millions of citizens armed by access and hungry to take part in a true crime hunt of their own, has the nature of homicide investigations permanently changed? Rising above the sensational,While Idaho Sleptilluminates the intrinsicconnection between todays media, citizen sleuths, our societal mania for murder tales, and an impatient publics insatiable appetite for spectacle as never before. Running beneath, the pulse of the story is a heartbreaking narrative of the people we love, the dreams we all share, and the uncertain time left for sharing them.
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ISBN-13: 9780063346697
The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of theUniversity of Idaho Murders, offering a memorable, thoughtful dive into our societal fascination with true crime, the medias seeming blood-frenzy, and the future of homicide investigations, while cultivating an intimate look into the minds and hearts of the victims and their suspected killer alike.Just after400 amon November 13,2022,four University of Idaho studentswere viciously stabbed to death in an off-campus house.The killings wouldshakethesmall blue-collar college town of Moscow, Idaho, dominate mainstream news coverage, and become a social media obsession, drawing millions of clicks and views. While a reticent Moscow Police Department, the FBI, and the Idaho State Police searched for the killer, unending conjecture and countless theories blazed online, in chatrooms and platforms from Reddit and YouTube toFacebookand TikTok. For more than a month, the clash of armchair investigators andlaw enforcementprofessionals raged, until a suspecta 28-year-oldPh.D.candidate studying criminologywas arrested at hisfamily home2,500 miles away in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania on the day before New Years Eve.While Idaho Sleptis a thought-provoking, literary chronicle of a small-town murder investigation blistering beneath the unceasing light of international interest, as traditional investigators, citizen sleuths, and the true-crime media actedsometimes together, often in conflictto uncover the truth. As J. Reuben Appelman brings this terrible crime into focus, he humanizes the four victims, examining the richness of their lives,dissects the mind and motivations of their presumed killer, andexplores the world of northern Idaho, a rugged, deeply conservativestrongholdsteeped in Christian values and American patriotism.Going deep inside the case, Appelman addresses a crucial question With so many millions of citizens armed by access and hungry to take part in a true crime hunt of their own, has the nature of homicide investigations permanently changed? Rising above the sensational,While Idaho Sleptilluminates the intrinsicconnection between todays media, citizen sleuths, our societal mania for murder tales, and an impatient publics insatiable appetite for spectacle as never before. Running beneath, the pulse of the story is a heartbreaking narrative of the people we love, the dreams we all share, and the uncertain time left for sharing them.
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