Murder In Moscow: An FBI Profiler Gives His Thoughts On The Murders

Nine days after four University of Idaho students were murdered, former FBI profiler Jim Clemente described the unidentified killer as likely being a young man close to the victims’ age who had little criminal or forensic sophistication and probably had not committed that level of violence before. Clemente believed the offender appeared sloppy and compulsive, but he also viewed the decision to enter a house occupied by six people as evidence that the attack was not random. He theorized that the killer either knew one or more of the victims or had stalked them closely enough to understand their habits, in...