The Spokesman-Review

This episode was written, researched, edited, and produced by Josh Hallmark with additional research by Jordan Taylor and research assistance by Michelle Tooker and Shayna Walensky.

Sources include newspapers.com, Spokeo, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti-Defamation League, ancestry.com, the Spokane County Sheriff's Office, the Spokesman-Review, Califia's Children, The Washington Post, and The Seattle Times.

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Up first today, the families of three of the four University of Idaho students killed in November 2022 are suing to block the release of the victim's phone data.

The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane reports the families of victims Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin, and Kaylee Goncalves filed a lawsuit in Walla Walla, Washington.

That's where the local police department is helping Moscow police handle records related to the murder case.

They received what the suit calls overly broad requests from six people trying to get, quote, "Full digital extraction of phone data." That release of private conversations and intimate details of the victims' lives would cause irreparable harm to victims' families, according to the lawsuit.

And it was syndicated in about 22 papers all over the Northwest.

Spokesman Review, Seattle PI, you know, Boise's paper.

Yes.

He would cut out the articles.