The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy (James Patterson True Crime, 3) by James Patterson

The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy (James Patterson True Crime, 3)

by James Patterson

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Crime & Justice

Four University of Idaho students were killed in an off-campus house in Moscow on November 13, 2022, and investigators started with very few clues. Patterson and Vicky Ward start you beside the local police chief and follow the case to Bryan Kohberger, a Washington State criminology graduate student, and to his guilty plea.

Core ideas
  • Four lives, two towns: Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were killed, and the toll spread across Moscow and Pullman.
  • The student of profiling: Kohberger's training in criminal profiling and his hostility toward female students are read against incel culture and violence against women.
  • The deal: Kirkus judged the plea negotiations that took the death penalty off the table to be the strongest section.
Published2025
Pages448
ISBN9780316572859
ReadAug 2025

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