Idaho police: Dog found skinned head-to-tail is unrelated to college students' murders
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Detectives say there is no link between a 12-year-old dog that was found skinned and four college students who were stabbed in Moscow, Idaho
A 12-year-old dog was found skinned head-to-tail in Moscow, Idaho, just three weeks before four college students were murdered, but police say the two crimes are unrelated.
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MOSCOW, Idaho – The Moscow Police Department said Monday that a dog found skinned head-to-tail on Oct. 21 is unrelated to the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students three weeks later.
Pamela Colbert's neighbors found her lost dog, a 12-year-old mini Australian shepherd, completely skinned just down the road from her home, which is several miles from the scene of the murders that occurred off-campus.
Colbert, 78, told Fox News Digital that she remembered at a Latah County Sheriff's Office supervisor telling her: "This hasn't been done by an animal. This was a human that did this."
Some locals feared that the grotesque incidents could be related, but law enforcement dispelled those rumors on Monday.
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12-year-old mini Australian shepherd was found skinned head-to-tail in Moscow, Idaho, just three weeks before four college students were murdered, but police say the two crimes are unrelated. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
"Detectives are aware of a Latah County Sheriff’s Office incident of the report of a skinned dog and have determined it is unrelated to this incident," the Moscow Police Department said in a short update on Monday evening
Her neighbor, Clint Hughes, has a fluffy Bernese Mountain Dog named Max, who ripped up his bed the same day Colbert's dog was found dead near both of their properties in an area near a shed with overgrown grass.
Pam Colbert's neighbor, Clint Hughes, has a fluffy Bernese Mountain Dog named Max, who ripped up his bed the same day Colbert's dog was found dead near both of their properties in an area near a shed with overgrown grass. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
"You could tell it just wasn't an animal that did it," he explained, adding that "it was obviously done with a knife
Moscow's last homicide was in 2015. The entire community is on edge a week since police do not have any suspects nor a recovered weapon more than a week after the tragedy
The Moscow Police Department also said that a separate dog was found at the home on the day of the murders and was given to a "responsible party."