Town note
The area was settled in the late 1860s and early 1870s by miners and farmers arriving from the east.
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FILE 366 / 25 February 2023 / 68 MIN / express
We're going way up north there, going to Moscow, Idaho. It's in northwestern Idaho on the Washington border there. about 0:03:25
The area was settled in the late 1860s and early 1870s by miners and farmers arriving from the east.
about 0:04:47It was known as hog heaven because camas bulbs grew there and pigs would eat them.
about 0:05:36A post office opened in 1872.
about 0:05:40The town was called Paradise Valley at that point.
about 0:05:43The area was settled in the late 1860s and early 1870s by miners and farmers arriving from the east.
about 0:04:47It was known as hog heaven because camas bulbs grew there and pigs would eat them.
about 0:05:36A post office opened in 1872.
about 0:05:40The town was called Paradise Valley at that point.
about 0:05:43The name was changed to Moscow three years later.
about 0:05:46One legend says a Russian settler wanted the town named Moscow.
about 0:05:57Another says five local men could not agree on a name, so the postmaster, who came from Moscow, Pennsylvania, completed the papers and chose it himself.
about 0:06:06"26,128"
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"under 15 grand a year"
Direction: below.
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"$35,979"
Comparison: "low". Direction: below.
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"$368,300"
Comparison: "very high". Direction: above.
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3.0 / 5 · average of 5
“The small college town is welcoming and friendly, probably the most hospitable town the reviewer has lived in, with wonderful weather for walking.”about 0:06:30
“Born and raised there, it kept the reviewer doing great things; great people and a good organisation that pushes you, plus a lot of undercover fun people.”about 0:07:10
“No personal issues, but the reviewer has heard rumours about the area and gives no explanation of what they are.”about 0:07:49
“The police are not willing to put the work in to keep things safe and seem only to write traffic tickets.”about 0:08:04
“After living in urban areas all their life, the place is like going back 30 years, with children playing outdoors and people watching out for each other, though there are bike thefts and car prowls; 147 agree and 230 disagree.”about 0:08:19
He was thought to be a paranoid schizophrenic, with symptoms from the age of 16, and came to believe that children in the area were stealing his energy and his aura.
His best friend was David Boss, whom he met in kindergarten after the s moved from California. Boss graduated from Timberline High School in 2003, played lacrosse, had a campus radio show at the University of Idaho and was widely liked.
Worse followed in 2005. He was cited for disturbing the peace after threatening residents of the Wallace Complex dorms at the University of Idaho and was removed from campus. In June he ran over a 13-year-old boy with his motorcycle, and the boy's brothers pulled him off the bike and beat him. In August 2006 he posted a message titled Demon Possession on a Christian recovery website, describing himself as the Sun King, his energy being stolen and a possible vampire cult.
On 20 March he turned up in Tucson, Arizona, having tracked down Jacob Thompson, a high school acquaintance he had not seen in years. Thompson went outside to move his truck because a man on a bicycle asked him to, and the man shot him five times through the driver's window. Thompson was hit three times, including a bullet that entered his face and lodged in the back of his head, and survived.
At 12.12 a.m. on 31 March he telephoned Boss at his apartment in Moscow and was invited over. Boss's roommate found him at about 12.30 a.m., shot twice in the head, once in the left temple from six to eight inches and once at the base of the skull from about an inch. On 2 April Bradley Morse, a Boise State computer science student from Meridian, a Mormon elder who had served a mission in West Virginia, Ohio and Virginia, finished his custodial shift at the Boise Parks and Recreation building at 9.31 p.m. and was shot twice in the head outside.
The car held blood on a jacket and the floorboard, the revolver with three live rounds and two spent casings, a box of hollow-point ammunition with ten rounds missing, a camera, the airline receipt and the gun's bill of sale. A list of seven names was found; the first three had been attacked.
Idaho abolished the insanity defence in 1982, one of only four states to do so.
March and April 2007 / Boss's apartment in Moscow, Idaho, and outside the Parks and Recreation building in Boise, Idaho
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