The Idaho Murders: What’s Up With the Chef Neighbor?!?

The True Crime Times
4 min readDec 15, 2022
Four University of Idaho students were murdered in November. L to R: Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, and Xana Kernodle — Source: People Magazine

I’ve been gone for a long time and I’m late to the game. Rather than go through the entire case (I’m sure you are well aware of what happened), I want to discuss a name you’ve likely been seeing in news reports more and more in the past week or so.

Inan Harsh

Inan Harsh is a close neighbor of the #Idaho4. He is pictured here in a Facebook photo.

The investigators in this case have made it clear that they don’t appreciate the true crime community and have asked the public not to pay it any attention. I don’t blame them. I’ve followed the case from the very first day and social media is flush with armchair detectives posting random photos of people THEY think could be the killer, usually with nothing to back up their suspicions.

However, when someone deliberately tries to insert themself into a case, the public has every right to scrutinize that individual.

There is so much fascinating information to absorb in this case, but I am especially fascinated by Inan Harsh, primarily because I can’t figure out what he’s trying to accomplish. You see, Inan is a 30-year-old chef and neighbor of the victims: Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, and Madison Mogen. Harsh became associated with…

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