Professor sues TikToker who accused her in University of Idaho murders

A professor at the University of Idaho has filed a defamation lawsuit last week against the internet personality Ashley Guillard, who alleged to have solved the prominent murder cases and whose TikTok videos have repeatedly alleged that the school's history department chair was involved in the fatal stabbings of four students last month.

Rebecca Scofield is an author and assistant professor of history at the university focusing on gender, sexuality and the American West, among other topics, according to her website. Last week, she filed the federal complaint in Idaho's district court seeking a jury trial along with reimbursement for all applicable legal fees, while accusing Guillard of spreading false narratives about Scofield's connection to the deceased college students and the unsolved quadruple murder.

Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were killed on the second and third floors of the women's rental home near campus in Moscow, Idaho, during the early hours of Nov. 13, as two surviving roommates apparently slept downstairs, officers at the Moscow Police Department have said. Although the local police force, in coordination with state and federal law enforcement agencies, have identified and shared some details about the events directly preceding the gruesome crime, none of their publicized leads have proven substantive so far.