Police tape surrounds a crime scene. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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UPDATED 6:17 PM PT – Monday, November 21, 2022

A neighbor’s Mini Australian Sheppard was found filleted and skinned nearby the murder site of four University of Idaho students. This revelation has some believing that the two crimes are connected.

Owners, Jim and Pam Colbert, announced that their 12-year-old dog Buddy was found skinned head to tail after he went missing on October 21st. The last time that the couple saw their dog was when they let him out in the backyard.

“It was like a deer that someone had hunted,” Pam explained. “They cut him around the neck and just skinned him. His little legs had fur and his little face had fur, but the rest of him was just skinned.”

The pair are rightfully shaken up. They have lived in their house for 39 years and they will now start locking their doors for the first time. The Colbert’s say they believe that someone snatched their dog off of their 10-acre property.

“We let Buddy out and somebody must have been waiting out there,” she said. “Bud never leaves the yard, but this person grabbed Buddy.”

The crime took place three miles away from where the unsolved murder of four college students occurred. All four of the victims were slain in their beds while they slept.

In new press release from Monday evening, Moscow, Idaho Police announced that they do not believe the two crimes are connected.

Prior to the recent killings, there has not been a murder reported in Moscow for seven years.  

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves before boarding his plane at Ciampino Airport in Rome to travel to Bari, Italy, on June 28, 2021, as part of Blinken’s week long trip in Europe. (Photo by Andrew Harnik / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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UPDATED 5:59 PM PT – Monday, November 21, 2022

Secretary of State Antony Blinken watched the United States’ Men’s National Soccer Team’s first game in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

Blinken was one of the estimated 43,000 fans in attendance at Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium in Al-Rayyan, where the U.S. played against Wales. The game resulted in a one-to-one draw.

“One of the things that we do is we engage in what we call sports diplomacy,” Blinken said. “We use sports as a way of connecting people, connecting people to our country.”

Others in attendance were Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, Canadian Development Minister Harjit Sajjan, and Hasan Al Thawadi, head of the committee that organized the World Cup in Qatar.

While in Qatar, the Secretary of State is also slated to hold talks with Qatari officials. That includes the nation’s foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani.

Before attending the game, Blinken stopped by an event involving local students. There, he spoke about soccer’s unifying power.

“I’m a lifelong lover of football, a great mediocre player, but a lover of the sport,” Blinken said. “And the thing that’s so powerful about it is everywhere that I go in the world, I find other people who love the game, and they love to play it. They love to watch it enough to argue about it. They love to support a team with all the joy and heartbreak that that brings. But it’s an incredibly powerful way of bringing people together.”

Qatar is under heavy criticism for a wide range of human rights abuses in the lead-up to the World Cup. The U.S. team is next scheduled to play England on Friday.