[ZERO] A professor at the University of Idaho filed a defamation lawsuit against a TikTok personality, who published dozens of videos linking the professor to the killing of four students at the campus last month, court documents show.The deaths of the four University of Idaho students remain unsolved after their bodies were found in a three-story house near the campus on Nov. 13. Police said each victim was stabbed multiple times and some had defensive wounds. The authorities have made no arrest, nor did they identify a suspect in the case.
Ashley Guillard, a purported crime sleuth with over 108,000 followers on the short-video platform, published "many videos on TikTok falsely stating that Plaintiff Rebecca Scofield participated in the murders because she was romantically involved with one of the victims," read the complaint filed on Dec. 21.
"Guillard’s statements are false. Professor Scofield did not participate in the murders, and she had never met any of the victims, let alone entered a romantic relationship with them," according to the lawsuit filed in Idaho’s federal district court.
Guillard, who consults Tarot cards and other readings to obtain information about murders, made the accusation against the history professor on Nov. 22, the lawsuit alleges.
"I don’t care what y’all say ...Rebecca Scofield killed [the four students] ... REBECCA WAS THE ONE TO INITIATE THE PLAN..." Guillard wrote in a video on TikTok.
Scofield, an associate professor who served as the chair of the history department, "did not commit or in any way participate in the murders of the four students," the complaint states.
Scofield was with her husband in Portland, Oregon, visiting friends during the time when the four students were killed, according to the complaint.
The lawsuit states that Scofield had never taught any of the victims.
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