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David Ryder/Getty Images(MOSCOW, Idaho) A quadruple homicide rocked the quiet Idaho college hamlet of Moscow last year. But the financial repercussions are only now coming into focus.

"It was a tragic and horrible event that no one saw coming," Moscow Mayor Art Bettge said. "A difficult six months."

The city s already slim budget is straining under the weight of the investigation s mounting expenses. Even before the killings, the police department alone cost $7.2 million, Moscow officials told ABC News several hundred thousand dollars more than the $6.9 million in property taxes brought in, police and city officials said.

The police department is the largest chunk of Moscow s funding for basic government services, at more than a third of general fund expenditures, according to city budget reports reviewed by ABC News.

Now, overtime and other expenses are growing exponentially with the ongoing need for increased patrols and law enforce ....

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