The father of the victim slain at the University of Idaho, Kaylee Goncalves, said Thursday that the person responsible for his daughter’s death should not be calm.
“I want him to be afraid. I don’t want him to be confident. I want him to be sick of seeing my face,” Steve Goncalves told Fox News’ Martha MacCallum on Thursday. “I’m not going anywhere until this guy is off the streets.”
Steve Goncalves, the father of University of Idaho murder victim Kaylee Goncalves, said Thursday that he wants his daughter’s killer to be “scared.”
(Instagram @kayleegoncalves)
Kaylee and her childhood best friend, Maddie Mogen, were stabbed to death while sleeping in the same bed between 3:00 and 4:00 am on November 13. Her roommate, Xana Kernodle, was also killed, along with her boyfriend. , Ethan Chapin.
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Police have yet to identify a suspect 18 days after the slayings, but Goncalves said he is confident authorities will catch his daughter’s killer with the help of the campus community.
“That community is going to solve this case just as well as the officers,” Steve said Thursday as he encouraged students to report anything out of the ordinary.
Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, along with the two other roommates of the women in Kaylee Goncalves’ latest Instagram post, shared the day before the murders.
(@kayleegoncalves/Instagram)
The driveway of the home where four University of Idaho students were killed is covered in snow after cars were towed away on November 29, 2022.
(Stephanie Pagones/Fox News Digital)
The four victims returned to the three-story house just a few blocks from campus shortly before 2:00 am. A coroner determined that all were stabbed multiple times and some had defensive wounds.
After issuing a series of conflicting statements about the nature of the attack, police said Thursday morning that they believe “it was a targeted attack” but are unsure “if the residence or its occupants were targeted.”
The University of Idaho victims, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, were close friends.
(Instagram/ @kayleegoncalves)
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The students were honored at a vigil Wednesday night, where Goncalves said her only comfort is knowing that Kaylee and Maddie were together when they died.
“In the end, they died together, in the same room, in the same bed,” Steve said. “But the beauty of the two of them always being together is something that comforts us.”
An aerial map released by the Moscow City Police Department on November 18 shows the final movements of Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Kaylee Goncalves before they were murdered in their home on November 13.
(Moscow City Police Department)
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The Goncalves family has refrained from holding a public memorial service because they fear the killer may turn up. Retired FBI profiler Mary Ellen O’Toole shared the same concern Thursday.
“Sometimes the criminals show up,” O’Toole told Fox News Digital. “They might really get a kick out of thinking they got away with crime, so going to a service like this, where they can walk in and people don’t realize who they are, that can certainly fuel that kind of selfishness”. response.”
Rebecca Rosenberg and Stephanie Pagones of Fox News contributed to this report.
