MOSCOW, Idaho – A sixth person was on the lease at the off-campus residence where four University of Idaho students were killed more than two weeks ago, but detectives said they don’t believe that person was present during the quadruple. homicide, Moscow police said. Department revealed Thursday night for the first time.
Three of the roommates, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, were stabbed to death between 3:00 and 4:00 am on November 13. Kernodle’s boyfriend, 20-year-old Ethan Chapin, who did not live there and was staying overnight, was also killed.
Two other roommates who were inside the house were uninjured. Authorities said in the early days of the investigation that Chapin was a roommate, but five days after the murders they clarified that he was just visiting.
“Detectives are aware of a sixth person listed on the lease for the residence, but do not believe that person was present during the incident,” the Moscow Police Department said in a news release.
Police search a house in Moscow, Idaho, on Monday, November 14, the day after the murder of four University of Idaho students.
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The house where four University of Idaho students were murdered, pictured here a few weeks after the murders.
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Authorities did not immediately respond to questions from Fox News Digital Thursday night.
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The Idaho team’s property management supervisor, Merida McClanahan, previously told Fox News Digital that the residence is a three-story, six-bedroom, three-bathroom single-family home that is frequently rented to students. There are two bedrooms and a bathroom on each of the floors.
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.
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A neighbor, third-year law student Jeremy Reagan, described the residence as a party house.
“There were parties that were a bit loud,” Reagan previously told Fox News.
“As I would go in and out with my dog to go to the bathroom, I would just walk by, look up and see people in the windows almost every night, probably four or five nights a week. There were a lot of people going in and out of that home quite often.
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State Police forensics search for clues in Moscow, Idaho, Monday, November 21, 2022.
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General views of the Moscow, Idaho, home taken on Wednesday, November 16, 2002, where four students were murdered.
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The house is a short walk from the Sigma Chi house, where Kernodle and Chapin spent the night before returning home shortly before 2:00 a.m.
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Mogen and Goncalves went to a local bar called the Corner Club before returning home at approximately 1:56 a.m.
Police named the four victims of an apparent quadruple homicide at the University of Idaho as Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Kaylee GonCalves.
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Police also said that the Idaho State Police Forensic Services has already released the first lab results to detectives. The authorities have not made the results public.
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After a series of conflicting statements, the Moscow Police Department said Thursday morning that they “remain consistent in our belief that this was a targeted attack” but are unsure if the “target was the residence or if they were the occupants”.
Idaho State Police communications director Aaron Snell said this week that “the collection of evidence at the house is coming to an end,” but he wasn’t sure when the crime scene would be released.
Fox News’ Audrey Conklin and Ashley Soriano contributed to this report.
