A former Idaho attorney general and lieutenant governor who was inside the house where four University of Idaho students were killed on November 13 says the suspect likely entered the house through a back door.
Police believe University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, were stabbed multiple times in their sleep during the early hours of November 13 between 3 and 4 am in a house on King Road in Moscow, Idaho.
Authorities say the shooter used a “fixed blade knife” in the incident that left the four students dead.
Dave Leroy, who previously served as Idaho’s lieutenant governor, attorney general and Ada County prosecutor, told Fox News Digital that he was inside that house four years ago.
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Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodle, who were stabbed to death on November 13.
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Leroy said he was at the university during the homecoming dance and was invited to the house, where his client’s son was living at the time.
Describing the layout of the house, Leroy said that updates have been made since he’s been there.
“There are two separate entrances and this house is against a hill,” Leroy said. “If a perpetrator were to enter the lower level of the parking lot, they would enter a general living room area and a kitchen area with a couple of bedrooms and the rear of a first floor. If the perpetrator entered the second floor, they would enter what would have made further up the hill to a nearly separate section of the house, containing bedrooms and bathrooms on the second and third floors, where apparently most of the murders reportedly took place.”
Leroy also believes that based on information officials previously provided about the location of the victims, the killer likely entered through the back of the home.
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“That would be my speculation, but I would certainly defer to the police investigation on that,” he said. “However, it is a logical conclusion derived from the fact that the homicides were committed on the upper floors and the people on the lower floor were apparently not disturbed.”
Investigators search a house in Moscow, Idaho, on November 14, 2022, after four University of Idaho students were killed there on November 13.
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He said it would not have been necessary for the attacker to come down if the crimes were committed on the upper levels.
“If two people were downstairs, it would not be necessary for the murderer to go downstairs or through their bedrooms when he committed the crime, if he would go in and out of the upstairs against the one upstairs on the hill. section of the house,” said Leroy.
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General views of the Moscow, Idaho, home taken on November 16, 2002, where four University of Idaho students were murdered on November 13.
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When officers arrived at the King Road residence around noon on November 13, two of the victims were found on the second floor and the other two victims were found on the third floor, police say.
Steve Goncalves, Kaylee’s father, said during a vigil remembering the four victims that his daughter “died together in the same room, in the same bed” as Mogen.
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“It’s a shame and it hurts. But the beauty of always being together is something that goes well, it comforts us. She lets us know that they were with her best friends from all over the world. It’s like a book”, Goncalves. he said.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call moscow police at 208-883-7054 or email tipline@ci.moscow.id.us.
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State Police forensics search for clues in Moscow, Idaho on November 21, 2022. Four University of Idaho students who were murdered on November 13 in this home.
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Fox News’ Michael Ruiz, Paul Best, Stephanie Pagones and Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.
