FIRST ON FOX: MOSCOW, Idaho – A former tenant of the Moscow, Idaho, home where four University of Idaho students were murdered on November 13, says it was hard to hear activity on the second and third floors of the home from the first, where she lived.
Ryan Augusta, a local healthcare worker and business owner who now lives in Genesee, Idaho, told Fox News Digital in an interview when he lived on the first floor of the home on King Road in 2019, unless his roommate was listening to the TV at full volume. the second floor, usually “heard nothing” from the second and third floors.
“I wouldn’t have heard it from downstairs,” Augusta said when asked if she could hear activity coming from the second and third floors of the house when she lived on the first.
At the time of the November quadruple homicide, there were six tenants listed on the lease for the house located near the university campus, next to Greek Row, where the student fraternity and sorority houses are located.
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Police search a house in Moscow, Idaho, Monday, November 14, where four University of Idaho students were killed over the weekend in a quadruple homicide.
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The house has three floors, and each floor has two bedrooms and a bathroom. The first floor has a door that is accessed from the driveway and the second floor has a sliding door that is accessed from the ground and the backyard because the house was built on a slope in the backyard.
Moscow police have said two of the victims’ roommates, both living on the first floor, survived the attack which left 20-year-old Ethan Chapin; Xana Kernodle, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; and Madison Mogen, 21, killed in the early hours of November 13.
Views of the house at 1112 Queen Ave., Moscow, Idaho on November 14, 2022. The house is sealed following a quadruple homicide that occurred yesterday that brought down four University of Idaho students.
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The two roommates from the first floor got home at 1 am; Kernodle and Chapin returned home around 1:45 a.m.; and Goncalves and Mogen returned just before 2 a.m. that morning. Authorities believe they were stabbed to death between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., likely while they were sleeping.
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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Police responded to a 911 call reporting an unconscious person from the phone of one of the two surviving roommates at 11:58 a.m. on November 13, and located the four deceased students upon arrival shortly thereafter. All of the victims had multiple stab wounds and “some” had defensive wounds. An unknown number of friends were at the scene when a 911 call was made from the phones of one of the victims’ roommates to report that the person was unconscious that morning.
Views inside the home in Moscow, Idaho, show light from an upstairs bedroom on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022.
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In 2019, when Augusta lived in the house, the residence had code locks on each bedroom door because each bedroom was rented individually to tenants, she said. It’s unclear if that was still the case when the victims began their lease on June 5.
“It’s a community house. You never locked the [side] screen door. Why would you close the screen door? I mean, you have locks on all the rooms, so we never close the screen door,” Augusta said.
Social media posts from other victims showed pictures of the house showing that the locks had since been changed. Team Idaho & Team Washington Property Management, which manages the property, had no comment.
The photo provided by Ryan Augusta shows the doorknobs in his top-floor apartment in 2019 at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho.
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He said people frequently used a “walking trail” that led directly from the King Road house area to nearby fraternities.
“People would continue to walk down that road to that parking lot because they probably parked there and lived in the [nextdoor] brown complex or something,” Augusta explained. “So, yeah, people go through that all the time. You would always listen to the people in the front. Always rubbish on the floor, broken bottles, it was pretty disgusting.”
General view of the Sigma Chi House in Moscow, Idaho on Monday, November 14, 2022. Visible in the background, just to the left of the roof, is the house where four University of Idaho students, including frat brother Sigma Chi, Ethan Chapin, were killed overnight.
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The former tenant said he didn’t have many concerns about his own safety in the neighborhood, but added: “I was worried about the safety of everyone else at 1122, but that’s because there were a lot of rowdy parties.”
“I was more worried about drunken hooligans just causing a ruckus,” he said.
Augusta said she has since submitted two leads to police and is considering a third based on her experience in Moscow and living in the house.
General views of the Moscow, Idaho, home taken Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2002, where four University of Idaho students were murdered, show red stains on the home’s foundation.
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Moscow police have continued to describe the brutal killings as “an isolated and targeted attack”. University of Idaho students who left campus for the Thanksgiving break were given the option to stay home and learn remotely rather than return to campus with a suspect still on the run.
Authorities are asking anyone with information about the incident to call 208-883-7180 or tipline@ci.moscow.id.us.
