EXCLUSIVE: An unidentified man recovered the Range Rover of Idaho murder victim Kaylee Goncalves Thursday afternoon from a Moscow City storage lot.
The dejected-looking man helped a pair of Moscow police officers play under the hood as they started the engine of the 2016 Range Rover Evoque that Goncalves eagerly purchased days before his murder.
As officers scraped ice off the windshield and removed snow, the surly man, whom Fox News Digital could not immediately identify, walked nearby in the freezing air.
Around 3:00 p.m., he left in the silver van nearly six weeks after Goncalves was murdered in a rented house near the University of Idaho campus.
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An unidentified man, left, picked up Kaylee Goncalves’ Range Rover Thursday in Moscow, Idaho.
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Kaylee Goncalves, her best friend Madison “Maddie” Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were stabbed to death inside their King Road home between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. on November 13.
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The Range Rover was one of five cars towed from the property about three weeks ago.
The victims of the Nov. 13 quadruple homicide at the University of Idaho.
(Instagram @xanakernodle / @maddiemogen / @kayleegoncalves)
“She just bought a new vehicle for herself, her first vehicle,” Kaylee’s mother, Kristi Goncalves, told Fox News’ Lawrence Jones last month. “She went home on Friday to literally go show off her new vehicle. She said: ‘Maddie has to see my new vehicle. She has to see this.’ And she was talking to Maddie the whole time going back and forth between the car that she was buying.”
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The luxury car symbolized the bright future that awaited Kaylee, who would graduate in December, embark on a backpacking trip through Europe in January, and start a high-paying marketing job in Austin, Texas, in February.
Kaylee Goncalves’ car was picked up Thursday in the city lot in Moscow, Idaho. Two plainclothes Moscow policemen were seen helping a man to start the car.
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“She was very hard-working, always had a full-time job on top of her studies, even in high school,” according to her obituary. “Kaylee loved the finer things in her life and took great pride in buying those things for her.”
Kernodle’s blue Honda was picked up from the city lot on Wednesday.
Murdered Idaho college student Kaylee Goncalves with her father, Steve Goncalves.
(instagram)
Police have not identified a suspect or recovered the large fixed-blade knife they believe was used in the gruesome attack that has left the small college town reeling in pain.
The coroner said the victims were likely ambushed in their sleep and each was stabbed multiple times.
Kaylee Goncalves’ car is recovered.
(Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)
Investigators are asking the public for tips to help locate a target Hyundai from 2011 to 2013 who was seen near the crime scene in the early morning hours of November 13.
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Anyone with information about the crime is asked to call Moscow police at 208-883-7054 or email tipline@ci.moscow.id.us.
Emmett Jones contributed to this report.
