MOSCOW, Idaho – Idaho police are reviewing a massive list of possible witness vehicles and requesting more information from the public as the investigation into a quadruple stabbing that occurred outside the University of Idaho entered its 32nd day Thursday.
Police last week said they were seeking to speak with occupants of a white Hyundai Elantra who may have information about the murders of Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, and Xana Kernodle, 20. The three women lived together at the house and Chapin, who was dating Kernodle, spent the night there.
On Monday night, a gas station worker who was reviewing surveillance footage on her downtime saw a white car speeding past her store around 3:45 am on November 13.
Police revealed Thursday that they have a list of approximately 22,000 similar cars and are still searching for the occupant or occupants of the vehicle.
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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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“Although sometimes there is a fascination with the particular case, some people just don’t watch the news and may not know we’re looking for them,” Moscow police Capt. Roger Lanier said in a video posted to YouTube on Thursday. “Maybe your neighbor has one in the garage that he doesn’t drive very often, and maybe there’s one that just isn’t in the registration database – let us know.”
According to the investigators, the four friends spent most of the evening divided into groups of two and in different places. Mogen and Goncalves visited the Corner Club, a popular college bar in central Moscow, stopping at a food truck on the way home.
Chapin and Kernodle were about 200 yards from the crime scene at a party at the Sigma Chi fraternity house, where Chapin was a member.
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A cellphone photo of a computer screen showing a white car on Highway 8 in Moscow, Idaho, around 3:45 a.m. on November 13, according to an employee who found it while reviewing security footage.
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The four returned to the King Road rental shortly before 2 a.m., and investigators are still looking into events that occurred during the Sigma Chi party, according to police, who believe the killings occurred between 3 and 5 p.m. 4 am.
“Detectives continue to investigate what occurred from approximately 9 p.m. on November 12 to 1:45 a.m. on November 13, when Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle were believed to be at the Sigma Chi house on the University of California campus. Idaho,” police reiterated in a statement. Thursday. “Any interaction, contact, direction and method of travel, or anything abnormal could add context to what occurred.”
The fraternity’s national headquarters did not immediately respond to messages Thursday, but posted a statement on Instagram Wednesday. The fraternity’s Idaho chapter said it has “fully cooperated” with the investigation.
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A view of the Sigma Chi house at the University of Idaho through fog on December 13, 2022. Inset: A reference image showing the type of Hyundai Elantra police are looking for.
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Police body camera video recorded around 3:12 a.m. on November 13, within the one-hour window when police say they believe the killings occurred, appears to show several unidentified people walking in the background near the crime scene.
Police did not immediately respond to questions Thursday.
Robbie Johnson, a police spokesman, said Tuesday that detectives continue to seek the public’s help in the case. He added that he could not immediately confirm if the car in the service station video was the same Elantra.
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No suspects have been publicly identified or detained, and anyone with information is asked to contact investigators.
“If you saw something that night that looks weird…anything you have to report, even if you don’t think it’s anything, we’re still encouraging people to submit it,” he said. “When we get that information, even if it’s small, sometimes you can piece together the timeline, put the pieces of the puzzle together, and we get a bigger picture of what was going on.”
You can contact the tip line at 208-883-7180 or by email at tipline@ci.moscow.id.us. Digital media can be submitted at fbi.gov/moscowidaho.
Police have been looking at surveillance video taken within the immediate area of the crime scene and are requesting images from outside the radius that may include information relevant to the case.
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“We understand that video has a finite life, and sometimes systems will start recording themselves, so we started that process very, very early in the investigation,” Lanier said Thursday.
