MOSCOW, Idaho — Police have no suspects in custody a week after four University of Idaho students were killed as they slept in their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, on November 13, authorities announced Sunday.
The community “must be prepared for a lengthy investigation,” University of Idaho President Scott Green told reporters during the news conference.
While few questions have been answered after students Ethan Chapin, 20; Xana Kernodle, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; and Madison Mogen, 21, were stabbed to death in their beds between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. last Sunday, police have cleared several people as suspects in the case.
“We do not believe that the following people are involved in this crime,” said the captain of the Moscow Police Department. Roger Lanier told reporters on Sunday. “The two surviving roommates; a man seen at the Grubb Truck concession stand downtown, specifically wearing a white hoodie; [and] a private party that brought Kaylee and Madison home in the early hours of November 13.”
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Moscow Police Department Cpt. Roger Lanier on Sunday listed several subjects that police do not believe were involved in the Nov. 13 quadruple homicide of four University of Idaho students.
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Lanider added that “the identity of the 911 caller and the 911 call have not been released,” but police later clarified that the 911 caller was not the perpetrator.
Additionally, investigators know that Mogen and Goncalves made several phone calls to a male subject just before they were killed, but they said they reviewed and deleted those phone calls.
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Authorities have not ruled out the possibilities of multiple potential suspects or suspects who may have been unknown to the victims.
Moscow Police Department Chief James Fry speaks at a news conference a week after four students were killed near the University of Idaho campus.
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Idaho police stood by their statement Tuesday describing the killings as “an isolated and targeted attack.”
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“We believe that they were targeted for the totality of the circumstances that we are looking at,” Moscow Police Chief James Fry said on Sunday. “I can’t tell if a person was being attacked.”
All four victims were close friends and were all part of Greek life on campus.
University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, 20; Xana Kernodle, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21.
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Goncalves and Mogen spent Saturday night downtown at a local bar called the Corner Club before ordering food from the Grub Truck in Friendship Square. They were last seen in public in video footage captured by the food truck and shared publicly on Twitch, a live-streaming social media platform, before returning home from a “private party” around 1:45 p.m. A.M
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Kernodle and Chapin spent Saturday night at a party at the university’s Sigma Chi house before returning home around the same time as Goncalves and Mogen.
University of Idaho victims Maddie Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves seen on video footage hours before they were killed.
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The victims’ two roommates had arrived home earlier, around 1 a.m. that Sunday.
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Later that day, police responded to a 911 call made from the phones of one of the residence’s roommates at 11:58 am. Fry told reporters Sunday that a friend made the call, but added later that it’s unclear how many friends were at the scene before police arrived. It is also unclear how approximately eight hours elapsed between the estimated time of the attacks and the time of the 911 call.
There were no signs of forced entry in the home, according to authorities.
Police search a home in Moscow, Idaho on Monday, November 14, 2022, where four University of Idaho students were killed over the weekend in an apparent quadruple homicide.
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On Thursday, the Latah County Coroner announced that all four students died of stabbing homicide, likely in their sleep. Police said Sunday that “some” of the victims had defensive wounds and all had multiple stab wounds.
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Fry said Sunday that police don’t know how the killings occurred without the other two roommates hearing the attacks.
Authorities are asking anyone with information about the incident to call 208-883-7180 or tipline@ci.moscow.id.us.
