A former tenant of the house where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death told Fox News Digital that every footstep can be heard in the “creaky old” house.
“It’s a very creaky old house,” said Cole Alteneder, who graduated in 2022 and lived at 1122 King Road in his junior year. “You can hear footsteps on every floor.”
Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were stabbed to death inside the three-story house between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. on November 13.
The victims were found on the second and third floors, while two roommates on the first floor were asleep during the attack, according to police.
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Victims of the November 13 massacre at the University of Idaho.
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Each floor has two bedrooms and a bathroom. Alteneder had a second-floor bedroom above one of the first-floor bedrooms.
“The person who lived below me always said that he could hear me walk,” Alteneder recalled. “He had a desk and a chair on wheels, and he could hear that rolling.”
The house where four University of Idaho students were murdered on November 13.
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The house also had poor insulation and the “ventilation system was really weird, so you could hear everyone talking throughout the house,” he said.
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The tenants were used to the noise and learned to ignore it, he added.
A former first-floor tenant previously told Fox News Digital that he could barely hear activity on the second and third floors due to the unusual design of the home, which is built into the side of a hill.
Map of murder victim activity in Idaho late on November 12 and early on November 13.
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Alteneder said if the tenant had the first-floor bedroom directly below the living room and the living room wasn’t being used, this would make sense.
The King Road home is on a cul-de-sac known as “fratlantis” because of its proximity to fraternity row, said the former student who now works as a real estate agent in Newberg, Oregon.
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“There was always something going on in the neighborhood, someone was throwing a party or relaxing,” he said. Alteneder added that many people had been to the house and knew about the layout.
Ten weeks before the murders, cops were called to the residence by a rowdy party, but the six students living there were not home, according to body camera footage.
Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and 20-year-old Ethan Chapin were found dead in a home a few feet from the University of Idaho campus.
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Alteneder met Mogen because the two shared some marketing classes together, but he didn’t know her personally.
“It’s terrible, I feel terrible for [the victims] and their families,” he told Fox News Digital. “I still have a lot of friends in Moscow, so I’m thinking about them and their safety and Moscow, which is usually such a safe and fun community.”
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Police have yet to identify a suspect in the quadruple homicide.
