Posted on 11/21/2022 11:43:16 AM PST by Red Badger
Four University of Idaho students who were stabbed to death inside a home they shared in Moscow were likely attacked in their sleep, investigators revealed Sunday as security officials, including the FBI, continue a feverish hunt to find their killers.
“This incident has shaken our community, has continued to shake our community, and we continue to mourn for the victims. We will continue to vigorously pursue the investigation and pursue justice in this case,” Chief James Fry of the Moscow Police Department said at a news conference on Sunday. “It is a complex and terrible crime, and it will take some time to resolve.”
Police have identified the four students as Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20. Two roommates who slept through the attack and survived were not identified.
Capt. Roger Lanier, who oversees operations for the Moscow Police Department, said that on the evening of Nov. 12, Goncalves and Mogen were at a local bar and later spotted at a food truck in downtown Moscow. They arrived home at approximately 1:45 a.m. on Nov. 13. Chapin and Kernodle, who were dating at the time of their death, were at the Sigma Chi fraternity before also arriving home at about 1:40 a.m.
“Two surviving roommates were also out in the community, and they returned home at approximately 1 a.m. and did not wake up until later that morning,” Lanier said.
Local police received a 911 call from the house at about 11:58 a.m. on Nov. 13, reporting “an unconscious person.” The call, said Lanier, “was made from the phone of one of the surviving roommates.”
When Moscow police officers responded to the call, they found two murdered students on the second floor and two on the third floor.
Autopsies conducted by Latah County coroners ruled that the victims we likely asleep when attacked, and defensive wounds found on some of the victims suggest they may have tried to fight back.
“We know that the autopsies confirmed the identity of the four victims, determined the cause and manner of death as homicide by stabbing, and determined that it was likely all four victims were asleep during the attack,” Lanier said. “Some of the victims had defensive wounds, and each victim was stabbed multiple times.”
Investigators said there were no signs any victims were sexually assaulted and no evidence suggesting that the two surviving roommates were involved in the attack.
According to the University of Idaho, Chapin was a freshman from Mount Vernon, Washington, and a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity majoring in recreation, sport and tourism management. Kernodle was a junior from Post Falls majoring in marketing and a Pi Beta Phi sorority member. Mogen was a senior from Coeur d’Alene majoring in marketing. Goncalves was a senior from Rathdrum, majoring in general studies.
Investigators said they had received more than 600 tips to help locate the perpetrators and will process all of them. They urged the public to call their tip line at 208-883-7180 or email tipline@ci.moscow.id.us with any information they believe can help them solve the crime.
A candlelight vigil for the students will be held at the school on Wednesday, Nov. 30.
Since the murders, many students have fled the town, and some, like Emma Vigil, a senior, don’t plan on returning until police have a suspect in custody.
“I don’t know how anyone is supposed to feel safe or go back,” Vigil, who lives just feet away from the house where the four students were killed, told CNN. “All of my friends have left.”
I thought that one of the girls made multiple dell phone calls right before her time of death?
dell = cell
How do you stab to death 4 people in their sleeps?
If they are all drunk and passed out?
Way back in the day I was stationed in a European country. My roommate, and some friends got toasted on local adult beverages one night. We didn’t have squat, but the house was broken into a boom box was stolen. There were 4 people in the house and nobody had a clue to what happened until the morning..
Was it the victims or killer(s) making the calls? Maybe the killer forcing the girls to call, trying to get something?
sure, a DRUG INDUCED SLEEP...
I bet that first stab woke them up…
…briefly.
Quietly
Both girls made multiple calls to the ex-boy friend of one of them.
Quickly. Imagine being 100% asleep. And the first stab is a hunting knife in the chest like a Dracula stake, 5 or 6 more in rapid succession... you’d probably barely let out a small gasp.
In lots of these kind of attacks, people don’t hear the others being killed. Like Ted Bundy’s rampage.
reporting “an unconscious person.”
Didn’t notice the pools of blood?
this college culture of drinking to your blasted and staying up late and leaving doors unlocked is getting people killed....
but we'll have a chorus of "I was so drunk in college"...etc....
i was thinking more about Roofies or something given to them somehow, cause to get yer throat cut, IN YOUR OWN BED, Times FOUR, and not one of them alarms anybody, or tries to help the one screaming?
booze/drugs, seems like some assistance, of some kind, was required...
You can’t make much sound when your throat is cut or if you are stabbed in the heart.
sure...
“If they are all drunk and passed out?”
You’ll have to wait on toxicology reports if it’s released at all. That would be my guess too, drugs or drink. Probably left the doors unlocked as well.
“You can’t make much sound when your throat is cut or if you are stabbed in the heart.”
Just as a liver punch will knock you out, forensically speaking, knifing a liver is almost instantaneous unconsciousness and death.
The sternum shields the heart, the liver is wide open.
Boxers target the liver routinly. Tyson nailed more than a few livers in the ring and the fight was over at that point, followed by a few quick head shots...
Can you imagine taking a Tyson punch to the liver?
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