Idaho cops ask for public’s help to solve brutal murders
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Unlucky Idaho police today begged for the public’s help to solve the brutal murders of four college students who lost their lives on Nov. 13 and insisted they did a lot behind the scenes — despite having no suspects, no leads. while refusing to give new details about the case that has shaken the country.
Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were all brutally murdered at their home in Moscow, Idaho, in the early hours of Sunday, Nov. 13.
They were stabbed multiple times with a long knife, but police have yet to recover the weapon, or provide any kind of update that could lead to solving the crime.
A press conference was scheduled for Wednesday that was eagerly awaited by the country’s media, not to mention the grieving families of the victims.
But the parade of police chiefs and captains speaking at the press conference yielded no new information.
Moscow Police Department Captain Roger Lanier (L) and Police Chief Jim Fry spoke at a news conference Wednesday but had no new information to share
Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were all brutally murdered at their home in Moscow, Idaho, in the early hours of Sunday, Nov. 13. Dylan Mortensen (left) and Bethany Funke (right) were in the house but survived.
The murder house in Moscow, Idaho. Murdered roommates Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen were found in their beds on the top floor. College lovers Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle were found in a bedroom on the second floor while survivors Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke slept on the ground floor
Frustrated by media questions, they admitted to withholding information — such as why they think the attack was “targeted” — and told reporters, “You’re going to have to trust us.”
Police haven’t yet found evidence that Kaylee had a stalker — as she’d told friends — but said they were still “working on it.”
Police confirmed that the victims were found on the second and third floors of the home, but they declined to say whether the attacker visited the basement, where the two surviving roommates are believed to have been at the time of the attack.
DailyMail.com released more information earlier today about where each victim was found.
Moscow police have ruled out those two roommates as suspects and are refusing to share their names.
Today they confirmed that they had ruled out the following persons as suspects;
- Both surviving roommates who called 911
- The young man seen from a food truck with Kaylee and Maddie in a video an hour before the murders
- Kaylee’s ex-boyfriend Jack DuCoeur
- The Uber driver who brought Kaylee and Maddie home
They also said they found no evidence that Kaylee had a stalker – despite telling friends in the weeks before she died.
The only definitive fact the police revealed today was that the victims were not bound and gagged.
Police also refuse to release the suspicious 911 call made hours after the deaths, in which the emergency room spoke to “several” people.
Excluded: Kaylee’s ex-boyfriend Jack DuCouer, whom she called several times the night of the murder. Also excluded is the man pictured at right, who visited a food truck with Kaylee and Maddie about an hour before their deaths
They did use Wednesday’s press conference to defend their work ‘behind the scenes’.
“There’s an awful lot going on behind the scenes — there’s a lot going on behind the scenes that can’t be discussed.
Police said they found no evidence of Kaylee being stalked – despite her complaining to friends about it. They also made no mention of Murphy, her dog, who was in the house at the time of the murders but survived
‘We understand that you want answers, we want answers too, but they take time.
“We feel we owe this to the surviving families to get this right.
We are not willing to sacrifice speed for quality. We collected 103 pieces of evidence, we took about 4,000 photos, we made 3D scans of the house, we processed more than 1,000 tips in total and conducted 150 interviews…
‘I hope this gives an idea of how complex this research is.
“We ask that you be patient as this investigation unfolds,” Colonel Wills said.
Cap. Lanier added: “We have to uphold the integrity of the investigation.
‘To free [what we know] may or may not flood us with a bunch of information that is irrelevant.
“We want more information, but we don’t want to jeopardize our investigation by releasing what we have.
“There is a balance between what you are willing to release and what you are willing to collect.
“Frankly, you’ll have to trust us,” he said.
Last week, the victims’ families criticized the police’s slow response to the investigation and urged them to be more honest about what they know.
“I want more coverage, I want more done. I want more people to speak up.
“We are losing critical time. I want more coverage, I want more done,” she said while appearing with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation.