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The FBI has increased the number of agents working on the case of the murdered University of Idaho students, after more than a month with no suspects or leads.
There are now 60 FBI agents and four members of the Behavior Analysis Unit (BAU) working on the case which is being run by the local Moscow Police Department. This is higher than the previous 46 FBI agents and two BAU analysts.
Police and the FBI will continue to investigate the murder of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20, who were stabbed to death in their beds on November 13.
Police also said that some 10,000 leads have been made so far in the deaths of the college classmates, as the cold case continues to plague the nation.
Madison Mogen, 21, top left, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, bottom left, Ethan Chapin, 20, center, and Xana Kernodle, 20, right, were killed in their off-campus college home on November 13.
The Moscow Police Department, along with the FBI, continue their ongoing investigation into the deaths of four University of Idaho students at their home in Idaho.
New FBI recruits on the cold case will continue to search for clues, gather information, and examine images in hopes of identifying the killer.
In addition to the 62 FBI agents and the two BAU analysts, some 11 detectives and personnel from the Moscow Police Department and 28 officers from the Idaho State Police are working on the case.
The thousands of tips from the public that continue to pour in are expected to help police solve the murders.
Moscow Police Department chief James Fry said Monday: “We have received around 10,000 leads. We are reviewing all those leads.” We’re checking to make sure we have people to see all of those tips, and any evidence that they can link to this case, they’re doing.”
Specially trained investigators will now examine the submitted tips and videos to piece together the clues.
The brutal quadruple homicide took place 37 days ago, but the lack of progress in the case has frustrated the families of the victims, the people of Moscow and the nation that wants to see those found and brought to justice.
The murders took place at the group’s off-campus residence hall in the early hours of Sunday, November 13.
The night before, the night of Saturday, November 12, Miss Mogen and Miss Goncalves had been at a local bar in Moscow, Idaho. Chapin and Kernodle had been at a party at the Sigma Chi fraternity house on the University of Idaho campus.
Both parties returned to their homes at dawn. Chapin was not a permanent resident of the house, but he was staying with his girlfriend Xana Kernodle.
The bodies of the four university students were later found on the second and third floors of the house.
Xana Kernodle and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin (left) were murdered on Sunday along with their friends Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves (right)
The bodies of Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogan were found on the top floor of the house. Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle were found in a second-floor room. Survivors Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke slept on the first floor
After a night out, the four housemates were murdered around 3 or 4 in the morning on November 13.
Police officers investigating the unsolved murder case have come under severe criticism after they turned up no significant leads or suspects 37 days after the students were murdered in their beds.
The lawyer representing the family of Kaylee Goncalves has asked if the local police are capable of clarifying the quadruple homicide.
Speaking to the Today Show yesterday, Shannon Gray said the family of Kaylee Goncalves is extremely frustrated with the lack of responses from law enforcement more than a month after the murders.
This has led the Goncalves family to hire their own private investigator to get some answers.
“We want to let them know that we are holding them accountable for their decisions,” Gray said. “And if they’re in over their heads, then acknowledge it and turn the investigation over to someone more well-versed in handling these sorts of things.”
“I’m not sure they’re capable of handling a quadruple murder,” he added.
Idaho police are currently seeking information about a white Hyundai Elantra that was in the “immediate area” of the Moscow home where four students were found dead.
Police are currently looking for information about a found white Hyundai Elantra. A car was in the ‘immediate area’ of the Moscow home where four students were found dead
Idaho police traveled up to 24 miles outside of Moscow to collect surveillance footage in nearby cities after the white Hyundai was seen near the scene. They’re still locating the car.
Officers are searching a database of some 22,000 registered white Hyundai Elantras that fit the description of the one found at the scene.
The car was found near King Road in the “early morning hours” of November 13, the same morning the students were found dead inside their off-campus home.
Police have said in the past that the driver “may have seen something” that could be relevant to the fatal stabbings.
are now ‘multiple groups’ scanning video as they try to track down those responsible, Fry said as he vowed his force would continue working through Christmas.
One possible new development may be a possible scream that was caught on a police officer’s body camera on the night of the brutal murders.
A Moscow police officer responding to an unrelated incident near the University of Idaho captured a high-pitched sound, recorded at 3:12 a.m.
Some network detectives believe the sound is a scream, while others think it could be the sound of car tires skidding.
The noise appears to have been made at the time the students were killed and authorities hope it can help them determine what happened.
Dylan Mortensen (left) and Bethany Funke (center) survived the brutal attack, as their roommates Xana Kernodle (2nd from left), Kaylee Goncalves (2nd from right) and Madison Mogen (right) were killed.
Police found no evidence of a sex crime, and the victims had injuries on their bodies that indicated they tried to fight the attacker.
Police officers initially said they thought the four were assaulted in their sleep, with Goncalves’ father saying she had the worst injuries from the incident: suffering “puncture wounds” and “tears.”
The police chief of the Moscow Police Department himself admitted that investigators did not understand how the two surviving roommates, Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen, seemed to sleep during the attack.
Police and FBI agents will now continue working through Christmas to find the killer.
Investigating authorities are asking the public to call 208-883-7180 or email tipline@ci.moscow.id.us.