Idaho murders: Parents of Kaylee Goncalves beg businesses to search footage
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The parents of Kaylee Goncalves, one of four Idaho students slain, are pleading with local businesses to look at surveillance footage after a gas station attendant found a clip of a white Hyundai the night of the unsolved murders.
Police are investigating the car after it stopped at an Exxon Mobil station around 3:45 a.m. on November 13, about a mile from where Kaylee, 21, Maddie Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle , 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were killed in their car. -home from campus between 3 am and 4 am.
Police said earlier this month that they believe the occupants of the vehicle “may have critical information” about the murder case.
Now Kaylee’s parents, Kristi and Steven Goncalves, are urging other companies to look for more clues in their surveillance footage before it expires.
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Kristi and Steven Goncalves fear they could lose vital evidence as the time since their daughter’s death surpasses the one-month mark. They are now urging local businesses to review surveillance footage for other leads.
“There’s a 24-hour mark on a lot of those little video cameras, there’s seven days, one month,” Kristi said. Good morning america.
‘We are reaching the month [mark]’ Steven continued. ‘If the key piece of evidence is outside of that [time frame]so we have to get it now.
Xana Kernodle’s family has also been handing out fliers to locals and around the University of Idaho campus, urging others to help. They hope to hand out 5,000 flyers, according to GMA.
Kristi shared her thoughts on the night of the murder, telling GMA that she thought the killer, who is still on the run, “quickly[ly]’ executed the crime.
“I think this person was methodical and thought it through. I think it was fast. I think he was calm and he went in and out,” she said.
Despite a turbulent investigation, with police often stumped and searching for a new lead, Sergeant Curtis Sproat still believes that the Moscow police will find a solution to this gruesome murder.
“There will be a resolution to this investigation,” he told GMA as he drove through the neighborhood in one of the department’s 24-hour patrol cars.
Though, in the meantime, he urges Muscovites to be ‘vigilant’ and that their fears are valid.
A gas station attendant said she may have seen the white Hyundai Elantra that police believe is linked to the fatal stabbings speeding away from the scene.
The anonymous employee had reviewed hours of surveillance footage at the gas station in the hope of finding any information that could lead to the killer’s arrest.
Idaho police have said the four University of Idaho students were killed in their sleep between 3 a.m. and 5 p.m. )
Police are searching for a Ka-Bar knife (file image) as they believe it may have been used in the quadruple murder
‘Is it so [aware of their surroundings]and they really should be at this point,’ he said.
A former FBI agent also said the killer may have had cuts and bruises because the fixed-blade knife, believed to have been used in the quadruple murder, would have “sharpened quickly.”
The Ka-Bar-style knife police are looking for is more often used for cuts that involve thrusting motions, rather than smoother motions, Jonathan Gilliam said. Fox Digital News.
Gilliam, a former special agent, said the thrusting motion tired someone, and because of the physical force required to keep stabbing, the killer would likely have shown signs of bruising or cuts on the underside of his hand.
This week marked a month since violent murders rocked the small Moscow university town, but police have yet to name a suspect or find the murder weapon.
Gilliam said the type of knife used that night could shed some light on the case as there are increasing calls for Moscow police to turn the investigation over to the FBI.
Gilliam, who is also a former US Navy SEAL and has experience with Ka-Bar knives, said the type of knife is typically used to skin bark from a tree, dig a hole or cut through leather. .
“It’s not going to be as thin and cutting-able” as other knives, he said. “And when you sharpen it, it’ll dull again just by the nature of the fact that it’s kind of a fat blade.”
The Goncalves and Mogen families plan to hold a joint celebration of life at the end of the month for the two students.