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A group of people were seen walking near the house where four University of Idaho students were killed in their sleep.
As the brutal murders have captured the nation’s attention, internet detectives are now pointing to new details of a police stop that occurred near the victims’ home off the Moscow campus.
Minutes before police said the students were killed, plainclothes officers made an unrelated stop in the area of three students on suspicion of underage drinking.
The officers’ body camera captured the incident, and in the background of the video, multiple people can be seen speeding past police on Taylor Avenue, two houses down from the crime scene.
True crime vlogger Olivia Vitale, who highlighted the now-viral video, said it was imperative that police track down potential witnesses who may reveal new details about the case.
“Between the people with law enforcement and the people in the background of the body camera footage, that’s about half a dozen people,” Vitale said. foxnews. “The significance is that they may have witnessed something without knowing it.”
The video comes as the Moscow Police Department asked people to provide advice as no arrests have been made in a month, also warning to crack down on internet detectives spreading misinformation.
A group of people could be seen hurrying past police as officers made an unrelated stop near the home where the four University of Idaho students were killed.
Plainclothes officers had arrested three students on suspicion of underage drinking.
It is unknown if the police identified and questioned the group that night.
Few details and contradictions from the police have led to widespread theories spreading on the internet about the murders. Those killed in the November murders were (from left to right) Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen (on Kaylee’s shoulders), Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle.
Ethan Chapin, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, were all students at the University of Idaho. They were brutally attacked between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., and a month later, the killer has still not been caught.
The fact that little remains to be known about the case has given rise to a number of speculations surrounding the case, with internet detectives continuing to alert police to possible evidence.
While officials previously said there is nothing of value in the body camera videos from that night’s stop, it’s unclear if police questioned people hurrying along in the background.
The Moscow Police Department did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
The police stop is recorded between 2:50 am and 3:12 am on November 13. Authorities believe the murders took place between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m.
Pat Diaz, a former Miami-Dade homicide detective, agreed that the development could provide new information to local police.
“If they haven’t already, they need to locate them as soon as possible,” Diaz said of the people in the body camera video. ‘That’s a great clue. Does anyone know something.
The police stop occurred moments before police believe the murders occurred, and just two houses down from the crime scene.
Kaylee and Madison were found on the top floor of their Moscow, Idaho, home. College lovers Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle were found in a second-floor bedroom while survivors Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke slept on the first floor.
Before Steve Goncalves said on Wednesday that his daughter Kaylee died in the same bed as Maddie, this is where the college students were believed to have died; however, it is not yet known which room on the top floor they were in.
Retired Moscow police captain Paul Kwaitkowski, 64, said the Idaho killer likely knew at least one victim and may have been motivated by revenge.
The latest tidbit comes as former Moscow police captain Paul Kwaitkowski, 64, told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview that the killings were most likely a targeted attack.
The retired Moscow police captain, who spent 20 years investigating every local homicide in Idaho, claimed the perpetrator responsible for the slayings knew at least one of the victims and may have been seeking revenge.
“At some point, something bad happened, something that upset someone enough to go after these people.”
Kwaitkowski’s comments came amid police uncertainty about whether or not the victims were targeted.
Authorities said they initially believed the attack was untargeted, but weeks later retracted their statement in one of many contradictions that have left the public and families of victims frustrated by the investigation.
Kaylee’s father, Steven Goncalves, has publicly expressed his anger at the botched police investigation into the gruesome murder of his daughter, who was revealed last week to have suffered “significantly more brutal” injuries than her three friends.
The grieving father shared new details of those injuries, revealing that Kaylee had suffered “big gouges” and that the knife severed her liver and lungs. foxnews informed.
Goncalves said his daughter’s injuries “definitely did not match” those of Mogen, who was found in the same bed as Kaylee, after asking coroner Cathy Mabbutt how many times the victims were stabbed.
“She says, ‘sir, I don’t think stabbing is the right word, it was like tears, like it was a strong weapon, not stabbing,'” he told the news outlet.
He said they were big open gouges. She said it was fast. These weren’t something you were going to be able to call 911 on. They weren’t going to bleed out slowly.
Kaylee’s father, Steven Goncalves, has shared new details about the violent injuries his daughter sustained, revealing that Kaylee had suffered “large open gouges” and that her injuries did not “match” those of her friends.
Maddie Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves (right), who had been best friends since the sixth grade, died in the same bed, according to Kaylee’s father Steve.
Based on the victims’ injuries, Goncalves said, the coroner’s office suspects the killer was likely a “strong individual,” however investigators have not determined the person’s gender.
He, however, believes that it is most likely the work of a ‘sadistic man’.
“It was quite a battle down there from what the coroner told us,” he added.
“I was outraged that they didn’t just come out and say it was a woman or a man because they should know by the amount of force it took to cause the injuries.”
They’re just being cowards. There are girls walking down the street right now who deserve to know. They should be looking for a sadistic man,” Goncalves said.
Like his former colleagues, Kwaitkowski says he doesn’t know who the intended target was and suspects the four victims could have been the focus of the attack.
“I don’t know who the target was,” he said. ‘Maybe there was only one target, and the other three were collateral damage.
‘Why they were attacked, nobody knows yet, that means deciphering all the digital data they will have to go through.
‘You have 20 people looking at tens of thousands of pieces of information. That will get you somewhere. But it’s going to take time,” she added.