A 2011-2013 Hyundai Elantra was noticed “in the immediate area” of the off-campus dwelling the place the scholars had been stabbed to dying within the early morning hours of November 13, Moscow Police mentioned in an announcement.
“Investigators believe the occupant(s) of this vehicle may have critical information to share regarding this case,” the police assertion mentioned, noting it had an unknown license plate.
The college students – Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20 – had been killed simply days earlier than the college’s Thanksgiving break. They had been all stabbed a number of instances and had been probably asleep when the assault started, a coroner has mentioned.
Nearly a month after the quadruple murder, authorities haven’t named a suspect or positioned a weapon, which they imagine to be a knife.
Still, investigators preserve they’ve made progress however can’t share particulars as that would compromise the investigation.
“We’re continuously making progress,” Idaho State Police spokesperson Aaron Snell instructed CNN. “But this is a criminal investigation, and as we make progress, we can’t always provide that information.”
Victims’ belongings returned to households
“It’s time for us to give those things back that really mean something to those families and hopefully to help with some of their healing,” Moscow Police Chief James Fry mentioned Tuesday in a short video assertion.
“I’m a dad, I understand the meaning behind some of those things,” Fry mentioned.
The objects faraway from the home the place the 4 college students had been killed are “no longer needed for the investigation,” police mentioned.
As they work to determine who killed the scholars, police have constructed a timeline of what they had been doing within the hours main as much as their deaths and what occurred earlier than police had been known as.
All 4 had been out having fun with a typical weekend night time — two had been at a bar in downtown Moscow whereas the opposite two had been at a fraternity home, investigators have mentioned.
They all returned to the house by 2am.
Later within the morning, two surviving roommates “summoned friends to the residence because they believed one of the second floor victims had passed out and was not waking up,” police mentioned in a launch.
Just earlier than midday, an individual known as 911 from the home utilizing one of many surviving roommates’ telephones.
Two of the victims had been discovered by responding officers on the second ground and two others had been on the third ground.
There had been no indicators of sexual assault, police mentioned. Authorities additionally didn’t see indicators of compelled entry or injury.
Detectives don’t imagine the surviving roommates had been concerned within the killings, police have mentioned.
