MOSCOW, Idaho — Police are dismissing a number of rumors that Murders on November 13 four Idaho State University students at their home near campus in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Authorities have not yet announced any suspects stabbing deaths Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Kaylee Gonsalves, 20, and Madison Mogen, 20, have sparked speculation among members of the Moscow community and internet searchers hungry for answers.
“There’s a lot of speculation,” Idaho State Police Public Information Officer Aaron Snell told Fox News Digital. “Ultimately, the detectives on the scene have the information. The people working on this case from all three agencies … they are the best and the smartest, and they have the most up-to-date resources.”
Snell added that rumors sometimes do “a disservice to families and the community because they give out additional information that hasn’t been verified.” He then mentioned several rumors that the police dispelled after the murders.
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Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kayleigh Gonçalves, 21, and two other roommates in Kayleigh Gonçalves’ last Instagram post, made a day before the murders.
(@kayleegoncalves/Instagram)
The victims are not related to the gags
Early in the investigation, authorities dismissed false rumors that the four victims were bound and gagged during the attack.
“At some point, we heard that the victims were also connected with gags. Well, we were able to successfully say, “No, that’s not quite right.” And that’s why we’re trying to spread the word,” Snell said.
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Each of the four victims had multiple stab wounds, and “some” of them had defensive wounds, autopsy results show. Lata County the coroner, but there was no indication that they were connected during the attack.
An investigator tapes up a door at a home in Moscow, Idaho, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, where four people were killed Nov. 13.
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Murders not related to unsolved stabbings
Snell also dismissed the possibility of being linked to the quadruple murder other undisclosed stab wounds in areas of Idaho, Washington, and Oregon.
“At this time, we do not believe that … these murders are actually connected to the other two stabbing murders that occurred in Pullman. [Washington]as well as Oregon,” Snell said.
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He added that police were “aware of these various reports” and had “looked into them”.
Map showing the number of murders in the Washington-Idaho-Oregon region
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“Again, this is part of the investigation. We have excellent investigators on this case. So … we get criticized by other people who don’t know about it,” Snell said. “It’s always very interesting television criticism from people who don’t know this particular case.”
No connection with a detached dog nearby
The Moscow Police Department (MPD) said Nov. 21 that a dog found skinned from head to tail on Oct. 21 was not involved in the killing of the students.
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Pamela Colbert’s neighbors found her lost dogA 12-year-old miniature Australian shepherd was found completely mauled down the road from her home, a few miles from the scene of the off-campus murders.
Members of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit were among investigators who returned to an Idaho crime scene where four students were brutally stabbed to death.
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Colbert, 78, told Fox News Digital last week that she remembers a Latah County Sheriff’s Office supervisor telling her, “It wasn’t an animal that did it. It was done by man.”
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The incident has led some to fear there may be a correlation between the two crimes, but authorities believe they were separate. Police are also dismissing rumors of other cases involving dead animals in the area that could be related to the Nov. 13 killings.
The identity of the caller of the emergency service is known to the law enforcement authorities
Police have not released the identity of the witness who called 911 at the scene of the Nov. 13 murders using the phone of one of the victims’ roommates. But police said the caller was a friend who did not live at the victims’ King Road home.
Police have released the names of the four victims of the apparent quadruple homicide at Idaho State University: Maddie Mogen, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Kaylee Goncalves.
(Instagram: @maddiemogen, @kayleegoncalves, @ethanchapin4)
A caller dialed 911 at 11:58 a.m. to report an unconscious person, believing one of the victims had passed out and wouldn’t wake up, MPD said at a news conference last week. Soon, police officers arrived at the house.
It is unclear how many friends arrived at the home before MPD.
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Authorities have ruled out 911 callers at the residence and a number of other individuals as suspects.
MPD does not believe the following individuals are involved: the victims’ two surviving roommates, the man who appears in the video of Gancalves and Mogen ordering food from a food truck hours before their deaths, the driver who drove them home early on the morning of November 13 and a man whom Gonsalves and Mogen called several times just before the murder.
