BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Police are seeking help in locating a vehicle occupant seen near where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death last month.
Moscow police said Wednesday afternoon, early in the morning of November 13, that a civilian was called in to identify a person inside a white Hyundai Elantra built between 2011 and 2013 near a house off campus. issued a statement asking for help. No sedan license plate.
“Whether you believe it to be important or not, your information could be a puzzle piece to help investigators solve these murders,” the agency wrote.
relatively few details The murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin have been released. An autopsy revealed that four students had been stabbed to death, and the attack probably began while they were asleep.
“Tips and clues led investigators to seek additional information about a vehicle in the immediate vicinity of the King Street residence in the early hours of November 13. “If you know or own a vehicle that fits this description, or if you know of a vehicle that fits this description, we may have important information that should be available,” the ministry wrote in a news release. If you know anyone who may have been driving this vehicle that day, please forward that information to Tipline.”
Moscow Police Department has asked anyone with information to send an email Or call the tip line at 208-883-7180.The FBI, which is supporting the investigation, has created a website You can upload security camera footage and other digital media from the area recorded before and after the murder.
4 stabbing victims A friend and member of the Greek system of universities., shattered the sense of security many had in rural farming and college towns. The three of him, Mogen, Goncalves, and Kernodle, lived with his two other roommates in a rented house across the street from campus. There, Kernodle’s boyfriend, his Chapin, was visiting.
Moscow police chief James Fry was in a rented house with other law enforcement officers on Wednesday collecting the victim’s belongings so that they could return them to their families. He announced his plans on Monday and hopes that returning meaningful items to the family will help them heal.
Six Moscow Department detectives, 48 FBI agents, and more than a dozen Idaho State Police agents were involved in solving the case.
“We’re going to do our job and we’re going to do this to the best of our ability,” Frye said outside the home on Wednesday. Thanks to the victims, thanks to our community, and we will continue to do so.”
