Police reported that detectives have now relocated five vehicles from the crime scene to a storage location where they will continue to examine them and process evidence in the investigation into the gruesome stabbings that claimed the lives of four University of Idaho students inside their home earlier this month.
The Moscow Police Department said in a press release on Tuesday that investigators moved five cars from within the police perimeter to a more secure long-term storage site “today, as part of the continuing murder investigation and original search warrant, to continue processing evidence.”
Fox News published video of the snow-covered autos being taken away.
Police claim that they are presently searching for background information that may provide insight into the circumstances behind the killings and the individuals responsible. Anyone with information is urged to contact the department’s tip line at 208-883-7180, according to the detectives.
University students and roommates Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, and Xana Kernodle, as well as student Ethan Chapin, were slain at the women’s dormitory close to campus on November 13 in the early morning hours after coming home after evenings out.
The two surviving roommates, according to investigators, slept in the home that night as well and called 911 when they discovered one of the four dead students comatose the next morning. Later, the Latah County Coroner determined that each of their deaths was the result of a stabbing murder.
Two weeks after the triple homicide, Moscow police officers are still without a suspect in custody.
The agency said on Sunday that tips were still coming in and that community members had also submitted more than 500 digital contributions to the FBI website in an effort to help with the investigation.
Moscow police said, “We recognize there is a feeling of anxiety inside our society.
Detectives are currently looking for additional tips and surveillance footage of “any unusual behavior” observed during the night of Nov. 12 and into the early hours of Nov. 13 while Goncalves and Mogen were out in downtown Moscow and Kernodle and Chapin were at the university’s Sigma Chi fraternity house.
Detectives have already used a variety of tips and surveillance videos to rule out potential suspects.
Police earlier said that they were looking into “hundreds of pieces of information” that showed Goncalves was the victim of a stalker incident before she passed away. According to the Moscow Police Department, authorities have not yet confirmed or located a potential stalker despite receiving a flood of allegations.
On Nov. 16, Moscow Police Chief James Fry informed reporters that they thought it was “a targeted assault,” but in the days that followed, police did not elaborate or provide any explanation for how they could make such a claim in the absence of a suspect.
However, the agency seemed to retract that assertion in a statement released Wednesday night, calling it a “miscommunication” and claiming that investigators were “at this time unsure” as to whether the home or any of its residents had been particularly targeted.
In the meanwhile, candlelight vigils were held at the University of Idaho on Wednesday night to remember the four students. Both took place at the University of Boise and on the Moscow campus, respectively.
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