Authorities investigating the stabbing deaths of 4 College of Idaho college students as they slept stated Tuesday that detectives have seemed extensively into data that one of many victims had a stalker and haven't been capable of confirm it.
Investigators have pursued "a whole lot of items of data" about the potential for Kaylee Goncalves having a stalker however have not been capable of "confirm or establish" a possible particular person of curiosity, the Moscow Police Division stated in a information launch. Police requested group members to submit any data that might assist detectives to the Moscow police tip line.
Authorities have stated they haven't any identifiable suspects or weapon greater than every week after the Nov. 13 killings shook the Idaho Panhandle city of 25,000 residents.
Police additionally stated Tuesday that there is been a lot dialog about the way to describe the weapon thought for use within the assaults. The division referred to as it a fix-blade knife — normally stronger than a folding pocket knife, variations of this blade are used for looking, survival tenting and the navy — and stated detectives have been persevering with to seek for it.
Officers have reportedly visited an area house enchancment retailer, referred to as Moscow Constructing Provide, a number of occasions because the stabbings, in response to the Idaho Statesman. Scott Jutte, the shop's basic supervisor, advised the newspaper final week that police had inquired about Ka-Bar knives, which is a model of combat-style, fixed-blade knives, and whether or not the shop sells them.
Idaho State Police spokesperson Aaron Snell stated officers had executed the identical at a number of native hardware shops, and weren't particularly targeted on Ka-Bar knives, in a press release, the Idaho Statesman reported.
Police stated Monday they might maintain a information convention to replace the general public on the investigation at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
The victims names are: Ethan Chapin, 20, of Mount Vernon, Washington; Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Xana Kernodle, 20, of Submit Falls, Idaho; and Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho. Mogen, Kernodle and Goncalves have been roommates, who lived within the house the place all 4 our bodies have been discovered. Chapin was courting Kernodle, however didn't stay there.
Authorities have stated they have been every stabbed a number of occasions, and that some had defensive wounds.
On Sunday, regulation enforcement officers investigating the deaths requested for persistence after every week handed with no arrests.
Police have stated proof leads them to imagine the scholars have been focused, however have repeatedly declined to provide particulars.