University of Idaho press conference: Moscow police have no suspect, weapon or motive in student killings

During a news conference Wednesday, authorities said efforts to investigate reports that one of the victims had been stalked were unsuccessful.

Moscow Capt. Roger Lanier said the department was intensively investigating reports that Goncalves had a stalker and encouraged the public to continue to send in tips.

In her latest report from a location in Idaho, Sheila wrote: “As hundreds gathered to pay their respects, the families of the other three victims also mourned six hours away in Idaho — and pleaded for an end to the wild speculation about the case that has both heightened their pain and complicated the investigations.”

“All the noise out there really hurts families,” said a friend of Kristi and Steve Goncalves, Caylee’s parents The Independent. “And it leads the police on leads that aren’t real and away from the ones that are.”

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In an announcement Tuesday, university president Scott Green said the college plans to “be flexible through the end of the semester.”

Faculty were asked to prepare in-person and distance learning options for the last two weeks of the semester.

“I usually have to drive about five minutes trying to find a parking spot; I stopped and one of the closest places is open,” Mr. Bartels said. “I mean, literally the number of students attending class is down 50 percent. Overnight.”

The Independent’Sheila Flynn and Andrea Blanco have the story:

The Moscow Police Department and other agencies involved in the massive manhunt for a suspect in the Idaho college killings will release their latest information today.

The press conference is scheduled for 1 p.m. local time.

It has been three days since the police gave their last press conference on Sunday.

In that event, authorities said the two surviving roommates, a man seen in the Twitch video that also featured Goncalves and Mogen in a food truck hours before the murders, and a person who drove the two home that night are not considered suspects .

A retired FBI behavioral analyst believes the perpetrator of the University of Idaho murders was either a stalker or someone known to the victims.

Former agent Jim Clemente, who is not working on the case, spoke to Fox News Digital about the quadruple homicide that shook the college town of Moscow and the nation on Nov. 13. Mr Clemente described the killer as “careless” and close in age to the victims.

The IndependentAndrea Blanco has more:

Latta County Coroner Kathy Mabbutt told NewsNation that each victim suffered multiple stab wounds from a “fairly large knife.”

“It’s got to be someone pretty angry to stab four people to death,” Mabbutt said.

Mabbutt’s comments expanded on autopsy reports that said the four students were stabbed to death. The bodies were found on the second and third floors.

Authorities said they were found in their beads and may have been asleep at the time of the attack.

More than ten days after the brutal stabbings of Xana Kernodle, 20, Ethan Chapin, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21, shocked Moscow, a dark cloud remains over the small college town, residents say The Independentis Sheila Flynn.

The local resident can’t keep up with requests for latches, receiving up to 50 requests a day – more work than the store’s two employees can handle.

One student at the University of Idaho estimates that 50 percent of the students, who make up half of Moscow’s population, have left campus.

Meanwhile, a tattoo shop owner has offered to walk residents home and check their homes before they lock their doors.

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Police revealed earlier this week that the two surviving roommates “called friends” to the home around noon on Nov. 13 because they thought one of the victims had passed out.

More than one person spoke to a 911 dispatcher before officers were dispatched to the residence in the college town of Moscow.

The police arrived on the scene and found the bodies of the four victims on the second and third floors.

They are believed to have been killed in their sleep.

More than a week after the murders, much remains a mystery surrounding the horrific stabbings of Xana Kernodle, 20, Ethan Chapin, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21.

Authorities believe the students were killed sometime between 3 and 4 a.m. on Nov. 13.

Law enforcement was called to the King Road home at 11:58 a.m. Sunday after a 911 call alerted them to an “unconscious individual.”

The call was made from the cell phone of one of the surviving roommates, but police declined to confirm the identity of the caller.

Authorities have since revealed that all four victims were stabbed to death with a “knife-like weapon” – although the murder weapon has not been found.

The IndependentYo Dodds and Rachel Sharp have an updated timeline of developments in the case:

Authorities in Moscow, where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death last week, warned the public against spreading rumors online.

During a press conference Sunday, Moscow police released few details about the ongoing investigation into the brutal murders of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20. No arrests have been made a week after the murders and police still has identified suspects.

Authorities have turned to conspiracies surrounding the murders that have been circulating online. Police Capt. Roger Lanier denied reports that the victims were found bound and gagged, and said any information being released about the identity of the 911 caller was mere speculation.

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