Idaho Stabbings: Vol 1 The Basics
Idaho Stabbings: Vol 1 The Basics
December 11, 2022
Sunday, December 11 is four weeks since the gruesome November 13th murders of Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20, in a house across the street from the University of Idaho Greek Row.
The three women lived there together, and Chapin was visiting his girlfriend, Kernodle. Chapin lived in a frat house only about 200 yards away. According to Moscow police, the coroner said all four victims were likely asleep, some had defensive wounds, and all were stabbed multiple times in the torso. They appear to have been stabbed to death with a large, KA BAR style knife.
Police have not named a suspect, nor any persons of interest, except that they were looking for the driver of a white car that was seen on the night of the crime near where the students were killed. That police are looking for the car, a white 2011 -2013 Hyundai Elantra, is the biggest development they’ve had so far.
The police did not say that the driver of the car was a suspect, but that the driver and any passengers might have “critical information” about the killings. They said they did not have a license plate number for the car.
According to a report in the NY Post, the killer was sloppy and left a mountain of forensics work. According to Steve Goncalves, “They’re telling us that there’s so much evidence that it’s going to take a lot of time to process it all,” the father of 21-year-old Kaylee, said. “This wasn’t like a pinpoint crime. This person was sloppy.”
Timeline of the Murder
9:00 p.m. Mr. Chapin and Ms. Kernodle, who began dating sometime in the spring, attend a party at the Sigma Chi fraternity.
Sigma Chi House 1:45 a.m The couple returns to the home.
10:30pm to 1:30 am Ms. Mogen and Ms. Goncalves are in Corner Club bar
Corner Club bar 1:40 a.m. Ms. Mogen and Ms. Goncalves stop at a food truck, where they are captured on a livestream video camera. They depart a few minutes later when their food arrives. Police said a “private party” drove them home.
Food Truck Cam 1:56 a.m. a neighbor’s surveillance camera showed Ms. Mogen and Ms. Goncalves returning to the house, according to one of the families
2:26 to 2:52 a.m., phone logs show seven unanswered phone calls from both Ms. Goncalves’s phone and Ms. Mogen’s phone, to Jack DuCoeur, Kaylee Goncalves’s ex boyfriend.
Kaylee Goncalves and Jack DuCoeur Mr. DuCoeur reportedly missed the calls because he was sleeping.
Police said two surviving housemates had been out of town, separately, and had returned to the house by about 1:00 a.m.
A county coroner said they were likely asleep when they were attacked
12:00 noon Someone from the house calls 911, and the police arrived to find the victims.
The victims were likely ambushed in their sleep between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m.
The crime scene
To Be Continued…