‘It’s feeling sick to your stomach’: Mom of slain Kaylee Goncalves fears Idaho murders could go unsolved
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: The mother of one of the four University of Idaho students killed in a horrific stabbing attack last month expressed her concern that the case would remain open as detectives continue to look for a suspect more than four weeks after the attack. "I can’t help but not," Kristi Goncalves, the mother of 21-year-old victim Kaylee Goncalves, said of possibilty of case going unsolved.
Kristi stated that she is "left in the dark" about the investigation's status in an interview with TODAY that aired on December 15. "I mean, in all honesty, that is a possibility. There’s a lot of unsolved murders." "It’s sleepless nights. It’s feeling sick to your stomach," she said. "It's so many emotions that I’ve never, ever endured in my life, ever." In an effort to identify the person suspected of killing Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodle in a home close to the school's Moscow, Idaho, campus on November 13, police said earlier this week that investigators are working round-the-clock to review tips and submissions from the public. The four victims, according to authorities, were murdered while they slept in the early morning hours. Multiple stab wounds were present on all four victims and some also had defensive wounds.
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On the day she learned that her daughter and three of her friends had been killed, Kristi Goncalves described the commotion she went through. "There was nothing you could do. Absolutely nothing," she said. "We were just running around for hours just not knowing what was going on, what happened, because we found out by people calling us. And the sheriff showed up about three hours later." Police stated last week that they were looking to speak with the driver or drivers of a white 2011–2013 Hyundai Elantra that was in the "immediate area" of the students' apartment on November 13 early in the morning.
According to police, the occupant(s) of the car may have "critical information to share on this case." According to Kristi, she and her family support the police and the work they are doing to investigate the murder but she and her counsel have been critical of how the department is interacting with the relatives of the victims. Kristi admitted that she learned about the white car from a news release and that the police did not even bother to tell her about the new piece of information. "My first thought just started being like, how long have they had this information? Where do they get this information? Was it on a camera?" she told TODAY. "The United States just found out the same time I did."
Kaylee's mother, Kristi, claimed that her family met with law enforcement on December 12, stressing that they shouldn't be learning about news via press releases. She also claimed that despite bringing five pages of questions, her family "came out with not much." It is getting more difficult to remain optimistic after more than a week of searching for information on the car, but Kristi insists the knowledge that the inquiry is still ongoing gives her hope. "We’re a month in and that’s all we got," she said. "I have to have hope, I have to have faith. I have to trust God that it’s in the right hands, and that the right people are doing it — the right people are leaving the investigation. I have no choice."
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