Do Idaho cops have a murder suspect? Police chief claims they 'HAVE info', denies links to other stabbings
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: Idaho police claim they have information on the quadruple murder of the university students who were fatally stabbed to death in their sleep but refuse to share any details due to growing fear. Even though police have also claimed they have no suspect or murder weapon in connection to the deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Maddie Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20. and Ethan Chapin, 20, on November 13.
Students of the University of Idaho are already looking to stay back home or take online classes while the case remains unsolved. Police say they are not releasing a profile of the suspect because it could lead to more fear and a rise in suspicion in the college town. Police claim they are concealing information in an effort to catch the killer.
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"It will potentially put more fear, more suspicion on a wide variety of people versus if we use that to really refine where we're at in our investigation," Idaho State Police communications director Aaron Snell told FOX News. "I think that will be more pertinent." "And so if we just provide information to the public, I just don't think that that's going to be a wise choice." Ultimately police have slammed ongoing rumors and said the rampant speculation does "disservice to the families and to the community because it puts out additional information that hasn't been vetted."
Snell refuted claims that the quadruple murder was tied to other knife stabbings in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. Despite announcing a link between the student's death and a similar case where a husband and wife were stabbed in their beds by a crazed lunatic last year in Oregon. "We don't believe at this time ... these murders are actually linked to two other knife murders that have occurred both in Pullman, [Washington] as well as Oregon," Snell said, noting that police are "aware of these various reports" and "looked into them," reported Daily Mail.
Snell has also shot down the connection between a dog found skinned from head to tail on October 21 and said it is unrelated to the student murders, as are other animal-related deaths. Moscow Police Department has ruled out the two surviving roommates, Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke, a male who met with Goncalves and Mogen while ordering food from a food truck and the driver who transported them home hours before their deaths, as suspects. Although the police are vigilantly trying to follow up on the stalker of Goncalves they have had no success, considering how most of the students have gone home due to the holiday season.
Police have asked neighbors to check their ring footage to look for any signs of the suspect. Authorities believe the killer entered and exited at the back of a neighbor's house before escaping up a hill. Neighbors living in the homes backing onto the home and whose property would have been part of any escape route on foot said they heard and seen nothing. Cynthia Mika, 70, said the night of the killing, it was all quiet. "We didn't hear a thing. Our neighbors have a dog who barks and he would have woken us up if he saw anything. He didn't bark."