Idaho murders: Ex-FBI agent says killer would have been 'exhausted' and fled 'within a 3-hour distance'
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: According to a former FBI Special Agent, the assailant who murdered four University of Idaho students last month was likely "exhausted" and would have traveled "within a 3-hour distance" to avoid being discovered in the morning. Speaking to Dr Phil, Jonathan Gilliam said, "Killing with a knife, which most people don't understand, is very violent, very physically-exhausting and also adrenaline-exhausting. By the time you get to a fourth person, you're going to be very exhausted.”
"When you look at the totality of the circumstances of this attack, what you see is somebody that probably lives, I'd put it within three hours because if it happened at 3, the sun comes up around 7. Most likely an attacker would want to be home and would be satiated. The person was likely satiated, exhausted, and didn't want to be out after the sun came out,” he added. Dr Phil then inquired, "Cause then you'd be covered in blood, right?" Gillam replied, "I don't see how they couldn't be."
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The bodies of Xana Kernodle, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kernodle's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, were discovered by their two surviving roommates on the morning of November 13. Authorities stated that the four were probably asleep when they were attacked and that the victims were believed to have been killed at around 3 in the morning.
Defensive wounds were discovered on all four, suggesting that they made an effort to retaliate against their assailant. Meanwhile, Gilliam's claim follows a statement from the Moscow Police Department that the number of tips and leads received in connection with the grisly murders had topped 10,000. The Moscow PD stated in its most recent report on the investigation that "we have not changed our belief that the murders were a targeted attack." Nevertheless, investigators haven't yet determined if the house or its occupants were the targets.
James Fry, chief of police, also hit back against the relatives of the victims for questioning his agency's competence to conduct the murder investigation. "There have been numerous questions about leadership in this investigation. Let me be clear, this is the Moscow Police Department’s investigation, and I am the Chief of Police. The decisions are mine and mine alone. I have an excellent Command Staff, with over 94 years of combined experience, overseeing the investigation’s daily operation, and I select who runs the investigative teams,” he remarked.