Idaho cops sift through 22K Hyundai Elantras to find one that passed through 'immediate area' of murder scene
MOSCOW, IDAHO: After over a month getting elapsed, there are still no suspects in the chilling University of Idaho murders that happened in the three-story off-campus 'party house' at 1122 King Road, between 3 am and 4 am on November 13. Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21, were all asleep in their beds when they were fatally stabbed in one of the grisliest murders.
The 'small' Moscow police department said that six detectives and five support personnel have been assigned to the murder investigation and that 48 FBI investigators, including behavioral analysis experts, and 28 officers from the Idaho State Police had also contributed to the investigation. Now the police apart from other clues have narrowed down their focus on the Hyundai Elantras, the car which has been spotted in the "immediate area" of the brutal slaying. However, there are 22,000 such registered cars, the police say, and locating the one found near the spot could be a 'critical' clue.
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That tally is all the registered vehicles potentially matching the white 2011-2013 model seen in the “immediate area” of the off-campus home where the friends were stabbed to death in the early hours of November 13. “That’s an awful lot of information but it may not be all of them,” Moscow police Captain Roger Lanier said Thursday in a press briefing. The key car might be “one that’s just not on the registration database” or one usually kept off the road, the police chief said, renewing appeals for info on potential matches.
Police have not yet specified whether persons inside the white Hyundai are wanted as suspects or merely important witnesses; they have just stated that it was in the "immediate neighborhood" of the terrible killing. Lanier emphasized it once more on Thursday, "we are sure that the person or occupants of that car have information that's essential to this investigation." Even though there is a lot of "fascination" with the case, the chief officer claimed that not everyone will be aware of the hunt. "Perhaps your neighbor has a car in the garage that they don't use much. Perhaps there is one who is simply not listed in the registration database. Tell us," he requested.
The police chief said they remain confident that the case will be solved as there has been a spike in tips recently. “Eventually we’re going to narrow in on exactly what happened and who did it,” he vowed in an earlier update on Wednesday, as per the New York Post.