'Look into missing person cases': Internet believes 'anxious' Idaho killer could have died by suicide
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: More than a month has passed after four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in their beds. Police are yet to identify a suspect(s) in the brutal killings. As various theories surface, the internet has suggested the possibility that the suspect may have died by suicide over fears of being caught, and that local unattended deaths or missing persons should be looked at.
In the early morning hours of November 13, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were stabbed to death in an off-campus three-story rented home. Law enforcement is yet to identify the suspect(s) in the case. Authorities have said that the gory scene where the students were killed was the “worst they’ve ever seen."
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"I hope the police are considering this possibility that the suspect may kill themself either on purpose or accidentally by overdose to numb the anxiety of getting caught. I keep getting nervous as days go by and there's nothing that what if they are dead already?" a user wrote on Reddit. "After doing a deep dive years ago into the Jon Benet Ramsay case I remember reading a theory about someone named Michael Helgoth could have been the killer and he killed himself two days after her murder. They found a lot of evidence at his scene of his death that could possibly have tied him to the murder. I hope any one that killed themself or overdosed within a few hours from Moscow are looked into just a little bit deeper since the murders. Suicides and overdoses are not publicised typically so it's hard to look up if there has been any nearby since the murders. Does anyone else share the same thoughts as me?" the person continued.
Disagreeing, one user wrote, "This does not seem like a person who would off themselves right away. They're really cold and probably think they'll get away with it." Another said, "I agree. I suspect he’s s narcissist/psychopath so he’s probably relishing in the public’s obsession with this case. He won’t kill himself."
"I read a study on mass murders in the US that broke down suicides of the murderer in one part. For familial ones, it’s a a high rate and for public attacks it’s also very high and they plan for it. But for other instances, it’s significantly lower. It’s always possible they are suicidal though, no case is every the same," one user wrote, while another said, "Someone with an unknown mental disorder who snaps could absolutely off themselves in fear of capture. Especially if there are drugs involved in the suspects life, an OD is possible. I've wondered this myself." Another person disagreed, saying, "Someone who stabs 4 people to death, violently and viciously isn’t someone who would feel guilt or anxiety over this. This is the type of person who gets off on gore and violence. Not someone who wants to numb anything, this is their f*****g Everest."
Meanwhile, Goncalves' father has spoken up about newly-unearthed footage showing his daughter and her friend Mogen in which they are heard talking about a person called "Adam." Steven said that Adam was not a suspect in the case. Surveillance footage believed to be taken early on November 13, showed Goncalves and Mogen walking in downtown Moscow, accompanied by a man, just hours before they were brutally murdered.
In the video, the women seemed to be wearing the same clothes Goncalves and Mogen had donned in another video outside a nearby food truck the same evening. The man in the video also appears to be wearing clothes that look like those a man at the food truck wore, and who police said was not a suspect. "Maddie, what did you say to Adam?" a woman asks in the video. "Like, I told Adam everything," the second woman replies. Steve had said that it was "pretty clear" that the man his daughter was talking about in the video was not a suspect.
This comes as a local shop owner recently claimed that Goncalves would beg her friends to walk closely behind all the time as she was "terrified" of a stalker who was reportedly following her around. Following the murders, several reports claimed that Goncalves had a stalker. However, Moscow police have denied having any knowledge of it.
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