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Jennifer Coffindaffer: Ex-FBI agent shares femicide theory on Idaho murders, says killer could be an 'incel'

Jennifer Coffindaffer said that the Idaho killer may have been someone who attended a party at the house or knew the four victims 'very loosely'

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MOSCOW, IDAHO: The murder of four University of Idaho students, Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, on November 13, 2022, could be a case of femicide — with three victims being women, former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer said. She claimed that investigators will be looking at "everyone associated with each victim," starting with their families and inner circles but believes that it could be a "very outlying individual" because of the lack of an arrest.

In a conversation with Newsweek, Coffindaffer said that the killer could have built up anger against one or more of the murdered students but according to her the killer is someone with "perverted thoughts and anger toward women." "They're known as incels ... who has watched this house, who is seeing all of these beautiful girls go in and out, and their rage and their own personal, horrific desires, they realized that night," the ex-FBI agent said, adding, "Somebody still in that area, somebody that has seen these beautiful girls because only girls live there, right?"

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Describing her theory further, Coffindaffer said, "An individual with absolutely horrible, murderous desires against these women, a femicide-type case, and it came to a boiling point combined with an opportunity." The killer may have been someone who attended a party at the house or knew the victims "very loosely," she added. "In other words, the people there might not even know him, other than he was around at the peripheral, but somebody who would have gone unnoticed. So you have a perfect storm that night, and this person familiar with the house, familiar with when they came and left and familiar with that area, to be able to leave quickly, familiar with the tree line of where they could have surveilled the house and seeing the lights go on and off, and so on and so forth," Coffindaffer further said.

Pointing to the 1979 murder case of Michelle Martinko, 18, whose killer Jerry Burns was arrested in 2018, 39 years after she was found stabbed to death in her family's car in the parking lot of a local mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Coffindaffer said there have been "many cases like that where people are attacked viciously and it's not by anybody in their circle, but rather, it's somebody outside that circle completely, that has issues in and of themselves that they've acted out on."

Coffindaffer wrote in a recent tweet on December 22, "The case below involved the brutal stabbing of #MichelleMartinko. Beautiful & young; She wasn't killed by a close acquaintance. The case was solved with DNA. DNA, perseverance & and luck will likely solve the #idahohomicide case too."