'Still too close to our heart': Kaylee Goncalves' dad Steve says family won't have Christmas this year
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: Kaylee Goncalves's grieving dad has said that the family won’t be celebrating Christmas this year. With a week to go before Christmas, the father of the Idaho murder victim appeared on Fox News on Saturday, December 17, to give an update on the investigation. Kaylee, 21, was one of the four University of Idaho students who were stabbed to death on November 13 along with Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, at a house near campus in the small town of Moscow.
Steve Goncalves stated that his family "won't even really have a Christmas" as "you just can't get yourself there to where it would make sense." "It's still too close to our heart. How do you have a celebration like this when you've lost two of your favorite people in the world?" he added. Goncalves, who is still looking for answers, opened up to Fox News’ Lawrence Jones about the most recent developments in the case.
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He said, "They've kind of informed us through communications that they've checked all the easiest paths. If this individual had this car registered to his name and it was just something very quick that they could just look up in the area and go right to his house — they've done all the due diligence there. They've done all that. So now they're reaching out and they're going to look to the community to see if this individual borrowed this car."
"It doesn't appear that it's something that they have real easy access to, so he may have ran and they really pushed the narrative saying, 'Hey, if we can get these guys to focus on something that's really helpful, which is this car,' and find out if somebody says, 'Hey, you know, that car that looks a lot like mine, I'm going to come forward and just volunteer my information,' and then they can figure out if somebody else had borrowed it or if — heck, who knows,” he added.
Meanwhile, Moscow police's handling of the quadruple homicide has drawn significant criticism including from Kaylee’s dad. Police were forced to amend an initial statement that said there was "no threat to the community," sparking criticism in the early phases of the inquiry. Since then, officials have changed their positions on a number of critical issues pertaining to the inquiry, including whether or not the other three victims simply happened to be in the way of a targeted attack on one of the victims.