LAST MEAL: Cab driver who drove slain Idaho students home says they were excited to eat 'mac and cheese'
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: The night of the horrific killings, the cab driver who had taken University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen home stated the girls were "super excited" to go home and eat mac and cheese as he disclosed how the unsolved killings had "weighed" on him. The cab driver, who spoke this week on the condition of anonymity, claimed to have been among the final individuals to see Goncalves and Mogen, both age 21, alive before they, before they were killed on November 13 along with their roommate Xana Kernodle and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, both age 20.
“It’s weighed on me,” the driver told Daily Mail. “I’ve replayed that night a million times over trying to think if there was some sign or some detail that something was amiss but there was nothing,” he continued.“It’s not lost on me that my job was to get these girls home safe but that didn’t really help this time.”
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Goncalves and Mogen purchased pasta dinners from the Grub food truck, where their driver picked them up between 1:40 and 1:45 am, according to the cabbie who drove them home. “They had their food, and they were super excited about their mac and cheese as girls are after they go to the club,” he recalled. The cab driver claimed that while the two friends conversed while sitting in the back, they never brought up the name "Adam," which was used in a surveillance video earlier that evening showing one of the girls. “They were normal just like any other night. They weren’t upset about anything or talking about anyone,” the taxi driver noted. “There was no nervousness about them. They weren’t afraid of anybody. There was nobody following them or following us.”
The driver reported letting Goncalves and Mogen out of the car outside of their house rather than in the driveway and then driving away before they had a chance to enter. The unidentified driver claimed that after discovering the identities of the murdered college students, he immediately went to the police and turned over his digital data and a receipt from Taco Bell, where he had gone after leaving the students off at their residence. The driver, however, further claimed that many members of the Moscow community have lost faith in the police and believe they are not doing enough to find the killer in light of the multi-agency investigation, which has so far yielded very few results. “Those kids deserve justice and they’re not getting it,” he said, as reported by the New York Post.
A suspect in the gruesome killings that shook the college town has not been named by authorities yet, even nearly six weeks after the four students were discovered stabbed to death inside the rental home they shared on King Road in Moscow, Idaho. In light of increased public scrutiny and criticism from the victims' relatives who claim that authorities failed to tell them of developments, the Moscow Police Department has been under increasing pressure to make an arrest.
A security video depicting the victims' last known whereabouts before the killings has drawn the attention of both police detectives and curious online sleuths, in which the youngsters waiting at a food truck presenting a particular point of interest. Nearly 12,000 suggestions have come in, and the local police, who are being supported by numerous FBI agents and Idaho state troopers, stated they are still searching for the white 2011–2013 Hyundai Elantra that was spotted close to the homicide scene.