'Easier to be proactive': Slain Idaho students' neighbor Jeremy Reagan gives DNA test to avoid suspicion
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: Jeremy Reagan, a third-year law student, has already denied any involvement in the violent deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in Moscow, Idaho, on November 13. Now, Regan is trying to shatter all grounds for the accusations against him by web sleuths in an effort to prove himself innocent in this horrific murder case.
MEAWW has previously reported on how Reagan slammed web sleuths for naming him a suspect in the case. But as true crime enthusiasts parse through every detail of the Idaho murder case, netizens think there is an anomaly in the neighbor's statement and still suspect him of murder. Therefore, Reagan recently went to the Moscow police authorities for a DNA test. He decided to do this even though the police didn't ask for it.
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Recently, News Nation interviewed Jeremy Reagan, where he spoke about his decision to give a DNA test. "So yesterday, I just went to the police station. I walked in. I said, 'here's my name. I am Jeremy Reagan. Yesterday, I was talked to by the police.' The two officers that had interviewed me [before] weren't there, but a different officer was like, 'alright, give me just a second.' So he went, grabbed one of the mouth swabs, came [and] took me into one of the rooms there, did a mouth swab and said, 'all right. You're good to go.'" Regan further added, “I just went in. (The police) never contacted me. I just figured it’s easier to just try and be proactive, just get it all out of the way sooner rather than later."
Police stated on November 30, Wednesday, that it is unclear whether the four University of Idaho students killed in the quadruple homicide last month were even targeted by the killer as previously presumed, reversing prior claims about the still-unsolved deaths. Police then reiterated on Thursday, December 1, that they believe the incident was targeted, although they do not know whether the attacker targeted the students or their apartment. The public has been urged to come forward with any information even though the police have not yet identified a suspect or found a murder weapon.
Two additional housemates of Goncalves, Mogen, and Kernodle, were at home sleeping at the time of the multiple murders. Police said earlier this week that both surviving students had been ruled out as potential suspects in the case even though neither had been injured. Furthermore, the Moscow Police Department reported that despite the fact that officers had studied "hundreds of pieces of information" that suggested Goncalves may have been the target of a stalking incident before the killings, neither the tips nor a potential stalker had been confirmed, as reported by CBS News.