'I found a glove at the scene': Retired detective's discovery fuels more speculation about Idaho murders
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MOSCOW, IDAHO: The brutal stabbing murders of four University of Idaho students on November 13 horrified the small town of Moscow. The victims, all under the age of 22, were killed in the middle of the night at an off-campus house after partying in separate locales, and two of their roommates were found safe.
Local police and the FBI have reviewed thousands of fragments of evidence and hundreds of tips, but no suspect or murder weapon has been identified even after two weeks. With potentially a serial killer on the loose, many students have refused to return to campus for the last weeks of the semester, and the father of one victim has expressed "frustration" with the police reaction in the perplexing case. As the parents of the victims have claimed that they are not receiving full information from the police, a lot of 'vague' details have been released by the authorities. This has led to several investigators positing their own theories as to what prompted the murders.
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Recently, Chris McDonough, a seasoned homicide detective, unveiled some chilling information from the crime scene in the Interview Room show. Chris and his wife Karen, who runs the show with him, claimed to have found a glove near the crime scene, leading to speculation that it belonged to the murderer. In the interview, Chris said, "All right, so this is the old homicide guy in me. I actually found a glove and turned it. I pointed it out to the officer who was there securing the scene. And they came, and they collected it."
"So this has been, you know, a very heavy scene as a whole," he continued, pointing at the scene. "But if you notice underneath those leaves in the snow, you'll see here. I'll point out to you that I discovered this glove, and fortunately, they collected it."
Karen added, "It should be noted that anybody crossed any line, you could just visibly see it right from the road."
Chris said later, "Yeah, and so a couple of thoughts come to mind. I'm not saying this is a good thing or a bad thing, right? Fortunately, it's still on the other side of the tape and so they still had control of that scene. The officer that was there. Obviously, they didn't know about it because he came over and photographed it."
He later asked, "They had evidence tech, and immediately you know later they'd come out and got it. So here's the question. Is this from the night? Is it random ie somebody missed the trash can, and they were walking by, and they threw it? [Or is it] the suspect taunting the authorities by, you know, placing something like this hypothetically."
"Either way, there's a glove, and it was collected after I brought it to their attention," he added. "It's definitely worth pointing out that we don't know how long it's been there. Don't know who it belongs to, and the police made a note of it and collected it."
Prior to their deaths, the four friends spent Saturday night partying. Chapin and Kernodle went to a fraternity gathering and returned home at 1.45 am Sunday, according to authorities. Goncalves and Mogen were at Corner Club, a local club, and left around 1.30 am. They pulled over to a late-night food truck and spoke with others in line while waiting for their food. The two students were driven home by a ride-share driver - who has been eliminated as a suspect - and they arrived home shortly before 2 am. Meanwhile, former FBI profiler Jim Clemente has argued the suspect is a "younger" man and a first-time killer who was known to at least one of the victims, as reported by New York Post.