Idaho police investigation of murder house coming to end – despite no signs of students’ killer

Police in Idaho are wrapping up the investigation at the house where four University of Idaho students were brutally murdered – despite the killer still being at large and officials appearing to be no closer to solving the crime.

Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were found stabbed to death inside an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, on 13 November.

The three female students all lived at the three-storey home on King Road together with two other roommates and Chapin was staying the night with his girlfriend Kernodle.

Two of the victims were found on the third floor of the home, with the other two on the second floor. The two other roommates were unharmed in the attack and appear to have slept through the murders.

Several officials have described the crime scene as “bloody” and unlike anything they have ever seen before, as each victim was stabbed multiple times with a fixed-blade knife and bled out in the home.

Now 17 days into the investigation, the killer or killers are still at large with no suspects identified, no arrests made and the murder weapon still nowhere to be found.

Law enforcement have fallen under scrutiny as terrified students and residents of the small college town are racked by fear that the perpetrator could still be among them.

Despite the lack of progress in the case, Idaho State Police Communications Director Aaron Snell revealed the investigation of the crime scene is coming to end.

“The collection of evidence at the house is coming to a conclusion,” he told Fox News Digital on Monday.

“It’s a very complex crime scene, and we’re doing a very thorough investigation.”

Mr Snell added that he doesn’t know “what the timeline is” for releasing the house, saying: “I know there are conversations and discussions about how that may work. I’m just not sure when.”

On Tuesday, police seized five cars from outside the home – some of them believed to belong to the victims.

A tow truck removed the vehicles from outside the property on King Road on Tuesday and took them to “a more secure long-term storage location to continue processing evidence,” the Moscow Police Department said.

“Today, as part of the ongoing homicide investigation and original search warrant, there will be an increase in detective activity and tow trucks on-site as investigators move five vehicles from within the police perimeter to a more secure long-term storage location to continue processing evidence,” the department said in a statement.

Despite working round the clock to try to solve the case, investigators continue to be stumped by the case.

Latah County Prosecutor Prosecutor Bill Thompson told NewsNation on Tuesday that law enforcement still doesn’t have any suspects on its radar, admitting that “it could” take some time to catch the killer.

“I think it’s fair to say that there have been people of interest to the investigators and everyone that they’ve identified so far they’ve been able to exonerate. Perhaps, exonerate isn’t the best word. But they’ve been able to eliminate them as being an actual suspect,” he said.

“And we do not have a name of a person or persons who are actual suspects. That’s what they’re focusing on still.

“I’m not aware of any single person with a name that we’re focusing on, the investigators are focusing on.”

Xural.com