

“Only vetted information that does not hinder the investigation will be released to the public,” Moscow police noted Friday.īut some details released by authorities since the start of the investigation have required further clarification. It remains unclear how close authorities are to releasing information about a potential suspect or suspects. Goncalves and Mogen, two of the victims, were driven home by someone after the pair purchased food from a truck hours before they were killed authorities have ruled out the driver as a suspect.Īdditionally, a man seen in surveillance video from a food truck visited by Goncalves and Mogen, and another man the pair called “numerous times” in the hours before their deaths, were also ruled out as suspects by police. The person who made the 911 call alerting authorities to the home after the killings has not been identified. Police also ruled out the two surviving roommates who were in house at the time of the killings and other people inside the house when the 911 call was made. Detectives do not believe this person has any involvement in the murders,” Moscow police said.

“They have spoken to this individual and confirmed they moved out prior to the start of the school year and was not present at the time of the incident. “The individual involved turned himself in, and charges were referred to the Moscow City Attorney’s Office,” police said.Īnd although police have said they don’t know who carried out the killings, they have released information eliminating some people as suspects, most recently a person listed on the lease of the residence where the killings happened, police said Friday. Police also reassured the public that a September incident that involved an argument between a group of people walking on the University of Idaho bike path and a cyclist, who displayed a folding knife, is not connected to the students’ killings. A report of a “skinned” dog weeks before the killings is not connected to the case, according to police, and deceased animals left on a resident’s property elsewhere were determined to be wildlife activity.Īdditionally, police noted the students’ killings are not related to two other stabbing incidents in neighboring Washington and Oregon - in 19, respectively - which may “share similarities,” but “there does not appear to be any evidence to support the cases are related,” according to the release. None of the victims in the quadruple homicide were tied and gagged, refuting online reports.
