Posted on 11/19/2022 4:17:09 PM PST by Drew68
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Four University of Idaho students who were found dead in a rental house near campus were stabbed to death in their beds and likely were asleep when they were attacked, a county coroner told a cable news channel.
Latah County Coroner Cathy Mabbutt also told NewsNation on Thursday that each victim suffered multiple stab wounds from a “pretty large knife.”
“It has to be somebody pretty angry in order to stab four people to death,” Mabbutt told NewsNation. The victims were stabbed in the chest and upper body, the coroner said.
Efforts by The Associated Press to reach Mabbutt by telephone Friday were diverted to an Idaho State Police spokesperson, who did not immediately return messages.
In an evening statement, Moscow Police Department confirmed the coroner reported the victims were likely asleep and that some of the victims had defensive wounds. Police additionally said there were no signs of sexual assault.
Comments from Mabbutt and the police expanded on autopsy reports released Thursday, which concluded the four students were murdered by being stabbed to death.
Officers have not identified a suspect or found a weapon.
The killings have shaken Moscow, an Idaho Panhandle town of 25,000 residents that last saw a homicide about five years ago. The leafy college town is about 80 miles (130 kilometers) south of Spokane, Washington.
All four victims were members of fraternities and sororities: seniors Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho; junior Xana Kernodle, 20, of Post Falls, Idaho; and freshman Ethan Chapin, 20, of Mount Vernon, Washington. The women were roommates. The bodies were found around noon Sunday.
Moscow police released a map Friday and later its statement with a rough timeline of events leading up to the deaths.
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Why would anyone automatically think it was just one person who did this? I think at least two.
Motive for the two killers?
Yes I read that too, I don’t buy it.
Yep - makes no sense otherwise
Revenge for something, maybe 2nd one going along with the 1st. Dunno. I just think it would be very hard for one person to get all 4 in their beds without anyone waking up.
For those who haven't seen "Personal Protection: Shooting While in Bed" by Paul Harrell, one of the best YouTube videos ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH7_7pJfoGU
Ya’ll just thot Halloween was over.
There is a market for a gun holster pillow.
It's a shame when ugly girls get murdered also. Just sayin'.
Below the rib age, upper thrust with a fighting knife and side to side motion.
Puncture to diaphragm prevent the lungs inflating to make verbal sounds. Organ/heart damage and severe bleeding will be contained to the chest cavity.
That’ll do it.
Just guessing, but I’m going with frantic stabbing...psycho style.
I haven’t seen it......I’ll check it out. Thanks. Times are different now. Nowhere is safe.
I went to college in the early 1980's, and this is what I experienced: "A fine mist rolled out from the mountain, which would soon be baked off by the harsh and unrelenting sun. Taking out my binoculars, I scanned over the hard-packed, cratered landscape. I knew they were out there, and I knew they wanted to kill me.
"I leaned over my Squad Automatic Weapon, and made sure the ammunition feed was still functional. I placed the butt of the weapon against my shoulder and leaned in.
"Soon, the monsterous mutant army rose, with tentacled and hideous forms, whipping their arms forward, and propelling themselves along the ground with a horrid series of shrieks. I began firing into the wall of fless that swept towards me, causing tentacles and a black oozing blood to spurt into the air."
This stuff happened to me every single day, and usually happened before Discrete Math class.
Not really Ted Bundy killed coeds in back then..
I bet the victims were passed out: doped or drunk. Otherwise the screams of the first victims would have woken them up.
Reminds me of the Richard Speck murders of the 8 nurses in Chicago in July 1966. The only survivor, Corazon Amurao hid under one of the beds, and was terrified he would come back and find her. I think she was from the Philippines. I remember it like it was yesterday. I turned 19 that August.
My freshman dorm at Tech was literally across an 8’ chain link fence topped with barbed wire from the Techwood projects.
Yeah, you learned early to keep your head on a swivel.
Tech is still sketchy, even after razing Techwood and shipping all the residents to Clayton county.
Correct, that’s my understanding as well.
You don’t have to go west very far to be in some really sketchy territory.
Yeah. Probably at least two perps would be my guess.
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