Posted on 12/30/2022 8:21:59 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
A 25-year-old man has been arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students whose bodies were found in a rental home near campus last month, multiple law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation said Friday.
It marks the first major break in a case that has both captivated and mystified the globe.
The sources said the man was apprehended in the Scranton area Friday morning. Authorities are expected to hold a news conference on the case later Friday.
Few details have been released publicly in the gruesome Nov. 13 slayings of 21-year-olds Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, and 20-year-olds Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. The four friends, members of the university’s Greek system, were discovered across the street from campus, leaving the small town of Moscow, Idaho, deeply shaken. Relatively few details have been released about the homicides, intensifying the mystery.
The Moscow Police Department has said it was working through nearly 12,000 tips in an effort to solve the case.
“pursusing his Ph.D in criminal justice and criminology”
This wouldn’t be the first time such a person tried to commit the “perfect crime.”
Here’s an archive of a Reddit post he made asking for ex-cons to give the details of what crime they did, etc.
Reddit has since deleted the post, so likely it was him:
Because this isn’t TV land. An investigation needs to cross the t’s and dot the i’s. Cellphone saying it (and probably you) were there doesn’t mean you did it. What that does is tell them to see if your prints or DNA are on record and can be matched with evidence found at the scene. Which of course has to have been found and processed. I’ve got a friend who spent a career working in the blood evidence lab. She hates those shows, and a big part of why she hates them is because they make people ask the same question you did. None of the process is fast. And you don’t actually want it to be fast. Fast is sloppy, sloppy is bad, sloppy destroys evidence, sloppy breaks evidence chains and loses cases, sloppy makes the wrong people go to trial. Their job is to be thorough, be careful, and make sure they don’t botch the case. All of which takes time.
But if he flew....... 🤣
Thanks. In my post just before yours (#61), I speculated he was trying to get away with the perfect crime. Conducting that survey and putting a post on Reddit kind of belies the “perfect crime” angle.
Why do I have the picture of the Ted Baxter, bubble head male reporter on the Mary Tyler Moore show, solemnly using his pointer on a map showing this route, in a deep, serious tone?
Middle name is Christopher.
An anonymous link to the study finds/leads to this preserved content on the Way Back Machine.
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e decides to just drive to another state
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These two Universities are just a short drive apart, about 10 miles, on a straight, well paved (and patrolled) highway.
Lots of bars, and the students visit ‘next door’ a lot.
I don’t think it was a random drive. But how much and how long was the planning?
whether you were caught or not. In the event that you were not charged, convicted, or incarcerated for the offense, you may still participate in this research. ]
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Getting a ‘grad’ education in how to kill?
And blackmail material?
The white Hyundai Elantra seen in the vicinity of the crime was driven by him and they towed it from the place where they arrested him at.
I believe the police/FBI will be thanking the convenience store manager who combed through hours of her store’s camera footage and turned over video of what she believed to be a suspicious, speeding white vehicle around the time of the crime.
WOW!
Too close for comfort.
TG they got him.
He must have left DNA at the scene.
Sounds like the condo/apt was an open air party den. To quote the neighbor, “No one was surprised something had happened there.”
My respect for the Moscow police went up significantly today. I hope the prosecution works out for them.
Both the U of I and WSU are very close to the ID-WA border: within a few miles. So, the 2 universities are quite close to each other.
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