17 days ago, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogan,
Kaylee Gonsalves and Zanna Kernodle were
stabbed to death in a home near campus.
Police still don't have a
suspect or murder weapon.
Now students and communities across the
state are gathering to honor the lives
of the four University of Idaho students.
My Co anchor Morgan Romero talked with
Idaho State police about the investigation.
Today. She is live in Moscow right now ahead
of tomorrow's vigil at EU of I Morgan.
Hey Doug, we got here this afternoon.
We went to the home, 1122 King Rd,
where this horrific attack happened.
I will say very eerie feeling here in Moscow.
It's very cold.
I know students just returned
from Thanksgiving break.
Some, as we've been reporting,
chose not to come back.
I will say though,
after speaking to Idaho State Police
Communications Director Aaron Snell,
he said, quote, they are making
substantial progress in this case.
We haven't gotten a lot of very
substantial updates through their
communications in recent days.
Many as we were getting initially,
but he does say that today,
and we were there,
saw this happening,
that tow trucks were taking five cars
from the scene from that house on King Rd,
and they were towing them
away to a location off site,
a long-term and more secure location there.
They're going to gather more evidence and
do any testing that needs to be done,
Snell says.
Most of the evidence collection
at this point is done.
They are still getting more tips and
leads and they will collect more evidence
as time progresses and more things come in,
he says.
Right now,
detectives are mostly in the stage of.
Analyzing evidence after it's been processed,
which is allowing them to paint a
clearer picture of what happened,
and piercing together the
information that's coming in.
I talked to a neighbor who lives directly
across the street from where this happened.
She says she was home at the
time of the stabbing.
She was breastfeeding her baby,
but she says everything was really quiet.
She was exhausted.
She didn't hear anything happen.
She locks her doors now,
though she didn't before,
and says that they're on heightened alert.
They're taking more precautions.
And she says the community is definitely
still shaken by all of this that happened,
but more importantly.
What she wants right now for the community,
for the victims and their families,
is for the rumors and speculation
to stop because it's not
doing anyone any favors.
They're reminding people that
this isn't a rumor mill.
This isn't some episode of a
criminal show that you know is
going to be over in an hour.
It's there's a lot of evidence
still being processed.
There's a lot of tips
that are still coming
in. This is a criminal investigation
and so we can't throw all of
our cards on the table until
everybody everything that we have.
And so it does cause for some
conflict and some anger and some
you know disillusionment about
are we actually working the case.
A lot of speculation comes
up when in the in the.
Void of information being provided.
Law enforcement has received
more than 1000 tips and more than
260 videos have been submitted.
They're trying to build a picture
and go back and rebuild what occurred
because as we mentioned earlier,
they do not have a suspect or a weapon.
They are looking from surveillance videos,
any videos that were taken the
night before the four students were
murdered as well as the morning of.
And Aaron Snow really wanted to get the
message out to students that it doesn't
matter what you were doing that night.
If it's something he said your
parents might not be proud of,
he wants you to send those videos
in because it could really help.
And piece together everything.
The FBI is here.
They have their behavioral analysis
units working on this at this time,
he says they are not providing
a suspect profile to the public
because he says that information
is really pertinent to detectives.
Again,
that vigil is going to be held on
campus tomorrow at the University
of Idaho in the KB Dome.
It's moved from outside to inside
due to weather.
That's going
to be at 5:00 PM Pacific Time,
6:00 PM Mountain time.
We will have that on air KTVB as well as
on ktvb.com and as Doug alluded to earlier,
several other colleges.
Universities and schools throughout
the state of Idaho are going to be
having their own tribute standing in
solidarity with U of I and the victims.
They're going to be turning on
their athletic lights, for example,
to to stand in unity with them. Doug.
That's right. Morgan, as you mentioned,
we are going to be carrying the full
vigil tomorrow live here on news channel
7 from 6 until 7:00 PM Tomorrow night.
I know you'll be there to cover it as well.
And we'll look for your reporting on
that and we'll see you and Brian back
here tonight on the news at 10 as well.