A vigil will be held on campus
tomorrow at the University of Idaho
for the four students stabbed to death
more than two weeks ago.
The school says state
police have added
four campus patrols
and 40 patrols for the general community.
With students returning from Thanksgiving
break and fear is ongoing.
Few clues about the murders
have yet to emerge, but police tell CNN
there is activity
happening behind the scenes
that the public isn't aware of.
More now from Veronica Miracle,
the latest collection of evidence
at the scene of a quadruple killing.
Five cars towed from the home
where four students
were stabbed to death.
Authorities say they've retrieved
most of the evidence at the crime scene
and yet there is no suspect.
Is there a chance
that this crime doesn't get solved?
What we're finding
is that the information
and leads and tips that we're receiving
are helping us
with this investigation
and we really feel confident.
More than two weeks
after the stabbing death,
savannah kernodle
ethan sharp in madison,
Morgan and Kaylee Goncalves.
The community is still on edge
as police remain firm that this was a
targeted attack.
They point to no forced
entry to roommates left alive
and other evidence
they say they can't make public.
We have insight
into the actual crime scenes themselves.
And so we feel confident in saying
that we believe
that this was a targeted incident
overall.
Students
who've returned
to the University of Idaho
preparing for a vigil Wednesday on campus
as school
officials tell CNN, Idaho State
Police have brought in 14
patrol units to Moscow,
four dedicated to the campus
in addition
to private security and local police.
We have offered support
any way that they've asked
for, and I can't get into details
of what we've shared.
But we
you know,
we want to see the person who did this.
We want to see them caught.
Police say calls for welfare checks
have doubled compared to last month.
And while there are signs
of normalcy here
throughout the community, reminders
that the killings remain unsolved.
So we recognize that there's fear
in this community.
We recognize that there has been no
suspect identified and no arrests made.
But we do want the community to snow
is that
while they may not see
a lot of activity of collecting evidence
at the scene
and officers
at the scene, investigators working
we are working behind the scenes.
And John, the university says
roughly two thirds of their students
have come back to campus
to attend classes.
There's also going to be
that vigil tomorrow
for those four students.
And they've been hearing
from students here
that they want to be in attendance
for that, at least to come back for that
and to be around their classmates
during this very difficult time John.
All right, Veronica
Miracle in Moscow, Idaho.
Thank you so much for your reporting.
To another multiple homicide case.
We're closely
following the so-called
catfishing murders
in Riverside, California.
The mother and grandparents of a teenage
girl were found dead on Friday.
The suspect was killed in a shootout.
Police believe the 28 year old former
Virginia state trooper
had been scamming
the teen online, pretending to be someone
he wasn't
and traveled across the country
to kidnap for
a twisted crime
that we're about to get more insight
on from John Miller, CNN chief
law enforcement and intelligence analyst,
a former
NYPD deputy commissioner
of intelligence and counterterrorism.
John, great to have you here.
Look, there are multiple
crime scenes here.
There's a fire there, the house
that was burned down where
where the relatives were killed.
And there is where the shootout was
and the girl was rescued.
But you say
the most challenging place,
as it were, is the digital crime scene.
Why?
Because even at the fire crime scene,
where the evidence is largely burned,
there's a process to go through that
and everything is there.
The medical examiner,
the crime scene people,
where the shooting happened,
you have body camera,
you have the helicopters,
you have
the crime scene that you can freeze.
The digital crime
scene is a real challenge
because you're dealing with a guy
who's been pretending
to be a teenage boy,
communicating with a 15 year old girl
on the other side of the country.
In actuality, he's
a Virginia state trooper.
But this conversation,
how long did it go on?
Was it weeks?
Was it months? Was it a year?
What platforms
did it take place on and how many
and which? John, this is the key.
Which of those platforms are encrypted
where they're self erasing the material
as the conversation goes?
So in an investigation like this,
what we would have done
is you hit the providers
as soon as you learn which ones they are.
And that can take time
with preservation notices.
Don't throw anything away.
And then a search warrant
turn over what you have.
The problem is,
if it's encrypted
and the provider
doesn't have access to it,
they can't take it to give it to you.
And if it is one of the apps
which are races as it goes,
they never had it in the first place,
not for very long.
So catfishing is a term
that that some of our audience
may not know. What exactly is it?
And how does this specific case
comport with the normal definition?
So catfishing, as we know it,
kind of in the ABC
three world of Internet frauds
is the romance scam.
You start a conversation with someone
you may be in another country
claiming to be, you know,
right here in America,
very complimentary.
The next thing you know, you love them,
the next thing you know,
you're telling them,
you know, that
they're this incredible person
and that you should be together.
And once you have their full confidence,
an emergency happens
and you ask for money.
You have to send me thousands of dollars.
It was a terrible accident.
I need an operation.
I was it.
In this case, there's no money demand.
You're reeling the person in on the idea
that I'm another teenager.
I understand you.
You know, building her up
and saying we can be together.
And as crazy as it sounds,
because this individual
is a police officer
who left the Virginia State
Police joined a sheriff's department.
But we have another case
in Victorville, California.
Back in July, you had a 38 year old man
playing a teenager to a 15 year old girl.
They ended up having to rescue her
from a house in Tijuana
when she ran off with him.
You have a case in Maryland
where you have
another fully adult
individual talking
to a 12 year old
who drives up to Pennsylvania
and picked her up and is later
caught in a police sting.
This is a very disturbing trend,
but usually they do not end like this.
This is a bold step to go into a house,
do a blitz attack,
shoot the family,
take the child, set
a fire to cover your tracks,
get in a high speed chase with police,
shoot it out to your death.
I can't remember in a
in a case like this ever
seeing anything like that.
And again, a former law enforcement
officer, John Miller.
Thanks for being with us. Appreciate it.