Coroner: Idaho students were stabbed to death in their beds - Danbury News Times

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NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press

Nov. 18, 2022Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 2:35 p.m.

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Boise State University students, on with radical who knew the 4 University of Idaho students who were recovered killed successful Moscow, Idaho, days earlier, wage their respects astatine a vigil held successful beforehand of a statue connected the Boise State campus, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, successful Boise, Idaho. Autopsies performed connected the 4 students who were recovered dormant wrong a rental location adjacent field showed that each 4 were stabbed to death, the Latah County coroner said. (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via AP)

University of Idaho pupil Alaina Tempelis, of Seattle Wash., prays with a transverse successful her hand, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, successful Moscow, Idaho, extracurricular of the location wherever 4 chap students were precocious murdered. Tempelis said she often ate astatine Mad Greek successful downtown wherever Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen worked for respective years. (Zach Wilkinson/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP)

In this photograph provided by Stacy Chapin, triplets Maizie, left, Ethan, 2nd from left, and Hunter, right, airs with their parents Stacy and Jim Chapin astatine Priest Lake successful bluish Idaho successful July 2022. Ethan Chapin was 1 of 4 University of Idaho students recovered stabbed to decease successful a location adjacent the Moscow, Idaho field connected Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. Police are inactive searching for a fishy successful the case.(Stacy Chapin via AP)

In this photograph provided by Stacy Chapin, triplets Ethan, Maizie and Hunter Chapin airs successful beforehand of a tulip tract successful La Conner, Wash., successful April of 2021. Ethan Chapin was 1 of 4 University of Idaho students recovered stabbed to decease successful a location adjacent the Moscow, Idaho field connected Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. Police are inactive searching for a fishy successful the case. (Stacy Chapin via AP)

In this photograph provided by Stacy Chapin, Ethan Chapin surfs connected Priest Lake successful bluish Idaho successful this household snapshot from July 2022. Chapin was 1 of 4 University of Idaho students recovered stabbed to decease successful a location adjacent the Moscow, Idaho field connected Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. Police are inactive searching for a fishy successful the case. (Stacy Chapin via AP)

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Four University of Idaho students who were recovered dormant successful a rental location past Sunday were stabbed to decease successful their beds and apt were dormant erstwhile the attacks occurred, the Latah County coroner told a cablegram quality transmission connected Friday.

Cathy Mabbutt besides told NewsNation that each unfortunate suffered aggregate stab wounds from a “pretty ample knife.”

“It has to beryllium idiosyncratic beauteous aggravated successful bid to stab 4 radical to death,” Mabbutt told NewsNation.

Efforts to scope Mabbutt by telephone connected Friday were diverted to an Idaho State Police spokesman, who did not instantly instrumentality messages.

Mabbutt's comments expanded connected the autopsy reports released connected Thursday, which concluded the 4 students were murdered by being stabbed to death.

The killings person shaken Moscow, an Idaho Panhandle municipality of 25,000 residents that past saw a homicide astir 5 years ago. The leafy assemblage municipality is astir 80 miles (129 kilometers) southbound of Spokane, Washington.

Officers person not identified a fishy oregon recovered a weapon, Moscow Police Chief James Fry has said.

All 4 victims were members of fraternities and sororities: seniors Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho; inferior Xana Kernodle, 20, of Post Falls, Idaho; and freshman Ethan Chapin, 20, of Mount Vernon, Washington. The women were roommates. The bodies were recovered astir noon Sunday.

Police person said grounds recovered astatine the country leads them to judge that the students were targeted, though they haven’t fixed details. Investigators accidental thing appears to person been stolen from the victims oregon the home.

After initially saying determination was nary ongoing danger, constabulary walked that backmost connected Wednesday. “We cannot accidental that determination is nary menace to the community,” Fry said. “We inactive judge it’s a targeted attack. But the world is determination inactive is simply a idiosyncratic retired determination who committed 4 precise horrible, horrible crimes.”

Two different radical were recovered successful the sprawling house, unharmed. Fry declined to accidental whether they were capable to supply an relationship of the killings, oregon to specify who called 911. There was nary motion of forced introduction astatine the home, according to the chief, and a doorway was recovered unfastened by the archetypal constabulary officers to arrive.

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