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MOSCOW, Idaho - As investigators skipped Thanksgiving celebrations to proceed their hunt for a fishy successful the unsolved slaying of 4 University of Idaho students, a 3rd unsolved stabbing successful the Pacific Northwest has resurfaced with eerie similarities.
Reporters astatine a quality briefing Wednesday asked Moscow police astir the imaginable transportation betwixt the students’ slayings and a 2nd unsolved stabbing, which near Travis Juetten dormant and earnestly injured his woman Jamilyn successful Oregon.
Authorities accidental an intruder attacked the couple successful their slumber astir 3 a.m. connected Aug. 13, 2021.
Travis Juetten, 26, fought backmost but succumbed to his injuries. His wife, who is 26 now, survived 19 stab wounds.
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Map showing a drawstring of killings successful the Washington-Idaho-Oregon region
"We're looking astatine each avenue, and we person different agencies reaching retired to america with different cases, worldly that we are going to travel up on," Moscow Police Chief James Fry said Wednesday. He said his bureau knew astir the lawsuit and was looking into it, but nary authoritative transportation has been drawn betwixt the 2 cases.
The pursuing morning, the Idaho Tribune reported that a 3rd adjacent onslaught shared akin characteristics.
Sandra Ladd, 71, was recovered dormant successful her location successful Washougal, Washington, connected June 14, 2020, according to Oregon Crime Stoppers. Her decease was ruled a homicide aft the aesculapian examiner recovered aggregate stab wounds successful her torso, Washougal constabulary said astatine the time.
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The 2 attacks happened 14 months isolated but wrong 70 miles of 1 another. The locations are astir a five-hour thrust westbound of Moscow, Idaho.
University of Idaho students Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, were stabbed to decease successful their slumber connected Nov. 13, 2022 betwixt 3 and 4 a.m. successful a rental location conscionable disconnected campus, according to police.
Like the onslaught connected the Juettens, the incidental happened betwixt 3 and 4 a.m. connected the 13th of the month.
Details astir the timing of Ladd’s decease were not instantly clear. Her assemblage was discovered astatine 4:30 p.m. – successful her bed, the Oregonian reported astatine the time.
In each 3 cases, nary fishy has been identified.
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Aaron Snell, the communications manager for the Idaho State Police, told Fox News Digital Thursday that investigators would beryllium digging into immoderate imaginable transportation betwixt the cases.
"Unequivocally, adjacent without asking anybody, our detectives volition beryllium alert of that," helium said. "They volition look into the anticipation that they're linked…anything that would beryllium a distant anticipation arsenic a transportation volition beryllium thing that we consider."
He said investigators had "not ruled retired immoderate thought oregon concept" but that it was excessively aboriginal to accidental definitively whether immoderate of the 3 cases shared a connection.
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State, section and national investigators spent the Thanksgiving vacation connected the occupation Thursday, digging for clues 11 days aft the students were recovered dormant astatine a grisly transgression country conscionable a fewer yards disconnected campus.
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Two different roommates successful the home, who were sleeping connected the bottommost floor, were not attacked, according to police.
They person been ruled retired arsenic suspects, on with respective different radical who encountered immoderate of the victims the nighttime earlier their slayings.
Moscow constabulary person said they judge the pupil slayings were "targeted," but they declined to elaborate.
No execution limb has been recovered and investigators are asking anyone with surveillance video of the surrounding country to nonstop it in.
They were besides looking into reports that Goncalves had a stalker earlier the attack.
Mourners person near notes astatine makeshift memorials astir municipality and connected field for the 4 slain University of Idaho students.
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"Kaylee mentioned having a stalker, but detectives person been incapable to corroborate the statement," constabulary said successful a statement. "Investigators are requesting anyone with accusation astir a imaginable stalker, oregon antithetic instances, to interaction the extremity line."
Anyone with accusation connected the lawsuit is asked to telephone the extremity enactment astatine 208-883-7180 oregon email tipline@ci.moscow.id.us.
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