Victims’ families and the public are growing impatient with police investigating the University of Idaho stabbings.
A break could come at any moment, from a confession or the thousands of tips submitted to police. Such tips led the city’s police department to ask the public Wednesday for help tracking down the occupants of a white Hyundai Elantra in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, the day the students were found dead.
“I know it’s frustrating to people, but murder investigations are not a spectator event,” said Howard Ryan, a former commander of a crime scene unit in the New Jersey State Police who is now a consultant for law enforcement. “People are influenced by TV shows. They believe that these events and processing and work happens at a much more rapid pace and results are obtained much quicker than they really are.
The Moscow Police Department has called in the state police and FBI for help, charted the victims’ final hours and ruled out a number of people as suspects, “We are at that point in the investigation where we’re still gathering information, we’re still gathering tips, we’re still gathering evidence, we’re still doing everything we need to do,” Moscow Police Chief James Fry said in aThe Moscow killings occurred in a three-story, six-bedroom rented house, about a half-block from the University of Idaho campus. Three of the victims — Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle 20; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21 — lived in the house.
“We’re putting the pieces together, and I think when that picture is done, I think we’ll have a real clear definition of what occurred and where to go,” Aaron Snell, an Idaho State Police spokesman, told NBC News last week. Researchers aren’t sure why stabbings may be more likely to be solved, but Briggs said that “homicides committed with sharp objects often bring the victim and offender into close contact whereas those committed with firearms can occur in close proximity or greater distances. This may make the identification of a suspect easier or more likely for bystanders or other witnesses when they are present.
The apartment house in Moscow, Idaho, where four students were stabbed to death held an enormous amount of biological evidence, experts say.Experts stress that investigations like this one are nearly impossible to work quickly given the level of evidence that needs to be processed and the potential for mistakes.
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