Timeline Update | 4 Killed For What?

Episode 10,   Dec 05, 2022, 05:14 PM

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Today, we discuss the timeline and give a brief update on the current information as we know it. 

Nov. 12
Ethan Chapin, 20, of Conway, Washington; Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Xana Kernodle, 20, of Avondale, Arizona; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum, Idaho, were killed.

Moscow police said Goncalves and Mogen, lifelong best friends, went to the Corner Club pub in downtown Moscow from 10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12.


The two were filmed at Grub Truck, a neighborhood food vendor, at 1:40 a.m. and utilized a private party to get home at 1:45, authorities said. Authorities say the Grub Truck surveillance video man and the person who transported them home are not suspects.

Police said Chapin and Kernodle, who were dating, visited Sigma Chi Saturday night.

Police stated they returned home at 1:45 a.m. Chapin was sleeping over with his girlfriend.


Police said two other housemates, who survived the attack and are not suspects, went out in Moscow Saturday night and came home by 1 a.m.

Nov. 13
Moscow Mayor Art Bettge told ABC News that the four students died at the house between 3 and 4 a.m. on Nov. 13.

Police reported a dog at the home.

"Isolated, targeted attack," said Moscow Police Chief James Fry.

Police stated the two roommates slept through the murders in the basement. Police claimed the two roommates phoned friends to their house on Nov. 13 because they thought one of the second-floor victims had passed out.


Police said a roommate called 911 for an unconscious person at 11:58 a.m. Police said "multiple people talked with the 911 dispatcher."

Police reported finding four victims on the second and third floors.

Authorities stated no one at the house at the time of the 911 call committed the murders.

Police also don't think the male Goncalves and Mogen repeatedly called on Nov. 13 is involved.

November 17
Police said Nov. 17 autopsies showed all deceased were stabbed many times.

Police stated the four kids were asleep when attacked and had defensive wounds.

Police noted no sexual assault.

Nov. 28
Goncalves' father, Steve, told ABC News on Nov. 28 that the pupils died swiftly and did not bleed for hours, thus an earlier 911 call would not have saved them.

"Nobody suffered," Steve Goncalves stated.

Nov. 21
On Nov. 21, 20-year-old Ethan Chapin's family held a memorial service.


On Nov. 30, grieving family and students held a candlelight vigil at the University of Idaho.