A retired FBI agent believes the person who stabbed four University of Idaho students to death is a man due to the “ferociousness” of the attack.
Students Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, were killed in bed and stabbed in the chest and upper body with a large knife on Nov. 13.
Jennifer Coffindaffer wrote on Twitter on Sunday that a stabbing was her first experience as an EMT in southern Dallas. She said the woman was stabbed “many times/perforated lung but was screaming/angry.”
When I was doing my EMT Rotations out of a Firestation in S. Dallas,my first call was to a stabbing.The woman was stabbed many times/perforated lung but was screaming/angry.To murder these four took ferociousness, strength,resolve. It wan’t easy. IME, it was man.#IdahoFour pic.twitter.com/Lf23IKstij
— Jennifer Coffindaffer (@CoffindafferFBI) December 18, 2022
“To murder these four took ferociousness, strength, resolve,” she wrote. “It [wasn’t] easy. IME, it was [a] man.”
She added in the Twitter thread that she does not think “more than a single person wielded that knife” but that other potential evidence, such as the white Hyundai Elantra police are looking for, is “confusing at best.”
Latah County Coroner Cathy Mabbutt confirmed that the students had died by stabbing and some had defensive wounds. The victims were all stabbed multiple times and were sleeping on the second and third floors of the women’s home.
The two surviving roommates, Dylan Mortensen, 19, and Bethany Funke, 19, had bedrooms on the first floor. They and a group of friends called 911 after finding one of the victims unresponsive in their beds, thinking they had passed out. The 911 call has not been released to the public.
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So far, police have no suspect and are providing limited information to the public so as not to damage the investigation. They are actively seeking out any tips about the Elantra, as it was captured on video near the home within the murder time frame of 3 to 4 a.m.
Moscow officers continue to warn the public and media not to perpetuate, or even cause, rumors and speculation and have asked people to refer to police press releases for updated and accurate details.
