Cops investigating the brutal slaying of 4 College of Idaho college students are trying into attainable ties with an earlier lethal knife assault on a sleeping couple in Oregon.
Moscow Police Chief James Frye was requested Wednesday if his officers have been “trying into any attainable connection” to the “unsolved double stabbing” of Travis and Jamilyn Juetten about 400 miles away in Salem in August final 12 months.
That case, the reporter famous, additionally concerned “two folks stabbed of their house in the midst of the evening, lengthy knife, no suspect at this level,” very similar to the off-campus quadruple slaying in Moscow on Nov. 13.
“We’re taking a look at each avenue and we have now different businesses reaching out to us with different instances and stuff that we're going to observe up on these,” Frye replied.
When pressed, he confirmed that the Salem assault — during which Travis Juetten was killed whereas his spouse survived regardless of being stabbed 19 instances — was on his workforce’s radar.
“I truly had a tip are available in on that case and I forwarded it,” Frye confirmed.
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The Juettens have been attacked by a masked intruder as they slept at 3 a.m., police stated on the time — with their household placing up a $50,000 reward for information resulting in the killer’s arrest.
Mates stated that Travis, 26, died whereas making an attempt to combat again and cease his killer’s frenzied assault on his 24-year-old spouse, who survived.
“He saved her life,” a household good friend instructed KOIN 6 Information on the time. “He protected her from the attacker.”
Like within the Idaho case, the killer struck as different folks have been house on the time, and a good friend planning to catsit for the Juettens, who have been as a result of fly to Hawaii the subsequent day, is assumed to have scared off the attacker, KOIN 6 stated.
In Idaho, police say they nonetheless wouldn't have a suspect for the surprising killing of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Madison Mogen, 21 within the early hours of Nov. 13.
Police stated all 4 of them have been doubtless sleeping on the time on the second and third flooring of the home. Two of their roommates and a canine belonging to one of many roommates have been spared by the killer.
Captain Roger Lanier stated that the Moscow police don't consider the surviving roommates have been concerned within the homicide. He additionally dominated out Kaylee’s ex-boyfriend Jack DeCoeur as a suspect — whereas probing claims that she had a stalker, which was later dispelled.
Lanier additionally repeated that a man seen in safety footage close to the victims at a meals truck on the evening they died has additionally been dominated out.
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