Parents of slain Idaho student Kaylee Goncalves defend her ex-boyfriend as cops clear ride-share driver

The dad and mom of slain College of Idaho pupil Kaylee Goncalves are backing their daughter’s ex-boyfriend after it was revealed she referred to as him a number of instances on the night time she and her roommates have been stabbed to demise.

Steve and Kristi Goncalves maintained on Fox Information that their daughter’s ex Jack was not concerned within the quadruple slay, saying cops are “losing their time” investigating the younger man, whose final identify was not launched.

Police, in the meantime, on Saturday night time launched some new particulars, together with that the 911 name which alerted them to final week’s slaughter was made by one of many two surviving roommates.

The updates got here forward of a information convention slated for Sunday — solely the second time police in Moscow, Idaho have scheduled a media availability for the reason that surprising Nov. 13 crime.

Final photo of the victims, pictured just hours before their untimely deaths.
Madison Mogen (high left), Kaylee Goncalves (backside left), Ethan Chapin (middle) and Xana Kernodle (proper) with their two different roommates.
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No suspects have been recognized within the bloodbath, and police cleared a ride-share driver who dropped off two of the victims from being concerned within the murders, The Idaho Statesman reported Sunday.

Madison Mogen, 21, of Coeur d’Alene, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, of Rathdrum; junior Xana Kernodle, 20, of Put up Falls; and freshman Ethan Chapin, 20, of Mount Vernon, Washington have been all stabbed to demise within the early morning hours as they slept after an evening of carousing the school city.

It was later reported that Mogen and Goncalves referred to as the latter’s ex a mixed complete ten instances between 2:30 a.m. and three a.m.


Right here’s the most recent protection on the brutal killings of 4 faculty associates:


Goncalves’ mother, in an interview on Lawrence Jones Cross Nation Saturday night time, maintained the younger man’s harmless.

“Jack is simply as distraught as we're. Jack is our household. Jack is 1,000%. 2,000% our household, and Jack is with us, and we stand behind him 100%,” Kristi Goncalves informed host Lawrence Jones.

“We're supporting him, and we all know in our hearts and our minds and our souls and the depths of our soul, Jack is hurting,” she continued. “Kaylee and Jack would have finally been married. They might have finally been married, and they'd have finally had youngsters.”

Kaylee Goncalves.
Kaylee Goncalves’ dad and mom say cops are losing time investigating the slain co-ed’s ex-boyfriend.
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The pair had been reportedly relationship for years earlier than taking a break of their relationship just lately, and Mogen was very near the Goncalves household, the dad and mom stated.

“Maddie was in our oldest daughter’s marriage ceremony,” Kristi stated. “She stated, ‘All of my sisters are my bridesmaids,’ and Maddie was a kind of bridesmaids. And it was all of Olivia’s sisters, together with Maddie.

“Each time we traveled in another country or went on trip, Maddie went with us, so that is each of our women, and we'll by no means cease searching for who killed them,” the grieving mother informed Jones. 

The mother additionally recalled how Kaylee had despatched her photographs of herself and Maddie on Saturday afternoon — and the final dialog she had along with her daughter that very same day.

“Kaylee referred to as me on Saturday, my birthday was earlier within the week,” she stated on this system. “And stated ‘Mother, I’ll be residence on Tuesday, and I’m gonna take you out to breakfast, lunch and dinner, and it’s all on me, all on me, and we’ll have fun your birthday.'”

The mother informed Jones she’d been trying ahead to spending her birthday along with her daughter, and that she responded: “That sounds nice Kaylee and, and I’ll see you on Tuesday, honey.”

There was no signal of compelled entry within the residence shared by the three feminine victims, and the 4 have been possible attacked whereas sleeping and had defensive wounds, police stated.

Two different roommates — Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen — have been on the off-campus residence on the time, and considered one of them made the 911 name to police about eight hours after the murders have been believed to have occurred, the Statesman reported.

Neither Funke nor Mortensen have been thought of to be suspects within the case and had been cooperating with cops, the article stated.

The front entrance of an off-campus home.
The 4 victims have been stabbed to demise within the early morning hours as they slept after an evening out.
James Keivom
General view of an off-campus home.
New particulars reveal that one of many two surviving roommates made the 911 name.
James Keivom

Police informed the outlet the roommates had been out in town till the early morning separate from the victims the night time earlier than and have been sleeping in.

“Everyone seems to be hurting, everybody feels the ache of this,” Steve Goncalves stated Saturday. “The one shiny factor out of all of that is I’ve by no means realized how stunning my group is and the way a lot love there's for folks. We simply have one unhealthy particular person, and now we have to search out that man.”

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