Parents of murdered Idaho student say two victims’ ‘means of death don’t match’

The grieving parents of one of the four Idaho students who were killed in a horrific attack have raised an inconsistency between two of the deaths.

The way two of the four University of Idaho students were killed on November 13, “don’t match,” the father of slain student Kaylee Goncalves has claimed.

“I’ll cut to the chase – their means of death don’t match,” Kaylee’s father, Steven Goncalves, told Fox News on Saturday, New York Post reports.

When asked if he was referring to his daughter and her best friend, Madison Mogen, who were sleeping in the same bed when the horrific attack occurred, Mr Goncalves repeated: “They don’t match.

“Their points of damage don’t match.”

University of Idaho murder victims Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves. Picture: Instagram

“I’m just going to say it,” he said. “It wasn’t leaked to me. I earned that. I paid for that funeral.

“I sent my daughter to college – she came back in a box,” he said. “I can speak on that.”

The two 21-year-old college seniors were fatally stabbed in their share house near the university campus in Moscow, Idaho, along with roommate Xana Kernodle, 20, and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, also 20, in the early hours of November 13.

Madison Mogen (top), 21, Kaylee Goncalves (second from left), 21, Ethan Chapin (centre), 20, and Xana Kernodle (second from right), 20, were brutally murdered. Picture: Instagram

Three weeks later, police have not named any suspects or motive in the killings.

Goncalves’ family also told NewsNation on Friday that they thought police were not being forthcoming providing information to the families of the victims – and that their investigation in some instances seems to have moved too quickly.

“I just feel like there’s been a couple individuals that were cleared very fast that maybe should not have been,” Kaylee’s mother Kristi Goncalves said.

Police have said they cleared several people, including the person who made the 911 call and two other roommates in the house who were unharmed in the terrifying attack.

Kristi and Steven Goncalves, whose daughter Kaylee was killed in the attack, have questioned the police investigation. Picture: Fox News

In another interview, Mr Goncalves said the family has held off on holding a funeral service for Kaylee because they thought the killer might be the “sick kind of twisted person” who would show up to the service.

“My wife’s biggest fear, part of the reason we didn’t have a funeral [straight away], is because she couldn’t be guaranteed that that monster was going to not be there,” he told ABC News early last week.

This article first appeared on the New York Post and has been republished with permission