Police have yet to name a suspect nearly two weeks after the University of Idaho killings

Nearly two weeks after four University of Idaho students were found stabbed to death in their off-campus home, police have still not publicly identified a suspect.

As students poured out of the university town for Thanksgiving, investigators returned to the cordoned-off crime scene in Moscow again on Friday — 13 days after Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Madison Mogen, 21, were stabbed to death at the home found.

Despite countless tips, analysis of more than 100 pieces of evidence, and review of thousands of photos and videos taken before and after the killings, law enforcement officials appear no closer to identifying the suspected killer or killers.

Authorities have not identified a motive for the early morning killings and have so far failed to locate the murder weapon – believed to be a fixed-blade knife.

The Moscow Police Department has not provided an update to its investigation since Tuesday, when it ruled out a number of suspects, including the slain students’ two other roommates, Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen, who slept on a different floor of the house and were spared the killer.

Captain Roger Lanier said they had also ruled out Goncalves’ ex-boyfriend Jack DeCoeur.

Police also said they could not confirm reports that Kaylee said she had been stalked before her death – but they are still reviewing the report.

When the killer or killers struck, the four students were likely sleeping on the second and third floors of the house sometime between 3 and 4 a.m., police said. Some had defensive injuries, although it is not clear which casualties.

According to police, Chapin and Kernodle were last seen at Sigma Chi’s home on the University of Idaho campus before returning to the home at approximately 1:45 a.m. Chapin did not live in the house and was only visiting.

Goncalves and Mogen were at a local bar called the Corner Club between 10pm and 1:30am on November 12. They were seen in line at a food truck around 1:40 a.m. before arriving back at the house at 1:45 a.m

The next morning, the surviving housemates called other friends to the residence, believing one of the victims on the second floor had passed out and was not waking up, police officers said. Shortly before noon, the police received an emergency call for an unresponsive person. When the police arrived, they discovered the deceased victims.

The FBI has deployed 22 agents in Moscow and another 20 further afield, as well as two profilers. The Idaho State Police Department has also assigned 20 investigators to the case.

Former FBI profiler Jim Clemente speculated that the killer was a younger man and a first-time killer, noting the risk of the crime.

“Going into a squat with six young adults, each of whom could have a knife or a gun or a cell phone to call the police, is extremely risky unless you know the circumstances inside,” the expert said for criminal conduct and a former New York State Attorney, the Post said.

Clemente said he believes it was a targeted attack, but that the killer “may not have known exactly what room the person would be in.”

“They may have stopped at four victims because they reached their intended victim,” he said, noting that it probably wasn’t a “random attack.”

The Moscow Police Department also confirmed on Wednesday that it is investigating a possible link between the Idaho killings and the death of an Oregon couple who was fatally stabbed in similar circumstances last year.

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Travis and Jamilyn Juetten, 26 and 24, were stabbed to death at their Salem home on August 13, 2021 after a masked intruder attacked them while they slept. The killer was never caught.

“We’re looking at every avenue and we have other agencies that come to us with other cases and things that we will follow up on,” Moscow Police Chief James Frye told reporters.