It has been over five weeks since the mysterious murder of four university students rocked a small town in the US and police are yet to name a suspect or motive in the investigation.
Newly obtained bodycam footage has emerged of a noise complaint at the student’s off-campus home in early September. Police say they are not ruling out a connection between the murders and the previous police visit to the residence.
Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, were stabbed to death in their beds at around 3am on November 13, after returning home from a night out.
Police have stayed tight-lipped throughout the investigation so far and, almost six weeks on from the murders in Moscow, Idaho, the killer remains at large.
A recent revelation in the case shows bodycam footage, obtained by NewsNation, of officers at the student’s King Road house on September 1 while responding to a noise complaint.
The video shows officers repeatedly asking to talk to people who lived in the house, while several young adults are seen leaving the home.
Loud music and partying can be heard at the student residence, which has been described by neighbours as a “party house”.
It is unknown whether the victims were in the house at the time of the police visit but the police spoke with one of the now-slain students on the phone.
Officers can be heard speaking with Madison Mogen on the phone and warned her to tell the partygoers inside the home to turn down the volume on the music.
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Neighbours of the students have said they would often see groups of young adults arriving at the home several times a week.
A week after the horrific attack, Jeremy Reagan, their neighbour and fellow student, told Fox News: “As I would take my dog in and out to go to the bathroom [and] I would see people in the windows almost every night, probably four or five nights a week.
“It was kind of a party house but then again this whole neighbourhood is a party neighbourhood.”
In a press release on Monday, Moscow Police Department said they have not changed their belief that it was a targeted attack but explained it is not yet clear if an individual or the residence was targeted.
Officers have reiterated that there were no signs of forced entry on the night of the killings.
Meanwhile, detectives continue to hunt for the owner of a white Hyundai car spotted near the student home around the time of the murders.
They said the occupant of the white vehicle could have “critical information to share regarding this case”, as they urged the public to come forward with information.
The car’s registration plate is unknown but asked anyone who knows someone with the same vehicle to forward information to their tip line.
Officers have identified around 22,000 vehicles that fit the description of the car and are combing through the information for clues.
