Idaho authorities revealed Thursday that a sixth person was listed on the lease of the house where 4 University of Idaho students were brutally killed last month.
The person was not believed to be home on the time of the stabbings.
The newest update comes as authorities remain and not using a suspect or suspects within the tragic slayings of Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle, who were in a relationship, and Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, who were best friends growing up, within the early morning of Nov. 13.
The sixth person was not identified by Moscow police.
The house has two bedrooms on each of the three floors.
Kernodle, Mogen and Goncalves were all roommates at the house on King Road while Chapin was staying the night.
The murdered college students were on the second and third floors the night of the murders with two other surviving roommates, Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen, were also home on the primary floor and slept through the attack, police said.
“Detectives are aware of a sixth person listed on the lease on the residence but don’t consider that individual was present through the incident,” Moscow police stated.
The local police department also clarified Thursday that investigators consider the attack was targeted after they confusingly said the day before the detectives weren’t sure if the residence or any occupants were specifically targeted.
“We remain consistent in our belief that this was a targeted attack, but investigators haven’t concluded if the goal was the residence or if it was the occupants,” Moscow police said in its latest update.
The conflicting statements got here after Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson said in an interview Tuesday the home was specifically targeted and then said early Wednesday certainly one of the victims was targeted, which police refuted.
The Idaho State Police forensics team have worked the case for weeks, Moscow police also said Thursday, and has provided “testing and evaluation results” to detectives.
“As they complete additional tests, those results can even be provided,” Moscow police said. “To guard the investigation’s integrity, specific results won’t be released.”
