Thursday 24 November 2022 06:23 PM Cops probe link between Idaho murders and similar Oregon stabbing of couple in ... trends now

Thursday 24 November 2022 06:23 PM Cops probe link between Idaho murders and similar Oregon stabbing of couple in ... trends now
Thursday 24 November 2022 06:23 PM Cops probe link between Idaho murders and similar Oregon stabbing of couple in ... trends now

Thursday 24 November 2022 06:23 PM Cops probe link between Idaho murders and similar Oregon stabbing of couple in ... trends now

Idaho police are probing a link between the brutal murders of four University of Idaho students to a similar case in Oregon where a husband and wife were stabbed in their beds by a crazed lunatic last year. 

Moscow Police Chief James Fyre said they are looking at 'every avenue' to discover the mysterious killer who murdered roommates Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20, and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, 20, on November 13. 

Police have come forward to say they believe the attack was 'targeted,' but have declined to say their reasonings behind that notion, with Captain Roger Lanier saying: 'You're going to have to trust us on that at this point because we're not going to release why we think that.' 

Authorities are now looking to see if they can link the four students' deaths to Oregonian Travis Juetten, 26, who was also stabbed to death with a long knife in the middle of the night last year. 

Juetten was knifed 29 times by a masked man who broke into his Silverton, Oregon, home at 3am on August 13, 2021. 

His wife Jamilyn, 24, was also attacked, but miraculously survived, despite suffering 19 stab wounds – one of which severed a muscle in her hand.

Similarly to the Moscow case - where two other roommates were left unharmed - a friend of the couple, who was staying with them because they had agreed to housesit while the couple took a vacation in Hawaii, was left injured.

In another chilling echo of the University of Idaho murders, the killer was able to slip into the home undetected and took nothing from the property.

Moscow Police Chief, James Fyre, said they are looking at 'every avenue' to discover the mysterious killer who murdered roommates Madison Mogen (upper left), 21, Kaylee Goncalve (lower left), 21, and Xana Kernodle (right), 20, and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin (middle), 20, on November 13

Moscow Police Chief, James Fyre, said they are looking at 'every avenue' to discover the mysterious killer who murdered roommates Madison Mogen (upper left), 21, Kaylee Goncalve (lower left), 21, and Xana Kernodle (right), 20, and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin (middle), 20, on November 13

Authorities are now looking to see if they can link the four students' deaths to Oregonian Travis Juetten, 26, (pictured) who was also stabbed to death with a long knife in the middle of the night last year

Authorities are now looking to see if they can link the four students' deaths to Oregonian Travis Juetten, 26, (pictured) who was also stabbed to death with a long knife in the middle of the night last year

Juetten was knifed 29 times by a masked man who broke into his Silverton, Oregon, home at 3am on August 13, 2021

Juetten was knifed 29 times by a masked man who broke into his Silverton, Oregon, home at 3am on August 13, 2021

He also carried out the murder using a large military-style knife while cops were left baffled by the lack of any obvious motive or suspect.

Fyre said at a press conference that his team is 'looking into any possible connection [to the] unsolved double stabbing,' despite the two events happening nearly 400 miles apart. 

'We have other agencies reaching out to us with other cases and stuff that we are going to follow up on those,' he said at the press conference, where he confirmed Juetten's case was on his radar. 

'I actually had a tip come in on that case and I forwarded it,' he said.  

Juetten, a cat-loving vegan who ‘wouldn’t hurt a flea,’ had no known enemies – much like the four University of Idaho students, his mother Myra, 66, exclusively told DailyMail.com.

Fyre (pictured)  said at a press conference that his team is 'looking into any possible connection [to the] unsolved double stabbing,' despite the two events happening nearly 400 miles apart

Fyre (pictured)  said at a press conference that his team is 'looking into any possible connection [to the] unsolved double stabbing,' despite the two events happening nearly 400 miles apart 

The case, which remains unsolved more than 15 months later despite a $50,000 reward for information, is now attracting renewed interest due to the eerie similarities to the Idaho slayings.

Now Juetten’s heartbroken mother told DailyMail.com she hopes the November 13 murders of four best friends will lead to a breakthrough in her son’s case.

She said: ‘Travis was a young man too. He was a beautiful young man and he was 26 years old when they came after him.

‘What I want is the police departments to work together to see if they can solve both these crimes because they’re horrendous.

‘For somebody to go into someone’s house, not take a thing, and just go in and stab somebody when they’re asleep in their bed in the middle of the night – these are crazy people.

‘To do this to beautiful people who had their whole lives ahead of them – to just come in and kill them…That makes no sense. It’s really tough.’

She added: ‘Nobody would want to do this to Travis – he wouldn’t even hurt a flea. He was a vegan. He wouldn’t even eat meat.

‘He didn’t have a mean bone in his body. I thought, who in the world would hate Travis so much, they would stab him 29 times. And why, why?

‘There’s no reason for it. I just can’t figure it out.’

Fifteen months after her son’s murder, Myra says she is frustrated by the lack of progress on the case and hit out at the Marion County Sheriff’s Department for refusing to give her any answers.

She said the only document she has been able to obtain is her son’s autopsy report – with even the 911 call deemed out of bounds by police.

She told DailyMail.com she lives in fear that the brutal killer could come for her other son Tyler – a firefighter in the city of Clatskanie, Oregon.

The mom-of-two said: ‘Every time they [Moscow PD] say they have to protect the investigation, I keep thinking it’s like déjà vu of what I’ve been hearing for a year and a half.

‘We’ve got to protect the investigation. It drives me crazy,' she said. ‘My family is very happy they [Moscow PD] will look and see what they think – they’re law enforcement. I’m not law enforcement and I see what I see.

‘Like I said, [Marion County] have given me nothing – the only thing I have is my son’s autopsy report. I can’t get the 911 call, I can’t get anything from these guys.

On Sunday detectives were seen combing through woodlands surrounding the house in which the four students were fatally stabbed

On Sunday detectives were seen combing through woodlands surrounding the house in which the four students were fatally stabbed 

The house in Moscow, Idaho, where the four students were killed was surrounded by various law enforcement personnel, including federal authorities, on Sunday

The house in Moscow, Idaho, where the four students were killed was surrounded by various law enforcement personnel, including federal authorities, on Sunday

‘I have all my brothers and sisters living up in the Silverton area, so many nephews and nieces. There’s a killer on the loose,' she continued. ‘I am terrified they will come after one of them. My other son is a firefighter for Clatskanie – who’s to say this guy won’t come after him?

‘It’s terrifying for me as a mom – I worry about it every single day.’

She added: ‘Unless they pressure Marion to look into the tip they got, Marion’s not going to do anything about it.

‘There’s always that possibility [that it’s the same person]. If you think about it, there’s only nine hours [driving] difference to where they are. If you look at the details of the cases, they [the killer] broke in early in the morning, both on the 13th and stabbed my son 29 times.

‘I don’t know how many times these kids were stabbed but it was a horrible murder. In my son’s case, there were two other people in the house, one was stabbed and one unhurt.

‘There was nothing found outside, no sign of forced

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