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The police chief where four University of Idaho students were brutally stabbed to death appeared unaware of the report that the front door of the house was allegedly wide open hours after the killings. 

Speaking to DailyMail.com on Thursday at the city's Christmas parade, Police Chief James Frye said the report - in which a neighbor noticed the door wide open 8:30 am the morning after - was news to him.

Frye could neither confirm nor deny whether the door was, in fact, left open. It was previously stated the house had no visible signs of any break-in.  

'I’m not even sure where that came from, to be quite honest,' Frye, the Moscow Police Chief since 2016, said.  

Frye told DailyMail.com he could neither confirm nor deny whether the door was in fact left open: 'I don’t even know the answer to that one. If I did, I would probably comment on that but I don’t know the answer whether the door was open.'

The victims - three women and one man - were found on November 13 inside the student house the three women shared.

The three women have been named as Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; and Xana Kernodle, 20.

The man, 20-year-old Ethan Chapin, was the boyfriend of Kernodle, one of the housemates. 

A neighbor said that the front door, which gives access to the floor where two of the victims' roommates were staying - was open at 8:30 a.m. on November 13.  

Police have said that they believe the murders happened between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. on that morning. 

A spokesman for the state told Fox News Thursday: 'That type of information is part of the investigation and not released.'

The Moscow Police Department said earlier it is probing the movements of Chapin and Kernodle, who visited the frat house, where Ethan was a member, hours before the murders. 

Police believe Ethan and Xana visited the Sigma Chi house from about 9pm on November 12 until around 1.45am, when they returned to Xana's off-campus home, just a brief walk away, where the murders took place. 

Ofsthun confirmed he had known Xana as a friend, and that Ethan was a member of the frat. He said there were no cameras in the Sigma Chi house that might aid the investigation. 

Ethan and Xana, 20-year-olds who were dating, were stabbed to death along with Xana's roommates Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen, both 21, in the home they shared, likely while they were sleeping. Police still have no suspects and no murder weapon.

Earlier appeals to the public had focused on Kaylee and Madison's activities on the night of the murders, which involved stops at a sports bar and a food truck. 

'That actually seems to be one of the larger areas that we don't have a lot of information in,' Idaho State Police communications director Aaron Snell told Good Morning America of Ethan and Xana's movements on November 12.

'So being able to locate what they did that night, to maybe who they contacted, maybe any routes they took home, that would be important to the investigation,' he added.

Meanwhile, tensions grew further between investigators and the families of the victims, who have spoken out in frustration about the failure to identify a suspect.

Kaylee's father Steven previously told NewsNation's Brian Entin that police had told him her injuries were worse than the other victims', but

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