Cabbie who drove slain Idaho students home said they were ‘excited’ to go home and eat pasta

A taxi driver who took College of Idaho college students Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen residence on the night time of the grisly murders mentioned the women had been “tremendous excited” about going residence to chow down on mac and cheese — as he opened up about how the unsolved slayings have “weighed” on him.

Talking to the Day by day Mail this week on situation of anonymity, the cabbie mentioned he was doubtless one of many final folks to see Goncalves and Mogen, each 21, alive earlier than they had been slaughtered together with their roommate Xana Kernodle and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, each 20, on Nov. 13.

“It’s weighed on me,” the motive force instructed the information web site.

“I’ve replayed that night time 1,000,000 occasions over attempting to suppose if there was some signal or some element that one thing was amiss however there was nothing,” he continued.

“It’s not misplaced on me that my job was to get these ladies residence protected however that didn’t actually assist this time.”

Almost six weeks after the 4 college students had been discovered stabbed to demise contained in the rental residence they shared on King Highway in Moscow, Idaho, police have but to determine a suspect within the brutal slayings that rocked the faculty city.

The Moscow Police Division has been going through rising stress to make an arrest towards the backdrop of intensifying public scrutiny and criticism from the victims’ households, who’ve accused authorities of failing to share data with them.

Police investigators and beginner on-line sleuths alike have endlessly pored over the doomed college students’ closing actions earlier than the killings, with a surveillance video displaying them ready at a meals truck presenting a specific focal point.

The driving force who took Goncalves and Mogen residence mentioned he picked them up between 1:40 and 1:45 a.m. from outdoors the Grub Truck meals truck, the place they purchased pasta dinners.

“That they had their meals, they usually had been tremendous enthusiastic about their mac and cheese as ladies are after they go to the membership,” he recalled.

The cabbie mentioned the 2 pals sat within the again and chatted, however by no means talked about anybody named “Adam,” who was invoked in a surveillance video earlier within the night time that includes one of many ladies.

“They had been regular identical to every other night time. They weren’t upset about something or speaking about anybody,” the taxi driver famous. “There was no nervousness about them. They weren’t afraid of anyone. There was no person following them or following us.”

The driving force recalled that he let Goncalves and Mogen out of the automotive on the road outdoors their residence, slightly than within the driveway, and left with out ready for them to enter the residence.

The unnamed driver mentioned when he realized the identifies of the butchered faculty college students, he went straight to the police and handed over his digital knowledge and a time-stamped receipt from the Taco Bell the place he headed after dropping the scholars off at residence.

Reflecting on the multi-agency investigation, which to date has little or no to indicate for it, the motive force mentioned that many individuals within the Moscow group have misplaced religion within the police and really feel like they aren’t doing sufficient to catch the killer.

“These children deserve justice they usually’re not getting it,” he mentioned.

Native cops, who’re being assisted by dozens of FBI brokers and Idaho state troopers, mentioned they’re working by means of practically 12,000 ideas and are additionally nonetheless searching for the white 2011-2013 Hyundai Elantra that was seen close to the crime scene.