If Idaho murder victims ‘were going to go, they were going to go together,’ friend says

MOSCOW, Idaho – Perched within the third story window of a rental residence outdoors the College of Idaho sits a pair of pink cowgirl boots subsequent to a big, ornamental letter “M.”

These boots belonged to Madison “Maddie” Mogen, a 21-year-old school senior who loved dancing to nation music and made everybody snigger.

In longtime good friend and fellow 21-year-old scholar Kaylee Goncalves, Mogen — an solely baby from Coeur d’Alene — discovered a sister.

“She [Mogen] cherished having a sister with not solely Kaylee however her total household and it allowed her to see all the sweetness in sisterhood,” stated the younger girls’s childhood good friend, who selected to stay nameless to maintain the story centered on Goncalves and Mogen quite than herself.

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“She’d say Maddie is at all times her ceaselessly plus-one,” the good friend defined.

Mogen and Goncalves, together with good friend Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, have been stabbed to dying by an unknown assailant within the early morning hours of Nov. 13 whereas sleeping of their residence on King Street close to the college’s campus. Police haven’t recognized any suspects within the case every week because the murders occurred.

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“You may’t even clarify it in the event you attempt to,” stated the ladies’s good friend. “The one factor that is sensible about any of that is that in the event that they have been going to go, they have been going to go collectively.” 

In longtime good friend and fellow 21-year-old scholar Kaylee Goncalves, Mogen — an solely baby from Coeur d’Alene — discovered a sister.
(Good friend of Kaylee Gaconcalves and Madison Mogen)

The 2 greatest pals spent plenty of time collectively — particularly at Goncalves’ residence together with her household. They have been identified not just for their magnificence however for his or her humorousness; their “ironic” love for nation music — together with “previous” Taylor Swift songs; their capability to make everybody really feel included of their plans; and their appreciation for surroundings and sunsets. 

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“After I consider them, I simply consider women’ women,” the good friend stated, including later: “I keep in mind so many occasions after I was in a automobile with them and we might drive up a hill and simply take a look at the view.”

The 2 greatest pals spent plenty of time collectively — particularly at Goncalves’ residence together with her household.
(Good friend of Kaylee Gaconcalves and Madison Mogen)

The good friend emphasised that she wished to give attention to Goncalves’ and Mogen’s lives quite than the tragedy that took them.

“I actually assume they have been one another’s twins,” reads a joint assertion from the 2 younger girls’s shut pals.  “We need to solely keep in mind the nice occasions about them, the recollections and the laughs.”

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Goncalves and Mogen spent the night of Nov. 12 downtown at a neighborhood watering gap known as the Nook Membership earlier than they ordered meals from the Grub Truck in Friendship Sq. and returned residence round 1 a.m. Kernodle and Chapin spent that night at a celebration on the college’s Sigma Chi home earlier than they returned residence after Goncalves and Mogen. 

A photograph of Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, who have been slaughtered Sunday with tqo different College of Idaho college students.
(Instagram)

Two surviving roommates have been residence throughout the murders however have been dominated out as suspects. Police responded to a 911 name reporting an unconscious particular person from one of many two roommates’ telephones at 11:58 a.m. on Nov. 13 and positioned the 4 deceased college students upon arrival shortly thereafter. 

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Police on Tuesday described the murders as an “remoted, focused assault.” On Thursday, the Latah County coroner introduced that the 4 college students all died of murder by stabbing, probably whereas they have been asleep. 

Goncalves was a senior common research main and Mogen was a senior finishing her main in advertising and marketing on the College of Idaho.
(Good friend of Kaylee Gaconcalves and Madison Mogen)

Goncalves was a senior common research main within the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences. She was from Rathdrum, Idaho, and a member of the Alpha Phi sorority.

Mogen was a senior finishing her main in advertising and marketing on the Faculty of Enterprise and Economics. She was a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority.

Chapin was a freshman from Mount Vernon space of Washington, in keeping with Inexperienced. He was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and dealing to finish his main in recreation, sport and tourism administration in U of I’s Faculty of Schooling, Well being and Human Sciences. Chaplin and Kernodle have been in a relationship. 

College of Idaho college students Ethan Chapin, 20; Xana Kernodle, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21. 
(Jazzmin Kernodle by way of AP/Instagram/ @kayleegoncalves)

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Kernodle was a junior majoring in advertising and marketing at U of I’s Faculty of Enterprise and Economics. She was a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority, in keeping with the varsity. Police stated Kernodle was from Avondale, Arizona, however she grew up in Put up Falls, Idaho.

Authorities are asking anybody with details about the incident to name 208-883-7180 or tipline@ci.moscow.id.us.