Kaylee Goncalves was true crime fan who reported sighting of missing woman to police year before murder

Slain College of Idaho scholar Kaylee Goncalves was a real crime follower who reported a potential sighting of a lacking lady to police one 12 months earlier than her personal grisly demise.

Goncalves, 21, was stabbed to demise in an off-campus residence in Moscow, Idaho, within the early hours of Nov. 13, 2022. 

Goncalves’ physique was present in the identical mattress as that of her greatest buddy, Madison Mogen, 21. Housemate Xana Kernodle, 20, and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, 20, had been discovered lifeless in one other room.

Within the wake of her homicide, the Goncalves household reached out to in style true crime vlogger Olivia Vitale and reminisced concerning the aspiring elementary faculty trainer’s ardour for true crime.

“I began trying on the case that [Kaylee] was following with you, after which I stated, ‘I’m going to achieve out as a result of perhaps she can assist resolve Kaylee’s story,’” devastated father Steve Goncalves advised Vitale in an unique interview that aired this month.

“[Kaylee] wished to assist different households discover this justice.”

Actually, one 12 months earlier than her demise, Kaylee Goncalves was briefly concerned in one other native thriller.

In line with a police file obtained by Fox Information, Goncalves known as the Moscow Police Division on Oct. 5, 2021, to report a potential sighting of lacking lady Sharon Archer.

Archer, 62, had been reported as endangered lacking from Coeur d’Alene, Kaylee’s hometown, the earlier month.

“Kaylee advised me the feminine was starring [sic] at her and her boyfriend after they had been within the retailer and as they checked out [of Walmart],” Sgt. Dustin Blaker wrote in his report of the incident.

Sgt. Blaker famous that Goncalves thought she acknowledged Archer from a lacking particular person poster, which she forwarded to him.

Though police adopted up on the decision, they had been unable to acquire surveillance footage to identify Archer or her Toyota SUV. Searches of close by motels additionally turned up nothing.

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Archer was discovered lifeless in her automotive submerged in Fernan Lake later that month, KREM2 reported.

The interplay was not Goncalves’ final run-in with police: In August 2022, only a few months earlier than the killings, she was captured on bodycam footage on the Moscow residence after officers responded to a noise criticism on the deal with.

Sgt. Blaker subsequently turned one of many lead investigators on the Nov. 13 stabbings. Fox Information reported that his affidavit was used to assist the search warrant for suspect Bryan Kohberger’s condo and workplace in Pullman, Wash.

Kohberger, 28, was a doctoral scholar in criminology at Washington State College in Pulllman, about quarter-hour from Moscow. He was arrested at his dad and mom’ Pennsylvania residence on Dec. 30.

“I simply checked out him … and I couldn’t take my eyes off of him, his each motion,” Kaylee’s mom, Kristi Goncalves, advised NewsNation of the primary time she noticed the suspect in Latah County court docket.

Steve Goncalves stated he was shocked to search out Kohberger was “a man that appears like a standard on a regular basis … child.”

Now in custody in Idaho, Kohberger faces 4 counts of homicide and certainly one of felony housebreaking. Kohberger has not entered a plea and can return to court docket in June.