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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Rachel Sharp and Andrea Blanco

Idaho murders – update: Police vow to protect investigation as Kaylee Goncalves’ dad shares gruesome details

Jazzmin Kernodle/The Moscow-Pullman Daily New/AP

Father of Idaho murder victim says ‘means of death’ do not match

The hands of the four slain University of Idaho students have been bagged in order to protect any DNA evidence that could be vital to solving the case.

Latah County Coroner Cathy Mabbutt told Fox News that investigators had taken steps to preserve evidence on the victims’ hands in the hope that it could lead authorities to the mass murderer.

It is now a month since Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen were found brutally stabbed to death in an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho. No arrests have been made and no suspects have been identified.

Speculation is now growing around a mystery item found at the crime scene in the days after the murders.

Retired homicide detective and podcaster Chris McDonough claimed that he found a glove outside the house on 28 November and that, after pointing it out to law enforcement, it appeared that police were not aware of it before then.

The discovery has raised questions around whether the glove may have been there on 13 November – the night of the killings – and who it could belong to.

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