Art Bettge, the mayor of Moscow, Idaho, told The New York Times that the killings were a “crime of passion” but declined to divulge further details.
show that they were members of the Pi Beta Phi sorority. Police said GonCalves was from Rathdrum, Idaho; Mogen from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; and Kernodle from Avondale, Arizona.
Officers discovered the students’ bodies early Sunday afternoon after receiving a call about someone being unconscious. Cops responded to the the 6-bedroom residence—less than a mile south of the university in Moscow, Idaho—and found the lifeless bodies of Chapin, Mogen, Kernodle, and GonCalves inside.
The university briefly went into lockdown, followed by an all-clear on Sunday evening. The school announced that four students had died in an apparent homicide, and that classes would be cancelled on Monday.
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