Families of University of Idaho students who were murdered remember them at campus vigil

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The University of Idaho held a vigil at 5 p.m. Wednesday night for four students who were murdered in a nearby off-campus home earlier in November.

Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen were all found stabbed to death by a fixed-blade knife in a home on King Road on Sunday, Nov. 13. The three women lived in the house, while the parents of Chapin said that he was staying over that night with Kernodle, who was his girlfriend.

Chapin's mother and Goncalves' and Mogen's fathers spoke at the vigil which was held at an indoor arena on campus. Kernodle's family couldn't make it as they are preparing for her memorial service later this week.

Stacy Chapin expressed her condolences to the other families impacted and spoke about how the University of Idaho felt like the right fit for Ethan and his siblings, who are triplets, to begin the next phase of their lives.

She went on to say that she and the rest of Ethan's family are now turning their attention toward sharing his legacy and talking about the impact he made in his short 20 years.

She said her main message was to urge all present to spend time with their loved ones.

"We are eternally grateful that we spent so much time with him," Stacy Chapin said. "Make sure that you spend as much time as possible with those people, because time is precious, and it's something you can't get back."

Kaylee's father, Steven Goncalves, spoke about how having her as a daughter made him see the world through her eyes.

"You start falling in love with this world they built, you see this world and it changes, you start seeing the beauty of what they have and what makes them special," he said. "That's the world as I see it now, and I never want to see it any other way."

Steven Goncalves also spoke about Kaylee and Madison's close friendship, saying they met in a charter school in the sixth grade and went on to convince their parents to allow them to attend a public high school together, later deciding to attend the University of Idaho together as well. He also said the fact that they were together when they died brought him comfort.

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mindhunter 101: the killer will almost always be present at the vigil

BrianGonsr
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0:39 you got the guy with the camera in the middle of the screen, and if you look between the field goal post, you also have a camera pointing down… I would bet that that camera has a wide lens, and could be remote controlled by the FBI to record peoples faces, look around, etc. This event for sure is a memorial, but it could also have been an idea put together by the police and FBI to help solve the case. I know that sounds crazy, but I wouldn’t be shocked.

RIGiantsGuy
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I went to college in a 25k pop town. With students in session we added 40k to the population. My heart breaks for all of them.

annem
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I'm still unclear on why it took the roommates 8 hours to call 911.

phillipkalaveras
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Imagine the thought that the killer is there with an environmentally friendly candle in his hands.

lanceroark
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I would feel safe in class, but come nightfall....I wouldn't be able to sleep.

Emy
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There's not that many people in attendance for a quadruple murder.

Crosstracy
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I hope they find the murderer.. its such a shocking sad incident

reenasrivastava
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It was somebody thats into killing beautiful wild like like Cougars, Grizzlies, Moose, Elk etc this person loves to kill animals. Its a man into wearing camoflouge.

ryuaghhdukeit
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I feel so bad for the families that lost their loved ones but if this was 4 minority kids we would have never heard anything about it just saying thousands of black and brown kids are murdered or come up missing every day and don’t get this kind of coverage so I’m very sorry for the loss of life especially young adults. But I’m sick of seeing this

wachew
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See how you don’t need a gun to kill a lot of people, also the guy got away are we gonna start putting background checks on knifes ?

mrbigs
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Land of the wicked not only they killing Innocents overseas now they are turning on each other's keep it up lovely news.

LeCobra.