The father of University of Idaho student Madison Mogen, who was killed, is confident that the person responsible for killing his daughter and three of her classmates will be apprehended.
Ben Mogen told the Spokesman-Review that despite the fact that six weeks have passed since the gruesome quadruple homicide, the Moscow, Idaho police, FBI, and state troopers have yet to identify any suspects or provide solid working leads, he maintains confident in their ability to solve the case.
“From the very beginning, I’ve known people don’t get away with these things these days,” the grieving dad said of the brutal early morning stabbings that took place on Nov. 13.
“There’s too many things that you can get caught up on, like DNA and videos everywhere,” he said, even though so far such a clue does not appear to have been found.
“This isn’t something that people get away with, that goes unsolved,” he told the Idaho newspaper.
However, Mogen claimed that it has been agonisingly painful to wait this long for a breakthrough since his daughter, age 21, along with her best friend Kaylee Goncalves, age 21, her flatmate Xana Kernodle, age 20, and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, age 20, were stabbed.
“There were so many questions I figured would be answered, and we’re still waiting,” Mogen told the paper.
Mogen was very complimentary of the daily check-ins he receives from authorities, in contrast to Goncalves’ father, who has frequently criticised the police inquiry and the paucity of updates.
Considering that the inquiry is being led by the small-town Moscow force, which has support from state and federal organisations, he continues to have faith in it.
Mogen said of the detectives, “I simply have to trust that they know what they’re doing, and if they don’t, then they know someone that does.
Having information from official sources also helps him stay away from the ill-informed guesswork of online sleuths.
“I can get all my news about it right from [the investigators], and I don’t have to try and drudge through all this misinformation,” he said.
“I just have to take the higher road on that kind of stuff or else it will be damaging to my well-being; I mean, it’s hard enough as it is,” Mogen said. “I’m just trying to get through these days one at a time.”
When Mogen learned of his daughter’s passing, both his mother and his daughter’s mother, Karen Laramie, tried to contact him at the same moment while he was watching a movie.
