According to a relative, the ex-boyfriend of one of the victims in the Idaho student killings is devastated that “half of America” believes he killed the “love of his life” and three of her friends.
Just three weeks before to the bizarre triple homicide, the victim Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and her five-year partner Jack DuCoeur, 22, split up.
Police ruled DuCoeur out shortly after the massacre on November 13, but he has since been the target of “ridiculous conspiracies,” according to his aunt Brooke Miller.
Steve and Kristi Goncalves, Jack’s parents, have also stated that they support him “100%.”
We all know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there’s no way that Jack would ever do anything like that to anyone, Miller said in response to online rumours that her nephew was responsible for the killings.
She claimed that DeCoeur is having difficulty considering going back to school.
Her remarks came after an ex-tenant said the victims of the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students may have heard the murderer enter the home because every footstep can be heard in the “creaky, ancient” building.
There are two bedrooms and a bathroom on each floor. Alteneder, who received his degree in 2022, resided in a room on the home’s second level, immediately above a room on the first floor.
On Friday, he explained how residents could practically hear one another’s footsteps across the entire house.
In a series of interviews with Fox News and other media sources, Alteneder, who resided at the property during his junior year, described it as “a very creaky, ancient house.” “On every floor, you can hear the footfall.”
‘It’s hard for him to think about going back to Moscow because his life there was very involved with Kaylee’s,’ she said.
Miller is behind a GiveSendGo fundraiser to collect $20,000 to help the Goncalves family fund a private investigator and legal team to help solve the case.
‘The very last thing that this family wants to happen is for it to become a cold case,’ she told the Post.
He added to ABC News: ‘You can’t walk up any of the stairs or on any of the floors without everybody in the house knowing it.’
Alteneder – a former track standout at the school who lived on the floor where college lovers Chapin and Kernodle, both 20, were found – went on to recall how when he lived there, his roommates below him could hear virtually everything he did in his room.
‘The person who lived below me always said he could hear me walking around,’ Alteneder told Fox News. ‘I had a desk and a rolling chair, and he could hear that roll around.’
He added the home – set in a cul-de-sac called ‘fratlantis’ by students due to its proximity to fraternity row – also boasted poor insulation a ventilation system that allowed tenants to ‘hear everybody talking throughout the house.’
He claimed that he and his roommates had become accustomed to the noises and had eventually developed a filter.
Alteneder stated that the residence was affected by the neighborhood’s “extremely lively party life.”
He noted that “a lot of students are extremely comfortable with the inside of the home.” ‘At parties, people would hop the fence and just, like, walk away if the cops came.’
In response to public outcry over a lack of results in their investigation, police recently released some details offering insight into the final movements of the victims on the night of the slayings.
According to a police timeline of the event, they claimed that Goncalves and Mogen walked to a neighbourhood bar, stopped at a food truck, and then got a ride home with a private party at around 1.56am.
Meanwhile, Chapin and Kernodle were in the Sigma Chi residence a little distance away and arrived back in Kernodle’s room at 1.45 am, according to authorities.
Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke, two other housemates who are both 19 years old, were out that evening as well but arrived home by 1am, according to the police. That morning, they didn’t get up till later. They have said that on the murderous night, they did not hear anything unusual.
