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‘THEY DIED TOGETHER’: Two murdered Idaho students killed in same bed

BEST PALS: Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen were murdered alongside two friends in a shocking quadruple murder in Idaho.
BEST PALS: Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen were murdered alongside two friends in a shocking quadruple murder in Idaho. Photo by MADDIE MOGEN /INSTAGRAM

The devastated father of one of the University of Idaho victims revealed she died in the same bed as her longtime best friend.

Kaylee Goncalves’ father, Steve, made the revelation during a candlelight vigil Wednesday night about his daughter and Madison Mogen.

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“These girls were absolutely beautiful. They’ve been best friends since sixth grade,” he said to the crowd that gathered to pay their respects.

“Every day they did homework together, they came to our house together, they shared everything,” he added, according to the Associated Press.

He explained they also attended the same high school and looked into colleges together, decided on Idaho and chose to live together.

“And in the end, they died together, in the same room, in the same bed,” he detailed.

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He added: “The beauty of the two always being together is something that will — it comforts us, it lets us know that they were with their best friends in the whole world.”

Mogen’s father, Ben, told the crowd she was his only child, so “everything she ever did was such a big deal,” and he took great pride talking about her.

“When I would meet people ever since she was first born, and they would say, ‘Tell me about yourself,’ the first thing I would say is, ‘I have this daughter — here’s a picture of her, she’s on the dean’s list at college, she works hard, she has all these friends at her sorority,’” Mogen said.

While Xana Kernodle’s loved ones were unable to attend the vigil, but her boyfriend Ethan Chapin’s family – his parents and Ethan’s triplet brother and sister – were there.

This July 2022 photo provided by Jazzmin Kernodle shows University of Idaho students Xana Kernodle, right, and Ethan Chapin on a boat on Priest Lake, in Idaho. (Jazzmin Kernodle via AP)
This July 2022 photo provided by Jazzmin Kernodle shows University of Idaho students Xana Kernodle, right, and Ethan Chapin on a boat on Priest Lake, in Idaho. (Jazzmin Kernodle via AP) Photo by Jazzmin Kernodle via AP

All three Chapin kids chose the University of Idaho because they wanted a small town and a beautiful campus with a thriving Greek system, according to their mom Stacy.

“That’s the most important message we have for you and your families — it’s 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,” she said.

The latest update from the Moscow Police Department is that they are “aware of a sixth person listed on the lease” of the home where the students were killed but “do not believe that individual was present during the incident.”

They added that they continue to believe it was a “targeted attack, but investigators have not concluded if the target was the residence or if it was the occupants.”

Goncalves vowed to get justice for his Kaylee, Madison, Xana and Ethan, the Independent reported.

“We’re gonna get our justice, we’re gonna figure this stuff out. This community deserves that.”

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