Slain Idaho students honored during a vigil, killer still at large | USA TODAY

A vigil was held at the University of Idaho to honor murdered students Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves and Xana Kernodle.

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Four University of Idaho students killed in their sleep were remembered Wednesday as both snow and tears fell on a campus that remains stunned over the brutal unsolved murders.

Hundreds of students and local community members came for the candle lighting and memorial service at an indoor football field, many holding electric candles and lights from their cell phones in high-tech remembrance of the slain students. The deaths of Ethan Chapin, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20, have struck a chord of fear and mystery not just at the remote university in picturesque Idaho, but throughout the nation.

"Ethan, Xana, Maddie and Kaylee came to the University of Idaho and found their place… They were brimming with promise and poised to make their mark on the world outside of Moscow," Scott Green, president of the University of Idaho, said at the vigil. "During the time at the University of Idaho, they fully embraced what it means to be Vandals… May we find peace as we honor their lives."

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32 comments

    1. @SHADOWbandolier I feel bad that it happened but I’m more sad of our world nowadays. Everything’s to fast pace now and we hear too much of this crap now and it makes me sick.

  1. So sad how this happened, I fear for my grandkids every day all ten of them. God Bless these kids and family.

    1. Antifa is too busy protecting groomers. And beating up old people, and harrasing conservatives like the little simps they are.

  2. My hunch is this person responsible for this tragedy, is an outdoorsman type. With a murderous, survivalist personality. Why else would you use the kind of weapon he used?!

  3. Heartbreaking and tragic. My heart goes out to these families and all people who have lost someone in such a tragic and sudden way. It’s just not fair that these lives were stolen at the hands of someone else. It’s also very scary and sad that there are still no suspects.. what a strange and terrible crime! I have faith that the killer(s) will be brought to justice. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not from a month from now, it may take years… but killers can’t hide for long in this day and age!! Look at the Delphi murders, they just made an arrest 5 years later. There are cases being solved 50 years on… I hope these families never give up hope that their children’s murderer will be brought to justice. Thinking of everyone affected by this tragedy at this time!!!

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