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Cara Denise Northington, the mother of murder victim Xana Kernodle, told NewsNation by phone that her daughter’s father fixed the locks on his house before the murder.
Speaking to TV presenter Ashley Banfield, Ms. Northington said she believed her daughter’s bedroom door was locked and that Jeff Kernodle went to the Moscow, Idaho home to fix the lock a week before Xana’s death.
Ms. Banfield also reported that the former tenant told Fox Digital that he has a combination lock on his bedroom door in the house – as he does in every bedroom in the house.
However, a recent photo posted to social media shows that there was a handle on the bedroom door in the second-floor bedroom, but it was not a combination lock, Banfield said.
Speaking to Banfield, Ms Northington also expressed dismay at the police investigation, noting that she gets more information from the news than from the authorities.
The heartbroken mother said she and her family have been together since 20-year-old Xana, 20-year-old boyfriend Ethan Chapin and their roommates Kaylie Gonsalves and Madison Mogen, who are also 21, were found dead on November 13. The family was in shock.
It’s been three weeks since four University of Idaho students were found murdered in their off-campus home, and police still haven’t identified the suspects.
Moscow police said on Saturday they had received more than 2,645 emails, 2,770 phone calls, 1,084 digital media pieces and 4,000 crime scene photos.
Two surviving roommates, Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funk, who slept on the first floor of the house, made their first public statements about the murder.
Police have discovered for the first time that a sixth person may have lived in the house where the student was killed.
“Detectives are aware of a sixth individual named on the residential lease, but do not believe the individual was present at the time of the incident,” the agency said on Thursday.
Now, 21 days after the investigation began, the killer is still at large, and detectives are completing their work at the crime scene.
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