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Dad of student murdered with three friends in bloodbath believes they WERE targeted

The dad of a student stabbed to death with her three friends believes they were targeted.

Steven Goncalves, dad of 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves, said his University of Idaho student daughter was killed in the brutal attack because she was on the top floor and in the same bed as Madison Mogen, 21.

The heartbroken dad believes the killer had to go out their way to find the pair as their rooms were located at the top of the house - which wasn't near the house's entrance.

Moscow police initially believed one or two of the students had been targeted but officials have since withdrawn the comments - after they admitted they were unsure if the home itself was targeted or the victims.

Madison Mogen, left, and Kaylee were sleeping on the top floor when the attack happened (instagram)

Mr Goncalves told Fox and Friends the room where his daughter and Madison had been sleeping was well out of the killer's entry point.

He said: "I'm not a professional, so I want to specify that, but they've said the entry point was the slider or the window. It was the middle floor. So, to me, he doesn't have to go upstairs.

"His entry and exit are available without having to go upstairs or downstairs.

"Looks like he probably may have not gone downstairs. We don't know that for sure, but he obviously went upstairs. So I'm using logic that he chose to go up there when he didn't have to.'

Mr Goncalves believes the killer had to go out their way to find the pair (Fox News)

"So, I'm just putting the dots together. As far as the investigators, they're very tight-lipped, and they're keeping everything close to their vest, and I understand that, and I'm probably not the right person to share all these things with.

"So, I'm just trusting that their case is super tight, and they don't really need to reach out to the community, and all the evidence is right there in that home."

Police believe the murderer gained access to the home through a sliding glass door on the second floor, which was level with the garden.

There were two other roommates in the house who escaped unharmed after they were sleeping on the first floor.

The four murdered students - Madison, 21, top left, Kaylee, 21, bottom left, Ethan Chapin, 20, centre, and Xana Kernodle, 20, right (Instagram)

Mr Goncalves said that, although his daughter and Madison were sleeping in the same bed, their cause of death does not match.

He said: "Their points of damage don't match. I'm just going to say it. It wasn't leaked to me. I earned that. I paid for that funeral. I sent my daughter to college. She came back in a box, and I can speak on that."

Kaylee, Madison, their roommate Xana Kernodle, 20, and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, 20, were stabbed to death on November 13.

Despite more than three weeks since the horrific stabbings police still have no suspect or found the murder weapon.

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