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Man, 25, is arrested inScranton for gruesome stabbing death of four Idaho students in November

A college student has been arrested in connection with the quadruple murder

The 25-year-old was not a University of Idaho attendee

He was arrested in Scranton, Pennsylvania, by local cops and the FBI

By EMMA JAMES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 11:06 EST, 30 December 2022 | UPDATED: 11:36 EST, 30 December 2022

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A college student has been arrested for the murders of four University of Idaho students almost six weeks ago.

Four police sources have confirmed to NBC that a 25-year-old man has been arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with the deaths on November 13.

The man was taken into custody by local police in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and the FBI, according to Fox News.

Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20, were stabbed to death - with Xana's freshman boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20, also killed in the massacre.

It is understood that the suspect is a college student but does not attend the University of Idaho, according to police sources.

He appeared in court this morning, with Moscow Police confirming that they will be holding a press conference at 4pm EST.

A spokeswoman for the department declined to comment on the arrest when contacted by DailyMail.com.

Authorities have been left baffled by the brutal killings and have repeatedly appealed for the public for help with the case.

Reports from both coroner and police confirm that each of the students had been stabbed multiple times in the torso – and were ambushed in their sleep.

Police have found no evidence of a sex crime, and the victims had wounds on their bodies which indicated that they tried to fight of the attacker.

Initially cops said they thought all four were assaulted as they slept, with Goncalves father saying she had the worst injuries from the incident - suffering 'gouging wounds' and 'rips'.

The Chief of police at Moscow Police Department himself admitted that investigators did not understand how the two surviving roommates - Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen – appeared to sleep through the attack.

'Multiple people talked with the 911 dispatcher before a Moscow Police officer arrived at the location,' authorities said in a previous statement.

When they arrived at the scene, they said, they found Kernodle and Chapin, who were in a relationship, on the bottom floor, with Mogen and Goncalves sharing a bed on the top floor.

Authorities believe they were all stabbed to death somewhere between 3am to 4am that morning, after enjoying a night out.

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Police in Idaho have combed through nearly 20,000 tips and questioned 300 people about the murders of four college students last month.

Authorities are today clearing the property, but previously state that they do not know how long it will take to clean up the property – adding it will be 'returned to the property manager when complete.'

The update comes just days after Fry told KREM his investigators are still waiting for crime lab results from evidence collected at the scene.

'We don't want to rush that, we want to ensure that they're taking their time to get all of that right,' the police chief said in an interview Tuesday.

He added: 'Real life and the movies are a lot different. You know, in the movies, they have all [the results] back in an hour.

'We don't get that in real life, so we're going to be patient.'

It remains unclear whether any DNA was retrieved from the scene.

Earlier in the night, newly-released surveillance footage shows, Goncalves and Madison Mogen inside the Corner Club bar at 1.32am chatting with an unidentified man — wearing a baseball cap — minutes before they ran to pick up food.

The girls were seen with their backs turned to the surveillance camera inside the bar, which appeared to be filled with a mix of young and older adults.

The leaked surveillance photo was posted by former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer, who has dedicated her Twitter to the Idaho murder mystery.

She said she obtained the photo once it was made public, and posted it online to discourage leaking evidence in the unsolved mystery.

Authorities have previously said they were last spotted at a food truck at around 1.40am on November 13, before running to meet their ride home.

They returned to their off-campus house at 1.56am, at around the same time that Kernodle and Chapin returned from a fraternity house.

Their other housemates got back about 45 minutes earlier and were left unharmed in the attack.

Speaking to DailyMail.com in the aftermath, the man who drove them home said the community is now losing faith in the Moscow Police Department to solve the quadruple homicide.

'Most of us have very little faith in the MPD. We can't tell if we are watching qualified investigators who have a handle of the situation or if they are completely at a loss and grasping for straws.'

But Moscow police have denied that inexperienced officers – the lead investigator has only been a cop for two years – are hampering or have already botched the investigation.