Interview with Kaylee's Dad, Sister and Brother.
Reporter - How you guys doing?.
Dad - It's not real yet, I'm a bit in denial. I'm hoping for justice, that's why I'm trying to switch myself into that mode, to trying to find justice, that's where I'm at.
Reporter - I get it, S, A?.
Brother - I just know my sister, she was a hard worker and just sitting in my bed and crying myself to sleep isn't going to do her any justice, and that's not what she'd want me to do. She'd want me to stay active and doing what I can to spread her message and hope that we can find this suspect or suspects and that's how I feel.
Reporter - I get it, I get it. She's got a great smile, we'll keep showing that picture. I know your family's been frustrated with the investigation so far. Understandably so. Here we are a week out and really not much information about this, does not appear to be a suspect. Tell me, A, what specifically you've been frustrated with?. Because you did your own work here, for instance, you found video of the food truck, for example, where two of the victims were seen the same night as this killing.
Sister - Yeah, I would say I think that, obviously, this is extremely person for us and we treated it that way from the very get go. I know how valuable those first 48, 72 hrs. are and I can only hope that the police also know how valuable that is, and that they have a lot of information there that just isn't public right now. I will say the one lingering frustration I have, is the timeline. I know it's semantics but my sister's got home at 1:56, it wasn't 1:45. I know it might not seem significant but when we're looking for camera, when we're looking for dash footage, when we're looking for any of those things, I do feel that it is valuable and they did get home at 1:56, it was not 1:45.
Reporter - Right, there's one detail there. Kaylee's mother has said she believes that the suspect, the killer, is someone Kaylee knew very well and that the killer might even be at the vigil. Remarkable, I wonder, S, do you share that view?
Dad - It's speculation. My daughter was very popular. It seemed like everyone that I talked to said she knew everyone. They had parties, they were college kids. They were about to graduate. Somebody could've partied in the house and got an idea or had the confidence to pull that off.
Reporter - This question of a stalker and I'm very conscious with this story of how many rumours have been circulating and a lot of those rumours turn out not to be true but, S, this discussion of the possibility she may have had a stalker - have police been able to stand that up or not?. They seem to be knocking that down.
Sister - Yeah, it seems to be knocked down. Obviously, any of that information would be new to us as well. Kaylee facetimed me, she didn't call of text, she facetimed me for literally hours, almost every single day. And she was extremely cautious, she was very vigilant. I think that if she really would've noticed something, then she would have said it to us. She wasn't scared for us to be involved in her life in any capacity like that.
Reporter - I know you're frustrated with how much and how information developments in the investigation are being shared with the public. Are they sharing anything with you that they're not sharing publicly, in light of the fact that this was your sister, this was your daughter?.
Dad - I'm not getting anything. They're not sharing much with me. I know that there's a separation in duties there. They do have the FBI now, so I don't know how much the individuals that I'm talking with, which are the local, are actually exercising their different jurisdictions. I think they might not know a lot because they have briefings and if they haven't had a briefing they probably don't know exactly what's going on.
Reporter - Are they contacting you at all?. Are they keeping you updated, more so than they are than on the website or with these press briefings?
Dad - To be honest, they're not. Yesterday, I asked about the stalker question and they couldn't confirm anything and then today I hear they're reaching out to the community saying that there's a stalker involved. So, I don't know what to make of that.
Brother - They're just so vague with everything that they say and then they slowly peel back layer into layer until you find the real story. It all started with a sharp edged weapon. What was the use in telling the community that a sharp edged weapon was used, instead of just coming out and telling us that it was a knife from the beginning?. I don't understand the purpose of being so vague. You're not holding the integrity of the case together by not telling anybody, anything.
Reporter - I understand you have frustrations for how police and investigators have handled the crime scene. What are those frustrations specifically?.
Dad - They expanded it and there was volunteers that walked around and they disclosed that they were looking and found different things. So, you know, they did share with me that that may have more to do with keeping cameras out than it actually does with evidence gathering. So, I hope that that is indeed the case, because it would be pretty disheartening, a week later, to know that they didn't have the right crime scene.
Reporter - The mother of one of the surviving roommates, reminding our viewers, there were two roommates who were upstairs and survived this, told a reporter that those roommates heard something, heard something that night. Have you been told?. Have you heard from sharing with other relatives of the other victims what that was exactly?.
Sister - No, I would say for us that, we did hear those rumours but, right now, we can only leave it at that. None of that has ever been confirmed to us.
Brother - We haven't spoken to the roommates, surviving roommates. And they were downstairs, just to clarify that for you, sir.
Reporter - Ok, downstairs right?. On a different floor from where, it appears, where the murders took place. One consistent thing, and granted there's been some changes as you know, in how the police have described this, one consistent descriptor has been that the attack was targeted. Do you know if police believe one person in the house was the target of this attack or all four?.
Dad - I've been told it's one, but then again there's the vagueness. It's like purposefully vague, I'm hoping, but it confuses everyone because nobody knows what that really means. Other than, maybe, somebody had a different kind of attack, footprint. So, I feel like we just want some more... we all want to play a part in helping and we can't play a part if we don't have any real substantial information to work from.
Reporter - Yeah, I get it, you want to help. I mean, A, you found video that has been helpful in this investigation. I'm sure you do want to help. Has anyone indicated to you that if it was indeed one person targeted - Was Kaylee the target?. Has anybody shared that with you?.
Sister - They won't confirm who that was to us.
Dad - I heard the rumours that that's the case, but it's just a rumour at this point.
Brother - Tons and tons of rumours but nothing from the police.
Sister - And honestly, I think a lot of those rumours stem from all of the vagueness and it's human nature to want answers. It's human nature to, kind of, put forth a theory so that it can.. you can even comprehend it in your brain and so I think that's how we're getting some of these really, really off the wall theories and some of these theories like - Kaylee had a stalker that even we're sitting here, scratching our heads saying 'no, it couldn't be'. If it was it would be news to us.
Reporter - I am sure it is frustrating. Your family has been very outspoken in support of J, he's Kaylee's ex-boyfriend and on the Moscow Police website though, he is not listed, notably, as someone who's been cleared in the investigation. To your knowledge, is that significant?.
Sister - No. I don't personally think so, because I think that there's the entire rest of the world that's also not on that list of people who've been cleared, including Maddie's boyfriend, including any associates of Xana or Ethan, that might not be involved. I don't find that significant at all.
Reporter - And there were a number of phone calls to him that night, and you say that would have been typical behaviour for Kaylee, that she often would call friends, folks, you know, for a whole bunch of things.
Sister - At any time, yeah, multiple times until I would pick up at 3 am. and be like 'Kaylee, what?'.
Dad - And some of the last footage of her, at that food truck, she's on her phone 24/7 filming the whole thing. So, she lived on that phone.
Reporter - It sounds like you're saying here that the delays in sharing Information, the delays in.. well frankly, making more progress on the investigation mean the police have lost their best opportunity, right?. I think, A, you were saying that those early hours and days are key. That's when you can make real progress. Do you believe that they've missed their best chance here or may have?.
Brother - Not only is that not a matter of opinion, that's a matter of fact. If you look statistically at homicide cases, those first ten days are so incredibly important in finding a suspect. They determine, almost nine out of 10 times, I believe it was, (inaudible) they find a suspect. So yeah, that's not very encouraging to hear that they want to cast this wide net of suspects now and people we know have no involvement.
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