Cab Driver Who Took Slain Idaho Students Home On Night of Murders, Reveals What They Talked About…

This story about the cabbie who drove the girls home doesn’t offer any insight whatsoever into the case, which is still unsolved, but it does add such a human touch to the story, and that’s so important, especially when, as time goes on, the actual “victims” can get so lost in the all the hype, conspiracies, and sensationalism of the case. And what we discover with this story, is that two of the girls, Maddie and Kaylee, didn’t have a care in the world. They weren’t fearful, or paranoid… They were actually anxious to get home and eat pasta.

The New York Post reported that a taxi driver who took University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen home on the night of the grisly murders said the girls were “super excited” about going home to chow down on mac and cheese — as he opened up about how the unsolved slayings have “weighed” on him.

Speaking to the Daily Mail this week on condition of anonymity, the cabbie said he was likely one of the last people to see Goncalves and Mogen, both 21, alive before they were slaughtered along with their roommate Xana Kernodle and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, both 20, on Nov. 13.

“It’s weighed on me,” the driver told the news site.

“I’ve replayed that night a million times over trying to think if there was some sign or some detail that something was amiss but there was nothing,” he continued.

“It’s not lost on me that my job was to get these girls home safe but that didn’t really help this time.”

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The driver who took Goncalves and Mogen home said he picked them up between 1:40 and 1:45 a.m. from outside the Grub Truck food truck, where they bought pasta dinners.

“They had their food, and they were super excited about their mac and cheese as girls are after they go to the club,” he recalled.

The cabbie said the two friends sat in the back and chatted, but never mentioned anyone named “Adam,” who was invoked in a surveillance video earlier in the night featuring one of the girls.

“They were normal just like any other night. They weren’t upset about anything or talking about anyone,” the taxi driver noted. “There was no nervousness about them. They weren’t afraid of anybody. There was nobody following them or following us.”

The driver recalled that he let Goncalves and Mogen out of the car on the street outside their home, rather than in the driveway, and left without waiting for them to enter the residence.

The unnamed driver said when he learned the identities of the butchered college students, he went straight to the police and handed over his digital data and a time-stamped receipt from the Taco Bell where he headed after dropping the students off at home.

Reflecting on the multi-agency investigation, which so far has very little to show for it, the driver said that many people in the Moscow community have lost faith in the police and feel like they are not doing enough to catch the killer.

Those poor girls had no clue what was waiting for them in their homes in just a few hours.

Let’s just pray the cops get a break and solve this case before it goes completely and totally cold.