Karen Laramie, mother of slain University of Idaho student Madison Mogen, shared her first public comments since the 2022 quadruple homicide. She spoke about the enduring impact of her daughter's death and the strength she finds in faith.
University of Idaho murder victim Madison Mogen 's mother spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday since the quadruple homicide in 2022. Mogen, 21, and three other students, including her 21-year-old best friend, Kaylee Goncalves; their roommate, 20-year-old Xana Kernodle; and Kernodle's 20-year-old boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, were stabbed to death in their house just steps from the U of I campus on Nov. 13, 2022.
'It's real, but I know where the girls are, and faith is really the basis of how you get up every morning when you have a loss this deep,' Karen Laramie, Mogen's mother, told the 'TODAY' show on Wednesday when asked if the gravity of her daughter's death two years ago feels 'real.' She described the 21-year-old as 'a joy' in her younger years and a genuinely kind person as she grew into adulthood. 'We never had slammed doors in our house. … There was one string cheese fight one time when she was eight because she wouldn't eat dinner. She would snack, snack, snack,' Laramie recalled. 'And I said, ‘Honey, no, you cannot have string cheese because I’m making dinner.' And she slammed it on the counter and marched to her room, and my husband Scott and I looked at each other like, ‘What just happened there?’ That was so out of character.' 'She just had that genuine love that's just impossible to describe.' She recalled another time when Mogen called her cousin on Veterans Day to thank him for his servic
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