Is Kaylee Goncalves Former BF Jack DuCoeur being Persecuted?

 

On the day before Christmas, the New  York Post published this story:  Vilified ex-boyfriend of slain Idaho student Kaylee Goncalves is devastated: family .  The “vilified” ex-boyfriend mentioned here is Jack DuCoeur, a young man and University of Idaho student who lives now with his parents in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho. 

The article addresses concerns of his family through the voice of his aunt, Brooke Miller, who describes DuCoeur as a devastated innocent who has lost the love of his life.  This needed to be said, in the interest of fairness, and in the context of presumed innocence.

It is wise to protect the innocent from false accusations. However, suspicions of Jack DuCoeur, in the context of his relationships, are inevitable. In fact, he’s not the only one hurt by unfair insinuations of guilt. The attention focused on the case is   immense.  Few people have been spared from suspicion of committing the murder or assisting.

 One Inan Harsh, a garrulous restaurant chef, is but one example.  One Jack Showalter is another. The driver who drove Kaylee and Madison home was suspected.  Fanciful 'suspects' seem to crop up everywhere.  In one of the most egregious  examples, even the two women who lived on the first floor have been suspected of participating in the murders.  

They too must be “devastated.” Some reports have them traumatized from discovering the crime.    Rampant speculation about the murders has also suggested serial killers, cult killers, boastful fraternity bros, and even a parent or two. 

  No one is safe from suspicion of murder in this case, a condition that creates massive problems for police who have to sift through a massive adulterated crime scene to separate DNA, thousands of tips, conduct hundreds of interviews, and who knows what else.

Yet the slaughter of four young people at the dawn of their lives is an occurrence so horrible that wounded feelings must be secondary to the task of finding the killer(s) and making him/them pay.  I don’t think Jack DuCoeur has been any more the subject of suspicion than others.

Quite the contrary. Even alternative media has been largely silent about him. There has been little mention of where he lived and what he was doing the morning of the murders, except to say he was playing video games and then fell asleep.  

Similarly, there is no mention of how and when Murphy (the dog) went from the apartment in the video of Adam L. (cleared by police) and dog Murphy (cleared by police) (and some have conjectured that DuCoeur lived there too) to the murder victims’ house.

Much of the suspicion stems from the end of his his long-term relationship with Kaylee Goncalves. This is not unusual. Close family members and friends are first to be interviewed in many murder cases.  Too, some suspicions arise from the vagaries of police public statements. 

Some of the principals in this nightmare of a case have been ruled out definitively, others less clearly.  With regard to Jack DuCoeur, the   New York Post story mentioned above quotes a  Facebook post by Moscow police:  “Detectives do not believe the male Kaylee and Madison attempted to contact numerous times on November 13th is involved in this crime.”  

The  ‘male’ in the Facebook post is said by Kaylee’s sister Alivea to be “Jack.”