Yoga Instructor who accused Maroon 5s Adam Levine of flirtatious DMs says the University of Idaho murder case is ‘eerily similar’ to the brutal 1992 ‘beating and rape’ of her sorority sister roommate in Buffalo
- Alanna Zabel, 50, who made headlines in September when she called out Adam Levine, says seeing reports of the slayings has reignited horrific memories
- Idaho victims Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20 and Ethan Chapin, 20, were stabbed to death in Moscow, Idaho, November 13
- Three instances in the Buffalo 1992 attack appear to mirror the circumstances surrounding the Idaho murder – as authorities slowly release details of the case
- Two roommates were also in the basement asleep, a 911 call wasn’t made for hours, and the calls to cops weren’t made about possible murder victims
- Years later, Curtis A. Croskery was charged with the rape and attempted murder of the roommate after his DNA matched a sample found on the victim
- Officials say the quadruple Idaho stabbing was a ‘targeted’ attack, but two and a half weeks on from the tragic incident, police are yet to identify a suspect
A woman who found her sorority sister and college roommate covered in her own vomit and near to death in her blood soaked room said that the unsolved University of Idaho murder case is ‘eerily similar’ to the 1992 Buffalo attack.
Alanna Zabel, 50, made headlines in September when she accused Adam Levine of firing her after he allegedly sent her unwelcome flirtatious texts, which she hasn’t made public at this stage.
She now says seeing reports of the slayings has reignited horrific memories of her past – talking on behalf of some of the people involved in the incident.
Idaho victims Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20 and Ethan Chapin, 20, were stabbed to death while in bed at a house in Moscow, Idaho, in the early hours of November 13 by a silent killer who has seemingly vanished without a trace.
Zabel told Dailymail.com that the case was ‘eerily similar’ to something that happened to her and her roommates while she attended the University of Buffalo.
‘I lived in a house with 5 other sorority sisters off campus from the University at Buffalo and someone was stalking us and broke in one night while we were out partying and drinking late,’ she said.
‘They brutally beat and raped my housemate. I found her 6 hours later and she nearly died.’
Alanna Zabel, who found her sorority sister and college roommate near to death in her blood covered room said that the unsolved University of Idaho murder case is ‘eerily similar’ to the 1992 Buffalo attack
Idaho victims Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20 and Ethan Chapin, 20, were stabbed to death while in bed at a house in Moscow, Idaho on November 13
Emily (left) lived on the second level of the Buffalo home with Zabel (center), a girl named Keri and the victim, who remained nameless. While Kristin (right) lived in basement with another roommate named Donna
Similar to the Idaho case Zabel said that the perpetrator of the horrific 1992 attack appeared to vanish without a trace and it was years later he was identified and brought to justice.
‘It took years to find the perpetrator and was the first DNA conviction in Erie County,’ she said.
‘In the beginning we thought it had to be someone we knew, but it turned out that it wasn’t.’
The 50-year-old yoga instructor said she went into shock reading the gruesome details of the Idaho case.
‘It’s really upsetting [and] tragic to have such joy and youthful life doused out by evil,’ she said.
‘I feel for the surviving victims as I have carried this trauma with me the rest of my life. It really never goes away.’
In the 1992 case, Zabel and her roommates attended a Sigma Chi party – just as Kernodle and her boyfriend, Chapin, had the night before they were murdered.
Zabel said her group of friends had then split up in the early hours of September 5 with her sorority sister and the victim, ‘a gorgeous, strong, independent woman from Long Island,’ heading home first.
‘We were all drinking heavily,’ Zabel, who now lives in Santa Monica, California, said.
Goncalves and Mogen were found on the top floor in their beds. College lovers Chapin and Kernodle were found in a second floor bedroom while survivors Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke were sleeping on the first floor
Officials have insisted over the past month that the quadruple stabbing was a ‘targeted’ attack
Police are pictured here searching for evidence in the Idaho case through trash at a local refuse center. They have mostly finished investigating the crime scene
The first floor where the surviving roommates were sleeping sits below grade and opens onto a gravel parking lot in the front of the building (pictured)
The victim, who lived on the second floor with Zabel and two other roommates, agreed to let Zabel in when she arrived back home. The other two roommates on their floor slept elsewhere that night.
However, when Zabel reached the front door a little after 3 am, it was locked, and the victim did not answer her phone to let her in.
‘I was kicking and screaming but she didn’t let me in, she said.
‘We noticed that the bathroom window was open, which was odd, but again we were drunk so didn’t think much of it.’
Zabel proceeded to climb through an open bathroom window, dusting off fingerprints with her dress, then called to the victim from outside her door.
‘I heard heavy breathing and thought she might be in there with her boyfriend,’ she said.
‘I heard and felt someone in my room and lifted my head but no one was there.
‘Seconds later the front door closed to the house and I assumed someone had arrived home.
‘We [now] know that this was when the perpetrator actually left the house, and likely mistook my bedroom as the exit.’
The next morning at around 9 am, Zabel entered the victim’s room to ask her to move her car and said that she had been overpowered by the stench of vomit.
‘I didn’t see any blood at first, even though the room was covered in it,’ she said.
‘I only saw liquid, her hair caked on her face, tongue sticking through her teeth.
‘I called 911 to report my housemate unconscious and assumed she had choked on her vomit from drinking too much. I then called [her] parents.’
It was only when the paramedics arrived and commented on the amount of blood in the room that Zabel noticed the room covered with it.
‘The psychologist said it was a protective mechanism. The wall had what looked like red broom marks,’ she told Fox News, in a separate interview.
‘[The victim’s] hair was soaked in blood, so was the bed and the floor. They think he used a hammer.’
Dylan Mortensen (left) and Bethany Funke (middle) lived in the modest Moscow rental house with fellow University of Idaho students Xana Kernodle (second from left) Kaylee Goncalves (second from right) and Madison Mogen (right) but survived the attack. They have been ruled out as suspects
Students have started to return to the University of Idaho, where a memorial has been set up for the college students following a Thanksgiving break
The two roommates in the basement slept through the horrific assault, a 911 call wasn’t made for hours, and police received a call for an unconscious person rather than possible murder victim, three instances which mirror the Idaho case.
Investigators in the Buffalo case and the roommates were certain the assailant had been someone they had met.
‘We always assumed it was a fraternity brother. We couldn’t get out of the box of thinking it was someone we knew,’ Zabel she told Fox News.
Years later, Curtis A. Croskery was charged with the rape and attempted murder of the roommate after his DNA matched a sample from a vaginal swab and from some left on her sock, according to Buffalo News.
Investigators believe that he had crawled through the same bathroom window that Zabel had used to get in that night.
Croskery, then 25, had already been convicted of raping two other women in Buffalo when he went to trial in 1996 for the attack on the college student.
Zabel said none of the other victims were known to her or her housemates.
Her housemate, Croskery’s victim, was in a coma for months and suffered permanent brain damage – she to this day has no memory of the attack.
‘We moved right away. Never felt safe again, frankly. Still triggered by feeling secure in my home,’ she told Dailymail.com
‘I am hyper vigilant of safety in my home and at my business.’
In the interview with Dailymail.com she added that the trauma of finding her roommate brutalized has stayed with her.
‘[My advice to the Idaho survivors is] take time to heal,’ she said.
‘Take time to celebrate your friend’s lives, know that none of this is your fault in any way whatsoever. Have compassion for yourself.’
Goncalves, Mogen, Kernodle and Chapin’s blood-soaked bodies were found by cops just before noon after Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke – two housemates who survived the slayings – awoke around 11am to find their friends dead.
The savage killings have stunned Moscow – a small college town with a population of just 26,000 – that had not seen a murder since 2015.
Officials have insisted the quadruple stabbing was a ‘targeted’ attack, but two and a half weeks on from the tragic incident police are still yet to identify a suspect, and despite claiming the murder weapon was likely a large military-style knife, have not turned up any leads.
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