Ms. Quesnell said she and Ms. Goncalves, who was set to graduate early in December, had planned to move to Austin, Texas, together in June. The plan was for Ms. Quesnell to teach elementary school and Ms. Goncalves to work for a marketing firm that had offered her an internship. Both women had grown up in Idaho and yearned to see more of the country, Ms. Quesnell said, and they spent weeks trying to choose a city to move to, eyeing San Diego, Boston and Charlotte, N.C., before settling on Austin.
“Neither of us could decide because we just knew we wanted to get out and see the world,” Ms. Quesnell said. “At one point we joked about moving to Greece. We were just down for anything.
“We wanted that adventure: I would be like, ‘Let’s go do this,’ and she’d be like, ‘Down!’” Ms. Quesnell said.
Jazzmin Kernodle, the older sister of another victim, Xana Kernodle, was likewise left in the dark by the killings and the lack of information. She said in a text message on Monday night that she and her family were “confused and anxiously waiting” for updates on the investigation.
“They haven’t told us much, other than it was a homicide,” she said of the police.
Ms. Kernodle said that the three other victims had been great friends to her sister and that her sister had been dating Mr. Chapin since the spring semester. Xana was “lucky to have them in her life,” she said.
She added that her sister, who was majoring in marketing and was a member of Pi Beta Phi, was “so positive, funny, and was loved by everyone who met her.”
“She made me such a proud big sister, and I wish I could have had more time with her,” Ms. Kernodle said. “She had so much life left to live.”
