Idaho police hit with deluge of tips about Hyundai Elantra, now forwarding calls to FBI call center

The Moscow Police Department has been flooded with tips and leads over the past 24 hours about a white 2011-2013 Hyundai Elantra that was in the "immediate area" of the home where four University of Idaho students were murdered last month. 

Calls to the tipline will now go to an FBI call center better equipped to deal with the volume of information. 

"The global call center has the resources to take those calls, categorize them, and send them on to investigators so they can utilize those tips in the investigation," the Moscow Police Department said Thursday. 

Police first announced that they want to find the vehicle on Wednesday, saying that the occupant or occupants may have "critical information" about the murders. 

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The license plate on the car is unknown and authorities have only said that "tips and leads" led them to the vehicle. 

As the investigation into the quadruple homicide closes in on one month, police still haven't identified a suspect or located a murder weapon. 

Authorities believe that Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, were stabbed to death some time between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m. on Nov. 13. 

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The four victims had returned to their three-story residence just blocks from campus shortly before 2:00 a.m., according to police. 

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Iowa police say 'no evidence' found after excavation at alleged site where rumored serial killer dumped bodies

Iowa police say that no evidence was found at the location where officials excavated land after a woman alleged that her father murdered up to 70 women and forced his kids to help move the bodies.

Lucy Studey McKiddy, the daughter of Donald Dean Studey, has previously told officials that her father killed many women, according to WHO-13.

On Wednesday, officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fremont Sheriff's Office, and Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation went to the Thurman, Iowa property where Donald Dean Studey lived and excavated land to search for possible shallow grave sites, Newsweek reported. Law enforcement has previously excavated land in relation to Lucy Studey McKiddy's allegations.

According to the report, the law enforcement agencies brought heavy equipment to the property.

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The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation said in a Thursday press release that no evidence was found.

"Over the past three days, state, local, and federal law enforcement assisted with an investigation in Fremont County. Authorities brought in an array of experts representing several disciplines and significant assets to excavate, collect and examine soil samples from a site identified by a reporting party. After exhaustive efforts, no evidence or other items of concern were recovered," the press release states.

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Lucy Studey McKiddy previously told Newsweek that she has reported her allegations many times.

"I've talked to the FBI several times over the past decades - why didn't they do something then, when he was alive?" she said. "I look forward to the authorities digging up the bodies, identifying the people, giving their families closure and the victims a proper burial."

Fremont County Deputy Sheriff Tim Bothwell told WHO-13 that a previous excavation cost the county over $300,000.

"[Lucy] told us in 2007, and we went out and there was only one well on the property that we could see, we didn’t realize that it was on other people’s property," Bothwell said.

Fox News' Pilar Arias and Stephanie Pagones contributed to this report.