Recent text conversations between the two remaining roommates involved in the tragic events in Idaho have been made public. This also includes a distressing 911 call placed when they found one of their friends unresponsive.
Known in legal documents only as DM and BF, the roommates were the sole survivors after four of their friends were tragically killed during a home invasion in November 2022.
Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were all found fatally stabbed in their off-campus student home in Moscow, Idaho.
Bryan Kohberger, a criminology PhD student, was arrested six weeks later and accused of the slayings. He denies involvement in the crime.
In the early hours of November 13, 2022, between 4:22 am and 4:24 am, Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke, the survivors, exchanged a series of 17 urgent text messages, expressing their fears that someone had entered their residence.
‘I’m not kidding o [sic] am so freaked out,’ one of the messages sent from DM, who has been publicly identified as Mortensen, to BF (Funke) read.
Over three separate messages, Funke responded ‘come to my room. Run. Down here.’
The chilling developments come as a 911 call from the morning of the tragedy was also made public for the first time. The call was made from Funke’s cellphone about eight hours after the text exchange.
Bryan Kohberger (seen in a mugshot) denies he is responsible for the deaths of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin
Ethan Chapin was staying at his girlfriend Xana Kernodle’s (together on left) home on the night of the murders. Best friends Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen (together on right) were found stabbed to death in the same bed
Between 4.22am and 4.24am on the morning of November 13, 2022, survivors Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke exchanged 17 frantic text messages fearing someone was in their house
‘Hi, something is happening. Something happened in our house. We don’t know what,’ the caller states.
‘One of our… one of the roommates who’s passed out and she was drunk last night and she’s not waking up.’
A second voice tells the operator that the girls ‘saw some man in their house last night.’
The dispatch operator has to repeatedly instruct the girls to stop ‘handing the phone around’ as they take turns trying to convey the trauma they’ve witnessed.
Eventually, when authorities arrive and the call is about to end, an unknown voice says: ‘I think we have a homicide.’
As Kohberger’s scheduled trial date approaches, the court on Thursday released the bombshell text messages between the survivors, as well as the transcript of the call.
The newly released filings offer an insight into the state’s case against Kohberger and the chilling fear that ran through the survivors on the night four of their friends were tragically killed.
‘Kaylee. What’s going on,’ Mortensen wrote in a text message to Gonclaves. She didn’t hear back.
From left: Dylan Mortensen, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen (on Kaylee’s shoulders), Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Bethany Funke
Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were all found fatally stabbed in their off-campus student home in Moscow, Idaho
She sent another text to Funke which read ‘no one is answering’, followed moments later by another: ‘I’m rlly confused rn.’
Funke replied, asking: ‘Ya dude wtf… Xana was wearing all black.’
Mortensen responded confessing she was ‘freaking out’ before clarifying that she had seen someone wearing ‘like a ski mask almost.’
Funke responded: ‘Actually.’
Mortensen told her ‘like he had soemtbinfover is for head and little nd mouth [sic].’
‘I’m not kidding o am so freaked out… My phone is going to die.’
Mortensen attempted to call Chapin and Gonclaves, before texting the latter urging her to answer the phone. She also attempted to call Kernodle.
She then responded to Funke’s request asking she ‘run’ to her room, admitting she was scared to do so.
Bryan Kohberger , a criminology PhD student, was arrested six weeks later and accused of the slayings. He denies involvement in the crime
Funke swiftly responded, telling her: ‘Ya IK but it’s better than being alone.’
The duo hunkered down for the night in Funke’s room, and Mortensen made efforts to contact her roommates again in the morning.
Mortensen, whose bedroom was on the second floor, came face-to-face with a masked man in the immediate aftermath of the murders, according to previously released court documents.
She told investigators she had been woken by noises in the home at about 4am and had heard a voice say ‘there’s someone here.’
She also heard what sounded like whimpering coming from Kernodle’s room and a man’s voice saying: ‘It’s ok, I’m going to help you.’
Mortensen told investigators she had opened her door and peeked outside three times.
The third time, she said she saw a man with ‘bushy eyebrows’ and dressed in black walk past her door and head towards the sliding back doors of the home.
Kohberger’s defense has asked the court to block any evidence referencing ‘bushy eyebrows’ and from Mortensen using those words to identify Kohberger when she testifies at trial.
Mortensen, whose bedroom was on the second floor, came face-to-face with a masked man in the immediate aftermath of the murders
Kohberger has so far offered up a vague alibi for the night of the murders claiming he was driving around at night looking at the stars.
No witnesses can corroborate where he was, his attorney Anne Taylor admitted in a court filing.
As well as the DNA found on the knife sheath, prosecutors say Kohberger was also tied to the murders through his white Elantra – matching the car seen leaving the crime scene at the time of the murders – and cellphone records placing him in the vicinity of the home.
Kohberger is next due in court in April.
This is a developing story. More to come.
