One of many surviving roommates of the 4 College of Idaho college students allegedly killed by Bryan Kohberger didn’t instantly name police as a result of she thought her pal was handed out drunk – not realizing she was seemingly already lifeless, a brand new court docket ruling reveals.
After an evening out partying, Dylan Mortensen “heard strange noises and crying” earlier than opening her bed room door and seeing “a man dressed in black with a ski mask on walking by her bedroom door,” round 4:00 a.m., based on a brand new resolution by Boise District Courtroom Choose Steven Hippler.
Mortensen then obtained on the cellphone with the opposite surviving roommate, Bethany Funke, and texted furiously. “I’m freaking out rn,” she wrote, including “I’m not kidding o [sic] am so freaked out.”
“So am I,” Funke texted her again earlier than encouraging Mortensen to return to her room.
The roommate “began running toward” Funke’s room and “on her way, she noticed Xana [Kernodle] lying on the floor of her bedroom,” however Mortensen “thought Xana was drunk,” the choose’s order explains, citing the surviving roommates’ communications.
Funke and Mortensen didn’t find yourself calling 911 till roughly eight hours after Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Ethan Chapin had been slain of their off-campus housing in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13, 2022.
However the duo despatched many messages earlier than rising from Funke’s room and making an attempt to piece collectively what had occurred.
Mortensen texted Goncalves at 4:32 a.m., “Pls answer” and texted Mogen at 10:23 a.m. “R u up” after which round 11:20 a.m. she texted Goncalves once more saying, “R u up??”
Lastly at 11:56 a.m., Funke known as 911 saying, “something is happening. Something’s happened in our house and we don’t know what,” the court docket papers reveal.
The contents of textual content messages and a 911 name, which lay out Mortensen and Funke’s actions following the killings, had been revealed in Hippler’s order about what proof may very well be introduced to the jury on the upcoming August trial and what proof could be blocked as rumour.
Kohberger has pleaded not responsible within the quadruple murder case and will face the loss of life penalty if convicted.
