One of the survivors of the University of Idaho massacre text her friend to ‘run’ to her room as they both cowered in fear, newly released text messages reveal.
The college roommates, identified in court documents only as DM and BF to shield their identities, were the only two survivors when four of their friends were killed during a home invasion in November 2022.
Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were all found stabbed to death inside an off-campus student home at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho.
Bryan Kohberger is accused of the slayings, and the survivors’ text messages, as well as the transcript of a frantic 911 call, have now been released as part of the court proceedings.
Between 4.22am and 4.24am on the morning of November 13, 2022, the girls exchanged 17 frantic text messages suspecting someone was in their house.
‘I’m not kidding o [sic] am so freaked out,’ one of the messages sent from DM, who has been publicly identified as Dylan Mortensen, to BF (Bethany 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.
Bryan Kohberger (seen in a mugshot) is seeking to have the phrase ‘bushy eyebrows’ banned from his murder trial
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
From left: Dylan Mortensen, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen (on Kaylee’s shoulders), Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Bethany Funke
‘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.’
Kohberger denies involvement in the slayings.
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.
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.’
This is a developing story. More to come.
