Roommates’ Texts From Night of Murders Revealed

More details about the murder of four University of Idaho students have come to light. 

Ahead of the upcoming trial of suspect Bryan Kohberger, who has been accused of murdering roommates Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Kernodle’s boyfriend Ethan Chapin in 2022, text messages between the two surviving roommates, included in documents obtained by E! News, paint an image of the harrowing night. 

With their four roommates not responding to messages and calls, Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke—who were only identified by their initials in the documents unsealed March 6—tried contacting their roommates after the former saw a masked man moving through their rental house.

“No one is answering,” Mortensen texted Funke at 4:22 a.m. Nov. 13, 2022, the day the bodies were discovered. “I’m rlly confused rn.”

Mortensen described the mask as resembling a “ski mask,” writing, “I’m not kidding [I] am so freaked out.”

As the pair continued to assess the situation, Funke wrote, “Come to my room. Run. Down here.”