Newly released police bodycam footage captured the chilling moments cops discovered the brutal aftermath inside the off-campus house where Bryan Kohberger slaughtered four University of Idaho students.
Moscow Police officers arrived at the murder scene just after noon on Nov. 13, 2022, according to bodycam footage, obtained by Law & Crime.
The first officers rushed inside past several college-aged people to discover the bloody scene on the second floor of the three-story house in Moscow, Idaho.
“Slow down, just come here. There’s two, looks like fatalities,” the first officer told another cop.
During the house sweep that lasted several minutes, officers discovered the bodies of students Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Mogen, Xana Kernoodle and Ethan Chapin, who were all brutally stabbed to death.
“Oh, man” one officer exclaimed over the gruesome discovery.
Officers spoke with surviving roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke outside the home at the beginning of the investigation.
Mortensen, whose face was blurred in the video, recalled Goncalves screaming at around 4 a.m. before running downstairs, and hearing a strange man’s voice talking to her.
“I remember I was in my room and I was trying to go to bed and I heard Kaylee. All I heard was her go upstairs and I was like ‘ok I’m going to go to sleep now, cos she is going upstairs. And then all of a sudden I heard her walking up and I heard a scream and she ran upstairs cos she saw someone,” Mortensen told police.
“That’s when I’m pretty sure she said ‘someone’s here’ and she screamed and ran downstairs and I called for her name and I jumped up and locked my door because I was so scared.”
“I heard her in the bathroom and I heard her crying and I heard some guy say that ‘you’re going to be ok. I’m going to help you,’” Mortensen recalled. “I kept calling her name and she wasn’t answering.”
Mortensen recalled that the man’s voice, later revealed to be Kohberger’s, was not a calming tone.
“I don’t know how to explain it. Like it wasn’t in a nice way. It was a weird way. Like a weird tone,” she said.
The University of Idaho student says she ran into the murderous intruder for a brief second when she went to look for Goncalves.
“I opened the door and that’s when the guy looked at me, but he didn’t come towards me or say anything, which was really confusing to me. I don’t understand that. And I’m pretty sure he went out the side door,” Mortensen said.
She described him as “not insanely tall” but wearing an all-black outfit with a mask that covered his forehead and mouth.
“He was a little bit taller than me. I couldn’t really see much of him, but I’m almost positive he was wearing a full black outfit. He had this mask that was just over his forehead and over his mouth and he didn’t say anything to me at all. I just shut the door and locked it cuz I didn’t know what to do,” she said.
Mortensen says she called Funk just after 4 a.m. before running downstairs to her roommate’s room, where the two locked the door and they talked before falling asleep, not knowing the ghastly horrors upstairs.
“We didn’t think anything of it. We’re like nothing happens in Moscow, so we just tried to go to bed and then we woke up and it was weird because none of our roommates were up and we called all of them. They were not waking up.”
The two woke up around 9 to 10 a.m. and were confused because no one else was awake.
“I didn’t know anything else so I called (the other roommate) and I was like I just need to come downstairs and find you cuz I didn’t know where anyone else is. And I called Maddie, I called Xana, I called Kaylee and no one would answer
The friends decided to call other people they knew to come over and check on their roommates, leading to the deadly discovery.
The officer pressed the devastated roommate for more information on the suspicious figure she saw in the middle of the night.
Several of the roommates attended a formal the night of the stabbing before returning to the house, Mortensen told police, saying everything was normal.
“Nothing weird at all. Nothing suspicious until 4 a.m,” she said.
Funke, who had been waiting on the side of the road with several friends, was asked to recall the events from the night before, saying she had been in bed at 2 a.m. before being awoken by a noise.
“Am I still allowed to go home for Thanksgiving?” the heartbroken co-ed asked the officer before any questions were asked.
The officer reassured Funke that they would do work with her to get the help they needed.
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