One of the roommates of the four students of the University of Idaho allegedly killed by Bryan Kherberger was not immediately Calrice Shee, that her friend passed out, without realizing that she was probably dead.
After one night, Dylan Mortensen “heard strange noises and crying” before opening his room and seeing “a man dressed in black with a ski mask walking next to his room”, around 4:00 am, according to a new decision of Boisperper.
Mortensen later put the phone with the other surviving roommate, Bethany Funke, and sent a text message furiously. “I’m going crazy,” he wrote, and added “I’m not joking or [sic] I am so scared. “
“Me too,” Funke sent him a text message before encouraging Mortense to come to his room.
The roommate “Banden running towards Funke’s room and” on her way, noticed Xana [Kernodle] Lying on the floor of his room, “but Mortensen” thought that Xana was drunk, “explains the judge’s order, citing the communications of the fellow survivors.”
Funke and Mortensen did not end up calling 911 up to approximately eight hours after Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mag and Ethan Chapin were killed in their home outside the campus, Idaho, on November 13, 2022.
But the duo sent many messages before leaving Funke’s room and trying to get what happened.
Mortensen sent a text message to Goncalves at 4:32 am, “please answer” and sent a text message at 10:23 am “Ru Up” and then around 11:20 am, he sent Goncalves again, “Are you?”
Finally at 11:56 AM, Funke called 911 saying: “Something is happening. Something happened in our house and we don’t know what,” the court documents reveal.
The content of the text messages and a call to 911, which establishes the actions of Mortensen and Funke after the murders, were revealed in the order of Hippler on what evidence could be presented to the jury in the next August trial and what evidence would be blocked as rumors.
Kherberger declared himself innocent in the case of quadruple homicide and could face the death penalty if he is convicted.
