Shocking newly released footage shows the moments police discovered the gruesome scene following the deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, Xana Kernodle, 20 and Madison Mogen, 21.
In the harrowing footage, obtained byLaw & Crime, a Moscow, Idaho, police officer responds to a call about an unconscious woman and finds several people — including surviving roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke — gathered outside the home.
One of them, later revealed to be Ethan’s friend, Hunter Johnson, leads him inside to show him the bodies. “Oh man,” the officer says, as he quickly works to secure the scene.
“Get your a** into town,” another officer says later. “We’ve got a quadruple homicide.”
The footage shows an emotional Mortensen, whose face is blurred, giving her first accounts of what happened.
“I heard her scream, because she saw someone. That’s what I’m pretty sure she said. ‘Someone’s here’ and she screamed and just ran downstairs and I called for her name,” Mortensen tells the officer of Kaylee.
“But I jumped up and locked my door because I was so scared. And then I heard someone 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,’” she continued. She later describes the man’s “weird tone.”
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Mortensen opened the door, she added, and locked eyes with the killer, who was later revealed to be Bryan Kohberger. He didn’t speak to her, so she shut and locked the door quickly.
“I didn’t know what to do,” she added, revealing that she and her roommate decided that they were fine because “nothing happens in Moscow and tried to go to bed.”
In the video, the women begin sobbing uncontrollably when Ethan’s brother, Hunter, shows up — and Johnson breaks the news to him.
Hunter, who was a triplet with Ethan, later described walking to the scene in Prime Video’sOne Night In Idaho: The College Murders, explaining: “They all just had this look on their face when I walked up, like the world had ended.”
As the National Enquirer previously reported, Chapin and Mogen’s families have sued the city of Moscow to stop the release of graphic photos of their loved ones’ bodies.
At Kohberger’s sentencing hearing, Mortensen delivered an emotional impact statement to the court. “He is a hollow vessel. Something less than human. A body without empathy or remorse,” she said. “He chose destruction, he chose evil. He feels nothing. He tried to take everything from me.”