What Roommates of Idaho Victims Had been Doing the Hours Between Homicide and 911 Name: Docs

Within the new submitting, Kohberger’s legal professionals argue extra telephone information must be proven outdoors of the “choose portion” beforehand highlighted by the state from the early morning hours of November 13, 2022 — the evening Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, Ethan Chapin and Madison Mogen had been killed.

The docs embody further cellphone exercise from surviving roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke, after the pair frantically started messaging one another within the moments instantly after their roommates’ killer left their residence.

Prosecutors beforehand stated Kernodle acquired a DoorDash order at 4am that morning, earlier than a safety digicam close to her room picked up “distorted audio of what gave the impression of voices or a whimper adopted by a loud thud” at 4:17am. The attacker is believed to have left the house round that point.

Per the state’s unique submitting, only a few minutes later, at 4:19am, one of many two roommates — Dylan Mortensen, who noticed somebody within the residence — tried calling three of the victims, however acquired no reply. At 4:22, Mortensen then started texting Bethany Funke, saying, “Nobody is answering. I am rlly confused rn.”

She then texted sufferer Goncalves, asking, “Kaylee … what is going on on.” Funke then allegedly responded to Mortensen saying, “Ya dude wtf … Xana was sporting all black.”

“I am freaking out rn,” stated Mortensen, per the docs, including, “No it is like a ski masks nearly.” After Funke allegedly stated, “Stfu … truly,” Moretensen responded, “Like he had sometbinf over is for head and little nd mouth … I am not kidding o am so freaked out.”

When Funke stated she was too, Mortensen informed her that her telephone was about to die, prompting Funke to inform her to “come to my room.” Funke then added, “Run. Down right here.” At 4:24, Mortensen then allegedly referred to as sufferer Chapin, who didn’t reply, earlier than texting Funke, “Im scRwd tho.” Funke responded by writing, “Ya IK nevertheless it’s higher than being alone.”

The state’s “picks” then leap to 10:34am, when Mortensen texted each Goncalves and Mogen — pleading with the previous to “Pls reply,” whereas asking each of them, “R u up??”

It wasn’t till midday the identical day that somebody lastly referred to as 911 after Kernodle was discovered unresponsive.

Within the submitting, protection attorneys write, “The State claims [Mortensen] awakened and realized her roommates had not responded to her earlier texts. The State is unsuitable.”

“[Funke] and [Mortensen] texted one another a handful of instances after which they had been in the identical bed room. They had been along with the power to speak to one another,” the submitting continued. “They weren’t asleep for 8 hours.”

“[Mortensen] was awake. She was messaging on Snapchat, she was on Instagram and she or he textual content together with her dad: and this isn’t an exhaustive listing of exercise on her telephone,” stated the protection. “She was with BF who was additionally speaking together with her mother and father after which later associates.”

The complete telephone log for the pair exhibits further makes an attempt from them each to succeed in Goncalves round 4:30am, earlier than Funke used Snapchat and Instagram. There’s then a 3-hour hole, earlier than Funke calls her father round 7:30AM, mom at 8:02, earlier than her dad referred to as again at 8:09AM.

From there, there are information exhibiting Mortensen on Instagram and TikTok, in addition to texting with household, earlier than texting each Mogen and Goncalves. After extra texts between Mortensen and Funke, Funke referred to as 911 at 11:56am.

“The State has requested the court docket to have a look at a timeline and Mr. Kohberger urges the court docket to have a look at all the things that occurred in the course of the timeline,” asks protection.

Of their filings, the state, in the meantime, claims Kohberger bought a army knife, sheath and knife sharpener over Amazon earlier than the murders. In addition they included a selfie the suspect took on the morning of November 13, hours after the killings (above left). In it, he seems to provide a thumbs as much as the digicam, standing in entrance of the bathe in a button-down shirt.

Kohberger has continued to keep up his innocence. His trial is ready for mid-August.