Gut-wrenching new bodycam footage shows the moment cops arrive at an Idaho home to discover Bryan Kohberger butchered four college students before fleeing out the back door.
In the video, obtained by Law & Crime, police officers meet surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen wrapped in a blanket outside the Moscow home as she describes how her worst nightmare unfolded.
‘They were in the main room dancing and laughing, Kaylee went upstairs and she screamed that someone’s in the room and she ran downstairs and I kept calling her name and she wouldn’t answer,’ Mortensen tells police.
‘I saw the guy. Oh f**k,’ she said, before breaking down in tears. ‘I actually locked the door and then I ran downstairs. We don’t know what’s going on.’
Police were responding to a call of an unconscious individual about midday on November 13, 2022 – only to find the bodies of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin inside.
Mortensen recalls coming face-to-face with the masked intruder, before deciding her fears were unjustified because ‘nothing happens in Moscow.’
The roommate then said she heard a girl crying, followed by a male voice saying ‘you’re gonna be okay, I’m going to help you.’ Investigators now believe the cries came from Kernodle who Mortensen heard during the ordeal, rather than Goncalves.
Outside the home, the 52-minute-long video reveals a heartbreaking and chaotic scene as the surviving roommates and friends of the victims huddle under blankets, sobbing uncontrollably in the road.
Bodyworn camera footage obtained by the Law&Crime Network revealed the moment Mortensen recalled hearing screams and commotion around the time of the murders
In the Law&Crime obtained footage, teenagers linked to the house gathered to support to the two survivors, who had been handed blankets and were huddled together
Pictured left to right: Housemates Dylan Mortensen, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen (on Kaylee’s shoulders) Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Bethany Funke in 2022
As word spreads through the close-knit college town, more students gather outside the home, including Chapin’s triplet brother Hunter, who is seen strolling onto the scene unaware that his brother is dead.
Newly-unsealed crime scene photos were also released by Idaho State Police, revealing the remnants of a college party inside the home that was now a crime scene.
On a table in the living room, red cops set up for a game of beer pong make the scene eerily ordinary compared to what took place just hours earlier.
One chilling photo shows Kernodle’s half-eaten DoorDash order from Jack in the Box, delivered moments before Kohberger broke in.
Another image from after the killer’s murderous rampage shows a large footprint in the snow out the back of the three-story house – a clue Kohberger left behind.
Idaho investigators began releasing evidence from the quadruple homicide after Kohberger pleaded guilty to the murders last month, in a deal to save himself from the death penalty.
On July 23, the 30-year-old PhD student was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. He is now serving his sentence inside Idaho’s maximum security prison in Kuna where he has already filed multiple complaints about his fellow inmates.
The newly-released bodycam footage begins at around midday on November 13, 2022, with an officer rushing to the front door of the home, where a young man in a blue sweater is waiting.
A back door leading out of the kitchen was wide open in the police photos
Remnants of the night before were still visible in newly released police pictures from the time they arrived to inspect the home. This included a beer pong set up (pictured)
Bryan Kohberger is seen pacing inside his prison cell in video footage that leaked last week
The students faces are redacted but, based on previously-released court records and witness accounts, this is known to be Hunter Johnson – Chapin’s best friend.
Johnson, his girlfriend Emily Alandt and friend Josie Lauteren had come to the home minutes earlier because Funke and Mortensen had heard nothing from their roommates and were growing concerned.
In the video, Johnson leads the officer up to Kernodle’s room on the second floor, telling him he checked to see if she was breathing.
The scenes inside the bedrooms are redacted but inside the room are Kernodle and Chapin’s bodies.
After Johnson is ushered out of the home and more officers arrive on the scene, police search the property.
The footage shows the back sliding door of the home still ajar from Kohberger’s escape.
The officers then find the bodies of Mogen and Goncalves in Mogen’s bed on the third floor. Much of the officers’ comments are redacted but they are heard sighing with emotion at what they have just seen.
Soon after, the officers exit the home and begin conducting interviews with the students outside the home. Loud, guttural crying is heard coming from the victims’ friends.
Police noticed a footprint in the snow outside the house
A takeout bag with Xana’s name on it had been left on the kitchen counter. Xana ordered delivery on the night she was murdered
Police released this image of a black pack in the woods near the home
Kohberger broke into the student home at around 4am – entering through the back sliding door leading to the kitchen.
Prosecutors said he went straight up to the third floor where he found best friends Mogen and Goncalves, both 21, in Mogen’s bed. He stabbed them both multiple times.
The killer encountered Kernodle – who was still awake and using TikTok – as he came back downstairs. He attacked her in her bedroom on the second floor and killed her boyfriend Chapin who was asleep in her bed.
The man Mortensen saw was dressed in all black with a mask over his face and left through the back sliding door of the home.
In the footage, Mortensen says she tried to contact her roommates but only Funke – whose bedroom was on the first floor – responded.
She ran down to Funke’s room and they both stayed there until later that morning.
Mortensen tells the officer how the terrified students had convinced themselves they were overreacting about what she had seen.
‘We didn’t think anything of it. We’re like nothing happens in Moscow. We tried to go to bed,’ she says.
Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle (left) and Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves (right)
Kohberger slouched in his chair and gave very little emotion as victims shared their devastation
Mortensen is also heard asking the officer if he knows where Mogen and Goncalves are.
‘I don’t know where they’re at,’ she sobs.
The officer says he can’t share anything at the moment. Separately, an officer was heard contacting another cop on the phone, saying: ‘Get your a** into town, we’ve got a quadruple homicide.’
The students only learned their two other roommates were dead when the University of Idaho sent out a Vandal alert announcing that there had been a homicide with four victims.
Part-way through the footage, some of the students loudly sob and mention Chapin’s brother is approaching.
Hunter Chapin lived in the Sigma Chi house close to the home and said in a recent Amazon Prime series that he had been woken by a fraternity brother telling him there was police activity at King Road.
He had walked over to see what was going on.
Bryan Kohberger appears at the Ada County Courthouse during his sentencing hearing
The footage shows the moment Johnson approached Hunter Chapin and broke the heartbreaking news that his sibling was dead.
Funke is then also interviewed by an officer about what she remembered from the night before.
Sobbing and sniffling, she recalls watching The Vampire Diaries in the living room after 1am.
Mogen and Goncalves arrived home around 2am and she and Mortensen hung out with them.
Funke tells the officer how she and Mogen took Goncalves’ dog Murphy out and she went to bed soon after.
Sometime later, she says she heard something loud, Murphy bark and saw the flash of what she thought was a firecracker.
But she was ‘kind of asleep so I wasn’t sure if it was real.’
Funke then goes through her cell phone and tells the officer when she placed calls and texts to the roommates. ‘I thought they were asleep,’ she whimpers.
The back sliding door leading out of the kitchen was open and marked by police when they arrivved on the scene
The college house, which was occupied by Mogen, Kernodle, Goncalves, Mortensen and Funke, had a poster which read ‘Saturdays are for the girls’ hanging in their living room
The newly released pictures and body camera footage comes days after Idaho Judge Megan Marshall issued a temporary restraining order barring the release of images, audio or video taken from inside Mogen’s bedroom.
A hearing on the preliminary injunction is due to be held on August 28.
Judge Marshall ruled that the majority of files released so far in the case did not constitute an invasion of privacy, but acknowledged the existence of videos of pictures which, in their unredacted form, could be problematic.
Authorities vowed not to release any images from within any of the victims’ bedrooms until the matter was resolved, despite the order only applying to Mogen’s room.
After more than two years of pleading his innocence – and days away from the start of his capital murder trial – Kohberger pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary last month, in a plea deal that saved him from the death penalty.
The move divided the victims’ families, with the Goncalves and Kernodle families condemning the deal while the Mogen family and Chapin family supported it.
Goncalves’ family said they were ‘robbed of our day in court. No negotiations, no jury of our peers, not even the pretense of cooperation and fairness.’
Newly released images show the state of the living room when police arrived the next day, complete wiht fairy lights, artwork and a game of beer pong
On July 23, he was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole and he has waived his right to appeal.
During his sentencing hearing, Kohberger was forced to listen to a stream of victim impact statements from grieving loved ones, where he was described as ‘pathetic loser.’
According to a law enforcement source, Kohberger – now known as inmate number 163214 – is being relentlessly tormented by his new jail-mates, who are shouting through the vents into his cell at all hours of the day.
‘It’s driving him crazy. The inmates are tormenting him at night and almost all hours of the day – taunting him through the vents in his cell,’ Chris McDonough, a retired homicide detective who now works for the Cold Case Foundation, told the Daily Mail.
‘They are literally getting up into the grate and yelling at him. The inmates are taking it in turns doing it. It’s relentless.’
In the month since his sentencing, Kohberger has demanded a transfer inside the maximum security prison he now calls home following harassment by other inmates.
In the first handwritten note, seen by People, the 30-year-old complained that ‘verbal threats/harassment’ and ‘recent flooding/striking’ – where inmates intentionally cause flooding in their cells – had made J block somewhere he didn’t wish to be.
‘Not engaging in any of the recent flooding/striking as well as being subject to minute-by-minute verbal threats/harassment and on that and other bases [sic] Unit 2 of J-Block is an environment that I wish to transfer from,’ he wrote.
Kohberger asked to be transferred out of J block’s restrictive housing unit to B block, where inmates are also held in single cells.
The request was filed on July 30 – just one day after he arrived on the block.
Kohberger’s request was brushed off by a prison official who responded by urging the new inmate to ‘give it some time.’
Just days later Kohberger filed a second complaint – this time alleging he was the victim of sexual threats.
More than 500 pages of documents were unsealed by Idaho State Police last week.
According to police interviews with survivors and friends, the students at 1122 King Road had also seen a man lurking in the trees outside their home and noticed a string of bizarre incidents at their home in the weeks before the murders.
Around one month earlier, Goncalves had told multiple people including Mortensen, Funke and her ex-boyfriend Jack DuCoeur that she had seen a man watching her in the trees around the home when she took her pet dog Murphy outside, previously-unsealed Moscow Police records show.
Friends also recalled multiple occasions when, during parties at the home, Goncalves’ dog Murphy would run barking into the tree line and wouldn’t return when he was called. This was out of character for the dog, they said.
On November 4, 2022 – just nine days before the murders – the roommates had come home to find the door to their three-story house open.
Funke said that they had grabbed golf clubs and gone room to room, thinking there was an intruder.
Goncalves had also mentioned someone following her around two or three weeks before her murder.
Evidence indicates Kohberger was watching the home in the lead-up to the murders.
From July 2022 through to November 13, 2022, Kohberger’s phone placed him in the vicinity of the King Road home at least 23 times, mostly at night.
Investigators said Kohberger targeted 1122 King Road but that they don’t know who he was targeting inside the home.
The killer’s motive for the attack also remains a mystery and no connection has ever been found between Kohberger and his victims.