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Why University of Idaho murders survivor waited hours to call cops after finding roommate dead
NYP ^ | 04 25 2025 | Priscilla DeGregory

Posted on 04/25/2025 5:30:51 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

One of the surviving roommates of the four University of Idaho students allegedly killed by Bryan Kohberger didn’t immediately call police because she thought her friend was passed out drunk – not realizing she was likely already dead, a new court ruling reveals.

After a night out partying, Dylan Mortensen “heard strange noises and crying” before opening her bedroom door and seeing “a man dressed in black with a ski mask on walking by her bedroom door,” around 4:00 a.m., according to a new decision by Boise District Court Judge Steven Hippler.

Mortensen then got on the phone with the other surviving roommate, Bethany Funke, and texted furiously. “I’m freaking out rn,” she wrote, adding “I’m not kidding o [sic] am so freaked out.”

“So am I,” Funke texted her back before encouraging Mortensen to come to her room.

The roommate “began running toward” Funke’s room, and “on her way, she noticed Xana [Kernodle] lying on the floor of her bedroom,” but Mortensen “thought Xana was drunk,” the judge’s order explains, citing the surviving roommates’ communications.

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KEYWORDS: bryankohberger; crime; idaho; murder; stabbed
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One of the survivors saw the killer (and noted his bushy eyebrows) but the killer didn't kill the witness.

The roommates were stabbed. The survivors were texting each other something was wrong. They saw their dead roommates (who were stabbed to death) and thought they were sleeping.

This case makes no sense to me.

1 posted on 04/25/2025 5:30:51 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Generally people wait hours in calling the cops, to get their story straight.


2 posted on 04/25/2025 5:34:47 PM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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"Generally people wait hours in calling the cops, to get their story straight."

And to hide their stash.

3 posted on 04/25/2025 5:36:24 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: yesthatjallen

The jury will want to visit the crime scene.


4 posted on 04/25/2025 5:43:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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"The jury will want to visit the crime scene."

The crime scene has already been demolished.

5 posted on 04/25/2025 5:46:13 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

I always go back to sleep after seeing a strange guy wearing a ski mask at my bedroom door.


6 posted on 04/25/2025 5:46:21 PM PDT by TexasGator (1'11.'11/'~~'111./.)
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To: BenLurkin

The jury will want to visit the crime scene.

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House where University of Idaho students killed torn down. Victims’ families opposed it

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article283582933.html


7 posted on 04/25/2025 5:48:30 PM PDT by Qiviut (Come! Live in the light! Shine with the joy and the love of the Lord!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Young and naive girls in a party house, used to seeing passed out flatmates. Dark so didn’t see the blood.

May also have been used to seeing men slouching out in the wee hours of the morning.

Freaked out because her sidey senses were tingling, but she couldn’t comprehend why because the idea of a serial killer was unimaginable to her.

Why the killer didn’t kill the remaining two girls? I think it was because they were awake and aware and he was unsure of whether there were men/boyfriends in the house and he didn’t want to risk any screaming, so he exited as quickly as possible.


8 posted on 04/25/2025 5:49:31 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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They are idiot girls, that’s why. One literally saw the killer walk down the hall, dressed in black, in a ski mask. And she then holed up in her room for over 7 more hours before calling the cops.

Idiots.


9 posted on 04/25/2025 5:51:17 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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Based on the little I know about this case, hearing this testimony I would have to discount most of what these witnesses have to say. They were college student and apparently did not have 2 brain cells between them.


10 posted on 04/25/2025 5:52:15 PM PDT by gunnut
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It’s young modern idiot girls. That is why it doesn’t make sense.

And they have an opinion on everything, global warming, what you should eat, sex changes for little kids, Ukraine, Palestine, etc.... and they vote.


11 posted on 04/25/2025 5:54:43 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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“Why University of Idaho murders survivor waited hours to call cops after finding roommate dead”

Because...idiots.


12 posted on 04/25/2025 5:57:50 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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“Dylan Mortensen “heard strange noises and crying” before opening her bedroom door and seeing “a man dressed in black with a ski mask on walking by her bedroom door,””

She head the murder. And after that saw one of the on the ground. Saw the killer right down to his eyebrows. And the idiot did nothing except text her friends for 7 more hours. Morons.


13 posted on 04/25/2025 5:58:19 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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” And the idiot did nothing except text her friends for 7 more hours.”

I think they went back to sleep


14 posted on 04/25/2025 6:07:18 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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And to hide their stash.

Likely there were drugs present and they had to sober up enough to realize what happened, and that they needed to report a crime, but first they had to collect all of the illicit drugs and flush them down the toilet.
15 posted on 04/25/2025 6:08:21 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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They also could have had emotional shock. I often “go away” in my brain (fugue state) when something horrible had happened to me. I did have very bad news from a doctor last year and forgot it for a few days, then would remember it on and off. Probably different mechanism.


16 posted on 04/25/2025 6:09:56 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: gunnut

They are probably all BA students trying to earn a teaching degree.
My whole time at university I carried a legally licensed concealed gun and knew how to use it.
I guarantee that most of my fellow students would have soiled themselves if they had known.
Since all my instructors had access to my records,
I’m sure they knew I was former military.
I only had one ever question me about guns.
BTW I went to private, VERY liberal Christian universities.
BS Computer Science, class of 90.
and I’m not a cop.


17 posted on 04/25/2025 6:13:04 PM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: DesertRhino

Drunk or high morons? Maybe she thought she had some bad drugs? Just taking a stab at why she waited till she was somewhat sober.


18 posted on 04/25/2025 6:14:56 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: yesthatjallen

you can tell just by looking at their pictures that these idiot blonde girl children aren’t rocket surgeons: “i heard strange noises and saw a strange man and my roommate was lying dead drunk on the floor and i didn’t bother to check if she was OK. i’m scared, what should i do? OK, i’ll come sleep in your room and everything will be OK.”

i wonder what their majors were?


19 posted on 04/25/2025 6:15:14 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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Sounds very similar to this and many other destruction of various sites.

Mt. Carmel, TX for one.

20 posted on 04/25/2025 6:19:12 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! I’m a fraud, hypocrite & liar. I'm a member of Congress!!)
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