re: Idaho Murders Thread (Links inside)

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He’ll be waiting for 40 years to die living off taxpayer money.

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trial will be scheduled for summerish 2025

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“I’m freaking out,” one roommate, Dylan Mortensen, wrote to the other, Bethany Funke, according to the newly unsealed court filings. Mortensen and Funke, identified by their initials in the court documents, were texting about a masked man dressed in black in their house around the time police believe the victims were being murdered.

The exchange took place nearly eight hours before the roommates called 911 to report Kernodle unconscious at the residence.

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Mortensen told law enforcement she went to sleep in her first-floor bedroom and was awakened around 4 a.m. by what she thought sounded like Goncalves playing with her dog in one of the upstairs bedrooms on the third floor, previously released documents have shown.

Law enforcement also determined Kernodle received a DoorDash order at approximately 4 a.m. and was still up using TikTok at approximately 4:12 a.m.

In the new court filing, phone records show Mortensen tried calling the other four roommates – but got no response – around the time when security camera from a residence close to the home picked up at 4:17 a.m. distorted audio of voices, a whimper, followed by a loud thud, and a barking dog.

Mortensen texted Goncalves: “Kaylee” and “What’s going on.”

Funke, the other surviving roommate, however, answered her messages, while they were both in their bedrooms, according to the filing.

Mortensen and Funke sent the following text messages to one another around 4:22 a.m.:

DM to BF: “No one is answering.”

DM to BF: “I’m really confused rn.”

BF to DM: “Ya dude wtf”

BF to DM: “Xana was wearing all black”

DM to BF: “I’m freaking out rn”

Mortenson then tells Funke about seeing what looked like a man with a ski mask in the house. Previously released court filings described Mortensen’s grand jury testimony recalling noises she heard and a masked man wearing black in the residence.

Mortensen then said to Funke: “No it’s like a ski mask almost”

BF to DM: “Stfu”

DM to BF: “Like he had [something] over is for head and little nd mouth”

DM to BF: “I’m not kidding [I] am so freaked out”

BF to DM: “So am I”

Then, Funke tried to convince Mortensen to go to Funke’s room so they’d be together: “Run”

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Before calling 911, another newly unsealed court filing shows, Mortensen tried again to reach Goncalves and Mogen starting at 10:23 a.m., asking them if they are awake: “Ru up??”

A transcript of the surviving roommates’ 911 call made more than an hour after that was also released with the filing Thursday. The transcript shows the chaos as Mortensen and Funke pass the phone between them answering the dispatcher in fragmented responses. The filing describes heaving-like breathing and crying throughout the call. The transcript does not identify the speakers by name but shows another unnamed friend with them also spoke to the dispatcher.

On the call they reported 20-year-old Kernodle unconscious, telling the dispatcher she had come home drunk the night before.

The roommates struggled to tell the dispatcher their address and phone number, then saying Kernodle is unresponsive and they “saw some man in their house last night.”

The transcript reveals the students’ unfinished thoughts and panic over finding Kernodle’s unconscious body. It appears the dispatcher ends the call when first responders arrive on scene without getting a full account of the night or the current situation, the filing shows

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