Police Bodycam Footage Reveals Aftermath of Idaho Student Murders
Recently released police bodycam footage shows the chilling moments when officers arrived at the scene where Brian Coberger murdered four University of Idaho students.
The footage captures Moscow police arriving shortly after noon on November 13, 2022. They quickly encountered the harrowing aftermath of the crime.
One officer pushed through a group of bystanders to find a disturbing scene on the second floor of a three-story house in Moscow, Idaho.
“Slowly come here. We have two people. It looks like a dead person,” one deputy communicated to a colleague.
During their search, officers discovered the bodies of Kaylee Goncalves, Maddie Morgen, Zana Karndle, and Ethan Chapin.
“Ah, man,” an officer uttered upon this grim realization.
Outside, officers started speaking with the surviving roommates, Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke, as the investigation kicked off.
Mortensen, whose image is obscured in the footage, recalled yelling around 4 a.m. after hearing a strange man’s voice.
“I remember trying to sleep, and hearing Kaley. I just know she went upstairs,” Mortensen said.
“It’s certain she screamed and ran downstairs when she said ‘someone’ was here,” she added, recalling the chaotic scene.
Mortensen described hearing a voice in the bathroom saying, “You’re fine. I’m going to help you,” while she kept calling Kaley’s name, but to no avail.
The voice she heard, later identified as belonging to Coberger, was not soothing in any way. “I can’t really explain it. It just felt strange,” she noted.
Another student mentioned encountering an intruder while searching for Goncalves. “I opened the door, and that’s when he saw me,” she described, expressing her confusion about the sudden meeting.
She described the intruder as “very tall,” dressed entirely in black, with a mask covering much of his face.
In a moment of panic, Mortensen called for Funke just after 4 a.m. before they both went downstairs. They ended up locking the door and drifting off to sleep, unaware of the horror unfolding above them.
“We didn’t really think about anything. In Moscow, nothing strange happens, right? So, we just tried to sleep…but when we woke up, it felt odd; none of our roommates were awake,” Mortensen recounted.
They finally woke up around 9 or 10 a.m. and began to wonder where everyone was. “I called the other roommates. I had to come downstairs because I didn’t know where the others were,” she said.
Reports of stabbing wounds prompted police to search the house later that day.
This tragic incident left friends shaken, with many reaching out to others to check on their missing roommates, leading to the devastating find.
Officers pressed Mortensen for details about the suspicious person she had sensed during the night.
Some of the roommates had attended a gathering before returning home, and Mortensen reiterated that everything seemed normal until that early morning hour. “Nothing strange. There was nothing suspicious until 4 a.m.,” she stated.
As Funke stood by the side of the road with friends, she was asked to recall events from that previous night. “I was in bed by 2 a.m. and woke up to the noise,” she explained.
In a moment of distress, she asked the officers, “Am I still allowed to go home for Thanksgiving?” Officers assured her that they would help her get the support she needed.
