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Bryan Kohberger case: Idaho court releases surviving housemates’ text messages

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First on FOX: Text message between two surviving roommates from their home in Moscow, Idaho. There, four college students were killed in a home invasion stabbing attack in a newly sealed court filing.

The roommate, identified in court documents as DMs and BFs, appears to be awake and discussing the possible trespasser masked about five minutes after the attack.

DM has previously been identified as the only witness to see an intruder (a masked man with “bulging brows”) in a six-bedroom home on King Road. Based on statements to police and audio from a security camera next door, the attacker is believed to have left the house at 4:17am on November 13, 2022.

Four people were killed in the attack. Madison Morgen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Zana Carnodor, 20 years old, Ethan Chapin, 20.

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Madison Morgen on the top left smiled on the shoulder of her best friend Kaylee Goncalves, who posed alongside two other housemates in Ethan Chapin, Zana Carnordal and Goncalves' final Instagram post, sharing four students before being stabbed and killed. (@kayleegoncalves/instagram)

The filing revealed text messages exchanged between DM and BF between 4:22 and 4:24, text sent to a portion of the DM before dawn, and texts about the DM attempting to call BF and the three victims around 10:20am of the text. None of her calls were answered.

“No one answered,” the DM wrote to BF, according to the submission. “I'm confusing RN.”

Read the excerpt from the moment after the murder:

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“Cary,” DM wrote in another text. “what happened?”

The DM also appeared to refer to the intruder she later told the police she met as she peered through the bedroom door. She referred to something “almost like a ski mask.”

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Read excerpts from the later morning:

Brian Coberger

“It's because of his head and small mouth, just like he had a soemtbinfover (sic).”

The BF urged her to “run” downstairs. According to other court filings released this week, the DM spent the night in BF's room and at about noon the following day he spent an unknown person called 911 from BF's phone.

At 10:23am, DM texted both Mogen and Goncalves. “pls answer,” she wrote. “RU Up?” She then called her father around 11:40am.

Timeline:

  • 4am: Suspect arrives at home
  • 4am to 4:17am: Murder Time
  • 4:19: Roommate calls the three victims. No one answers
  • 4:22-4:24: Surviving roommates text each other from inside the house
  • 4:27: Roommate calls the victim again, no one answers
  • 4:32: Roommate's text goncalves 'pls ness'
  • 10:23: Victims of the surviving roommate text, no one answers
  • 11:39: Roommate calls his father
  • 12pm: 911 phone set up from my roommate's phone

Prosecutors are asking the court to allow the text to be introduced as evidence.

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Prosecutors allege that police found a Ka-Bar knife sheath under Mogen's body, and on top of it, DNA led to a 30-year-old ex-Ph.D., led by suspect Bryan Kohberger. A student studying criminology at nearby Washington State University during a crime.

Separately, the court revealed that multiple callers spoke to the dispatcher, explaining that Carnodor did not respond, and that someone had seen the intruder the night before.

This is a broken news story.

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