After staying off social media since the tragic events, a roommate who survived Bryan Kohberger’s violent attack in a student residence has re-emerged online.
Bethany Funke, now 23, was one of the fortunate survivors of the horrifying incident in November 2022, during which Kohberger took the lives of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, in their Moscow, Idaho home.
Funke recently posted on her TikTok account, appearing in a teal dress accompanied by a cross necklace, revealing her newfound interest in painting.
Inspired by the famous painter Bob Ross, Funke displayed a serene sunset river landscape to her audience of 17,000 followers, with Olivia Dean’s music playing softly in the background.
This marks her only video on the platform under her name, with her late friends Goncalves, Kernodle, and Mogen among her followers.
Since the tragedy, Funke has largely kept a low profile, opting to have a friend deliver an impact statement on her behalf during Kohberger’s sentencing last year.
Only Funke and fellow roommate Dylan Mortensen survived the murders, with Mortensen waking up to see a man dressed in black stalking the halls of the home.
The two desperately tried to call and text their friends but got no response, Mortensen made her way to Funke’s room where they stayed until morning.
In a new post to her TikTok page Funke shared that she has taken up oil painting after the killings
Left to right: Dylan Mortensen, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen (on Kaylee’s shoulders) Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Bethany Funke
Around eight hours later, after the terrified students still could not get in touch with their friends, they called friends over to the home and the bloodbath was discovered.
Kohberger was arrested around six weeks later during a raid on his parents’ home in the Poconos region of Pennsylvania, where he had returned for the holidays.
Autopsy findings recently released have since laid bare the full horror of the attack, revealing he stabbed his victims over 150 times within 15 minutes.
He stabbed Goncalves at least 38 times, including 24 stab and incised wounds to her scalp face and neck, as well as 11 to the chest and three to her upper extremities.
She also suffered punctures to the skull, injuries to her teeth and tongue, perforations of the subclavian artery and vein, and internal bleeding into the chest cavities.
Mogen sustained 28 stab wounds, including 13 wounds to the scalp, face and neck, and 10 incised wounds to the upper extremities, and five stab wounds to the chest.
Kernodle was then stabbed 67 times inside her bedroom before Kohberger killed Chapin in his sleep, according to the autopsy report.
She had 25 wounds to the upper extremities, 23 stab to the scalp, face and neck, seven stab wounds to the chest and four to the abdomen, three to the back, and five to the lower extremities.
Pictured: (L-R) Dylan Mortenson, Xana Kernodle, Bethany Funke, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen
Kohberger is seen here at his sentencing hearing in July of last year
The student home at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho, where the murders were committed
She also suffered punctures to the skull, perforations of the jugular vein, heart, lung and pulmonary blood vessels, hemorrhage into the chest cavities, wounds extending into the bones of the right hand, and scrapes and bruises to the face, torso and extremities.
Despite Chapin likely being the last victim, he had the fewest stab wounds, sustaining 17 in all: six incised wounds to the upper extremities; six stab and incised wounds to the lower extremities; four stab and incised wounds to the scalp, face and neck; and one stab wound to the upper chest; along with perforations of the jugular vein, subclavian vein and subclavian artery.
For more than two years, Kohberger fought the charges. Then, weeks before his trial, he changed his plea, pleading guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary on July 2.
The bombshell plea hearing came after he struck a controversial deal with prosecutors to take the death penalty off the table.
He was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in an emotional hearing in Boise, Idaho, on July 23. Kohberger also waived his right to appeal.
The killer refused to speak at his sentencing and has never revealed his motive. No connection has ever been found between him and any of his victims.
Kohberger is now being held in solitary confinement inside the Idaho Maximum Security Institution where he will see out his dying days.
