BRYAN Kohberger’s chilling last words to one of his victims have been revealed by a surviving roommate in newly released bodycam footage.
In the early hours of November 13, 2022, Kohberger slaughtered four University of Idaho students in their off-campus house in Moscow.
Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke are the only survivors of the horror attack.
Kohberger admitted guilt in the killings of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. On June 30, he received a sentence of four life terms without the possibility of parole.
Since then more harrowing details have come to light about the investigation from several police agencies involved in the case.
Recently released is bodycam footage from officers at the crime scene, recorded just after midday on the day of the murders. In the footage, they are seen speaking with Mortensen and Funke.
In a 52-minute video provided by The Moscow Police Department to the Law & Crime Network, one of the survivors, whose face was obscured, recounted the harrowing events of that day.
She not only came face-to-face with the murderer but also overheard Kohberger’s chilling final words to one of his victims before committing the act.
“They were in the main room dancing and laughing,” she said of the roommates moments before Kohberger was discovered in the house.
“Kaylee went upstairs and she screamed that someone’s in the room.
“I heard a scream and she ran downstairs because she saw someone.
“That’s when I’m pretty sure she said ‘someone’s here’…I jumped up and locked my door because I was so scared.
“I heard a man’s voice saying ‘you’re gonna be okay, I’m gonna help you,’ and I kept calling her name with no response. When I briefly opened the door, I saw him,” she recounted.
Investigators have since told ABC News that they believe it was Kernodle who said “somebody’s here” before running down the stairs.
They also think it was her Kohberger was trying to reassure saying, “It’s okay, I’m here to help you.”
Although she encountered the killer, the unidentified roommate noted he didn’t approach her, which she found “really confusing,” allowing her the chance to secure the door.
The man who was later confirmed as Kohberger was dressed in black with a mask covering his forehead and mouth, she said.
She added that his voice while talking to Kernodle was unusual in tone.
“I don’t know how to explain it. Like it wasn’t in a nice way. It was a weird way. Like a weird tone,” she said.
Just after 4am Funke & Mortensen joined up and locked themselves away in Funke’s room where they fell asleep, unaware of the horrors that had taken place on the floor above.
“We just locked the door, we didn’t think anything of it. We’re like, ‘Nothing happens in Moscow,’ so we just tried to go to bed,” the roommate told cops.
HORROR DISCOVERY
It wasn’t until much later that morning that they realized no one else was awake and came across the bloody scenes on the second and third floors of the house.
Cops were called to the property just before noon.
Latah County Prosecutor previously told the court that Kohberger broke into the property and went straight to the third floor where he killed Goncalves and her best friend Mogen.
He ignored one roommate on the second-floor but killed Kernodle and her boyfriend, both 20 years old, after she ran into him as he tried to flee the property.
“He chose to go in and kill someone — one right away became two, because they were in bed together,” Idaho State Police Lt. Darren Gilbertson told ABC News.
The full details of Bryan Kohberger’s sentence
On July 23, 2025, Judge Steven Hippler sentenced Bryan Kohberger to the following:
- Count 1: Burglary – 10 years fixed, zero years in determinate. $50,000 fine.
- Count 2: First-degree murder of Madison Mogen: Fixed term of life in prison without the possibility of parole. $50,000 fine and civil penalty of $5,000 payable to the family of the victim.
- Count 3: First-degree murder of Kaylee Goncalves: Fixed term of life in prison without the possibility of parole. $50,000 fine and civil penalty of $5,000 payable to the family of the victim.
- Count 4: First-degree murder of Xana Kernodle: Fixed term of life in prison without the possibility of parole. $50,000 fine and civil penalty of $5,000 payable to the family of the victim.
- Count 5: First-degree murder of Ethan Chapin: Fixed term of life in prison without the possibility of parole. $50,000 fine and civil penalty of $5,000 payable to the family of the victim.
The sentencings will run consecutively to one another.
Meanwhile, Kernodle had been eating a takeaway in the second-floor kitchen when she likely heard a disturbance above, he said.
Investigators then believe she went towards Mogen’s bedroom, possibly disturbing the attack and “throwing Kohberger off” to the point where he thought “he has to do something”.
They then believe in the panic, he left behind the knife sheath with his DNA on it which led to his arrest, to follow Kernodle calmly down the stairs, at which point investigators believe he told her she would be okay.
But “when Xana made it to her doorway” on the second floor, “Kohberger begins to stab her,” Gilbertson said.
She fought for her life in an “intense struggle”, sustaining over 50 stab wounds, per the police report.
Chapin who was in her bed was then also murdered by Kohberger.
The former criminology student has never given a motive for any of the killings.
The new footage comes just days after 550 newly released documents relating to the case – one of which reveals Kohberger’s creepy favorite movie.
Plus a coffee shop worker told cops about her terrifying encounter with the killer just weeks after the murders.
