Bodycam footage from Idaho murders shows sobbing roommates

(NewsNation) — Body camera video released by Idaho police responding to the Moscow home where Bryan Kohberger murdered four college students shows a panicked, sobbing housemate describing what she saw the night of the brutal killings.  

In the video, officers are shown arriving at the now demolished residence less than a day after the 2022 murders and seeing the surviving roommates and friends of the victims waiting outside the door. 

Kohberger pleaded guilty to the 2022 murders of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin last month. He was handed four life sentences.

‘I saw him,’ a surviving Moscow roommate tells officers

The video captures the initial description of what one of the surviving roommates, now identified as Dylan Mortenson, saw the night of the killings. 

Mortenson is heard telling an officer she heard Goncalves, one of the victims, scream while she was getting ready to sleep inside her room.  

“I heard a scream, and she ran downstairs cause she saw someone. That’s when I’m pretty sure she said, ‘Someone’s here,’ and she just screams and she just ran downstairs. And I called for her name, but I jumped up and locked my door because I was so scared," Mortenson, who was wrapped in a white police blanket, told an officer. 

“I heard someone in the bathroom, and I heard her crying and I heard some guy saying, ‘You’re gonna be okay, I’m gonna help you,” she says, describing the man’s tone as “weird.” 

“It wasn't in a nice way, it was weird.” 

Mortenson says she saw the man after she "opened the door for a second.”

Bryan Kohberger appears at the Ada County Courthouse for his sentencing hearing July 23, 2025, in Boise, Idaho, for brutally stabbing four University of Idaho students to death nearly three years ago. (AP Photo/Kyle Green, Pool)

“He was not insanely tall, but he was in all black and like this mask that just covered his forehead and his mouth,” she said. She also tells officers that she thinks he exited through the side door in the kitchen.

The man said nothing to her, she said. “He looked at me, but he didn't come towards me or say anything, which is like confusing to me. … I don’t understand that.” 

Mortenson said she then closed and locked the door again, saying, “I didn't know what to do.” 

‘Nothing happens in Moscow,’ roommate said before discovering bodies

Mortenson told an officer that she went to another housemate’s room after that one answered her call. They locked the door and talked, she said. The other surviving roommate has been identified as Bethany Funke. 

“We didn't think anything of it, nothing happens in Moscow, so we just tried to go to bed, and then we woke up … that’s when all this happened,” Mortenson told an officer as her voice shook. 

The next morning, Mortenson said she didn't hear the other roommates despite calling out for them.

That’s when she saw what happened, Mortenson said, sobbing.

Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin

Victim Ethan Chapin’s brother comes to the scene 

The video shows Chapin’s twin brother, Hunter, coming to the home not knowing of the murders as the friends sob. The friends identify Chapin’s brother to authorities.

"That's his brother," they tell officers. He is seen in the video speaking to a friend of Ethan's.