Gut-wrenching new bodycam footage shows the moment Bryan Kohberger’s shocking crimes came to light as four University of Idaho students were found stabbed to death in Moscow.
The video, obtained by Law & Crime, shows Moscow Police officers responding to what they believed was a report of an unconscious individual at 1122 King Road around midday on November 13, 2022 – only to find the bodies of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin inside.
Outside the home, the 52-minute-long video reveals a heartbreaking and chaotic scene as the surviving roommates and friends of the victims huddle under blankets, sobbing uncontrollably in the road.
Surviving roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke are seen breaking down in tears as they tell the officers about the disturbing incidents inside their home hours earlier.
Mortensen reveals she heard one of the roommates scream and then came face-to-face with a masked intruder but convinced herself she was overreacting because ‘nothing happens in Moscow’.
‘They were in the main room dancing and laughing, Kaylee went upstairs and she screamed that someone’s in the room and she ran downstairs and I kept calling her name and she wouldn’t answer,’ a sobbing Mortensen says.
‘I saw the guy. Oh f**k,’ she says. ‘I actually locked the door and then I ran downstairs. We don’t know what’s going on.’
As word spreads through the close-knit college town, more students are seen gathering outside the home including Chapin’s triplet brother Hunter Chapin who strolls onto the scene unaware that his brother is dead.
Bodyworn camera footage obtained by the Law&Crime Network revealed the moment officers responded to the scene
In the Law&Crime obtained footage, survivors and friends are seen sobbing in the road outside
Pictured left to right: Housemates Dylan Mortensen, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen (on Kaylee’s shoulders) Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Bethany Funke in 2022
Newly-unsealed crime scene photos were also released by Idaho State Police, revealing the remnants of a college party inside the home that was now a crime scene.
On a table in the living room, red cups set up for a game of beer pong make the scene eerily ordinary compared to what took place just hours earlier.
One chilling photo shows Kernodle’s half-eaten DoorDash order from Jack in the Box, delivered moments before Kohberger broke in and began his murderous rampage.
Another image shows a large footprint in the snow out the back of the three-story house – a clue Kohberger may have left behind.
Idaho investigators began releasing evidence from the quadruple homicide after Kohberger pleaded guilty to the murders last month, in a deal to save himself from the death penalty.
On July 23, the 30-year-old PhD student was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.
He is now serving his sentence inside Idaho’s maximum security prison in Kuna where he has already filed multiple complaints about his fellow inmates.
The newly-released bodycam footage begins at around midday on November 13, 2022, with an officer rushing to the front door of the home, where a young man in a blue sweater is waiting.
The back sliding door leading out of the kitchen was left ajar from Kohberger’s escape
Remnants of the night before were still visible in newly-released police pictures from the time they arrived to inspect the home. This included a beer pong set up (pictured)
Bryan Kohberger is seen pacing inside his prison cell in video footage that leaked last week
The students’ faces are redacted in the footage but, based on previously-released court records and witness accounts, this is known to be Hunter Johnson – Chapin’s best friend.
Johnson, his girlfriend Emily Alandt and friend Josie Lauteren had come to the home minutes earlier because Funke and Mortensen had been unable to contact their roommates and were growing concerned.
In the video, Johnson leads the officer up to Kernodle’s room on the second floor, telling him he had checked to see if she was breathing.
The scenes in the bedrooms are redacted but inside the room are Kernodle and Chapin’s bodies.
After Johnson is ushered out of the home and more officers arrive on the scene, police search the property.
The footage shows the back sliding door of the home still ajar from Kohberger’s escape.
The officers then find the bodies of Mogen and Goncalves in Mogen’s bed on the third floor. Much of the officers’ comments are redacted but they are heard sighing with emotion at what they have just seen.
Soon after, the officers exit the home and begin conducting interviews with the students outside the home. Loud, guttural crying is heard coming from the victims’ friends.
Police noticed a footprint in the snow outside the house at 1122 King Road after the murders
One chilling photo shows Kernodle’s half-eaten DoorDash order from Jack in the Box, delivered moments before Kohberger broke in and began his murderous rampage
Police released this image of a black bag found in the woods near the home where the murders took place
In the harrowing bodycam, Mortensen – barefoot and sobbing uncontrollably – tells an officer about the strange incident inside the home.
Kohberger broke into the student home at around 4am – entering through the back sliding door of the home leading to the kitchen.
Prosecutors said he went straight up to the third floor where he found best friends Mogen and Goncalves, both 21, in Mogen’s bed. He stabbed them both multiple times.
The killer encountered Kernodle – who was still awake and using TikTok – as he came back downstairs. He attacked her in her bedroom on the second floor and killed her boyfriend Chapin who was asleep in her bed.
Mortensen is heard telling the officer she thought she heard Goncalves running up the stairs and screaming because she ‘saw someone’.
She shouted out her name several times, Mortensen says.
‘I kept calling her name but she wasn’t answering,’ she sobs.
Investigators now believe it was actually Kernodle who Mortensen heard.
Mortensen, who was 19 at the time, tells the officer she heard a man’s voice that she did not recognize say something to the effect of ‘it’s okay, I’m going to help you’.
Mortensen then tells the officer she came face-to-face with a man inside the home when she looked outside her bedroom door on the second floor of the home.
The man Mortensen saw was dressed in all black with a mask over his face and left through the back sliding door of the home.
In the footage, Mortensen says she tried to contact her roommates but only Funke – whose bedroom was on the first floor – responded.
She ran down to Funke’s room and they both stayed there until later that morning.
Mortensen tells the officer how the terrified students had convinced themselves they were overreacting about what she had seen.
‘We didn’t think anything of it. We’re like nothing happens in Moscow. We tried to go to bed,’ she says.
Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle (left) and Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves (right)
Kohberger slouched in his chair and gave very little emotion as victims shared their devastation
Mortensen is also heard asking the officer if he knows where Mogen and Goncalves are.
‘I don’t know where they’re at,’ she sobs.
The officer says he can’t share anything at the moment. Separately, an officer was heard contacting another cop on the phone, saying: ‘Get your a** into town, we’ve got a quadruple homicide.’
The students only learned their two other roommates were dead when the University of Idaho sent out a Vandal alert announcing that there had been a homicide with four victims.
Part-way through the footage, some of the students loudly sob and mention Chapin’s brother is approaching.
Hunter Chapin lived in the Sigma Chi house close to the home and said in a recent Amazon Prime series that he had been woken by a fraternity brother telling him there was police activity at King Road.
He had walked over to see what was going on.
Bryan Kohberger appears at the Ada County Courthouse during his sentencing hearing
The footage shows the moment Johnson approaches Hunter Chapin and breaks the heartbreaking news that his sibling is dead.
Funke is then also interviewed by an officer about what she remembered from the night before.
Sobbing and sniffling, she recalls watching The Vampire Diaries in the living room after 1am.
Mogen and Goncalves arrived home around 2am and she and Mortensen hung out with them.
Funke tells the officer how she and Mogen took Goncalves’ dog Murphy out and she went to bed soon after.
Sometime later, she says she heard something loud, Murphy bark and saw the flash of what she thought was a firecracker.
But she was ‘kind of asleep so I wasn’t sure if it was real.’
Funke then goes through her cell phone and tells the officer when she placed calls and texts to the roommates. ‘I thought they were asleep,’ she whimpers.
The back sliding door leading out of the kitchen was open and marked by police when they arrived on the scene
The college house, which was occupied by Mogen, Kernodle, Goncalves, Mortensen and Funke, had a poster which read ‘Saturdays are for the girls’ hanging in their living room
The newly-released pictures and bodycam footage emerged days after Idaho Judge Megan Marshall issued a temporary restraining order barring the release of images, audio or video taken from inside Mogen’s bedroom, after her mother sued Moscow Police to prevent their release.
A hearing on the preliminary injunction is due to be held on August 28.
Judge Marshall ruled that the majority of files released so far in the case did not constitute an invasion of privacy, but acknowledged the existence of videos and pictures which, in their unredacted form, could be problematic.
Authorities vowed not to release any images from within any of the victims’ bedrooms until the matter was resolved.
After more than two years of pleading his innocence – and days away from the start of his capital murder trial – Kohberger pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary last month.
The plea deal divided the victims’ families, with the Goncalves and Kernodle families condemning the deal while the Mogen family and Chapin family supported it.
Goncalves’ family said they were ‘robbed of our day in court. No negotiations, no jury of our peers, not even the pretense of cooperation and fairness.’
Newly released images show the state of the living room when police arrived the next day, complete with fairy lights, artwork and a game of beer pong
On July 23, he was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole and he has waived his right to appeal.
During his sentencing hearing, Kohberger was forced to listen to a stream of victim impact statements from grieving loved ones, where he was described as ‘pathetic loser’.
Since being transferred to the state’s maximum security prison in Kuna, Kohberger has been complaining about his treatment from other inmates.
According to a law enforcement source, Kohberger – now known as inmate number 163214 – is being relentlessly tormented by his new jail-mates, who are shouting through the vents into his cell at all hours of the day.
‘It’s driving him crazy. The inmates are tormenting him at night and almost all hours of the day – taunting him through the vents in his cell,’ Chris McDonough, a retired homicide detective who now works for the Cold Case Foundation, told the Daily Mail.
‘They are literally getting up into the grate and yelling at him. The inmates are taking it in turns doing it. It’s relentless.’
Prison records, first obtained by People, have revealed Kohberger has demanded a transfer inside the maximum security prison.
In one handwritten note to guards, the 30-year-old complained that ‘verbal threats/harassment’ and ‘recent flooding/striking’ – where inmates intentionally cause flooding in their cells – had made J block somewhere he didn’t wish to be.
‘Not engaging in any of the recent flooding/striking as well as being subject to minute-by-minute verbal threats/harassment and on that and other bases [sic] Unit 2 of J-Block is an environment that I wish to transfer from,’ he wrote.
Kohberger asked to be transferred out of J block’s restrictive housing unit to B block, where inmates are also held in single cells.
The request was filed on July 30 – just one day after he arrived on the block.
Kohberger’s request was brushed off by a prison official who responded by urging the new inmate to ‘give it some time.’
Just days later Kohberger filed a second complaint – this time alleging he was the victim of sexual threats.
As well as the new images and video, hundreds of pages of documents have been unsealed by Idaho State Police and Moscow Police.
The documents include police interviews with survivors and friends, who reveal that the students at 1122 King Road had seen a man lurking in the trees and noticed a string of bizarre incidents at their home in the weeks before the murders.
Around one month earlier, Goncalves had told multiple people including Mortensen, Funke and her ex-boyfriend Jack DuCoeur that she had seen a man watching her in the trees around the home when she took her pet dog Murphy outside, records show.
Friends also recalled multiple occasions when, during parties at the home, Goncalves’ dog Murphy would run barking into the tree line and wouldn’t return when he was called. This was out of character for the dog, they said.
On November 4, 2022 – just nine days before the murders – the roommates had come home to find the door to their three-story house open.
Funke said that they had grabbed golf clubs and gone room to room, thinking there was an intruder.
Goncalves had also mentioned someone following her around two or three weeks before her murder.
Evidence indicates Kohberger was watching the home in the lead-up to the murders.
From July 2022 through to November 13, 2022, Kohberger’s phone placed him in the vicinity of the King Road home at least 23 times, mostly at night.
Investigators said Kohberger targeted 1122 King Road but that they don’t know who he was targeting inside the home.
The killer’s motive for the attack also remains a mystery and no connection has ever been found between Kohberger and his victims.
