The roommate who reportedly saw a masked figure inside the University of Idaho home the morning of the brutal quadruple homicide was absolutely terrified, according to a lawyer for one of the victim’s families.
Dylan Mortensen, 21, told police she spotted a person dressed all in black and wearing a mask walking past her toward the back door just after 4 a. m. on November 13.
Authorities weren’t called to the scene for another eight hours.
“She was scared to death, and rightly so,” Shanon Gray, attorney for the family of victim Kaylee Goncalves, told Fox News. “This guy had just murdered four people in the home.”
Bryan Kohberger, 28, has been charged in connection with the deaths of Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.
Gray described the description Mortensen gave to law enforcement as “beneficial” and reminded the public she is also a victim in this case.
“The Goncalves family doesn’t have any ill will towards her or anything like that,” Gray added.
Mortensen locked her bedroom door after seeing the intruder. She and roommate Bethany Funke, 21, did not call police until noon. Investigators believe the four students were killed between 4 a.
m. and 4:25 a. m.
An Idaho law enforcement source told The Post the delay in reporting has been a point of confusion for investigators, noting, “we don’t know if it was an issue of intoxication, or of fear.”
What really happened in those quiet hours before the call?
