New details about the college student murders on November 13 at the University of Idaho have been revealed. 

In the early morning while the attack was occurring, one of the roommates in the house who was not involved in the carnage thought the noises that she heard coming from upstairs during the killing spree were party noises.

At around 4 am, Dylan Mortensen opened her door to ask her roommates to be quiet because she was trying to sleep. When the noise didn’t stop, she opened her door again and saw a man she described with “bushy eyebrows” and athletic build – allegedly the suspect, 28-year-old Bryan Kohberger, standing in front of her. 

She may have thought he was part of the partying crowd upstairs.

Mortensen did not recognize the man and locked herself in her room. She and another roommate, Bethany Funke, 21, were not harmed. 

Around eight hours later, police were summoned to the scene by a man who has been reported to be the friend of the only male victim, Ethan Chapin, to help an “unconscious person,” court documents indicate.

Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Madison Mogen, 21, were the first students murdered. Ethan Chapin, 20, was slashed in the neck on the second floor of the residence, in the doorway of his girlfriend Xana Kernodle’s room.  He was found dead on her bed. Twenty-year-old Xana Kernodle was the last person to be murdered, and she reportedly tried to fight off her attacker by grabbing his knife.

In December 2022, Bryan Kohberger, a PhD student studying criminal justice at Washington State University, was arrested in Pennsylvania while he was visiting his family for the holidays. He was extradited to Idaho and is awaiting trial. 

The family of Kaylee Goncalves is being noted as potential witnesses in the case. Thirty news organizations have asked the Idaho Supreme Court to remove the gag order that has been placed on the family. They have a lot more to say.