Idaho College Murders: 9-1-1 Call Audio Released Before Trial

Heartbreaking audio from the 9-1-1 call placed shortly after the Idaho college murders took place in November 2022 has been released ahead of Bryan Kohberger’s trial.

The call was placed the morning of November 13, 2022, the day that the victims were discovered, and a young woman can be heard frantically trying to explain to a 9-1-1 dispatcher what she had found in her home in Moscow, Idaho.

“Something just happened in our house. We don’t know what,” the woman said in the audio obtained by E! News.

After the dispatcher managed to get the address from the woman, a second woman got on the phone to describe the scene.

“One of our roommates has passed out, and she was drunk last night, and she’s not waking up,” the second woman explained. “Oh, and I saw some man in their house last night.”

Authorities eventually arrived at the scene and the call was ended as the dispatcher let the police take over.

The murders of Ethan Chapin, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, rocked the small town of Moscow in 2022. Police located the bodies of the victims on the second and third floors of the house and on November 14, 2022, their deaths were ruled as a “homicide.” Each victim had been stabbed multiple times with a large fix-blade knife, and a knife sheath was left at the scene.

While officials believed that the victims had been asleep at the time of the attacks, one person was noted to have defensive wounds and may have attempted to fight off their attacker. There was no evidence of sexual assault.

On December 7, 2022, police announced that they were looking for a white Hyundai Elantra that was seen near the scene and said they believed that the car’s occupants had “critical information.” The vehicle was later revealed to be registered to Kohberger.

Kohberger was arrested later that same month on December 30, 2022, after he was located in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He was charged with first-degree murder, and in May 2023, a not guilty plea was entered on Kohberger’s behalf after his lawyer stated that his client was “standing silent.”

On March 6, court documents containing text messages between surviving roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke were unsealed. In the conversations, Mortensen and Funke became increasingly concerned after their roommates failed to respond to their texts and calls.

“No one is answering,” Mortensen wrote in a message to Funke at 4:22 a.m. “I’m rlly confused rn.”

Ten minutes later, Mortensen messaged Goncalve, “Pls answer.”

Mortensen then told Funke said that she saw a man wearing what she described as a “ski mask.”

“Like he had soemtbinf [sic] over is for head and little nd mouth,” Mortensent wrote to Funke. “I’m not kidding [I] am so freaked out.”

Funke replied, “Come to my room. Run. Down here.”

Prosecutors in the case have argued that the text messages “establish a timeline of the morning” and should not be considered hearsay.

Kohberger’s trial is set to begin in Boise, Idaho, on August 11, 2025