A year after the massacre of four University of Idaho students, her roommate who confronted the cold-blooded killer but was saved has transferred colleges and is struggling with survivor’s guilt, her stepmother told The Post in her first public comments.
Patricia Munroe said Dylan Mortensen has been doing “okay” since Bryan Kohberger allegedly slaughtered Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin on Nov. 13, 2022, inside 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho.
“There’s a lot of guilt because, you know, if someone says, ‘Oh, well, Dylan is so lucky,’ you know, you don’t want to take that luck — because all kids deserve luck. They all deserve to be spared that,” said Munroe, 53, of Costa Mesa, Calif.
Munroe — who is married to Mortensen’s father, Brent Mortensen — helped raise Dylan from the time he was 7, almost until he graduated from high school.
She and Brent Mortensen have since divorced, but she insists she’s still “very aware of what’s going on and what [Mortensen’s] do and how he does,” he said.
Dylan’s stepmother said the 20-year-old had transferred to a university this year but declined to say which one.
Dylan confronted the alleged killer as he left the house, standing in a “phase of frozen shock” as “a figure dressed in black and masked walked toward him,” then “toward the rear sliding glass door” of the home, a police affidavit stated. He then locked himself in his room for the night.
Dylan Mortensen, who survived the slaughter, appears to have transferred to university this year. VSCO / Dylan Mortensen “…All children deserve luck. They all deserve to be free of that,” said Patricia Munroe, Mortensen’s stepmother.
For reasons that remain unknown, he and Bethany Funke, another roommate who survived the attack, did not call police until around noon the next day, according to Idaho investigators.
It’s just a fact that social media trolls and citizen sleuths have taken part in slamming Mortensen and Funke since the case gained worldwide attention last year.
They have called him everything from a murderer and drug dealer to a transgender.
“You never really think about the backlash and the trolls online until you deal with it, and it’s just a really hurtful thing,” Munroe said.
Nov. 13 is the one-year anniversary of the deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle. James Keivom The trial has not yet begun for Bryan Kohberger, Washington State University Ph.D. the student accused of brutally killing the four students. AP
“I challenge anybody to be in a position where they wake up when four of their roommates are gone and, you know, don’t realize it,” he continued.
“People need to understand that these children are still very young. . . You know, they’re just little kids, and it’s just a very traumatic thing. I just think that people need to have compassion.
“There needs to be space and time for all the details to come out in the trial,” Munroe said.
“I challenge anybody to be in a position where they wake up when four of their roommates are gone and, you know, not realize it,” Munroe said. VSCO / Dylan Mortensen A judge denied a motion by Kohberger’s defense team to dismiss the charges against him on October 26. James Keivom
Kohberger, a 28-year-old Washington State University Ph.D. criminology student, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and faces the death penalty.
A trial date has not been set. Kohberger’s attorney, Anne Taylor, did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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