It’s been a year since the murders of four University of Idaho students in their off-campus home — with their two surviving roommates keeping a low profile since the gruesome killings.
Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke were both at home when criminology student Bryan Kohbeger allegedly snuck into their Moscow home on November 13, 2022, and stabbed their roommates Maddie Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kenodle and Ethan Chapin to death in their beds.
Mortensen, 21, even came face-to-face with the killer shortly after the bloody slaughter, telling authorities he saw “a figure dressed in black and a mask” walking toward the back exit of the home shortly after 4 a.m., according to a police report.
The two women were also allegedly texting each other during the murders and received hateful attacks online after it was revealed that no one called 911 for several hours after the quadruple slaying took place.
Since then, the two spared roommates kept quiet.
Mortensen has reportedly “isolated himself.”
He was seen briefly after the murder which took place near his parents’ home but has avoided media attention since then.
Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke were both at home when criminology student Bryan Kohbeger allegedly broke into their Moscow home on November 13, 2022. Maddie Mogen/Instagram
“In the initial weeks after the murder, he was basically turned around on social media,” private investigator J. Reuben Appelman told NewsNation.
“This is part of the trauma that he experienced. Dylan himself has retreated from the public eye, very few people have seen him.”
Mortensen, 21, even came face-to-face with the killer shortly after the bloody slaughter, telling authorities he saw “a figure dressed in black and a mask” walking towards the back exit of the house just after 4am
Mortensen’s father reportedly told Appelman that his daughter was in “trauma therapy.”
“He got help from the spiritual community,” the private investigator said. “He did what he could without exposing the public.”
Funke, 21, has kept a lower profile and now lives in Nevada.
He was only heard when his attorney filed a motion earlier this year to dismiss a subpoena that would have forced him to testify as part of the defense of murder suspect Bryan Kohberger.
Funke, however, later agreed to sit down for an interview with the suspect’s attorney. It is unclear whether this happened or what resulted from it.
Funke (left) keeps a low profile and currently lives in Nevada.Madison Mogen/Instagram
It remains a mystery why Mortensen and Funke took so long to contact the police on the night of the murder.
“We don’t know if it was an issue of intoxication, or fear,” an Idaho law enforcement source told The Post in January.
According to a newly released police affidavit, Mortensen thought he heard Goncalves say, “There’s someone here,” followed by crying from Kernodle’s room and a male voice saying: “It’s okay, I’ll help you.”
According to a newly released police affidavit, Mortensen thought he heard Goncalves say, “There’s someone here,” followed by the sound of crying from Kernodle’s room.VSCO / Dylan Mortensen
A preliminary police report said the roommates — who lived on the first and second floors of the home — asked friends to come to the scene before one of them ended up calling 911.
The couple were immediately ruled out as suspects, police said.
In December, Mortensen and Funke got matching tattoos on the back of their elbows in honor of their slain roommate — the first letter of their friend’s first name surrounded by angel wings.
Mortensen said his four roommates “changed the way I looked at life.”
Funke writes that victims “are all gifts to this world in your own special way — and it won’t be the same without you.”
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