2 Idaho Roommates Survived Bryan Kohberger’s Fatal Attack. Here’s Where They Are Now

Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen survived the scariest night of their lives in the fall of 2022.

The University of Idaho students had been living in their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, with their three friends: Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodle. The five friends appeared to have a close relationship and frequently shared pictures at tailgates, attending dances and enjoying campus life.

However, on Nov. 13, 2022, their lives were forever changed when Bryan Kohberger entered their home and fatally stabbed Goncalves, Mogen, Kernodle and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin. At the time of the murders, both Funke and Mortensen were inside the home.

The next day, Mortensen and Funke called a friend after hearing activity in the upstairs rooms the night before. They proceeded to call police, who found the students’ bodies. A little over a month later, Kohberger was arrested and charged with four counts of first-degree murder and felony burglary.

On July 2, 2025, Kohberger confessed to killing the four students and pleaded guilty, something he attempted to reverse in July 2026. Just before he was sentenced to serve four lifetimes in prison without parole plus 10 additional years for burglary on July 23, Funke and Mortensen delivered victim impact statements, marking their first time publicly speaking out about the night their roommates died.

The horrific murders were revisited in the three-part Netflix docuseries, The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare, which hit the streamer on July 29. Neither Mortensen nor Funke participated in the doc, but some of their police interviews were included.

So, where are the surviving roommates now? Here’s everything to know about Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen’s lives today.

What happened on the night the University of Idaho students were killed?

On Nov. 13, 2022, University of Idaho students Chapin, Mogen, Kernodle and Goncalves were found stabbed to death in an off-campus house at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho.

Two of their roommates — Funke and Mortensen — were home and unarmed, and police ruled them out as suspects early on. Per a press release from the time, the surviving roommates called other friends to the residence because “they believed one of the second-floor victims had passed out and was not waking up.”

According to the case’s probable cause affidavit reviewed by PEOPLE, Kohberger was linked to the case after his DNA matched a sheath of a knife left behind at the scene.

During his trial, Latah County District Attorney Bill Thompson shared he believes Kohberger broke into the victims’ home by sliding through a glass door on the second floor. Thompson said he believes Kohberger then walked past the bedroom of one of the surviving roommates before going up to the third floor and murdering the first two victims, Mogen and Goncalves, before returning to the second floor and killing the other two victims in Kernodle’s room.

What did Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen experience the night their roommates were killed?

In James Patterson and Vicky Ward’s book The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy, Prime Video’s One Night in Idaho: The College Murder and the Netflix docuseries The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare, new details emerged about what happened inside the house the night the four students were killed — including what Funke and Mortensen saw and heard.

Mortensen, who was a junior at the time and living in a room off the side of the kitchen, heard someone scream in the three-story house and swore she overheard an unrecognizable male voice saying, “It’s okay. I’m going to help you” in a “weird tone.” Mortensen further said she heard someone say “someone’s here” before she ran to her door and locked it.

Amid the confusion, Mortensen called all of her roommates, but when nobody was answering, she went over to her door and opened it to look out. It was then that she saw a man dressed in all black, who she may have thought was a firefighter, holding something that looked like a vacuum. They stared at each other for a moment before the perpetrator left.

“I opened up the door to look, and that’s when I saw the guy pass by,” she told police, per a bodycam video included in the Netflix doc. “He looked at me, but he didn’t come towards me or say anything, which was really confusing to me. And I don’t understand that. I’m pretty sure he went out the side door, and then I didn’t know what to do.”

Mortensen returned to her room, where she frantically called Funke and told her what she saw before trying to reach the other housemates. Funke tried to rationalize the situation and said that the figure dressed in black could have been one of their housemates, but Mortensen assured her it was something more peculiar.

“No it’s like a ski mask almost,” Mortensen wrote. “Like he had soemtbing (sic) over is for head (sic) and little nd (sic) mouth.”

She continued, “Bethant (sic) I’m not kidding o (sic) am so freaked out,” with Funke replying, “So am I.”

As Funke explained later in court, she assumed they would go upstairs the next day and be mocked for being “scaredy cats.”

Later that night, Mortensen joined Funke in her bedroom, where the two locked themselves in the room and spent the next eight hours texting their roommates.

Did the surviving roommates serve as eyewitnesses in Bryan Kohberger’s trial?

Although Kohberger was initially linked to the crime scene from DNA and cell phone pings, per the affidavit, Mortensen and Funke also served as eyewitnesses that helped the prosecution team build their case.

In March 2025, Thompson filed a motion stating that he planned to introduce Kohberger’s receipt from the purchase of a balaclava just months before he became a murder suspect. In the filing obtained by PEOPLE, Thompson explained that the black balaclava Kohberger purchased from Dick’s Sporting Goods is the “same type of mask described by [the surviving roommate] that she witnessed worn by a male in the residence on November 13, 2022.”

The eyewitness was later revealed to be Mortensen.

Where are Bethany Funke and Dylan Mortensen now?

At a December 2022 memorial for the victims, a pastor read letters from Funke and Mortensen. Per footage shared by ABC News, Mortensen said her life was “greatly impacted” by having known the four victims, while Funke wished she could “give them one last hug.”

In February 2023, a friend of Funke and Mortensen spoke to PEOPLE about how the roommates were still reeling from the murders, saying, “They feel a lot of survivor’s guilt.”

“Their friends are gone and they’re still here,” the source said. “It’s been really rough on them. They’re going to be dealing with this for the rest of their lives.”

In the years to follow, the former roommates tried to maintain a life out of the spotlight amid the highly publicized trial.

Funke appears to have transferred schools, as she was nominated to be an “ATO sweetheart” at the University of Nevada, per the fraternity’s Instagram.

In the December 2024 post, Funke wrote in the caption that she was a senior, on the soccer team and majoring in public health. “Although I’ve only been here for a few years the men of ATO have always made me feel so welcomed and safe,” she wrote.

In April 2023, Funke fought a legal request that would force her to testify in Kohberger’s trial. But at his sentencing hearing on July 23, she broke her silence in a victim impact statement read by her friend Emily Alandt, who discussed what it was like to live through “the worst day of my life.”

“I was scared the person who did this would come for me next,” Funke wrote in her statement, adding that she had “not slept through a single night since this happened.”

“The fear never really leaves,” Funke’s statement read. “Every day I remind myself to live for them.”

Meanwhile, Mortensen spoke directly about Kohberger’s character, saying, “He is a hollow vessel. Something less than human. A body without empathy or remorse.”

She later added, “He chose destruction, he chose evil. He feels nothing. He tried to take everything from me.”

Mortensen also opened up about how her life was impacted in the aftermath of the massacre.

“I made escape plans everywhere I went. If something happens, how do I get out? What can I use to defend myself?” Mortensen said, adding that her “emotional pain” and “grief” are “too much to handle.”