Audio of 911 Call published in Idaho Quadruple Murder Fall

Audio from a 911 call from the house, in which four students from the University of Idaho were murdered in 2022, were released into the public, which reveals panic and confusion, since the callers recognize that one of their friends no longer breathe.

The hectic call was placed on November 13th at 11:55 a.m. by Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke. The audio begins with a 911 dispatcher that asks the caller to describe the emergency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX5IXXQZNE

“Hello, something happened here,” sobbed one of the women in the clip, which was only preserved from NBC News late Friday. “Something happened in our house, we don't know what.”

If the caller is asked about the address of emergency, he seems to collapse. A friend of the women then grabs the phone and describes the situation to the dispatcher.

“One of the roommates who passed out and she was drunk last night and she doesn't wake up,” says the caller and refers to 20-year-old Xana Kernodle. “Oh, and you saw a man in your house last night.”

When the first caller picks up the phone again, the dispatcher asks you to find out whether someone in the off-campus house in Moscow will pass out. She replies with the view that she will be looked at.

After a few seconds, when a heavy breathing was heard in the line, a male caller picks up the phone.

“Do she breathe?” The dispatcher asks him what he answers: “No.”

While a protocol of the 911 call was published in court files last week when the murderous Bryan Kohberger prepared for court proceedings, the first time was that the public heard the panic in the voices of the friends and roommates when they tried to understand the situation.

Also last week, text messages were published between Mortensen and Funke and showed for hours similar fear and confusion when they were heard at home, but none of their other roommates answered their phones.

Around 4:23 a.m. Mortensen Funke wrote an SMS that she “freaked out” after seeing what she thought she was wearing something with a ski mask. Funke then said Mortensen that he should run into her room so that they didn't have to be alone.

About six hours later, the women wrote an SMS to their roommates to ask if they were awake. But Kernodle is said to have been stabbed together with Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Kaylee Goncalves at that time.

Kohberger, who was arrested in the house of his parents in Pennsylvania after a six -week search in December, has not guilty the murder. His process is scheduled to begin in August.

Originally published: March 15, 2025 at 7:04 p.m. Edt