Audio of 911 call released in Idaho quadruple murder case

Muri Assunção, New York Daily News on Mar 15, 2025

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Audio from a 911 call made from the house where four University of Idaho students were murdered in 2022 has been released to the public, revealing panic and confusion as callers realize one of their friends is no longer breathing.

The frantic phone call was placed by surviving roommates Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke at 11:55 a.m. on Nov. 13. The audio begins with a 911 dispatcher asking the caller to describe the emergency.

“Hi, something has happened here,” one of the women sobs in the clip, which was first obtained late Friday by NBC News. “Something has happened in our house, we don’t know what.”

When asked about the address of the emergency, the caller appears to break down. A friend of the women then picks up the phone and begins to describe the situation to the dispatcher.

“One of the roommates who’s passed out, and she was drunk last night and she’s not waking up,” the caller says, referring to 20-year-old Xana Kernodle. “Oh, and they saw some man in their house last night.”

When the first caller picks up the phone again, the dispatcher asks her to find out if someone is still passed out in the off-campus house in Moscow. She responds by saying she’ll go check.

After a few seconds, when heavy breathing could be heard on the line, a male caller picks up the phone.

“Is she breathing?” the dispatcher asks him, to which he replies, “No.”

While a transcript of the 911 call was made public in court filings last week as murder suspect Bryan Kohberger prepares for trial, Friday marked the first time the public could hear the panic in the voices of the victims’ friends and roommates as they struggled to comprehend the situation.

Text messages between Mortensen and Funke were also made public last week, and depict similar fear and confusion hours earlier when they noises heard in the home but none of their other roommates were answering their phones.

At around 4:23 a.m., Mortensen texted Funke that she was “freaking out” after seeing what she thought was a man in the house wearing something resembling a ski mask. Funke then told Mortensen to “run” to her room so they didn’t have to be alone.

Roughly six hours later, the women texted their roommates to ask if they were awake. But Kernodle, along with Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Kaylee Goncalves, are believed to have been stabbed to death by that time.

Kohberger, who was arrested that December at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania following a six-week manhunt, has pleaded not guilty to the murders. His trial is scheduled to begin in August.