Bryan Kohberger case: Surviving roommate saw Xana Kernodle on floor after encounter with masked intruder

A roommate wrong the location wherever 4 University of Idaho students were killed saw 1 of her housemates connected the level minutes aft seeing a masked intruder but walked past the scene, according to a caller tribunal filing.

Bryan Kohberger is charged with first-degree execution successful the deaths of 4 students astatine the University of Idaho, including Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; and Ethan Chapin, 20. The erstwhile Washington State University pupil was besides charged with 1 felony number of burglary.

D.M. and B.F., the surviving roommates, returned to their Moscow, Idaho location during the aboriginal greeting hours of Nov. 13, 2022 aft a nighttime out. The Thursday nighttime tribunal filing reveals that D.M. and B.F. met successful Goncalves' chamber earlier resting for the night.

At 4:00 a.m., D.M. reported proceeding unusual noises arsenic good arsenic crying coming from the bathroom. According to the documents, she opened her doorway and "saw a antheral dressed successful achromatic with a skis disguise on." 

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Madison Mogen, apical left, smiles connected the shoulders of her champion friend, Kaylee Goncalves, arsenic they airs with Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, and 2 different housemates successful Goncalves' last Instagram post, shared the time earlier the 4 students were stabbed to death. (@kayleegoncalves/Instagram)

Bryan Kohberger, accused of murder, arrives for a proceeding connected cameras successful the courtroom successful Latah County District Court connected September 13, 2023 successful Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger, a erstwhile criminology PhD student, was indicted earlier this twelvemonth successful the November 2022 killings of Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20, successful an off-campus flat adjacent the University of Idaho.  (Ted S. Warren-Pool/Getty Images)

After seeing the antheral with a skis disguise on, D.M. called and texted her roommates to spot if they were awake. B.F. was the lone 1 to respond, and the 2 spoke connected the telephone for 24 seconds. They would talk again for 41 seconds conscionable a infinitesimal aft the archetypal call, and D.M. told B.F. "she saw a antheral successful a skis disguise leaving the house," the papers states.

The 2 would proceed frantically texting each different 4:22 a.m. and 4:26 a.m.

"No 1 is answering," D.M. texted B.F. "I'm rlly confused rn."

"Ya dude wtf," B.F. responded. "Xana was wearing each black."

At 1 constituent betwixt 4:22 a.m. and 4:26 a.m., D.M. texted Goncalves, but received nary response. D.M. besides attempted to interaction Kernodle and Chapin, who some didn't respond.

D.M. past near her country and began "running" toward B.F.'s country and saw Kernodle "laying connected the level of her bedroom" with "her caput towards the partition and her feet toward the door" astatine 4:17 a.m.

At the time, D.M. thought Kernodle was drunk.

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Police person named the 4 victims of a quadruple homicide astatine the University of Idaho arsenic Maddie Mogen, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, and Kaylee Goncalves. (Instagram: @maddiemogen, @kayleegoncalves, @ethanchapin4)

Timeline of Nov. 13, 2022:

• 4:00 AM: Suspect arrives astatine house
• Between 4 and 4:17: Time of murders
• 4:19: Roommate calls 3 victims, nary 1 answers
• 4:22 to 4:24: Surviving roommates substance each different from wrong house
• 4:27: Roommate calls victims again, nary 1 answers
• 4:32: Roommate texts Goncalves 'Pls answer'
• 10:23: Surviving roommate texts victims, nary 1 answers
• 11:39: Roommate calls her father
• 12:00 PM.: 911 telephone placed from roommate's phone

Between 5:00 a.m. and 6:30 a.m., D.M. "engaged successful enactment connected her phone, chiefly creating, editing and deleting images and videos," the filing stated. Her telephone enactment ended astatine 8:05 a.m. At 10:23 a.m., D.M. texted Mogen, but got nary response. She utilized Instagram up until 11:29 a.m., erstwhile she texted Goncalves asking if she was up. 

B.F. would yet telephone 911 astatine 11:56 a.m. erstwhile respective of her friends arrived.

Heather and Jared Barnhart, integer specialists retained by instrumentality enforcement to analyse Kohberger's compartment telephone and PC, determined that determination were "abnormal" gaps successful information connected the devices, according to the tribunal filing.

In the Barnhart's associated report, they observed "gaps" successful Kohberger's PC which "may beryllium accordant with cleaning up oregon utilizing anti-forensic methods to wide evidence," the tribunal filing indicated.

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Bryan Kohberger enters the courtroom for his arraignment proceeding successful Latah County District Court, May 22, 2023 successful Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger is accused of sidesplitting 4 University of Idaho students successful November 2022. (Zach Wilkinson-Pool/Getty Images)

The documents besides disclosed that Brent Turvey, a transgression country expert called by the defense, said that determination were attempts by the suspects to "clean up the transgression country aft the homicides," which helium claims "would person taken acold longer than the clip interval alleged by the state. 

Judge Steven Hippler ruled that the Barnhart's grounds is admissible during the trial, arsenic good arsenic astir of the 911 telephone placed by the roommates.