Kaylee Goncalves reportedly noticed somebody in her yard one month earlier than she was killed alongside three different college students at her College of Idaho home, roommate Bethany Funke claims.
In a newly launched police interview with Funke, obtained by Brian Entin Investigates on Monday, September 9, the surviving roommate recounted the occasions that led as much as the night time Bryan Kohberger killed Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Kernodle's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, in 2022.
“I wakened and was half asleep and thought I noticed a firework or one thing. A sparkle underneath my door,” Funke informed the detective within the November 2022 interview, referring to what she heard the night time Kohberger, 30, attacked her roommates inside their school dwelling. “It gave the impression of a bit of firework after which there was a spark.”
Funke defined that she didn't see anybody inside the home, just like the second surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen later recounted. Funke, nevertheless, did inform investigators that Goncalves thought somebody was watching the house simply weeks earlier than she was killed.
“Everybody was, like, gone. It was solely Kaylee, and he or she was taking [her dog] Murphy out to pee,” Funke recalled. “This was some time in the past. And he or she stated she swears she noticed somebody observing her whereas she was taking the canine out to pee from the yard.”
Dylan Mortensen, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Bethany Funke and Xana Kernodle. Courtesy of Kaylee Goncalves/Instagram
When she was requested when the sighting occurred, Funke stated “perhaps like a month” earlier than the slaying.
“She may see a person's silhouette observing her,” Funke remembered Goncalves telling her on the time.
Goncalves was one among 4 college students killed by Kohberger in November 2022 whereas they had been inside their Idaho residence. Funke and Mortensen had been the one ones at 1122 King Highway in Moscow who survived the assault.
Particulars of the Idaho College murders have been launched after greater than two years following Bryan Kohberger's July 2025 sentencing listening to. Greater than 300 investigatory information had been launched by way of the Moscow Police Division after a earlier gag order was lifted. The unsealed information reveal that in his first interview with police in December 2022, Kohberger […]
In July, Kohberger pleaded responsible to all 4 murders as a part of a plea deal to keep away from the dying penalty.
He was given 4 consecutive life sentences with out the potential for parole throughout his July sentencing in Boise. Kohberger was additionally given one other 10 years in jail for housebreaking.
Following his conviction, lead prosecutor Invoice Thompson revealed that consultants pinpointed what number of occasions they assume Kohberger was within the neighborhood of the Kings Highway home main as much as the murders.
“We expect that Kohberger was actually stalking that neighborhood,” Thompson stated throughout a July 30 interview on CBS' 48 Hours.
The prosecutor claimed that phone-tracking consultants “had been in a position to present that he was in that space of some 20-plus occasions different occasions at night time, between like 10 and early morning hours … 10 within the night, when there could be no professional purpose for him to be over right here to buy — right here being Moscow — which was his routine apply.”
Thompson added, “So we actually imagine that these journeys … concerned Mr. Kohberger wanting and surveilling or stalking, regardless of the case could also be.”
