Bryan Kohberger Case: Surviving Roommate Saw Xana Kernodle On Floor After Encounter With Masked Intruder

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

Bryan Kohberger is charged pinch first-degree murder successful nan deaths of 4 students astatine nan University of Idaho, including Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; and Ethan Chapin, 20. The erstwhile Washington State University student was besides charged pinch 1 felony count of burglary.

D.M. and B.F., nan surviving roommates, returned to their Moscow, Idaho location during nan early 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 nan night.

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

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

Bryan Kohberger, accused of murder, arrives for a proceeding connected cameras successful nan 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 nan November 2022 killings of Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20, successful an off-campus flat adjacent nan University of Idaho.  (Ted S. Warren-Pool/Getty Images)

After seeing nan man pinch a skis disguise on, D.M. called and texted her roommates to spot if they were awake. B.F. was nan only 1 to respond, and nan 2 said connected nan telephone for 24 seconds. They would speak again for 41 seconds conscionable a infinitesimal aft nan first call, and D.M. told B.F. "she saw a man successful a skis disguise leaving nan house," nan archive 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 room and began "running" toward B.F.'s room and saw Kernodle "laying connected nan level of her bedroom" pinch "her caput towards nan wall and her feet toward nan door" astatine 4:17 a.m.

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

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Police person named nan 4 victims of a quadruple homicide astatine nan 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 matter 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 activity connected her phone, chiefly creating, editing and deleting images and videos," nan filing stated. Her telephone activity ended astatine 8:05 a.m. At 10:23 a.m., D.M. texted Mogen, but sewage 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 rule enforcement to analyse Kohberger's compartment telephone and PC, wished that location were "abnormal" gaps successful information connected nan devices, according to nan tribunal filing.

In nan Barnhart's associated report, they observed "gaps" successful Kohberger's PC which "may beryllium accordant pinch cleaning up aliases utilizing anti-forensic methods to clear evidence," nan tribunal filing indicated.

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Bryan Kohberger enters nan 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 crime segment expert called by nan defense, said that location were attempts by nan suspects to "clean up nan crime segment aft nan homicides," which he claims "would person taken acold longer than nan clip interval alleged by nan state. 

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