ate while the killer moved in the house

Screams and bangs were heard as the shadow figure moved from room to room.

The students text in panic while their roommates were killed.

“What the hell. He’s dressed completely in black”.

At four o’clock in the morning November 13, 2022, the student Dylan Mortensen, 19, was raised by strange sounds from within his accommodation on campus in Idaho.

Hours later, it was clear that three roommates and a boyfriend to one of the students were stabbed to death in their rooms.

Only Mortensen and her friend Bethany Funke, 21, came out alive.

Newly released documents show how they both text with each other during the time the act was going on.

“Nobody answers. I’m totally confused,” Mortensen wrote.

From one of the rooms they heard crying and an unknown man’s voice that said “It’s okay, I’ll help you”.

Then they walked out of their rooms to scout in the hall – and saw the perpetrator.

“What the hell. He’s totally dressed in black”.

“I panic, it looks like a ski mask”.

DNA discovery

In the conversation to the police later in the morning, heavy breathing and crying is heard, according to CNN.

– Something has happened in our house, we don’t know what, says one of them.

When the police arrived, 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves and Madison found mature dead on the third floor. On the second floor were 20-year-old Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin dead with visible stab wounds.

Friends Kaylee, “Maddie”, Ethan and Xana. Hours after the picture was taken, they were murdered. Photo: Private

There were no signs of burglary in the home – and the hunt for the perpetrator lasted for over a month.

But with the help of DNA on a knife sheath that was forgotten on the bed in the house, you could finally arrest 30-year-old criminologist student Bryan Kohberger suspected of four murders.

Drove past twelve times

The connections between Kohberger and the murdered young people have not yet been published, but according to the police he must have passed the house twelve times the months before the murder.

Now the trial is approaching, CNN writes.

The messages the two survivors sent to each other are said to play a crucial role in drawing up a timeline.

At the same time, Kohberger’s defenders have begun to question why the women waited eight hours to call 911.

The lawyers say they spent an unreasonable amount of time on their phones before they sounded alarms, something dismissed by experts.

“When we are facing trauma or fear, we all have different response systems and there is no right response system,” psychology professor Elizabeth Cauffman told CNN.