
Where are the surviving roommates from ‘The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare’?
The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare on Netflix chronicles the shocking 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students – Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin – at their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho.
Directed by Skye Borgman, the three-part docu-series recounts the unprecedented tragedy through police bodycam footage, archival material, and interviews with the victims’ family, also exploring the subsequent nationwide manhunt that led the authorities to Bryan Kohberger’s door.
While The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare takes a victim-first approach, shedding light on how the murder case impacted the lives of the victims’ family and friends who had to navigate immeasurable grief and social scrutiny all at once, the documentary makes one wonder: where are the surviving roommates, Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke, now?
The gripping true-crime documentary reveals via blurred-out archival bodycam and redacted law enforcement footage that Mortensen was present in her room on the second floor of their off-campus house at 1122 King Road the night of the murder. Upon hearing Goncalves’s scream, she woke up, only to find nothing when she looked outside her door.
But as their three-storey house turned into a crime scene, Mortensen reportedly heard louder screams alongside an unidentified guy’s voice from Kernodle’s room, saying, “It’s okay. I’m going to help you.” She opened her door again, and her eyes seemed to meet his. However, the perpetrator was unsuspecting of her presence and thus left the house through the kitchen and side door.
Mortensen wasted no time locking the door and trying to contact her roommates through texts. However, nobody responded except Funke, who was in her room on the bottom floor. While both stayed in their rooms for the rest of the night, they asked their friends to help the next day when nobody else responded from the house. Eight hours after the incident, 911 was called, and the four were pronounced dead.
According to PEOPLE in 2023, citing a source close to Mortensen and Funke, they both struggle with survivor’s guilt. “Their friends are gone, and they’re still here. It’s been really rough on them. They’re going to be dealing with this for the rest of their lives.”
A year ago on July 23rd, Mortensen gave her victim impact statement at Kohberger’s hearing: “They say I’m a survivor, but they don’t see what my new reality looks like. They don’t see the panic attacks, the hypervigilance, the exhaustion, the way I scan every room I enter, the way I flinch at sudden sounds. They don’t know how heavy it is to carry so much pain and still be expected to keep going. That’s because of him. He is a hollow vessel. Something less than human.”
In a 2023 interview with Oxygen, Mortensen’s stepmother shared that she had to transfer schools and has been on a traumatic journey of recovery, living a life away from the public eye.
As for Funke, according to a 2024 post by fraternity Alpha Tau Omega, she has transferred from the University of Nevada, where she was a senior and a club soccer player. Although she wasn’t present at the 2025 testimony, Alandt read a statement on her behalf where she opened up about her struggle with PTSD.
“I was grieving, numb, and unsure if what had happened was even real, and at the same time, I was getting flooded with death threats and painful messages from people who did not know me at all or know the dynamic of our friendship. I hated and still hate that they are gone, but for some reason, I’m still here, and I got to live. I still think about this every day. Why me? Why did I get to live and not them?”
Like Mortensen, Funke currently lives a private life with her social media locked from the public eye.