Dylan Mortensen told investigators that she had been awake inside the King Road house during the early morning hours of November 13, 2022, and heard a series of noises that initially did not make sense to her. She described hearing what she thought was Kaylee Goncalves playing with her dog upstairs, then hearing someone say there was somebody in the house. Mortensen said she opened her bedroom door multiple times as the noises continued. She later heard crying from Xana Kernodle’s room and a male voice saying words to the effect of, “It’s okay, I’m going to help you.” In later-released police interview footage, Mortensen described that voice as unsettling rather than reassuring and recalled hearing a scream before the house became quiet. Her account ultimately provided investigators with one of the most important firsthand timelines of what was happening inside the house while the murders were taking place.
Mortensen also told police that when she opened her door for the final time, she saw a man dressed in black with a mask covering his mouth and nose walking toward her and then past her toward the rear sliding-glass door. She described him as at least 5-foot-10, athletically built but not particularly muscular, with bushy eyebrows. She said she stood there in a “frozen shock phase” before locking herself back inside her room, and she did not claim to recognize the man. That description later became important to investigators when they compared it with Bryan Kohberger’s driver’s-license information after identifying his white Hyundai Elantra. Mortensen’s account also dramatically changed the early public understanding of the case, because police had initially allowed the impression that the surviving roommates had simply slept through the murders when, in reality, Mortensen had been awake, heard portions of the attack and encountered the man investigators believed was leaving the house.
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