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Hosts who survive four Idaho University students murdered by Bryan Kohberger He spoke out at his sentencing hearing on Wednesday, July 23.
Kohberger, 30, was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences After pleading guilty earlier this month to murders Maddie. Kayleee goncalves. Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.
Mogen, Goncalves and Kernodle shared a house off campus with Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke in Moscow, Idaho, who Targeted by Kohberger On the night of November 13, 2022. (Chapin was sleeping over with his girlfriend, Kerder.)
On Wednesday, Mortensen made a statement an emotional victim’s impact statement as Kohberger’s sentence was transferred, while a friend had read a statement prepared by Funke.
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Dylan Mortensen
“What happened that night changed everything,” said Mortensen through tears, per CBS News. “For her, four beautiful, truly, compassionate people were taken from this world for no reason.”
“He did what I shattered in places I didn’t know he could cut,” Mortensen continued. “I should have been figuring out who I was. I should have been having the college experience and starting to establish my future. Instead, I was forced to learn how to survive the inconceivable.”
According to Mortensen, since the murders, she has experienced panic attacks and intimidated from being alone.
“I can’t breathe, I can’t think, I can’t stop shaking. It’s far beyond anxiety. My body is to re -live everything over and over again. My nervous system never got the message that it was over, and it will not let me forget what it did for them,” he said.
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Mortensen addressed Kohberger, calling him “an empty vessel, something less than a human, a body without empathy, without repentance.”
He said, “He chose destruction. He chose evil. He feels nothing. He tried to take everything from me: my friends, my safety, my identity, my future.”
Mortensen said Kohberger would “never have to take my voice,” describing how he will continue to honor his killed friends.
“He will never take the memories I had with them. He will never eliminate the love we shared, the laughter we had or the way they made me feel like I was seen. They are my things.
Bryan Kohberger appears in the County Court of ADA, for his sentencing hearing.
Photo Ap/Kyle Green, PoolBethany Funke
In a statement read by a friend, Funke described feeling guilt over the events of the critical day she and Mortensen found their friends’ bodies.
“I still carry so much repentance and guilt for not knowing what happened and not calling (911) immediately even though I understand it would not have changed anything, even if the paramedics had been outside the door,” he said CBS News and A! News.
Funke said she had experienced Survivor’s guilt over the deaths of her fellow -countrymen, who have been exacerbated by a shared vitriol through social media.
A mother of one of the victims in Idaho University’s murders had a joyful message to her murderer, Bryan Kohberger, following his sentence from the imprisonment of his life. “A dead murderer does not kill again. So while I am disappointed that the firing squad will not take their photos to you, I am confident that the men in prison will be (…)
“I was overflowing with death threats and hatred messages of people who didn’t know me at all or knew the dynamics of our friendship. The media disturbed not only me but also my family,” he said. “People appeared in our house, they called my phone, my parents ‘phones, other family members’ phones – and we were persecuted while I was still trying to survive emotionally and grieving.”
Funke finished her statement, “For a long time, I could hardly get out of bed. But one day I realized I had to live for them. They didn’t get a chance to continue living, but I can’t take that for granted. So now, every day I remind myself to live for them. Everything I do with them is in mind.”
