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Netflix’s latest docuseries, The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare, follows the tragic 2022 murders of University of Idaho students — Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin — in their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho. The three episodes recount the tragedy and following procedure to capture the killer, Bryan Kohberger, whose heartless, meaningless act of violence stole the lives of innocent young adults. It impacted the lives of family and friends and the college town of Moscow as well. Several survivors who lived through that terrifying night and their family members appear onscreen, sharing firsthand accounts of how they’ve survived and where they were when news broke to them.
Here’s every subject featured in The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare and where they are today.
Dylan Mortensen
Dylan Mortensen was among the two survivors alongside Bethany Funke. The doc uncovers through blurred-out archival body cam and redacted law enforcement footage that Mortensen had been in her room on the second floor in the three-story house at 1122 King Road. She heard Kaylee scream as she went upstairs around 4 a.m. She then woke up. She looked outside her door and saw nothing.
As the murders occurred, Mortensen heard screaming along with a male stranger’s voice say, “It’s okay. I’m going to help you,” in a creepy manner from Kernodle’s room. She then opened her door again and locked eyes with the killer, who was wearing a ski mask. He didn’t suspect her presence as he exited the house through the kitchen and side door. Instantly, Mortensen locked the door. She tried texting her roommates and nobody answered except for Bethany, who was also in her room on the bottom floor. Funke texted Mortensen to run and ran to her room. It wasn’t until the next day that they asked friends of theirs, Emily Alandt and her boyfriend, Hunter Johnson, to come help as nobody within the household responded. They then called 911 eight hours following the incident, where law enforcement pronounced the four deceased.
According to a 2023 report from PEOPLE, a source close to Mortensen and Funke shared the two struggle with survivors’ 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,” says the source.
On July 23, 2025, Mortensen made 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,” she expresses. “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.” “A body without empathy or remorse. He chose destruction, he chose evil. He feels nothing. He tried to take everything from me.”
In the full hearing, Mortensen also courageously stated, “Because of him, four beautiful, genuine, compassionate people were taken from this world for no reason. He didn’t just take their lives, he took their light that carried into every room.”
According to an Oxygen interview in 2023, Mortensen’s stepmother shared that she transferred schools, declining to identify the new university. Today, Dylan Mortensen is on a traumatic healing journey, living life privately outside the public eye battling the life-changing event that no one should have ever endured. Last year, an aunt of the survivor made a GoFundMe for the eyewitness and survivor. It successfully more than surpassed its goal.
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Bethany Funke
The other survivor, Bethany Funke, was also home in her room when Kohberger intruded and murdered her roommates. She has since transferred from the University of Nevada, where, as per a 2024 post by fraternity Alpha Tau Omega, she was a senior and a club soccer team player. She was the fraternity’s nominated sweetheart, with the post sharing, “I am a senior, on the club soccer team and I’m majoring in public health. Although I’ve only been here for a few years, the men of ATO have always made me feel so welcomed and safe. I’m so, so thankful for making some of my best memories with the men of ATO and always having a good time when I am around them.”
In 2025, Funke wasn’t present at the testimony but had Alandt read a statement on her behalf. In it, she discussed her struggle with PTSD following his atrocities. “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,” Alandt reads. “I hated and still hate that they are gone, but for some reason, I am 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?” Funke wrote, “For the longest time, I could not even look at their families without feeling sick with guilt.”
Similar to Mortensen, Funke also lives life away from the public eye with her Instagram private.
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Bryan Kohberger
Kohberger was a Ph.D. student studying criminology at the University of Washington. Through talking-head interviews in the doc, a NewsNation reporter shared that Kohberger didn’t have any close companions.
Alivea Goncalves, Kaylee’s sister, shared that when she got his name, she found he had little online presence besides participating in forum questionnaires asking what the psychological process of committing a crime would feel like.
He was also a teaching assistant during the semester of the Moscow homicides. His position was terminated in 2022 following the semester as he showed instances of strange behavior and was particularly creepy toward women.
On December 30, 2022, Kohberger was arrested in Pennsylvania for the murders of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin due to DNA found on a knife sheath. He was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and felony burglary. Before the trial was supposed to commence in 2025, Kohberger took a plea deal and confessed in order to avoid receiving the death penalty. On July 23, Kohberger was sentenced to serve four lifetimes in prison without parole plus 10 additional years for burglary.
Kohberger is currently serving and will continue to serve the rest of his life in prison.