This is so strange.
A roommate who survived the quadruple murders at the University of Idaho told police she saw a man in black clothes and a mask walking past her in her house on the night of the killings, and she stood “frozen” and in “shock,” according to newly released court documents.
The roommate said she didn’t recognize the man, who walked toward the back sliding glass door at her off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, according to documents released on Thursday. She locked herself in her room after seeing him, the documents said.
...Two roommates, who police said are not suspects, survived the attack in the early hours of Nov. 13. Later that morning, the roommates called friends over to their house because they thought one of the victims on the second floor had passed out and wasn’t waking up, police said. Around noon, a 911 call from one of the roommate’s phones requested help for an unconscious person, police said.
...One of the surviving roommates said she woke up around 4 a.m. from what sounded like Goncalves playing with her dog in one of the third floor bedrooms, according to the affidavit.
“A short time” after, the roommate said “she heard who she thought was Goncalves say something to the effect of ‘there’s someone here,'” the documents said. But that could have been Kernodle on her phone because records showed she was on TikTok at about 4:12 a.m., the affidavit said.
The roommate said “she looked out of her bedroom but did not see anything when she heard the comment about someone being in the house,” the documents said. “She opened her door a second time when she heard what she thought was crying coming from Kernodle’s room.”
The roommate “then said she heard a male voice say something to the effect of ‘it’s ok, I’m going to help you,'” according to the documents.
The roommate said she opened her door again when she heard the crying, and that’s when she saw the figure in the mask, the documents said.
She described the intruder as 5-foot-10 or taller, and “not very muscular, but athletically built with bushy eyebrows,” according to the documents.
If this roommate did think Bryan Kohberger was an intruder and not someone invited in by another resident, I don't know why she didn't call for help immediately. I don't know how she could have fallen asleep after seeing someone in the house, especially after hearing crying.
Wasn't it unusual to see a strange, masked person completely dressed in black in the house? Was it normal for a strange, masked person to be there? Perhaps weird, unknown people did come and go.
Was this roommate intoxicated, affecting her reaction to the activity she perceived in the house? Who knows?
Thankfully, the roommate was spared.
I also don't understand how anyone could think a murdered individual was unconscious, especially given that the murder scene was reportedly exceptionally grisly.
There are a lot of unanswered questions and odd details that I'm sure will be explained later. For now, all that matters is that Kohberger, the killer, was apprehended and will be brought to justice.
It's wrong to trash the roommate without having all the facts.
