Texts of surviving roommates of U of Idaho murders revealed for first time — describe masked man with ‘bushy eyebrows’

Newly revealed text messages from the night four University of Idaho students were murdered in their beds show that two surviving roommates were awake while the intruder prowled through their house — as they desperately tried to check on their dead friends.

The roommates — identified only as DM and BF in a newly unsealed court filing — began texting each other around 4:22 a.m. that fateful November morning in 2022, just five minutes after the killer is believed to have left their home in Moscow, Idaho.

“No one is answering,” DM texted BF as she tried to call roommates Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20, one by one after seeing someone with “bushy eyebrows,” a mask and dark clothing leave the home.

“I’m rlly confused,” she wrote to BF, before texting her roommates again and imploring them to respond — not knowing they were lying dead in pools of their own blood.

“Kaylee … What’s going on?” DM texted.

BF said Kernodle had been wearing black, suggesting maybe that’s whom DM saw — but she insisted it wasn’t their friend.

“I’m freaking out rn,” DM said. “No it’s like a ski mark almost.”

“STFU,” BF wrote.

“Like he had soemtbinfover [sic] is for head and little nd mouth,” DM explained. “I’m not kidding I’m so freaked out.”

BF then told DM to come downstairs to their room, begging her to “run.”

DM did, and the pair spent the rest of the night together huddled in their room.

Once the sun rose, they tried to reach their roommates a few more times by phone, before a 911 call was eventually made from BF’s phone around noon as the victims were found.

Kernodle’s boyfriend, 20-year-old Ethan Chapin, was also killed with the three roommates.

DM’s description of the suspect is the only one police have of the suspected killer. Her statements, along with security footage from a building next door, indicate the suspect left the six-bedroom home just after 4:17 a.m. that day.

Below is a full timeline of the texts and calls the friends made:

• 4 a.m. — Suspect arrives and enters house.
• 4 a.m. to 4:17 a.m. — Murders occur and intruder leaves.
• 4:19 a.m. — Surviving roommate calls all three victims, but none answer.
• 4:22 a.m. to 4:24 a.m. — Surviving roommates, DM and BF, text one another from different rooms in the house.
• 4:27 a.m. — Surviving roommate calls the victims again without success.
• 4:32 a.m. – Surviving roommate texts Goncalves saying, “Pls answer.”
• 10:23 a.m. – DM texts victims hours later, and still nobody answers.
• 11:39 a.m. – DM calls her father.
• 12 p.m. — 911 call placed from BF’s phone.

Prosecutors have asked the court to allow the text messages and their timeline to be introduced as evidence.

They allege a Ka-Bar knife sheath found under Mogen’s body had DNA on it that led them to Bryan Kohberger, a 30-year-old criminology student who was studying for his doctorate nearby at Washington State University when the crime happened.

A judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf after Kohberger refused to speak in court.

His trial is scheduled for August, in Boise.