Bryan Kohberger Said Victim’s Name on Night of Idaho Murders, Surviving Roommate Told Police in Newly Unsealed Interview

Bryan Kohberger had no known connection to any of his victims, prosecutors say. But one of the surviving roommates said Kohberger called at least one victim by name before killing them.

Two newly unsealed documents reveal that Dylan Mortensen told authorities she heard the killer say Kaylee Goncalves‘ name during the attacks.

Idaho State Police (ISP) Tpr. Jeffory Talbot wrote that when he arrived at the Moscow home of the four University of Idaho victims, Sgt. Dustin Blaker of the Moscow Police Department (MPD) gave him a summary of what the police had learned that morning.

“Sometime in the early morning hours, [Mortensen] was awoken and opened her room door [redacted] and heard a male say, ‘It’s okay Kaylee, I’m here for you,’ and crying,” Tpr. Talbot wrote in a summary of the briefing he got from Sgt. Blaker. A copy of this report was among the unsealed documents obtained by PEOPLE.

At the time of her first interview, Mortensen thought she heard Goncalves running down the stairs while trying to escape her attacker.

Mortensen said she heard the killer say:

“It’s okay, I’m going to help you.” She believed the male voice was new to her. She thought he was in the bathroom with the person crying. She believed it was Kaylee who was crying,” the report said.

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Later that same day, Mortensen updated her story after learning more details. She said she now thought it was “probably Xana who was crying,” even though she initially thought it was Kaylee. She also said Kernodle was likely the person she heard running down the stairs after discovering her friends being attacked or seeing Kohberger.

Mortensen said in both interviews that she was still in shock and trying to understand what happened. However, she remained sure that the killer said Goncalves’ name.

“She advised she knows what she heard, especially about hearing who she believed was Kaylee crying and the male voice telling her he was there for her,” Det. Victoria M. Gooch wrote after interviewing Mortensen with Sgt. Blaker.

Mortensen, the only eyewitness who saw the killer on the night of the murders, had difficulty identifying Kohberger as the man she saw. A newly unsealed interview suggests her testimony might not have been very strong for prosecutors if she had gone to court.

On the day Kohberger was arrested, Mortensen told authorities she could not be sure he was the person she saw.

“From people releasing Bryan Kohberger’s name, I know it’s him, but I don’t know,” Mortensen said.

In an interview with Det. Joe Lake of the ISP, Mortensen said that after seeing a picture of Kohberger:

“Nothing came back to me at all, so that like, and… I feel like if I saw that my mind would be like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s him, but … I just don’t remember at all.'”

Mortensen attended the court hearing where a judge sentenced Kohberger to four life sentences. She spoke through tears to the man who killed her four friends, sharing the fear she still feels every day. She bravely confronted him in court.

“He is a hollow vessel. Something less than human. A body without empathy or remorse,” Mortensen said.

She also said:

“He chose destruction, he chose evil. He feels nothing. He tried to take everything from me.”

Kohberger, who had confessed to the murders three weeks earlier, did not show any emotion while Mortensen spoke.