Idaho police chief pushes back on reports roommate heard Kohberger say name

The chief of police in an Idaho college town rocked by Bryan Kohberger’s deadly home invasion stabbings is pushing back on reports that a surviving roommate overheard the killer referring to one of the victims by name.

The clarification comes amid reports that surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen overheard Kohberger mention 21-year-old victim Kaylee Goncalves by name at the time of the murders.

“I’m not quite sure where they got that, that report, but that doesn’t seem accurate to me,” Moscow Police Chief Anthony Dahlinger told Fox News’ Paul Mauro this week.

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Dahlinger’s department released hundreds of pages of documents on the case last month after Kohberger’s sentencing. Then Idaho State Police released more than 500 additional pages over the weekend.

The disputed claim appears on page 91 of the state police documents, in a second-hand conversation:

“Sometime in the early morning hours, [Mortensen] was awoken and opened her room door and heard a male say ‘It’s OK Kaylee, I’m here for you’ and crying,” reads a narrative summary from Idaho State Trooper Jeffory Talbott, based on information he said he received from Moscow Police Sgt. Dustin Blaker.

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The reports are based on this excerpt from page 91 of more than 500 pages of documents released by the Idaho State Police this week. (Idaho State Police)

“The only thing that I believe was reported was that he said something – someone heard a voice say something along the lines of, ‘It’s OK, I’m here to help you,'” Dahlinger said.

Mortensen, who came within 3 feet of Kohberger on the night of the massacre but escaped harm herself, overheard that utterance, according to court documents as well as recently released police records.

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She told police she thought she heard Goncalves, one of the four stabbing victims, but later said that it was probably Xana Kernodle, 20, another roommate killed in the attack.

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