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'There's someone here': Kaylee Goncalves' CHILLING last words when masked killer barged in revealed

One of the surviving roommates overheard a man, believed to be Bryan Kohberger, say, 'it's OK, I'm going to help you'

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MOSCOW, IDAHO: The harrowing final words of one of the victims in the Idaho murder case has been disclosed in a shocking affidavit. According to Moscow police, a surviving roommate of the house told that she heard Kaylee Goncalves say "there's someone here" just moments before she and three others were brutally murdered with a military-grade edged blade. 

On Thursday, December 5, police detailed the investigation which led to the arrest of murder suspect Bryan Kohberger in a written statement. Moscow Police Department's Brett Payne recounts the interview in the document with a surviving roommate who escaped the killer's grasp. The housemate, identified as Dylan Mortensen, claimed that on November 13, she awoke to the sounds of what she considered was Goncalves playing with her dog in the third-floor bedroom at around 4 am. 

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Mortensen who was on the second floor then told the authorities that she heard "crying" coming from Xana Kernodle's room and also snooped a man, believed to be Bryan Kohberger, saying, "it's OK, I'm going to help you." The housemate added that she peered out of her bedroom but did not see anyone in the home.

Mortensen swung her door open after she heard more screams and that is when in a state of horror she came across a "masked man in black clothing" in the hallway. The victim, who was in a "frozen shock phase," told investigators that the killer walked past her and toward the back sliding door of the home. The survivor, in order to secure her own life, then locked herself in the room.

"As I entered this bedroom, I could see two females in the single bed in the room. Both Goncalves and Mogen were deceased with visible stab wounds", Payne's statement read, according to The Sun. "I also later noticed what appeared to be a tan leather knife sheath laying on the bed next to Mogen's right side (when viewed from the door)." He said the Idaho state lab later located "a single source of male DNA left on the button snap of the knife sheath."

'Will be part of criminal justice process for the long haul'

Kaylee Goncalves' family also said that they will be a part of the criminal justice process "for the long haul" after they saw suspect Bryan Kohberger in person for the first time. "It’s obviously an emotional time for the family, seeing the defendant for the first time," the family's attorney, Shanon Gray, said outside the Latah County courthouse, according to Fox News. "This is the beginning of the criminal justice system, and the family will be here for the long haul. And that’s the statement for the media today." Kohberger made an initial court appearance in which he was ordered to be held without bond. Gray also added that the victim's family will neither take nor answer any questions. Goncalves' mother previously told the outlet that her family has "to stay strong for Kaylee and Maddie," who were stabbed to death in the same bed on November 13. 

Bryan Kohberger arrest

After more than a month, police arrested and charged Kohberger in his parent's Pennsylvania home on December 30, for the murders of Ethan Chapin, 20, Kernodle, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Goncalves, 21. The students were killed in their off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho, on November 13. Kohbergher, who is a graduate student at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary. He received his bachelor of science degree in psychology from DeSales University in 2020 and completed his graduate studies in criminal justice in June 2022.