Surviving Idaho roommate Bethany Funke fights having to testify at Bryan Kohberger trial

argue that the housemate’s testimony is key to the trial and could clear the murder charges levied against their client.

Funke’s attorneys also argue that the court does not have the authority to summon a Nevada witness to Idaho for a preliminary hearing.Bryan Kohberger is facing charges for allegedly stabbing to death four college students.Bethany Funke and fellow survivor Dylan Mortensen lived in the same off-campus home as the four victims whose bodies were discovered on Nov. 13.

Funke lived on the first-floor with fellow survivor Dylan Mortenson, the person who allegedly came face-to-face with the killer during the night of the attack.James KeivomMadison Mogen and her friend Kaylee Goncalves, both 21, and Xana Kernodle and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, both 20, were found stabbed to death in the upper levels of their home.

Mortensen opened her door to find a “figure clad in black clothing and mask that covered the person’s mouth and nose walking towards her.” She said she was shocked and froze in place — but the man just walked past her and out the back sliding glass door.

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