Surviving roommates in Idaho student murders speak at Kohberger sentencing

Two roommates of when four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death at their off-campus home by a masked intruder in 2022 shared victim impact statements at his sentencing.

The surviving roommates of the four University of Idaho students who were fatally stabbed at their off-campus home by Bryan Kohberger in 2022 shared victim impact statements at his sentencing Wednesday, both expressing sadness and saying that speaking out is "justice."

"He is a hollow vessel, something less than human, a body without empathy, without remorse," Dylan Mortensen said in a Boise courtroom in her first public appearance since the killings of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin.

"He chose destruction. He chose evil. He feels nothing," Mortensen added.

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Mortensen, who sat at the prosecution table as she emotionally spoke, did not identify Kohberger, who sat at the defense table wearing an orange jail jumpsuit flanked by his lawyers. A second roommate, Bethany Funke, was not in court; a friend shared her written statement.