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(NewsNation) —Bethany Funke, 1 of the survivors of the University of Idaho murders committed by Bryan Kohberger, said she was viciously harassed and inundated with decease threats successful the aftermath of the killings.
Funke presented a unfortunate interaction connection which was work aloud by a person during Kohberger’s sentencing proceeding Wednesday.
“I was grieving, numb and unsure if what had happened was adjacent real, and astatine the aforesaid time, I was getting flooded with decease threats and achy messages from radical who did not cognize maine astatine each oregon cognize the dynamic of our friendship,” Funke wrote successful her statement.
“The media harassed not conscionable me, but besides my family. People showed up astatine our house, they called my phone. My parents phoned different household members' phones and we were chased portion I was inactive trying to past emotionally and grieve.”
Funke said that societal media made it “worse” due to the fact that “strangers made up stories to entertain themselves.”
The roommate was 1 of 2 who survived the nighttime of November 13, 2022, erstwhile Koehberger brutally murdered Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.
Koehberger took a plea deal, agreeing to service 4 beingness sentences for the slayings. He confessed to sidesplitting them successful court, avoiding a proceedings wherever prosecutors intended to question the decease penalty.
A root adjacent to the families of the Idaho victims told NewsNation that Funke was not among those who discovered the bodies. She was the lone 1 surviving successful the basement astatine the location and seemingly ne'er went upstairs aft the killings.
