Roommate of 4 students killed in Idaho says harassment forced her to move repeatedly

One of the roommates of the four University of Idaho students killed in their home in 2022 says she’s endured years of harassment, threats and unfounded accusations and wants to ensure her face is blurred in an upcoming release of investigative video recordings, according to court documents.Dylan Mortensen, who told police she saw a strange man with bushy eyebrows and a ski mask in the home the night her roommates were killed, detailed the impacts the case has had on her in a court filing in Latah County, saying her life “has changed in ways I never could have imagined.”Mortensen said in an Oct.29 affidavit that the “amount of attention and hostility” that she’s received has “affected nearly every aspect” of her life.She said that has forced her and her family to move nine times while enduring “years of hateful messages and threats.”Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to life in prison last year after pleading guilty in the Nov.

13, 2022, stabbing deaths that scarred the close-knit community of Moscow, Idaho.He’s currently trying to withdraw that plea.No motive has emerged for the killings, nor is it clear why Mortensen and another roommate were spared.Judge Megan Marshall last month ordered the release of records after EWU Media, a company that produces crime documentaries, sued the city of Moscow for them.In Mortensen’s affidavit in support of her motion to intervene in the case, she asks Marshall to help ensure her face is blurred in any police interviews, body-camera footage and other investigative recordings that will be released.She said people can hear her statements to law enforcement through recordings that have already been released.“I am already being recognized despite the privacy protections currently in place, and I worry that making additional footage of my face available would make it even easier for strangers to identify me in everyday situations,” Mortensen wrote.Marshall wrote in an Oct.20 decision that the city didn’t de...