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Idaho Student Murders: Police Interview Reveals Bethany Funke’s Trauma

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Bethany Funke’s police interview has been released, giving us the clearest look yet at what one of the surviving roommates from 1122 King Road went through. For almost 3 years, cruel speculation online painted Bethany and her roommate as suspects. In her victim impact statement, later read in court by Emily Alandt, Bethany even described the guilt she carried for not calling police sooner, even though she knows it would not have changed the outcome. In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield breaks down Bethany’s words to investigators and the emotional toll they reveal.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious. This is an episode that I've been

0:11.2

wanting to bring to you for two years, and I didn't think I was going to be able to.

0:18.0

There's such a hole in my heart when it comes to the surviving roommates of the Idaho

0:25.3

quadruple murder, Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funk. For so long, everything about them was

0:31.7

held under the gag order. And now that the gag order has been lifted, dribs and drabs of

0:36.5

information are coming out.

0:38.5

We have heard interviews with Dylan Mortensen.

0:41.6

Dylan saw this freaky black-clad man walking through the house.

0:46.5

Let's not forget, it was a party house.

0:48.8

There were people walking through all the time.

0:50.6

She even said it.

0:51.6

It's why she didn't freak out and call 911, but she just freaked

0:55.1

out like a, you know, 19-year-oldish student, female student might, like sing a monster under your

1:01.4

bed. Let me come sleep with you. It was that kind of fear she had. She didn't think a murderer

1:06.2

was walking through her house, that's for sure. But we haven't heard from Bethany. She didn't even attend

1:12.6

sentencing and instead opted to write out her victim's impact statement and give it to a friend

1:18.6

to read. So we have not seen or heard from Bethany, Bethany Funk. At least we've seen this

1:25.7

tiny little snippet from a body cam where the police officers

1:30.0

arrived at 1122 King Road the morning of the murders. And you heard a little bit from her,

1:36.8

all redacted, her face was covered. But now comes something that is very, very insightful. And look, I know that you guys are pretty much all in

1:50.2

my little community and we all feel the same way about the trolls. We're all really upset and

1:54.8

angry that they exist, that they're allowed to exist. We don't understand why they do what they do.

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