Interview Bethany Funke 11-13-2022

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SPEAKER_00: First and foremost, if you could just take a deep breath for me, it is.
SPEAKER_00: I understand this is stressful.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: All I wanna do is try and get an idea of what you heard, what you saw, and any timeline, any information that you can give us so that we can try and figure out what happened.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: So just take a deep breath for me.
SPEAKER_00: I know this isn't gonna be easy.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Go from there.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: And you're.
SPEAKER_01: And
SPEAKER_00: your date of birth?
SPEAKER_01: 2030.
SPEAKER_00: And you live there at 1122 King Road?
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
SPEAKER_01: What's the phone number for you?
SPEAKER_00: In what state you're over in Nevada?
SPEAKER_00: Nevada.
SPEAKER_00: Nevada.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: Do you have your phone here with you?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So what we're gonna be doing is taking people's phones for a little while I'm what I'm praying.
SPEAKER_00: Some because I don't know if you called anyone or made any phone calls or anything like that.
SPEAKER_00: What the new investigation like this is we try and collect as much information as we can.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: Anything anything that might be small, you may not think it's important for us to find out what happened, but is very crucial.
SPEAKER_00: So taking something off your phone might be extremely useful for us.
SPEAKER_00: Even if it's something that you don't realize.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: And we're afraid that phone back to you as fast as we can.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: Is that okay with you?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So this this is your phone here?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Can I tell my mom?
SPEAKER_00: That's fine.
SPEAKER_00: Please switch your mom real quick.
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
SPEAKER_00: And then what I'm gonna need is your your passcode and your phone cord here between the two of us.
SPEAKER_00: We could even turn off your passcode.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: If you get down.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And, Phil, I'll let you do that.
SPEAKER_00: That's fine.
SPEAKER_00: You can just rehear tell me your your past.
SPEAKER_01: I just don't know my Okay.
SPEAKER_00: What is recasting?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And what type Alright.
SPEAKER_00: Sorry, It's okay.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Um, any social media you have, like Facebook or Do you have any other social media type sites?
SPEAKER_01: I have
SPEAKER_00: Those big ones?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: Alright.
SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna try to go back and try and get a little bit of a timeline.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: So what did you guys do last night?
SPEAKER_00: Most specifically, were you if you were by yourself and not with the group, what is
SPEAKER_01: Ethan was in the house.
SPEAKER_01: So So you're with One of them is my roommates, and one of them is her boyfriend.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So you're with Ethan In uh-huh.
SPEAKER_00: Zammin?
SPEAKER_00: Mhmm.
SPEAKER_00: Can you
SPEAKER_01: spell that one?
SPEAKER_01: X a n y or a n a.
SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
SPEAKER_00: X a
SPEAKER_01: n a.
SPEAKER_00: N a.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So I'm just trying to sometimes it helps you put names here.
SPEAKER_00: So you were with Ethan and Xana last night as
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
SPEAKER_00: And do you know Ethan's last name?
SPEAKER_01: Uh, Cheybun.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know how to spell it.
SPEAKER_00: That's fine.
SPEAKER_00: And Nana's last name?
SPEAKER_00: Kernigle.
SPEAKER_00: Do you know to spell it?
SPEAKER_01: Think it's k e r n o maybe another o d, l e, or something like that.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So you're within the What time did you guys get the second kyosopsoid?
SPEAKER_01: Around eight something.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe 08:30.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe thirty PM?
SPEAKER_01: Something like that.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And prior to that, were you actually at your house?
SPEAKER_00: Mhmm.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So you left from your house?
SPEAKER_01: Then was that formal?
SPEAKER_01: Because he went with his sister because she got out of date.
SPEAKER_01: Then we were just hanging out at our house and then he came over and then we all walked over together.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So that was you, Ethan, Zannah, was there another person with you or just the three of you that walked over walked over with us.
SPEAKER_00: And that's Logan.
SPEAKER_00: Logan?
SPEAKER_00: Mhmm.
SPEAKER_00: Is it?
SPEAKER_00: Her
SPEAKER_01: real name is Madison, though, I believe.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So you guys all walked over to as you remember about 08:30.
SPEAKER_00: K?
SPEAKER_00: Were you guys all pretty much together or just kind of mingling throughout the house and messing with her?
SPEAKER_01: We were all pretty much together, and then Maddie left to go to the club with Kaylee.
SPEAKER_01: And then I was with Ethan and Xana most of the night, but then one of my friends came.
SPEAKER_01: Her name is and I hung out with her the rest of the night.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And who was that?
SPEAKER_01: Her name is yes.
SPEAKER_00: Can you
SPEAKER_01: spell it for him?
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And last name?
SPEAKER_01: I don't know how to pronounce it, and her full name is bigger than that.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: That's fine.
SPEAKER_00: Do you have a phone number for her?
SPEAKER_01: Uh, Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: That's on the phone.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: We can get that in there.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So you were with Mhmm.
SPEAKER_00: And adapt only Ethan and and I was just kinda hanging out still the house?
SPEAKER_01: Mhmm.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: And then I went went to our other friend's house.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: What time on that?
SPEAKER_01: Don't know.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe, like, I but that'd be long.
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: It's fine.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And where's that house?
SPEAKER_01: It's just, like, up the street.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know that address.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Up the street from?
SPEAKER_01: Sioux McKay.
SPEAKER_01: K.
SPEAKER_01: Kind of.
SPEAKER_00: So you guys are at Sioux McKay, so you're walking back towards We're
SPEAKER_01: walking back towards my house, and then we're come this way.
SPEAKER_01: So, like, when you got
SPEAKER_00: to Taylor Street, you went up?
SPEAKER_00: So if you walked all the way from Sigma Naves
SPEAKER_01: Where's Sorry.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know the the Parkhurst, the Whites?
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
SPEAKER_00: I know the Whites.
SPEAKER_01: It's like that street, that way.
SPEAKER_00: So on Taylor?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Alright.
SPEAKER_00: Do you know roughly where on Taylor, or does she live maybe along one of the other off streets?
SPEAKER_01: It's on Taylor, but, like, one of the end houses by the inns.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know how to explain it.
SPEAKER_00: Alright.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And whose house is it that you want to?
SPEAKER_00: It's Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Alright.
SPEAKER_00: So you and you're at this house.
SPEAKER_00: How long were you here?
SPEAKER_01: Then I left by myself.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: We went back to my house.
SPEAKER_00: So you walked on maybe around?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: What did you see when we got home?
SPEAKER_01: Was at We're sitting on the couch watching The Empire Diaries, and no one else was home yet.
SPEAKER_01: And
SPEAKER_00: is another roommate?
SPEAKER_00: Or Mhmm.
SPEAKER_00: And what was I saying?
SPEAKER_01: She's a deaf man.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00: And
SPEAKER_01: I actually don't remember where I lost her name.
SPEAKER_00: That's fine.
SPEAKER_00: And does is live with the ASD or just with her?
SPEAKER_01: She's a friend.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: And then she left.
SPEAKER_00: Do you know what time she left that?
SPEAKER_01: Well
SPEAKER_00: But you were all watching?
SPEAKER_01: They have plenty of feathers.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And anything happened during that time period?
SPEAKER_01: Just hanging out.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Do you know who else was in the house at that time?
SPEAKER_01: No one.
SPEAKER_00: No less.
SPEAKER_00: Just the preview?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So what let's go a little bit more then.
SPEAKER_00: What happened next?
SPEAKER_01: Um, Maddie and Kaylee came home from the club, left.
SPEAKER_00: Maddie and him?
SPEAKER_00: Kaylee.
SPEAKER_00: Kaylee?
SPEAKER_00: And they got home from this club.
SPEAKER_00: Do you know what time that might have been?
SPEAKER_01: I think I told one of the cops that was talking to me at the house, like, better times.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: I don't really remember right now.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe, like Okay.
SPEAKER_01: Two something, one.
SPEAKER_00: So if you got home around one, that would have put them getting
SPEAKER_01: forty five.
SPEAKER_01: Something like that.
SPEAKER_00: So near bar break, would be that be best?
SPEAKER_00: What?
SPEAKER_00: Like, near bar break?
SPEAKER_00: What
SPEAKER_01: does that mean?
SPEAKER_00: Bar break bars are on the close at 02:00 here.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01: They went to abrupt track after, so
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: What did do after that, after Maddie and Kaylee got home?
SPEAKER_01: We all hung out in Kaylee's room for a little, And then I talked, and then Maddie and I took Murphy out of the kiwi, the dog.
SPEAKER_01: And then I said I was gonna go to bed because I was tired.
SPEAKER_01: And she she said she's gonna go to bed too.
SPEAKER_01: And then I went to my room.
SPEAKER_01: I was getting worn to sleep, and she came and nodded and asked if I had Murphy, and I said no.
SPEAKER_01: And then I went to bed.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So what time did you take you think you took Murphy out?
SPEAKER_01: From, like, three, 02:30.
SPEAKER_00: 02:30 to three?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: And where do you normally take Murphy to go about her?
SPEAKER_01: Just the back door.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So which one is 1122?
SPEAKER_00: So if I'm coming up King Road off the Taylor.
SPEAKER_01: It's the big White House.
SPEAKER_01: All
SPEAKER_00: the way at the very top on the right?
SPEAKER_01: Well, it's technically all Queen, but the address is King.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So is it the one that's tucked back as you're going up to 500 Clean Road, those big apartments?
SPEAKER_00: And then down back just a little bit?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So you normally go out the back deck then?
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Alright.
SPEAKER_00: I know how to chess your head then.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So you go there.
SPEAKER_00: You and Maddie take the dog out.
SPEAKER_00: Mhmm.
SPEAKER_00: And then how long did you eat that today?
SPEAKER_01: I was out there for you because I had a side to breathe.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: So then you both come back in.
SPEAKER_00: So do you and Maddie both come back
SPEAKER_01: before in she did.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Did Maddie still have the dog then?
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
SPEAKER_01: I believe so.
SPEAKER_00: So you went out for a little bit, came back in.
SPEAKER_00: Do you know what time Maddie came back in?
SPEAKER_00: And you went straight to bed when you came back in?
SPEAKER_00: Mhmm.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: How long after you went in you went to bed, you and Maddie came in?
SPEAKER_01: Actually, I came in, grabbed some chips, went to my room, and washed the shells for a little, and then I went to bed.
SPEAKER_00: What were you watching?
SPEAKER_01: It's called Baby Daddy.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: How long do you think you watched it?
SPEAKER_01: Maybe, like, thirty years.
SPEAKER_00: So one episode maybe?
SPEAKER_00: No.
SPEAKER_01: K.
SPEAKER_01: Well, like, a half.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And did Maddie come in during that show or after?
SPEAKER_01: She just knocked on my door, I think, during the night.
SPEAKER_01: I bumped her feet loosened up.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Then what happened after that?
SPEAKER_01: Um, I just went to bed.
SPEAKER_01: And then I woke up, but I was, like, half asleep.
SPEAKER_01: And I thought I saw, like, a firework or something, like, just sparkle, like, under my door.
SPEAKER_01: And I thought I heard, like, something kind of fall.
SPEAKER_01: And, like, Murphy barked, I thought people were just making, like, food, like and Ethan was here or something and knocked something over because he's usually loud in the kitchen upstairs.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So what do you mean by you heard a firework?
SPEAKER_01: It sounded like a little firework, and then it there's, like, a spark and it went by my, like I'm on the Bottom Floor.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: So it kinda looked like it came down there, but I don't know.
SPEAKER_00: And so does Murphy your dog?
SPEAKER_01: Dog.
SPEAKER_01: Candy's dog.
SPEAKER_01: Candy and her ex boyfriend's dog.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So you heard Murphy bark right after you heard what you felt was a firecracker?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: Something like that, but he, like I don't know.
SPEAKER_01: Dogs bark at random things.
SPEAKER_01: And sometimes when he's happy, he'll bark.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: It didn't sound like a, like, an angry growl or anything like that, just a bark?
SPEAKER_01: I don't really know.
SPEAKER_01: I was, like, half asleep.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: I just saw the, like, bark.
SPEAKER_00: So hear the firework, kinda see a spark underneath the door.
SPEAKER_00: Murphy barks.
SPEAKER_00: What'd you hear after that?
SPEAKER_01: Pretty much nothing.
SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
SPEAKER_00: Nothing.
SPEAKER_00: And you thought maybe someone was just in the kitchen at that point?
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: It's just like someone accidentally fell into the table or something.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: And she was like, what's the
SPEAKER_00: Do you know about what time that might have been?
SPEAKER_00: Do you have any idea?
SPEAKER_01: Four or something.
SPEAKER_01: I tried to call all the at, like, 04:20 ish around that time and no one was answering me.
SPEAKER_01: I thought they just went to bed or something.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And what happened after the
SPEAKER_01: Call me.
SPEAKER_01: She said she thinks she saw someone, and I didn't know, like, really what to think of it because sometimes we think we hear things a lot in the house, but she's really just eating, walking around.
SPEAKER_01: But she came I told her to come in my room, and we just she'd sleep with me and lock the door, just staying there just in case if there was anything, and that's all I know.
SPEAKER_01: I just fell back asleep.
SPEAKER_00: Didn't hear anything else?
SPEAKER_00: Mm-mm.
SPEAKER_00: No one else talking?
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: Did did make it?
SPEAKER_00: Mhmm.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: What time do you think she got in your room?
SPEAKER_01: Probably 04:20, 04:30.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: About this time?
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
SPEAKER_00: Where's her room located to yours?
SPEAKER_01: I'm the only one on the Bottom Floor, right by the front door.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: And then you go up the stairs in the vanish room, in the and then upstairs is nine kids.
SPEAKER_00: And where's the living room?
SPEAKER_01: Right by the kitchen.
SPEAKER_00: Right by the kitchen?
SPEAKER_00: Mhmm.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And did she say anything to you when she got into the room?
SPEAKER_01: She said she thought she saw me, but I I didn't know what to think of it.
SPEAKER_01: I was, like, still half asleep, and I was like, I don't know what.
SPEAKER_01: It didn't sound like I didn't hear screams.
SPEAKER_01: I didn't hear anything, but I didn't really know.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And notice that she didn't say anything more than she just saw some of No.
SPEAKER_00: I don't remember.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: So your bed then, if I'm working at the right house, you have a parking lot, front door lock, and your bedroom is to the right.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: And that's where you were you slept from by the time you finally got into your room around four ish or so actually before that.
SPEAKER_01: Mhmm.
SPEAKER_01: Really?
SPEAKER_01: Three something.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_00: So you were in there sleeping.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: Dylan got to your room maybe somewhere around four, but Dylan was already home at that point.
SPEAKER_00: Mhmm.
SPEAKER_00: Um, you knew that Maddie and Kaylee were home.
SPEAKER_00: Do you ever do you know when anyone else in the house got home?
SPEAKER_01: I don't know when Xana already got home.
SPEAKER_01: I didn't hear them come in or anything.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: And last time you saw Xana and Ethan was at the state of affairs?
SPEAKER_01: Mhmm.
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: So did you see anything weird at the target?
SPEAKER_00: There
SPEAKER_01: This little.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: And see how the way when you are set up.
SPEAKER_00: Were everyone hanging out primarily up in the main, um, common room area or most people hanging out in individual rooms and stuff like that?
SPEAKER_01: It's a little bit of a mixture at first.
SPEAKER_01: It was in the, like, apartments, and then it was a main room.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
SPEAKER_01: And then as I was leaving, I wanted to grab a backpack from our friend's room, and Xana and Ethan were sitting on the couch just listening to music.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: And
SPEAKER_00: that was up in the main room or that was in some That in the apartment.
SPEAKER_00: That was in the apartment?
SPEAKER_00: Mhmm.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: Did you hear of anything that happened to anybody?
SPEAKER_00: Mm-mm.
SPEAKER_00: Was there anyone straining at your on, hanging around the party?
SPEAKER_00: Mm-mm.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: Do you know of anybody in your house that has an issue with anyone?
SPEAKER_00: No.
SPEAKER_00: Any ex boyfriends, anything like that?
SPEAKER_00: Mm-mm.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, their ex boyfriends are really nice, and they still aren't good friends.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_00: Um, have you ever had any of your roommates complain about anyone stalking them?
SPEAKER_01: Mm-mm.
SPEAKER_01: Once though, Kaylee said when everyone was like gone, me and we're at the slurry house for a meeting.
SPEAKER_01: And it was little Kaylee and she was clocking Murphy out.
SPEAKER_01: Gee, this was a while ago.
SPEAKER_01: And she said she swears she saw someone staring at her while she was taking the dog up.
SPEAKER_01: Even from
SPEAKER_00: the fire.
SPEAKER_00: Long ago that was?
SPEAKER_01: Maybe, like, a month.
SPEAKER_01: Could see, like, a band silhouette, like, staring at her.
SPEAKER_00: You think it was about a month ago?
SPEAKER_01: Mhmm.
SPEAKER_00: Do you have Cayden having issues with him?
SPEAKER_01: Mhmm.
SPEAKER_00: None of whom have made any comments or statements of any anyone trying to come on to them or even like that?
SPEAKER_00: Mm-mm.
SPEAKER_00: Having said that all the ex boyfriends and that, um, they're all normally they're very nice and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_00: Mhmm.
SPEAKER_00: Are any any of them fairly recent breakups?
SPEAKER_01: One, but I don't know.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
SPEAKER_00: That'd a little bit help.
SPEAKER_00: And what does Kean give you?
SPEAKER_00: A little information on that one?
SPEAKER_01: I mean, that same He lives On down the street.
SPEAKER_00: On Taylor?
SPEAKER_00: On
SPEAKER_01: King, I think.
SPEAKER_00: K.
SPEAKER_01: He and King Lee share Murphy.
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_01: And they gated for seven years.
SPEAKER_