Surviving Idaho roommate Bethany Funke fights testimony at Kohberger trial

One of the two housemates who survived the brutal slaying that claimed the lives of four University of Idaho students is fighting a subpoena that would force her to testify as part of murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s defense.

Bethany Funke, 21, filed a motion to dismiss a subpoena Kohberger’s attorneys filed to the district court in Washoe County, Nevada – where she’s from – on Friday, according to court records.

Kohberger’s attorneys argue that the housemate’s testimony is key to the trial and could clear the murder charges levied against their client.

“Bethany Funke has information material to the charges against Mr. Kohberger; portions of information Ms. Funke has is exculpatory to the defendant,” attorney Richard Bitonti wrote in an affidavit.

“Ms. Funke’s information is unique to her experiences and cannot be provided by another witness.”

Funke, who awoke to find the bodies of her housemates in the upper floor of their off-campus home, has denied that she has any information that could clear Kohberger.

In their request to quash the subpoena, her lawyers said the defense’s claims are “without support.”

“There is no further information or detail pertaining to the substance of this testimony, its materiality or the alleged exculpatory information of Ms. Funke or why it would be entertained at preliminary hearing,” the filing states.

Funke’s attorneys also argue that the court does not have the authority to summon a Nevada witness to Idaho for a preliminary hearing.

A representative for Funke declined to comment on the case. The Washoe County public defender’s office and lawyers for Kohberger did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

Kohberger’s hearing is scheduled for the week of June 26, and the suspect has yet to enter a plea.

It remains unclear what exactly Funke would know about the night of the murders that could clear Kohberger as the key suspect.

Funke lived on the first-floor with fellow survivor Dylan Mortenson, the person who allegedly came face-to-face with the killer during the night of the attack.

Madison Mogen and her friend Kaylee Goncalves, both 21, and Xana Kernodle and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, both 20, were found stabbed to death in the upper levels of their home.

Police have not publicly stated where the surviving homemates were in the hours before the murders, but have said the duo got home just after 1 a.m., about an hour before the victims.

According to a police report unsealed in court, Mortensen woke up around 4 a.m. after hearing voices. She reportedly thought she heard Goncalves say “There’s someone here,” and crying from Kernodle’s room.

Mortensen opened her door to find a “figure clad in black clothing and mask that covered the person’s mouth and nose walking towards her.” She said she was shocked and froze in place — but the man just walked past her and out the back sliding glass door.

Mortensen then locked herself in her room, and it wasn’t until later in the morning that police received a call from one of the surviving roommates about the killings.

Investigators have said the women were cooperative throughout their probe, and the two were quickly ruled out as suspects.

The women have since gotten matching tattoos on their arms with the initials of their four friends.