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Dylan Mortensen asked Judge Megan Marshall to keep her face blurred in the Moscow police video EWU Media sued to obtain.
Fox News, published Nov. 3, 2026, at 7:00 a.m. EST and updated at 10:03 a.m. EST, reported she wants the Oct. 20 release order stayed, that a hearing is set for Nov. 12, and that she wrote her family has moved nine times and that she uses an alias. The Associated Press lines that loaded say Judge Marshall ordered the release last month and that the affidavit supports a motion to intervene. Those lines do not print Nov. 12 or the nine moves.
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The request is about a blur, not about putting the interviews back in a drawer. Fox News reported the recordings are already public with her face obscured, and she wants that blur left on. Oct. 20 is still the order until Judge Marshall changes it. Nov. 12 is a hearing on intervention, a stay, and reconsideration. It is not a new order. Dec. 10, which Fox News printed, is Bryan Kohberger's post-conviction date, and Fox News put that fight in front of a different judge. Her motion does not reopen his plea.
Fox News, by Michael Ruiz, published November 3, 2026, at 7:00 a.m. EST and updated at 10:03 a.m. EST, reported that Dylan Mortensen asked Latah County Judge Megan Marshall to reconsider an order that would release video and images that could show her face. It reported her lawyer, Robyn McPherson, filed a motion to intervene after Marshall agreed to release records an independent media company, EWU Media LLC, had sought. It reported McPherson is also asking the judge to reconsider the Oct. 20 order and to issue a stay until the petition and appeals are resolved, and that a hearing is scheduled for Nov. 12. The Associated Press page did not finish loading. The lines that came through say Judge Megan Marshall last month ordered the release of records after EWU Media, a company that produces crime documentaries, sued the city of Moscow, and that Mortensen's affidavit in support of her motion to intervene asks Marshall to keep her face blurred in police interviews, body-camera footage, and other investigative recordings. Last month, in those lines, and Oct. 20, on Fox News, are not the same date. A company that produces crime documentaries, and an independent media company, are not the same description. The Associated Press lines that loaded do not print Robyn McPherson, Nov. 12, or a stay. An affidavit asking for a blur is not an order keeping it.
Fox News quoted her affidavit: "Since November 2022, my family and I have had to move nine times in an effort to protect our privacy and safety." It reported she wrote that she now uses an alias for delivery orders, at her job, and when introducing herself to new people, and that she worries "even appearing in the background of someone's photo could lead to more people recognizing me or identifying where I am." It reported she wrote that reporters and strangers have shown up outside the family's homes and followed family members. The Associated Press lines that loaded say she has endured years of harassment, threats, and unfounded accusations, and one headline line says harassment forced her to move repeatedly. Repeatedly, in that line, and nine times, in the Fox News quotation, are not the same count. Those Associated Press lines do not print an alias. Fox News reported McPherson wrote that disclosure of the records withheld by the city would be "an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy," that she wants Moscow to identify the withheld records, submit them for an in-camera review, and prepare an index, and that the city attorney told her the documents were expected to include interviews, photographs, and videos of Mortensen. It reported she filed days after learning the city attorney did not plan to challenge the decision, and that she argued neither city officials nor the other intervenors, the families of Ethan Chapin and Madison Mogen, have been aligned with her specific privacy interest. Those filing details are Fox News. They are not in the Associated Press lines that loaded. The affidavit Fox News posted carries a stamp, Electronically Filed 10/29/2026 4:37 PM, Second Judicial District, Latah County, in EWU Media LLC v. City of Moscow and the Moscow Police Department, case CV29-26-162. The Fox News article says the motion was filed last week and does not print 4:37 p.m. or the case number. That affidavit text spells the address 1122 King Street. The Fox News article spells it 1122 King Road. Street and Road are not the same word.
Fox News reported she told police she saw a masked man in the home after the killings and that officers later found Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, both 21, and Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, both 20. The Associated Press lines that loaded say she told police she saw a strange man with bushy eyebrows and a ski mask. A masked man, and a man with bushy eyebrows and a ski mask, are not the same description. Fox News reported Kohberger pleaded guilty in July 2025, tried to take the plea back earlier this year, and is due back on Dec. 10 for a hearing on his petition for post-conviction relief, with that case in front of a different judge. The Associated Press lines that loaded do not print Dec. 10. Nov. 12 is the records hearing Fox News printed. Dec. 10 is the post-conviction date Fox News printed. They are not the same hearing, and neither date is a ruling on the blur. The Oct. 20 order is the release order until a judge changes it. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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