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02-07-2025
- Yahoo
'So Freaked Out': Inside Texts Sent by Friends of Idaho Victims as Horror of Murders Dawned on Them
One Night in Idaho: The College Murders, a new Prime Video docuseries premiering July 11, and a book debuting on July 14, The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy, by James Patterson and Vicky Ward, shed new light on the shocking 2022 Idaho murders In a surprise move, on Monday, June 30, Bryan Kohberger, 30, asked to plead guilty to the murders to avoid the death penalty University of Idaho student Hunter Johnson, who found the bodies of Xana Kernodle and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, and girlfriend, Emily Alandt, are speaking out for the first time since the shocking 2022 murders in this week's issue of PEOPLEAfter a carefree Saturday night out in the lively college town of Moscow, Idaho, the residents of 1122 King Road returned to their off-campus rental home to debrief on the night. University of Idaho seniors Kaylee Goncalves and Maddie Mogen, both 21, spent most of the night of Nov. 12, 2022, at The Corner Club, a popular hangout downtown, stopping afterward at a food truck before getting a ride home from a designated driver. Juniors Xana Kernodle and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, both 20, hung out at his fraternity, Sigma Chi, with his triplet brother, Hunter Chapin, until about 2:15 a.m., when they walked across the street and back to Xana's house. Housemate Dylan Mortensen could hear her friends talking through the walls of her room, which was next to the living room, according to a new book debuting July 14, The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy, by James Patterson and Vicky Ward. Shortly after, everyone headed to their rooms when Dylan thought she heard someone say in a terror-tinged voice, 'There's someone here.' Those three chilling words marked the start of a nightmare — the brutal stabbing of Kaylee, Maddie, Xana and Ethan in one of the most heinous crimes ever on a college campus. Related: Best Friends of University of Idaho Murder Victims Speak Out: What We Saw (Exclusive) New details about what happened inside that house are revealed in the explosive book, as well as in a new Prime Video docuseries premiering July 11, One Night in Idaho: The College Murders, and in PEOPLE's exclusive cover story this week. Based on hundreds of interviews, the book goes in-depth into the lives of the promising young victims and what happened inside that house when an assailant crept in and left the mark of evil behind. When Bethany heard someone say someone was in the house, she peeked out of her room, didn't see anything and went back to later, when she thought she heard someone crying, she cracked open the door and heard a man say, 'It's okay. I'm going to help you,' followed by a thud and then barking from Kaylee's dog, Murphy. When Dylan opened the door again, she thought she saw a man in the hallway dressed in black and wearing a mask. She thought he was a firefighter because of the way he was dressed and because it looked like he was holding a firefighting tool in his hand. Related: Frantic Texts Went Unanswered — Then Friends of the Idaho Murder Victims Found the Unthinkable: Inside a Night of Horror At one point, he looked her straight in the eyes – but kept walking. Panicked, she called Bethany Funke, the housemate whose room was on the ground floor, telling her what she saw, before trying the three other housemates, who didn't answer any of her calls or texts. Bethany tried to make sense of the situation, texting Dylan that the figure she saw could have been Xana, who was wearing all black. 'No it's like a ski mask almost,' Dylan clarified. 'Like he had soemtbing (sic) over is for head (sic) and little nd (sic) mouth.' 'Bethant (sic) I'm not kidding o (sic) am so freaked out,' she wrote, with Bethany replying, 'So am I.'At Bethany's urging, Dylan ran down to her room, where the two huddled together in fear, not knowing what was going on in their house. In Dec. 2022, Bryan Kohberger was arrested and charged with four counts of first-degree murder in connection with the quadruple homicides. With a not guilty plea entered on his behalf, his trial was set to begin in August. In a surprise move, on Monday, June 30, the former graduate student, 30, asked to plead guilty to the murders to avoid the death penalty, according to a letter prosecutors sent to victims' family members, The New York Times reports. Related: Bryan Kohberger to Plead Guilty to Murders of 4 Idaho College Students, Sparing Him Death Penalty Under the proposed plea deal, if approved by the judge, he would be sentenced to four consecutive life terms in prison. The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy by James Patterson and Vicky Ward is on shelves July 14 and available now for preorder, wherever books are sold. Read the original article on People
Hindustan Times
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
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What: Tribute to Metallica ft Frantic Where: Hard Rock Cafe, 1 Atma Ram Mansion, Connaught Circus, CP When: May 24 Timing: 9pm Entry: Nearest Metro Station: Rajiv Chowk (Blue & Yellow Lines) What: 17th Habitat Film Festival | Phullwanti Where: The Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road When: May 24 Timing: 9pm Entry: Free (Register here) Nearest Metro Station: JLN Stadium (Violet Line) What: Harshvardhan Haveli Mein Hatya Where: LTG Auditorium, Copernicus Marg, Mandi House When: May 24 Timing: 7pm Entry: Nearest Metro Station: Mandi House (Blue & Violet Lines) What: The House in the Hills Where: CD Deshmukh Auditorium, India International Centre, Lodhi Road When: May 24 Timing: 6.30pm Entry: Free Nearest Metro Station: Jor Bagh (Yellow Line) What: Kal Ki Chinta Nahi Karta ft Ravi Gupta Where: Studio XO Bar, Trillium Avenue, Sector 29, Gurugram When: May 24 Timing: 6pm Entry: Nearest Metro Station: Millennium City Centre Gurugram (Yellow Line)
New York Times
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Olga Smirnova, a da Vinci of Ballet, Settles Into a New Life, New Rep
Frantic corrections filled the main studio of the Dutch National Ballet on a recent afternoon. A new Shakespeare adaptation, 'Lady Macbeth,' was about to go onstage, and the choreographer, Helen Pickett, and her assistants crisscrossed the room to deliver last-minute changes or tweak the positioning of an arm. Then Olga Smirnova, a former star of the Bolshoi Ballet, stepped forward for a solo, and the room went still. With her back turned, Smirnova reached behind herself slowly. Her supple arms and fingers unfurled with a quiver, instantly conjuring Lady Macbeth's tangled emotions. 'It's like watching da Vinci work,' Pickett said with a contented sigh after the rehearsal. Until 2022, Smirnova's blend of technical mastery and dramatic intensity made her one of Russia's most in-demand ballerinas, with a vast repertoire of leading roles at the Bolshoi and the prestige that comes with it in her country. Then, weeks after country invaded Ukraine, she announced she would leave it all behind and join the Dutch National Ballet. In a post to the messaging app Telegram, Smirnova, who had a Ukrainian grandfather, wrote that she was 'ashamed of Russia' and opposed the war 'with all the fibers of my soul.' While a number of foreigners who worked in Russian ballet companies departed around the same time, Smirnova remains the most high-profile Russian dancer to have publicly made the move. Image Olga Smirnova and Timothy van Poucke rehearsing 'Lady Macbeth' at the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam. Credit... Jussi Puikkonen for The New York Times The personal cost has been significant, Smirnova, 33, said in an interview in Amsterdam. Three years on, she still has 'very little contact' with her former colleagues and friends in Russia. Her parents struggled to understand her decision; she has not seen them since the war began, although she's working to find a way: 'I still want to have my family as my family.' Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
New York Times
21-03-2025
- General
- New York Times
Heathrow Rumbles Back to Life After Substation Fire Shut Down Airport
Heathrow Airport in London was plunged into chaos after a fire at an electrical substation shut down operations at one of Europe's busiest air hubs, forcing the airport to cancel or divert more than 1,000 flights on Friday and removing a global linchpin of air travel. Heathrow's chief executive, Thomas Woldbye, described the disruption as 'unprecedented,' telling reporters on Friday that the airport had lost power equal to that of a midsize city, and that though a backup transformer worked as it should, there had not been not enough to power the entire airport. But he said, 'We expect to be back in full operation, so 100 percent operation as a normal day,' by Saturday. The British authorities said the counterterrorism police would lead the investigation into the cause of the blaze, which broke out at an electrical substation in North Hyde, northeast of Heathrow. But the Metropolitan Police in London said later Friday, 'After initial assessment, we are not treating this incident as suspicious, although inquiries do remain ongoing.' It was too early on Friday to calculate the precise cost of the outage. But the outage raised questions about the resilience of Britain's largest airport and why it appeared to be so reliant on a single electrical substation. Residents of the Hayes neighborhood near the airport described hearing two loud bangs and seeing 'a massive ball of flame' shoot into the sky on Thursday night. Minutes later, the airport said it was shutting down all air traffic, incoming flights were diverted, and passengers at Heathrow were sent home. Nearby residents were also evacuated. By Friday morning, roads around the power station were cordoned off, and a helicopter hovered above. An odd stillness had descended on Heathrow. The runways were empty, the check-in desks quiet, digital flight information screens were blank, and passageways were dimly lit by emergency lighting. It was a lifeless calm not seen even during the early panicked weeks of the coronavirus pandemic. Britain's National Grid said on Friday afternoon that it had reconfigured its network to partly restore power at Heathrow on an interim basis. The London Fire Brigade said in the afternoon that 10 percent of the fire was still burning but that it was under control. The closure resulted in dozens of flights from the United States landing far from their original destination. They were diverted to airports in Glasgow, Madrid and even Happy Valley-Goose Bay, a tiny town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. John Connor, 22, sat at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Friday, waiting in vain to get home to England after backpacking abroad for two years. 'We sat on the plane for about five hours before they said the flight was called off,' he said. 'I'm trying to get a plane somewhere close — Paris, Dublin, anywhere else,' he added. 'We're being told straight up no.' Frantic travelers swarmed social media to ask airlines about managing canceled flights and upcoming departures, claiming in posts on X that airline apps were lagging in notifying passengers about cancellations and that customer service could not be reached by phone. Some travelers stuck in Europe were urged to consider traveling to Britain by rail. A Delta spokesperson said the airline would reimburse the cost of traveling to London by train for passengers who had their flights diverted to Amsterdam. By Friday morning, only a few British Airways passengers remained camped out in Terminal 8 at Kennedy International Airport in New York. After making new travel arrangements, some waited for cars to take them to nearby hotels. Others said they planned to spend all day Friday in the terminal. Some airlines affected by the outage said they would issue waivers allowing free rebookings, including British Airways, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and United Airlines. Cirium, an aviation data company, estimated that as many as 290,000 passengers could be affected by Heathrow's closure. By late Friday, several flights had landed at Heathrow, as the airport began to rumble back to life, about 16 hours after the fire. The first to touch down was a British Airways plane. It had not traveled far, arriving from Gatwick Airport in London after being diverted there from its original destination, Singapore, according to the flight-tracking service FlightAware. A Heathrow spokeswoman said the airport was working to first restore 'repatriation flights and relocating aircraft' as it sought to untangle a day of disrupted service. Officials said that airlines would make it a priority to also relocate planes and crews and bring in flights diverted to other cities. Britain's Department of Transport said it was temporarily lifting restrictions on overnight flights to ease congestion while Heathrow Airport resumes normal operations. But the chief executive of British Airways, Sean Doyle, warned earlier that Heathrow's closure would have 'a huge impact' on the airline's customers over the coming days. British Airways had been set to operate more than 670 flights carrying about 107,000 customers on Friday, and similar numbers were planned over the weekend, he added. 'We have flight and cabin crew colleagues and planes that are currently at locations where we weren't planning on them to be,' he said. The Heathrow crisis was likely to upset not only the movement of people, but the flow of goods, as well. The closure of such a crucial aviation hub, even for a short while, would cause delays and logistical headaches for the many businesses that ship products through Heathrow, supply chain experts said. Heathrow has two runways and four terminals that serve more than 230 destinations in 90 countries. Last year, about 83.9 million passengers and 1.7 million tons of cargo were flown through the airport. It is the third-largest hub for air cargo in Western Europe, measured in metric tons shipped. Goods worth nearly 200 billion pounds ($258 billion) went through Heathrow in 2023, about a fifth of the value of the British goods trade. 'Goods move around the globe in a really precise, timed way on a daily basis,' said Ben Farrell, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply, a global network of supply chain professionals based in London. 'Any disruptions to any part of that leads to a knock-on effect elsewhere.' British businesses will likely be most affected, experts said. Global trade can be handled by other large airports in Europe, said Eytan Buchman, chief marketing officer at Freightos, a digital shipping marketplace. 'This will likely be a localized problem rather than a broader European or global one,' he said. Mr. Woldbye, Heathrow's chief executive, apologized to travelers for the shutdown and said the airport had done well to resume flights by Friday evening, given the scale of the outage. But he said such disruption had 'never happened before.' The closure of Heathrow came 15 years after one of Europe's most severe air travel disruptions, when a volcano eruption in Iceland sent ash miles into the sky and obstructing travel for millions, including at Heathrow. The ash cloud grounded more than 100,000 flights over nearly a week in April 2010 as it drifted across Northern Europe, including the English Channel. The airline industry's losses from the volcanic disruption were estimated at $1.7 billion.
