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New York Times
3 days ago
- New York Times
Corrections: July 10, 2025
An article on Wednesday about four friends who took a weekend trip to Texas's Hill Country before the catastrophic flooding began misstated Aidan Heartfield's age. Mr. Heartfield, who remains missing, is 22, not 21. Errors are corrected during the press run whenever possible, so some errors noted here may not have appeared in all editions. To contact the newsroom regarding correction requests, please email nytnews@ To share feedback, please visit Comments on opinion articles may be emailed to letters@ For newspaper delivery questions: 1-800-NYTIMES (1-800-698-4637) or email customercare@
Washington Post
4 days ago
- Washington Post
On the Guadalupe River, a crew's frantic search to bring a dad closure
INGRAM, Texas — It took two pieces of salvaged plywood to draw a crude map of the 10 miles of the Guadalupe River where volunteers should look for any signs of Aidan Heartfield. The 22-year-oldcalled his father early on July 4 saying he, his girlfriend and two friends awoke in the black of night to four inches of water pooled on the floor of his family cabin. A minute later, his dad recalled his son saying the water was up to four feet. They went outside seeking higher ground, but a tree soon slammed into the house, swiping the structure off its slab and leaving them without anything to hold onto. The phone went dead. Aidan and the others were missing.
New York Times
4 days ago
- New York Times
Texas Floods Live Updates: At Least 161 Still Missing in a Single County, Governor Says
It was supposed to be a regular weekend trip with friends, to the house in Texas's Hill Country. Aidan Heartfield, a quiet, introspective young man, loved these weekends, often bringing his girlfriend, Ella Cahill, with him to his family's house. Together with Ms. Cahill's college roommate, Reese Manchaca, and a longtime friend from high school, Joyce Catherine Badon, they drove down to the house, in Hunt, Texas, near the Guadalupe River. The four of them, all 21, grilled, and Mr. Heartfield sent a selfie at around 1 a.m. Friday. Mr. Heartfield and Ms. Cahill had spent part of her sister's May wedding in Italy talking about what their own ceremony might be like. Sweethearts since sophomore year of high school, they planned to move in together after they graduated from college. Mr. Heartfield was excited about the marketing internship he had secured for his final year of school, while Ms. Cahill had settled on studying business management. But then, at around 4:30 a.m. Friday, Aidan woke up to water in the home. He called his father, who told them to get to higher ground. 'All hell broke loose,' said Mackenzie Cahill-Hodulik, Ms. Cahill's older sister, in an interview, recounting what she had been told. Mr. Heartfield handed the phone to Ms. Badon, saying he needed to help his girlfriend. There was a scream — 'Oh my god, they just got swept away' — and Ms. Badon said to tell her parents she loved them. Then the line went dead. In the days since, two bodies — those of Ms. Badon and Ms. Manchaca — have been recovered. Mr. Heartfield and Ms. Cahill have yet to be found. Image Reese Manchaca with Ms. Cahill. Credit... via Mackenzie Cahill-Hodulik 'It's a stab in the heart really,' Ms. Cahill-Hodulik said. She added: 'They were just here to have a good time. They were great kids.' As she spoke Tuesday morning, she was standing on a slab, she said, all that was left of the home. The entire family, she said, had driven down to the area to search for her sister and her boyfriend. Some things have been recovered. A high school photo of Ms. Badon, Mr. Heartfield and Ms. Cahill in Mr. Heartfield's car. His watch and keys. Ms. Cahill's makeup bag. A sweatshirt on a tree limb half a mile from the house. 'There's no words to explain it,' Ms. Cahill-Hodulik said. 'In a way it's comforting, because we have a piece of her. But then I go back and think of just the state of what we found them in. And I go back to thinking of how scared she was.' She added: 'Our hope is that they're found together. We're going to stay as long as it takes. I don't think any of us will get any type of closure until they're found.'
New York Times
4 days ago
- New York Times
Two Found, Two Missing: An Agonizing Search After the Texas Floods
It was supposed to be a regular weekend trip with friends, to the house in Texas's Hill Country. Aidan Heartfield, a quiet, introspective young man, loved these weekends, often bringing his girlfriend, Ella Cahill, with him to his family's house. Together with Ms. Cahill's college roommate, Reese Manchaca, and a longtime friend from high school, Joyce Catherine Badon, they drove down to the house, in Hunt, Texas, near the Guadalupe River. The four of them, all 21, grilled, and Mr. Heartfield sent a selfie at around 1 a.m. Friday. Mr. Heartfield and Ms. Cahill had spent part of her sister's May wedding in Italy talking about what their own ceremony might be like. Sweethearts since sophomore year of high school, they planned to move in together after they graduated from college. Mr. Heartfield was excited about the marketing internship he had secured for his final year of school, while Ms. Cahill had settled on studying business management. But then, at around 4:30 a.m. Friday, Aidan woke up to water in the home. He called his father, who told them to get to higher ground. 'All hell broke loose,' said Mackenzie Cahill-Hodulik, Ms. Cahill's older sister, in an interview, recounting what she had been told. Mr. Heartfield handed the phone to Ms. Badon, saying he needed to help his girlfriend. There was a scream — 'Oh my god, they just got swept away' — and Ms. Badon said to tell her parents she loved them. Then the line went dead. In the days since, two bodies — those of Ms. Badon and Ms. Manchaca — have been recovered. Mr. Heartfield and Ms. Cahill have yet to be found. 'It's a stab in the heart really,' Ms. Cahill-Hodulik said. She added: 'They were just here to have a good time. They were great kids.' As she spoke Tuesday morning, she was standing on a slab, she said, all that was left of the home. The entire family, she said, had driven down to the area to search for her sister and her boyfriend. Some things have been recovered. A high school photo of Ms. Badon, Mr. Heartfield and Ms. Cahill in Mr. Heartfield's car. His watch and keys. Ms. Cahill's makeup bag. A sweatshirt on a tree limb half a mile from the house. 'There's no words to explain it,' Ms. Cahill-Hodulik said. 'In a way it's comforting, because we have a piece of her. But then I go back and think of just the state of what we found them in. And I go back to thinking of how scared she was.' She added: 'Our hope is that they're found together. We're going to stay as long as it takes. I don't think any of us will get any type of closure until they're found.'
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Yahoo
Distraught Dad Says He Found the Body of a ‘Little Boy' While Calling Out His Missing Daughter's Name amid Texas Floods
Ty Badon, the father of missing 21-year-old Joyce Badon, said that he was searching an area of Hunt, Texas, when he found a young boy's body amid the flooding of Guadalupe River The distraught dad said the boy was about '8 or 10 years old" The death toll in the region has reached at least 79 peopleA father who is searching for his adult daughter amid the flooding of Texas' Guadalupe River made a horrible discovery. Ty Badon, the father of missing 21-year-old Joyce Badon, told CNN on July 5 that he was calling out his daughter's name when they discovered the body of a child as they were searching an area of Hunt, Texas. 'My son and I were walking and I thought it was a mannequin. It was a little boy, 8 or 10 years old, and he was dead,' said Ty, the dad of one of four college-aged friends who were believed to have been swept away in the floodwaters on July 3. 'We were just walking, doing the same thing we were doing when we stumbled across him,' he added. 'Hopefully we can find our children, my daughter and her friends alive.' His daughter's group of college friends, who were staying in a cabin along the river, included Ella Cahill, Aidan Heartfield and Reese Manchaca, according to the Beaumont Enterprise and 12 News Now. "It's been four o'clock yesterday morning that we were told that they were on the phone with Aidan's dad, who they own the house where they were," Ty told CNN, adding that the house "is no longer there." "Aidan said, 'Hey I've got to go, I've got to help Ella and Reese ... they just got washed away,' and then a few seconds later the phone just went dead, and that's all we know," the 21-year-old's father said, recalling his last contact with the group. "We pray that all four of them are still alive," Ty continued, sharing that authorities presume all four young adults were washed away in the flood. "All four are missing. They're still missing." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Flooding in the Guadalupe River caused it to reach its second-highest height ever, ABC News reported. The area received at least 10 inches of rain, per San Antonio outlet KSAT, and several counties are reporting a death toll, including Kerr, Travis, Burnet and Kendall, per KXAN. Kerr County, which is approximately 50 miles northwest of San Antonio, has been hit especially hard by the floods. The city of Kerrville declared a state of emergency due to the floods, while Hunt (also in Kerr County) experienced more than six inches of rain in three hours on Friday, which is a "1-in-100-year event" in the region, according to CNN. CNN reported that the flooded region experienced "more than an entire summer's worth of rain" in a matter of hours. The death toll in the region had reached at least 79 people as of Sunday, July 6, according to the Associated Press, as first responders continue search and rescue operations. By Sunday morning, 11 campers and a counselor from Camp Mystic, a Christian girls' camp nestled in Texas Hill Country, were still unaccounted for, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said. To learn how to help support the victims and recovery efforts from the Texas floods, click here. Read the original article on People
