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Indianapolis Star
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Indianapolis Star
St. Margaret's Hospital Guild has held annual Decorators' Show Home for more than 60 years
This mansion at 4356 North Meridian Street, seen here in November 1971, served as the 1972 Decorators' Show House. A few months later, a realtor advertised this home, which sat across the street from a home that had been the governor's mansion, for sale for $70,000. IndyStar File Photo/William Oates IndyStar File Photo/John Starkey IndyStar File Photo/William Oates The family living in the 1980 Decorators' Show House at 4160 Washington Blvd. moved out of the 1924 English Tudor for several months. IndyStar File Photo/William Oates A before image of the 1985 Decorators' Show house home. The home at 4270 N. Meridian, once owned by Booth Tarkington, received a grand makeover. The two pianos in the music room remained. IndyStar File Photo/Jeff Atteberry A before image of the 1985 Decorators' Show house home. The home at 4270 N. Meridian, once owned by Booth Tarkington, received a grand makeover. The home's owners had decorated the living room with stained glass and intricate antiques. IndyStar File Photo Even a bath designed for a housekeeper receives special treatment in a Decorators' Show House. The 1993 home, 4333 Sylvan Road, housed former President Richard M. Nixon as a guest for a night. This picture depicts stenciled walls and a swag curtain, the vision of Janice Heffelmire Interior Design. IndyStar File Photo/Susan Plageman One of two 1997 Decorators' Show Homes, the residence at 4050 Washington Blvd., included a sitting room off the master bedroom area, designed by Diana Chastain Interiors. IndyStar File Photo/Frank Espich Decorators' Show houses pay attention to the finest of details. The half-bath downstairs in the home at 4053 Pennsylvania St., one of the two homes featured in 1997, included hand-painted walls to make the room feel more spacious. IndyStar File Photo/Frank Espich
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Yahoo
Jury convicts burglar of killing elderly Encino man during home invasion
After finding his friend Stuart Herman sprawled on the kitchen floor of his Encino home with a gunshot wound to the head, John Berliner tried for more than five minutes to revive him as a 911 operator offered coaching on CPR. An audio recording of Berliner's anguished 911 call, in which he is heard counting out chest compressions, provided an emotional climax to the recent trial of the man charged with the shooting, which left Herman dead despite his friend's efforts to save him. On March 18, a San Fernando Valley jury convicted Timothy Kirkpatrick of killing Herman, 80, during what police and prosecutors believe was a home burglary gone awry. Kirkpatrick was found guilty on all charges: first-degree murder, burglary, assault with a firearm and illegal possession of a firearm. He and an alleged accomplice, Hakop Keloyan, were arrested in March 2022, roughly two months after the slaying. Before the start of trial, Keloyan pleaded guilty on March 10 to two gun charges and entered a no-contest plea to additional charges that included burglary, armed assault, and identity theft. Both men are expected to be sentenced in April. Read more: Mayor and LAPD chief tout double-digit drop in homicides compared with last year Deputy Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Ranna Jahanshahi said Herman and Berliner were best friends who met when Herman married Berliner's sister. Their friendship survived the couple's divorce, and when Berliner lived abroad he came back to L.A. to check on his elderly companion. An attorney for Kirkpatrick argued that there was no physical evidence tying his client to the crime. The defense called no witnesses during the trial. In March 2022, Berliner stayed at Herman's English Tudor house in the 4500 block of Densmore Avenue. "They were going to catch up on however long it had been since these two best friends had spoken," Jahanshahi said. On the day of the shooting, the two friends had just returned from grocery shopping when they noticed an "unfamiliar, brand-new looking BMW in the driveway," Jahanshahi said. Finding it odd, Berliner told investigators that he proceeded to check the backyard and the pool area before going inside the home to search the rooms. As he made his way through the house, Berliner told police, he noted that many doors had been left ajar, which was unusual because Herman insisted on keeping doors closed to keep his cats from escaping. "So with every door that John saw was open, he got a little bit more concerned," she said. Berliner recalled seeing the barrel of a gun protruding from behind a door and a male voice shouting "We're the police!" and instructing him to get down on the ground. As he did so, the gunman pistol-whipped him before running downstairs. After a few moments, Berliner heard a gunshot. "Nothing else. No words said, no screaming, no nothing," Jahanshahi said. An autopsy found marks on Herman's face, torso and arms that the medical examiner said indicated he had been shot at close range. Berliner told police he tried to take video of the suspect he saw and an accomplice fleeing in the white BMW X6, but his hands were shaking so badly that he could only manage to snap a photograph with his cellphone. He told investigators that he remembered the shooter as a tall, slender man with a mustache and arms covered in tattoos. Read more: A slimmed-down LAPD seems here to stay. What happens to crime with fewer cops? Investigators obtained a warrant for information from Google to identify electronic devices that had been in the area at the time of the murder, which eventually led them to Kirkpatrick and Keloyan. The men were arrested in late April 2022. Kirkpatrick was taken into custody after barricading himself inside a home in Simi Valley when police arrived with a search warrant. Keloyan was caught later the same day during a police raid of a Sherman Oaks residence where they found an illegal marijuana grow operation in an underground garage on the property. Prosecutors said surveillance video from a Range Rover dealership showed Kirkpatrick and Keloyan near Herman's home around the time of the incident. They were also captured on video driving past the property, which prosecutors said suggested they were casing the location. Jahanshahi said in an interview after the verdict was announced that the government pursued the more serious charge of first-degree murder based on the brutality of the crime and the close proximity at which Herman was shot, which "shows it was intentful and purposeful." After hearing the evidence against Kirkpatrick, the jury got its decision right, she said. "Anything less than first-degree would've been an injustice," Jahanshahi said, though "it's not going to change the trauma that the surviving victim has gone through." Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
25-03-2025
- Los Angeles Times
Jury convicts burglar of killing elderly Encino man during home invasion
After finding his friend Stuart Herman sprawled on the kitchen floor of his Encino home with a gunshot wound to the head, John Berliner tried for more than five minutes to revive him as a 911 operator offered coaching on CPR. An audio recording of Berliner's anguished 911 call, in which he is heard counting out chest compressions, provided an emotional climax to the recent trial of the man charged with the shooting, which left Herman dead despite his friend's efforts to save him. On March 18, a San Fernando Valley jury convicted Timothy Kirkpatrick of killing Herman, 80, during what police and prosecutors believe was a home burglary gone awry. Kirkpatrick was found guilty on all charges: first-degree murder, burglary, assault with a firearm and illegal possession of a firearm. He and an alleged accomplice, Hakop Keloyan, were arrested in March 2022, roughly two months after the slaying. Before the start of trial, Keloyan pleaded guilty on March 10 to two gun charges and entered a no-contest plea to additional charges that included burglary, armed assault, and identity theft. Both men are expected to be sentenced in April. Deputy Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Ranna Jahanshahi said Herman and Berliner were best friends who met when Herman married Berliner's sister. Their friendship survived the couple's divorce, and when Berliner lived abroad he came back to L.A. to check on his elderly companion. An attorney for Kirkpatrick argued that there was no physical evidence tying his client to the crime. The defense called no witnesses during the trial. In March 2022, Berliner stayed at Herman's English Tudor house in the 4500 block of Densmore Avenue. 'They were going to catch up on however long it had been since these two best friends had spoken,' Jahanshahi said. On the day of the shooting, the two friends had just returned from grocery shopping when they noticed an 'unfamiliar, brand-new looking BMW in the driveway,' Jahanshahi said. Finding it odd, Berliner told investigators that he proceeded to check the backyard and the pool area before going inside the home to search the rooms. As he made his way through the house, Berliner told police, he noted that many doors had been left ajar, which was unusual because Herman insisted on keeping doors closed to keep his cats from escaping. 'So with every door that John saw was open, he got a little bit more concerned,' she said. Berliner recalled seeing the barrel of a gun protruding from behind a door and a male voice shouting 'We're the police!' and instructing him to get down on the ground. As he did so, the gunman pistol-whipped him before running downstairs. After a few moments, Berliner heard a gunshot. 'Nothing else. No words said, no screaming, no nothing,' Jahanshahi said. An autopsy found marks on Herman's face, torso and arms that the medical examiner said indicated he had been shot at close range. Berliner told police he tried to take video of the suspect he saw and an accomplice fleeing in the white BMW X6, but his hands were shaking so badly that he could only manage to snap a photograph with his cellphone. He told investigators that he remembered the shooter as a tall, slender man with a mustache and arms covered in tattoos. Investigators obtained a warrant for information from Google to identify electronic devices that had been in the area at the time of the murder, which eventually led them to Kirkpatrick and Keloyan. The men were arrested in late April 2022. Kirkpatrick was taken into custody after barricading himself inside a home in Simi Valley when police arrived with a search warrant. Keloyan was caught later the same day during a police raid of a Sherman Oaks residence where they found an illegal marijuana grow operation in an underground garage on the property. Prosecutors said surveillance video from a Range Rover dealership showed Kirkpatrick and Keloyan near Herman's home around the time of the incident. They were also captured on video driving past the property, which prosecutors said suggested they were casing the location. Jahanshahi said in an interview after the verdict was announced that the government pursued the more serious charge of first-degree murder based on the brutality of the crime and the close proximity at which Herman was shot, which 'shows it was intentful and purposeful.' After hearing the evidence against Kirkpatrick, the jury got its decision right, she said. 'Anything less than first-degree would've been an injustice,' Jahanshahi said, though 'it's not going to change the trauma that the surviving victim has gone through.'
Yahoo
15-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Lopez: After the fires, starting from scratch in their 70s, 80s and 90s
Toothbrushes. Slippers. Hearing aids. Walkers. One day you have all of your stuff. The next day it's gone, and you're starting from scratch — something you never expected to be doing in your 70s, or 80s, or 90s. 'We had to go buy underwear the first day,' said Diane Williams, 86, who lost her 100-year-old English Tudor home two months ago in the Eaton fire and is now furnishing a Pasadena apartment that's serving as a temporary home. She bought a couch, a kitchen table, some lamps and a new bed for Tommy, her 13-year-old terrier. 'It's piecemeal,' her 89-year-old husband Verne said about stocking up again. 'One day I go and get some more shirts, or get a pair of pants. Two times I had to get shoes before I had this pair that I like.' Regrouping after the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires can be a nightmare at any age, but older adults have an added burden — the practical and psychological challenges of starting new lives when time is running out. When they lost their house in the Palisades fire, Joe and Arline Halper, 95 and 88, took up temporary residence in a grandson's home and began sorting out their options. They had always hoped to live out their days in their home, but rebuilding could take years. 'At our age, it doesn't make sense,' Joe said. 'In the beginning, I was truly in shock, and I thought, 'What's going to happen to us?' This was not in our plan,' Arline said. 'We didn't even have a tooth brush … so I was just overwhelmed. I'd go to CVS and just kind of wander around, not knowing where to start.' Arline was shopping for kitchen supplies one day when she saw a cutting board that triggered a memory, and she broke down in tears. Her son had made one for her nearly half a century ago when he was a student at Paul Revere junior high, and it was lost in the fire. 'It's just so emotional, and you try to repress it and try to move ahead and be thankful for what you do have,' Arline said. 'And yet it's all there, all these memories.' Read more: Stay in Altadena? 'We're torn, because we love this neighborhood and we love all these people.' The Halpers have a good friend and former Palisades neighbor named Alice Lynn, whose house survived. But Lynn, a therapist who's in her mid-80s, doesn't know when she'll be able to return, and she's in the midst of moving to yet another temporary home. 'Moving is daunting,' said Lynn, and so is the chaos of displacement, particularly for older people who find comfort in familiarity and routine. 'Where's the spatula? Where's the coffee cup?' Lynn asked, and how can you know how long of a lease to sign when you have no idea when the fire debris will be removed from your property? 'It's like your whole life has been switched into this parallel universe.' In Altadena, Kathi and Ed Ahnstedt, both 77, lost their apartment in the Eaton fire. They evacuated in a hurry, leaving behind their hearing aids. The fire also destroyed Kathi's cell phone, her walker and her CPAP breathing machine. But that's not what she wanted to talk about: 'What I miss most," Kathi said, "is all my Christmas stuff." She lost hundreds of ornaments, and fire swept through a couple dozen miniature Christmas villages that were boxed up for the next holiday season. 'I leave my Christmas tree up all year long, decorated,' Kathi said. 'I used to change it every month. Change it for, like St. Patrick's Day. It had 40 or 50 years worth of ornaments on it. It was almost solid ornaments. Not like one every five inches or so.' All of that was incinerated, along with the artificial tree. But there was one miracle on Mendocino Street. A couple dozen of the porcelain snow-baby figurines from Kathi's collection, which numbered in the hundreds, survived the inferno even though the shelves they were displayed on burned. 'We looked where they might have fallen when the roof caved in,' Kathi said, and there they were, buried in the ashes, mostly intact. Her daughter, Michelle, has been sifting through the rubble and said the search and rescue mission might still turn up more survivors. Kathi has been cleaning the figurines with baking soda paste, and she's also been doing a bit of shopping. 'Ed's here and I don't want him to hear this, but I already have 12 new nutcrackers,' Kathi confided, adding that she's also been replacing some of the lost snow-babies. "I went kind of crazy on eBay." Ed knew more than he let on to his wife, explaining that he was wise to her indulgences, but chose to honor a personal code: 'I just refuse to say anything, because happy wife, happy life.' Read more: As Eaton fire advanced, here's how employees rescued 45 elderly and disabled patients The Ahnstedts are staying at their daughter's home in La Cañada Flintridge while drawing plans to build an ADU in her backyard. It'll make for a big adjustment, but 'compared to other people, we are golden,' said Kathi, who isn't the only one who lost her most prized possessions. Ed, who makes custom fishing rods and reels for a living, lost all his supplies. But like his wife, he's rebuilding his collection and has already built a new workshop in his daughter's backyard. The Halpers, meanwhile, are in the midst of their own unexpected transition. They never saw themselves as being cut out for a retirement community, but a few weeks ago, they moved into one in Playa Vista. 'I'm getting used to it,' said Joe, a Korean War veteran, longtime public servant and current board member of the Los Angeles Parks Foundation. Arline, who's socially active and, like her husband, has never felt defined by age, is going through her own adjustment. 'The people are friendly and it's very nice,' Arline said of the retirement community. 'But it's very age-specific, and kind of an awakening for me. And I'm, 'Oh, I guess I do belong here.'' Diane and Verne Williams have made a different call. For decades, Diane said, their house on Braeburn Road, near the Altadena Golf Course, was a home base and holiday gathering place for their blended family (her three children and his three children). They want to rebuild, Diane said, and so does the rest of the family, which includes six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. 'We might not live to see the house totally built, or to move into the house, because we might have died,' Diane said. 'So we're rebuilding as a legacy to the family.' And who will own the house when they're gone? Their kids will figure it out, Diane said. 'You have a choice. You can either take the insurance money and leave it to your kids, or you can rebuild a home that will be special to the children and grandchildren. And so that's my thinking about it, and that's what helps me get through, day to day,' Diane said. And wouldn't it be something for Diane and Verne to host the first family Christmas party in the new house? 'Brings tears to my eyes,' said Verne. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times
15-03-2025
- General
- Los Angeles Times
After the fires, starting from scratch in their 70s, 80s and 90s
Toothbrushes. Slippers. Hearing aids. Walkers. One day you have all of your stuff. The next day it's gone, and you're starting from scratch — something you never expected to be doing in your 70s, or 80s, or 90s. 'We had to go buy underwear the first day,' said Diane Williams, 86, who lost her 100-year-old English Tudor home two months ago in the Eaton fire and is now furnishing a Pasadena apartment that's serving as a temporary home. She bought a couch, a kitchen table, some lamps and a new bed for Tommy, her 13-year-old terrier. 'It's piecemeal,' her 89-year-old husband Verne said about stocking up again. 'One day I go and get some more shirts, or get a pair of pants. Two times I had to get shoes before I had this pair that I like.' Regrouping after the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires can be a nightmare at any age, but older adults have an added burden — the practical and psychological challenges of starting new lives when time is running out. When they lost their house in the Palisades fire, Joe and Arline Halper, 95 and 88, took up temporary residence in a grandson's home and began sorting out their options. They had always hoped to live out their days in their home, but rebuilding could take years. 'At our age, it doesn't make sense,' Joe said. 'In the beginning, I was truly in shock, and I thought, 'What's going to happen to us?' This was not in our plan,' Arline said. 'We didn't even have a tooth brush … so I was just overwhelmed. I'd go to CVS and just kind of wander around, not knowing where to start.' Arline was shopping for kitchen supplies one day when she saw a cutting board that triggered a memory, and she broke down in tears. Her son had made one for her nearly half a century ago when he was a student at Paul Revere junior high, and it was lost in the fire. 'It's just so emotional, and you try to repress it and try to move ahead and be thankful for what you do have,' Arline said. 'And yet it's all there, all these memories.' The Halpers have a good friend and former Palisades neighbor named Alice Lynn, whose house survived. But Lynn, a therapist who's in her mid-80s, doesn't know when she'll be able to return, and she's in the midst of moving to yet another temporary home. 'Moving is daunting,' said Lynn, and so is the chaos of displacement, particularly for older people who find comfort in familiarity and routine. 'Where's the spatula? Where's the coffee cup?' Lynn asked, and how can you know how long of a lease to sign when you have no idea when the fire debris will be removed from your property? 'It's like your whole life has been switched into this parallel universe.' In Altadena, Kathi and Ed Ahnstedt, both 77, lost their apartment in the Eaton fire. They evacuated in a hurry, leaving behind their hearing aids. The fire also destroyed Kathi's cell phone, her walker and her CPAP breathing machine. But that's not what she wanted to talk about: 'What I miss most,' Kathi said, 'is all my Christmas stuff.' She lost hundreds of ornaments, and fire swept through a couple dozen miniature Christmas villages that were boxed up for the next holiday season. 'I leave my Christmas tree up all year long, decorated,' Kathi said. 'I used to change it every month. Change it for, like St. Patrick's Day. It had 40 or 50 years worth of ornaments on it. It was almost solid ornaments. Not like one every five inches or so.' All of that was incinerated, along with the artificial tree. But there was one miracle on Mendocino Street. A couple dozen of the porcelain snow-baby figurines from Kathi's collection, which numbered in the hundreds, survived the inferno even though the shelves they were displayed on burned. 'We looked where they might have fallen when the roof caved in,' Kathi said, and there they were, buried in the ashes, mostly intact. Her daughter, Michelle, has been sifting through the rubble and said the search and rescue mission might still turn up more survivors. Kathi has been cleaning the figurines with baking soda paste, and she's also been doing a bit of shopping. 'Ed's here and I don't want him to hear this, but I already have 12 new nutcrackers,' Kathi confided, adding that she's also been replacing some of the lost snow-babies. 'I went kind of crazy on eBay.' Ed knew more than he let on to his wife, explaining that he was wise to her indulgences, but chose to honor a personal code: 'I just refuse to say anything, because happy wife, happy life.' The Ahnstedts are staying at their daughter's home in La Cañada Flintridge while drawing plans to build an ADU in her backyard. It'll make for a big adjustment, but 'compared to other people, we are golden,' said Kathi, who isn't the only one who lost her most prized possessions. Ed, who makes custom fishing rods and reels for a living, lost all his supplies. But like his wife, he's rebuilding his collection and has already built a new workshop in his daughter's backyard. The Halpers, meanwhile, are in the midst of their own unexpected transition. They never saw themselves as being cut out for a retirement community, but a few weeks ago, they moved into one in Playa Vista. 'I'm getting used to it,' said Joe, a Korean War veteran, longtime public servant and current board member of the Los Angeles Parks Foundation. Arline, who's socially active and, like her husband, has never felt defined by age, is going through her own adjustment. 'The people are friendly and it's very nice,' Arline said of the retirement community. 'But it's very age-specific, and kind of an awakening for me. And I'm, 'Oh, I guess I do belong here.'' Diane and Verne Williams have made a different call. For decades, Diane said, their house on Braeburn Road, near the Altadena Golf Course, was a home base and holiday gathering place for their blended family (her three children and his three children). They want to rebuild, Diane said, and so does the rest of the family, which includes six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. 'We might not live to see the house totally built, or to move into the house, because we might have died,' Diane said. 'So we're rebuilding as a legacy to the family.' And who will own the house when they're gone? Their kids will figure it out, Diane said. 'You have a choice. You can either take the insurance money and leave it to your kids, or you can rebuild a home that will be special to the children and grandchildren. And so that's my thinking about it, and that's what helps me get through, day to day,' Diane said. And wouldn't it be something for Diane and Verne to host the first family Christmas party in the new house? 'Brings tears to my eyes,' said Verne.
