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Time of India
2 days ago
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- Time of India
Kim Kardashian shocked by missing cruise girl doc, joins public plea for Amy Bradley
Kim Kardashian has once again stepped into the true crime spotlight, this time after being deeply shaken by Netflix's new documentary Amy Bradley Is Missing. The three-part series unravels the eerie disappearance of Amy Bradley, who vanished without a trace from a Royal Caribbean cruise in 1998. Kim, who is known for her legal reform efforts and passion for justice, took to Instagram with an emotional post, urging her followers to tune in and help bring attention to the decades old mystery. Kim Kardashian reacts to haunting Netflix case Kim called the documentary 'mind blowing' and said it left her shaken. According to her post, she found the whole thing terrifying and insisted that more people need to watch and talk about it. She declared it is time to 'find Amy' – a call to action that quickly caught the attention of her massive fanbase. Who was Amy Bradley and what happened? At just 23, Amy had recently graduated from university and set sail with her family, her parents Ron and Iva, and her younger brother Brad, on what was supposed to be a relaxing Caribbean holiday. But on the early morning of March 23rd, 1998, Amy vanished. She had returned to her cabin around 3:35am after partying at a nightclub onboard. By 6:15am, she was gone. No note. No trace. Just silence. Despite an intense search involving helicopters and coast guards, not a single piece of evidence was recovered. Coast Guard official Henry Vrutaal stated in the doc that it was 'the biggest search' they had ever conducted, yet they found nothing. The island of Curaçao, where the ship had docked, offered no answers. Kim is hooked on true crime, and wants answers This is not the first time Kim has spoken out about a haunting true crime case. She recently shared her reaction to Amazon Prime's One Night In Idaho, which follows the 2022 university murders that shocked the nation. She admitted she was overwhelmed by the pain of the victims' families and was left emotionally drained after watching it. In March 1998, Amy Lynn Bradley vanished from a cruise ship during a family vacation in the Caribbean. #FBIWFO continues to investigate her disappearance. If you have information that could lead to her recovery, call your local #FBI office or the nearest U.S. Embassy.… Whether she is studying law or watching Netflix crime docs, Kim is clearly not one to scroll past injustice. With her massive platform behind it, the Amy Bradley case might just get the renewed attention it desperately deserves.
Daily Mail
09-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Sister of Bryan Kohberger victim reveals heartbreaking final text from brother before Idaho murder
The grieving sister of one of Bryan Kohberger's victims has spoken out for the first time to reveal the heartbreaking final text message from her murdered brother - a message she received after he was already dead. Maizie Chapin told Prime Video how Ethan Chapin had sent a string of texts begging her to come to join him at a party on the University of Idaho campus just hours before he was killed. 'The last one said 'I love you' which was also weird because we don't say that to each other,' she said, choking up with emotion. But Maizie had fallen asleep and never saw the messages until the next morning. By the time she read her brother's texts, he was dead - stabbed to death alongside his girlfriend Xana Kernodle and their two friends Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen in a brutal murder that shocked the nation. Chapin's triplet siblings Maizie and Hunter Chapin broke their silence about their final hours with their brother and the devastating moment they learned of his murder in Prime Video's upcoming four-part docuseries 'One Night in Idaho: The College Murders'. The series, airing July 11, comes just days after Kohberger finally pleaded guilty to murdering the four University of Idaho students in an off-campus student home in Moscow, Idaho, in the early hours of November 13, 2022. After two years of protesting his innocence, the 30-year-old criminology PhD student confessed last week to the murders as part of a plea deal to save himself from the death penalty. His motive for the murders still remains a mystery. Maizie Chapin broke her silence to reveal the final text her brother sent to her before he was murdered by Bryan Kohberger Ethan Chapin and his girlfriend Xana Kernodle (pictured together in summer 2022) were murdered by Bryan Kohberger In the new series, Maizie and Hunter revealed that, as triplets, the three siblings had always been very close and they decided to all attend the University of Idaho together, where they became part of the same friendship group. On the night of November 12, 2022, Chapin had gone as his sister's date to a fall formal at her sorority. 'It was super fun,' Maizie recalled. When the formal ended at around 9pm, Chapin went on to a party at the Sigma Chi house - the fraternity he was part of - but Maizie didn't go. 'For some reason I stayed and went to bed,' Maizie said. While at the party, Maizie revealed that Chapin kept texting her, urging her to come and join him, Kernodle and their other friends at the party. 'Ethan kept texting me. Maizie come hang out,' she said. 'Plz come hang out,' one message read. 'We all want you here,' another text added, followed by 'U good dog?' and 'Helloooooo?!!!!!' 'I went to sleep so I wasn't responding to any of them,' Maizie recalled. Chapin sent a final text message to his sister that also went unanswered. It read: 'Love you.' Maizie, Ethan, Stacy, Jim and Hunter Chapin pictured together at Priest Lake in northern Idaho in July 2022 Maizie choked up as she recalled seeing the text message the next morning. Following the party, Chapin and Kernodle had returned to 1122 King Road across a field from the frat house. Kernodle, Goncalves, Mogen and two other roommates - Dylan Mortensen and Bethany Funke - all lived together at the three-story property. Chapin also 'basically lived at the King Road house with Xana,' Hunter said in the series. At around 4am on November 13, Kohberger broke into the house with a plan to kill. Once inside, he went straight up to Mogen's room on the third floor where he found Mogen and her best friend Goncalves sleeping in the same bed, prosecutor Bill Thompson revealed in court last week. He stabbed both of them to death. On his way back downstairs or on leaving the property, he encountered Kernodle on the second floor, who was still awake and had just received a DoorDash food order. He fatally attacked her with the knife and then also murdered Chapin who was sleeping in her bed. Bryan Kohberger finally pleaded guilty last week to murdering the four University of Idaho students Left to right: Dylan Mortensen, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen (on Kaylee's shoulders) Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Bethany Funke He then left through the back sliding door on the second story of the property, passing Mortensen who had been woken by the noise and had peeked round her bedroom door. Mortensen and Funke were the only survivors. Terrified after seeing a masked man inside the home, Mortensen and Funke desperately tried to call and text their friends but got no response. Ultimately, Mortensen ran down to Funke's room on the first floor where they both stayed until daylight. Around eight hours later, when they still couldn't get in touch with the four victims, they called their friends Hunter Johnson, Emily Alandt and Josie Lauteren over to check the home. Hunter Johnson discovered the bodies of his best friend Chapin and Kernodle inside her room on the second floor and a distressing 911 call was made. In the series, Hunter Chapin spoke out about the devastating moment he learned about his sibling's murder. It was around midday when he said he was woken by one of his Sigma Chi frat brothers 'shaking me' and saying there was police over at the King Road home. The Chapin triplets were very close and went to the same college, where they were part of the same friendship group (pictured) The murders struck fear into the small close-knit college town of Moscow, Idaho (pictured) At first, he thought nothing of it. 'Okay, that's probably normal. There's more noise complaints there than anywhere else on campus,' he recalled thinking. But when he walked over to the home and saw several of their friends outside, he knew something terrible had happened. 'So I was walking over to the King Road house and I saw a group of people sitting on the ground and it's all the people that I have been hanging out with,' he said. 'And they all just had this look on their face when I walked up like the world had ended.' His friends struggled to break the news to him that they had found his brother dead. 'I'm like 'what the hell's going on. Like where's Ethan?' And they're like 'Ethan's not here anymore,'' he said. Hunter remembered asking: 'What do you mean Ethan's not here anymore? Like where did he go?' Hunter Chapin spoke of the moment that his friends told him his brother had been murdered Ethan Chapin's parents Jim and Stacy Chapin speak out in the series about their son's murder When they told him 'your brother's dead,' he said he thought it 'can't be true.' At that moment, he said Hunter Johnson told him: 'I think Xana and Ethan were murdered last night.' 'I didn't even know how to respond to it as it's just so unreal that someone I had spent almost every minute of my life with… I just don't know,' he said, breaking down mid-sentence. Hunter recalled having to then break the devastating news to his family members. First, he called Maizie - telling her to immediately get someone to drop her off at the home. 'I just knew,' she said, remembering the gut feeling she had as she made her way to the property. When he called his mom Stacy Chapin, she was at the grocery store. In the series, she recalled her son repeatedly telling her 'Ethan's not here' and 'Ethan and Xana are not here' as he couldn't bring himself to say the words that he was dead. 'They're not on this earth anymore,' she said he told her. The family of Ethan Chapin attending the change of plea hearing on July 2 to show their support for the plea deal Stacy remembered abandoning her shopping cart and just leaving the store, calling her husband Jim and they raced to Moscow. Another six weeks passed before Kohberger was arrested at his parents' home in the Poconos region of Pennsylvania - where he had returned for the holidays. During that time, he finished out his semester at Washington State University where he had embarked on a PhD in criminology. He also meticulously scrubbed his Pullman, Washington, apartment and his car - the white Hyundai Elantra he had driven to and from the crime scene - clean of evidence. Investigators tracked him down, however, after he left a KaBar leather knife sheath next to Mogen's body at the scene. Through Investigative Genetic Genealogy, the FBI managed to trace DNA on the sheath to Kohberger. Officers then posed as sanitation workers to collect trash from the Kohberger's family home, finding a Q-tip to be a match for the father of the killer. Five days after Christmas, the Kohberger home was raided and he was taken into custody. Kohberger, 30, murdered Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in a brutal knife attack Now, under the terms of the plea deal, Kohberger will be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole and will also never have a chance to appeal his conviction or sentence. The plea deal divided the victims' families with the Chapin and Mogen families supporting it and the Goncalves and Kernodle families opposing it. For the Chapins, the hearing on July 2 where Kohberger changed his plea marked the first time they attended one of his court appearances - as a show of support for the agreement. Now, the families of the victims will be given the opportunity to deliver impact statements at his sentencing hearing on July 23.
