Officers responding to reports of a dead woman discovered a decomposing body inside a shed at an apartment complex, Utah police and news outlets reported. Officers found the body at about 4:30 p.m.
Officers found a “plain” smell of decomposition when they opened the shed, police say.
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Officers responding to reports of a dead woman discovered a decomposing body inside a shed at an apartment complex, Utah police and news outlets reported.
Officers found the body at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23, the Provo Police Department said in a news release. They arrested Arthuro Carrion, 53, on a charge of murder.
When officers arrived, they found Carrion standing outside the apartment complex, police told KTVX. He gave officers a key to a locked shed behind the complex, police and KUTV reported.
Asked by officers what they’d find inside, Carrion replied “a dead body,” police told KTVX.
“When the shed was opened, the smell of decomposition was plain,” a probable cause affidavit said, according to KUTV. “Several bags were opened. A black bag was opened, and a forearm of a human body was seen inside.”
The affidavit said the body may be Carrion’s missing girlfriend, the station reported.
Police said in the release that the body will be sent to the medical examiner’s office for identification.
Provo is about a 45-mile drive southeast from Salt Lake City.
Don Sweeney has been a newspaper reporter and editor in California for more than 25 years. He has been a real-time reporter based at The Sacramento Bee since 2016.
A Connecticut teacher died during an apparent ski accident over the weekend in Utah. Daniel Negrelli, 53, of Canton is believed to have struck a tree while skiing at the Solitude Mountain Resort in …
A Connecticut teacher died during an apparent ski accident over the weekend in Utah.
Daniel Negrelli, 53, of Canton is believed to have struck a tree while skiing at the Solitude Mountain Resort in Brighton, Utah, according to the Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake.
Negrelli, a teacher at the A.I. Prince Technical School in Hartford, was found unresponsive at the base of a tree on a ski slope on Saturday around 1:15 p.m., police said. The skiers who found him notified authorities.
Emergency responders tried life-saving efforts but were unsuccessful.
According to police, Negrelli was wearing all the appropriate ski wear, including a helmet. Detectives are still investigating, but police said it appears as though Negrelli struck a tree.
“We are heartbroken by the passing of Dan Negrelli, a beloved member of our school community,” the Connecticut Technical Education and Career System said in a statement. “He was an exceptional educator and a cherished mentor, colleague and friend.”
“Dan made a lasting impact both in and out of the classroom, touching the lives of students and staff in countless ways,” school officials continued. “This is a tremendous loss for our school, and our thoughts are with his family, friends, and all who knew him.”
School officials said grief counselors would be available to students and staff.
The club was put behind the eight ball by a trio of first-period penalties as the blue line struggled to play disciplined hockey. The Canucks managed to take the lead on a Jake DeBrusk power-play goal …
SALT LAKE CITY — The Vancouver Canucks were badly outshot, and after taking the lead in the second period, squandered it in the third to drop a regulation result against a divisional opponent.
If that sounds familiar, it probably should. The Canucks’ 2-1 loss to the Utah Hockey Club on Sunday evening felt almost like a carbon copy of what we witnessed against the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday.
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The club was put behind the eight ball by a trio of first-period penalties as the blue line struggled to play disciplined hockey. The Canucks managed to take the lead on a Jake DeBrusk power-play goal. And then ultimately the mass of shots, shot attempts and quality looks the Canucks surrendered to their opponent became overwhelming.
So it was Saturday, and so it was Sunday when Utah stormed back to win in regulation.
The loss breathes real life into a Utah side that — despite trailing Vancouver significantly — looms as one of the biggest threats to Vancouver’s claim to the second wild-card spot in the Western Conference. It’s a troubling one, too, given how familiar the script felt and how persistent this club’s primary issues — and especially its inability to consistently threaten offensively — appear to be.
Here are three takeaways from Vancouver’s loss Sunday night in Salt Lake City.
Another undisciplined game from the blue line
After stunting their momentum Saturday night in Las Vegas with a three-penalty first period, the Canucks did it again in Utah.
First Tyler Myers hung a knee on Utah forward Jack McBain and was assessed a two-minute minor for interference. Myers argued the call, but it was a fair penalty, if slightly harsh.
Then Marcus Pettersson was called for holding, a no-brainer penalty, and honestly a good one. Logan Cooley had gotten lost in front of Vancouver’s net, and without Pettersson’s manually obstructing Nick Schmaltz on the half-boards, the Canucks likely would have surrendered the first goal.
Finally, Marcus played the puck with a stick he didn’t appear to realize had broken. The minor penalty for playing the puck with a broken stick isn’t one we see all that often, but that’s par for the course for the Canucks this weekend, who managed to take some creative and improbable penalties across this back-to-back set.
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Though Vancouver’s penalty killers bailed out the defence again Sunday night, all the time Vancouver spent short-handed sapped their momentum early on in the game and helped Utah build up a tremendous edge in shots and scoring chances.
Even if the flurry of power-play sequences helped Arturs Šilovs build some confidence in his first NHL start since late November — and Šilovs was solid Sunday night — this isn’t a good recipe for Vancouver.
And in fact, it was a key penalty taken late in the third period (a holding call against Derek Forbort) that resulted in the game-winning Dylan Guenther goal with the man advantage. Forbort’s penalty made it seven consecutive penalties for which Vancouver’s blueliners were directly responsible, and honestly, they could’ve ended the game short-handed, too, if Filip Hronek hadn’t got away with an errant stick with just under two minutes to play.
Though the Canucks’ defensive zone coverage was mostly very good Sunday night, their defence has to find a way to limit the power-play opportunities they’re handing out to the opposition. If this keeps up, it’s going to undermine the good structural defensive work this team is putting in at the moment.
Filip Chytil once again excelled in driving the puck up the ice against Utah. (Alex Goodlett / Getty Images)
The good and the bad of Filip Chytil
Across Vancouver’s two games on this trip so far, Filip Chytil has been the Canucks’ most impressive and most maddening individual contributor.
Chytil’s speed and ability to drive through the neutral zone are the clear strength of his game, and his transitional dynamism has brought something the Vancouver lineup has sorely missed throughout this season. As a puck carrier, Chytil has already become — by far — the most impactful forward the Canucks have going from a driving perspective.
On this trip, however, Chytil has struggled somewhat to convert his collection of thrilling rush opportunities into productive scoring chances. When he’s skated himself into shooting situations, he’s often missed the net, sometimes by a wide margin. When he’s attempted to make plays as a passer with speed, he’s been just off from really connecting on a dangerous scoring chance.
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Defensively, meanwhile, it’s clear Chytil has immediately earned Rick Tocchet’s trust. He was Vancouver’s preferred option Sunday night, for example, to match up against the Clayton Keller line. It wasn’t a matchup Vancouver won, territorially speaking, but given how heavily the ice was slanted in Utah’s favour throughout the evening, it wasn’t as if it was this matchup that proved to be Vancouver’s problem.
In a couple of key moments, however, some of his coverage was lacking. He was slow off of a key second-period draw to release to Cooley. Cooley got loose and was able to deflect a John Marino shot past Šilovs to level the score at 1.
Generally speaking, Chytil’s added a lot to the Vancouver lineup since arriving. His speed and size have been welcome, and he’s driving play offensively while earning Tocchet’s trust in his own end of the rink. There’s another level for him to get to, however: one that involves making better shot-selection decisions and slightly better defensive reads.
Victor Mancini makes his debut
The Canucks tweaked their lines Sunday with Carson Soucy drawing out of the lineup and young defenceman Victor Mancini drawing in. This marked Mancini’s Canucks debut after the 22-year-old defenceman was acquired from the New York Rangers as the third part of the J.T. Miller trade.
Though Mancini was somewhat sheltered, didn’t record a defensive-zone start and almost never saw the ice against the Keller-led Utah top line, he was used pretty heavily at five-on-five in this contest — in fact, he led all Canucks blueliners in five-on-five ice time heading into the third period.
Overall, Mancini’s traits — solid mobility, size and overall defensive reliability — played up and were evident. He looked like a safe, credible third-pair option, and you could see the upside. Even on a night in which the Canucks barely played with the puck, Mancini at least helped them prevent Utah from generating much in terms of quality looks.
It was, without question, a solid first impression. He at least gives the Canucks an option intriguing enough that the club should try to get a longer look at what he can provide over the balance of this season.
(Top photo of Nils Höglander and Olli Määttä: Alex Goodlett / Getty Images)
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Analyzing Sunday’s Vancouver Canucks at Utah Hockey Club odds and lines, with NHL expert picks, predictions and best bets.
The Vancouver Canucks (26-19-11) visit the Utah Hockey Club (24-24-9) Sunday at Delta Center in Salt Lake City. Puck drop is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET (ESPN+). Let’s analyze BetMGM Sportsbook’s NHL odds around the Canucks vs. Utah Hockey Club odds and make our expert NHL picks and predictions.
Season series: Utah Hockey Club leads 1-0
The Utah Hockey Club won 3-2 in overtime on Dec. 18 in the first meeting in the Pacific Northwest as a moderate favorite (-113) as the Under (6) cashed.
The Canucks lost a 3-1 loss on the road against the Vegas Golden Knights Saturday as a heavy underdog (+192) as the Under (5.5) cashed. G Kevin Lankinen allowed 2 goals on 34 shots.
Utah was tripped up 5-3 on the road against the LA Kings Saturday, and it has allowed a total of 16 goals in the past 3 games, or an average of 5.3 goals per game (GPG). In the losing effort against the Kings, C Barrett Hayton had 2 power-play goals and an even-strength marker for the hat trick. Unsurprisingly, the Over has cashed in 3 consecutive outings.
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Moneyline (ML): Canucks +125 (bet $100 to win $125) | Utah Hockey Club -150 (bet $150 to win $100)
Puck line (PL)/Against the spread (ATS): Canucks +1.5 (-210) | Utah Hockey League -1.5 (+170)
Over/Under (O/U): 5.5 (O: -115 | U: -105)
Canucks at Utah Hockey Club projected goalies
Arturs Silovs (1-4-1, 4.11 GAA, .847 SV%) vs. Karel Vejmelka (13-15-4, 2.57 GAA, .909 SV%, 1 SO)
Silovs is expected to make his first appearance since Nov. 27, as he has been down at AHL Abbotsford. He was recalled this week with Thatcher Demko sidelined with a lower-body injury. Demko is considered week-to-week, so Silovs could stick around a while behind Lankinen. The latter started Saturday, so with the back-to-back, it looks like it is Silovs time.
Vejmelka is expected to start Sunday after Connor Ingram was in between the pipes Saturday in Los Angeles. Vejmelka allowed 6 goals on 37 shots in his most recent start in Carolina Feb. 8. He made a relief appearance Feb. 9, too, allowing 2 goals on 32 shots in a comeback win in a shootout.
The UTAH HOCKEY CLUB (-150) are worth a look as moderate favorites in this home game.
Vejmelka has allowed 3 or fewer goals in 5 of his past 6 appearances since Jan. 23, and he is 1-0-1 in the past 2 starts at Delta Center, including 2 goals allowed on 20 shots in a 3-2 OTW against the Philadelphia Flyers Feb. 4.
The Canucks (+125) have had trouble scoring lately, going for just 36 goals in the past 17 games, or just 2.1 GPG since Jan. 8.
The Canucks +1.5 (-210) will cost you more than 2 times your potential return, and that’s way too much risk for just a little bit of insurance. And, personally, I don’t like taking an underdog on the puck line, as a late empty-net goal can ruin a potential cover in the blink of an eye.
The total has gone low in 5 straight outings, and, again, Vancouver’s offense has had a terrible time lighting the lamp in the past 6 weeks or so.
For Utah, the Over has hit in 3 in a row, but the Over is still 6-3 in the past 9 outings. Go low, but don’t get carried away.
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Drew Doughty had a goal and two assists to lead the Los Angeles Kings to a 5-3 win over Utah on Saturday night. Kevin Fiala, Alex Laferriere, Trevor Lewis and Mikey Anderson also scored as the Kings …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Drew Doughty had a goal and two assists to lead the Los Angeles Kings to a 5-3 win over Utah on Saturday night.
Kevin Fiala, Alex Laferriere, Trevor Lewis and Mikey Anderson also scored as the Kings improved their record at home to 18-3-2. Darcy Kuemper made 25 saves.
Barrett Hayton scored three goals and had the first hat trick for Utah, which was looking for its fourth win in five games. Connor Ingram made 21 saves.
Doughty, who missed the start of the season because of a broken ankle, was back in action after playing for champion Canada in the 4 Nations Face-off and tied the game at 1-all 26 seconds after Hayton opened the scoring in the first. He had the secondary assist on Fiala’s power-play goal and sent a long clearing pass that Laferriere chased down to put the Kings up 2-1 late in the second. It was Doughty’s 16th career game with at least three points.
Doughty’s effort helped spoil Hayton’s first career game with multiple power-play goals and fifth career multi-goal outing.
Takeaways
Utah: Defenseman Sean Durzi returned after missing 52 games because of an October shoulder injury that required surgery.
Kings: Anderson, who was back in action after a hand injury sidelined him for four games before the break, scored an empty-netter with 1:30 remaining.
Key moment
Lewis got to the slot and put a backhand of Jordan Spence’s rebound through Ingram’s legs to give Los Angeles a brief 4-2 lead.
Key stat
The Kings have played a league-low 23 home games and are allowing 2.22 goals on average in those contests.
Up next
Utah hosts Vancouver on Sunday. The Kings host Vegas on Monday.
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A father and his 12-year-old son got lost and stranded on a steep cliffside while hiking in Snow Canyon in Utah. An abandoned backpack helped keep them alive …
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The woman’s call came around 7:20 p.m. last Sunday.
Her husband and his 12-year-old son had gone hiking on the Red Mountain trail in southern Utah. She began to worry after the pair failed to show up hours later at a spot where she was supposed to pick them up, according to Sgt. Jacob Paul, who supervises the volunteer search and rescue team for the Washington County Sheriff’s Office.
Two search teams were dispatched to scour the treacherous terrain, Paul said. A private medical transport helicopter also assisted for a time but could not locate the missing hikers. With a description of the father’s boots, search teams were able to find footprints, along with a smaller set of tracks, along Red Mountain trail. For more than three hours they followed the tracks, calling out the names of the 33-year-old hiker and his son. Eventually, Paul said, searchers started hearing voices but echoes and darkness prevented them from pinpointing the hikers’ location.
Lost and stranded on a narrow ledge on a frigid night, the father came upon a backpack that – like manna from heaven – was filled with emergency blankets, water, snacks, a small tent and other supplies. The backpack had been left behind by a teen hiker who had to be rescued more than a month earlier after getting lost near the same location, according to Paul and the teenager who assembled the supplies.
“I can’t say 100% that it saved their lives because they may have survived, but they were on that ledge for at least 13 hours before we were able to get them off, and had they not had that bag, they definitely would have had some pretty severe cold-related symptoms,” Paul said.
“That bag essentially kept them from being harmed in any way.”
‘It didn’t turn out the way we wanted’
The red rock mountains of southern Utah are popular among adventure seekers, offering spectacular sand dunes, slot canyons and sandstone cliffs that can be forbidding to even experienced hikers because of hazards from rough terrain and foul weather.
The father who went hiking with his son last weekend agreed to talk about the trek but asked that they not be identified. He has become concerned about his son reliving the experience. “He’s like, dad, I just don’t want to hear anymore about it,” the father said. “It was a tough situation.”
The father said they decided to take the hike the previous night. “It’s a typical trail that we have taken so many times,” he said. On a navigator app on his phone, he showed his wife their expected route.
“I told her, ‘Look, we’re going to start right here. We’re going to end up out there. And we’ll meet each other in the park around this time,’” he said. “You know, it didn’t turn out the way we wanted.”
The boy and his father set out on their hike shortly before 10 a.m. on Sunday. “Everything was going well. We got to the overlook that we were trying to check out,” he said. The plan was to meet his wife at a parking lot on the trail by 2 p.m. at the latest. On the way back, he said, he decided to use the navigator app on his phone.
“The application ended up sending us somewhere else on the other side of the mountains where we ended up getting stranded,” he said. “We were actually walking back, talking about what we were going to do the moment we got home. All that time I was depending on my GPS, and come to find out my GPS took me somewhere on the most rocky places.”
On previous hikes, the father said, he always went “old school,” relying on a compass, footsteps and trails to guide him.
“But the one and only time that I decided to use GPS, we took a turn for the worse,” he said. The navigator app not only led them astray, he said, but also drained the battery on his phone.
“While we were trying to look for shelter,” the father said, “we came across this backpack.”
Inside, there was a space blanket designed to retain heat, an MRE and snacks, and other items that would help them get through the night.
“It was a miracle,” he said.
What he expected to be a three to four-hour hike turned into an ordeal of more than 20 hours. He said his focus was keeping his son safe and warm until the next morning.
“It was a scary situation but right in that moment, you cannot panic,” he said. “My son was handling it really well. For a 12-year-old, you know, to go through that situation and remain calm until the rescue came. He was pretty brave about it. He does tell me that he has overcome his fears but that next time, even if it’s just a small hike, let’s bring our tent and the rest of the stuff we need.”
‘Oh my gosh, that’s my son’s backpack’
As the search and rescue team, totaling about 20 people, scoured the mountainous trail late Sunday, the sheriff’s office learned the closest DPS helicopter was down with a maintenance issue, according to Paul. Instead, another helicopter was summoned from Salt Lake City. It took about two hours for that helicopter to reach the search site.
On Sunday night, Gretchen Dittmann was sitting in the hot tub with her husband when a helicopter flew over their home near Red Mountain.
“We knew they were searching for someone,” she said. “They’ve had other searches on this mountain because it just tricks people. They think they’re going down a path and then they kind of get stuck on these ledges.”
Dittmann even called her 15-year-old son, Levi, who got lost while hiking alone on January 3. He was rescued the following morning. She asked Levi to pray for whoever was lost.
The next morning, on a Facebook page of a southern Utah emergency group, Dittmann said she read that a father and son had been rescued and that “they had found this miraculous backpack.”
“I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, that’s my son’s backpack,’” she said.
On that Friday afternoon early last month, Dittmann said, Levi set out alone on a hike. He later FaceTimed his mother from the top of the mountain.
“OK, well, make sure you’re down before dark,” his mother remembered telling him. “I didn’t think he was going by himself, but I haven’t been up there so I didn’t know how precarious it is.”
But Levi got lost after taking a different route back. At one point, his 28-year-old brother hiked up the mountain to search for him. Dittmann said Levi had set up a small camp with his equipment but packed up after learning his brother was coming. Levi hurled his backpack to a ledge below because he didn’t think he could safely climb down with the large bag.
The battery on the teen’s phone was waning, according to his mother. Around midnight, Levi made another call home. He was upset. Dittmann told Levi to stay where he was and either his father or a search team would find him using the GPS coordinates provided by the teen’s brother.
“We were worried… He hadn’t really been up there before but it wasn’t a cold night. So, you know, we weren’t too worried that he was going to die or anything. I definitely didn’t sleep that night until they got him back down from the mountain.”
Levi said he packed one or two days worth of snacks – including energy and protein bars -along with a sleeping bag and emergency blankets, among other items. He said he wanted to train himself to hike with the weight of the large backpack.
When he learned his brother was coming, Levi said, he decided to move further down the mountain. He threw his backpack to a ledge below before realizing the climb down would be too precarious. He said he would not be rescued until hours later.
“I’m glad that it wasn’t for nothing, that I could help someone,” he said of the backpack.
Dittmann, referring to the discovery of the bag by the lost hikers, said, “I’m a Christian. It’s a total God story. It’s a miracle. The whole time, it’s been like, ‘Why’d you throw your bag down? Why did you do that?’ And now it just feels like God’s handprint on it. Throw your backpack down. It’s for later use.”
After a search team led Levi down from the mountain, Dittmann had her son take a photo with them. “We have to take this picture. This is a memory that you’re not going to forget,” she told Levi.
Most hikers in similar situations don’t survive
“It’s a pretty amazing story. There’s hundreds of square miles in that Red Mountain wilderness that they could have gotten lost in. And they just happened to get stuck on the exact ledge that the backpack was sitting on,” Paul said of the father and son.
Just after 6:20 a.m. Monday, a thermal imaging camera on the DPS helicopter recorded the father and son covered with an emergency blanket on a narrow ledge.
“Let’s get down and take a closer look at that,” a rescuer on the helicopter is heard saying in a video. “If we can just come down low. Don’t get in close or we’re going to blow them off.”
The boy and his father waved at the helicopter as the blanket fluttered in the wind. The helicopter left to get another crew member and prepare to hoist the hikers up from the ledge. Later, a rescuer was lowered on a long line – retrieving the boy first, followed by his father.
“The moment I saw the size of that line, the rope line, I was like, please don’t snap,” the father recalled with a laugh.
After the rescue, Paul returned the backpack to Levi.
Travis Heggie, a professor at Ohio’s Bowling Green State University and former public risk management specialist for the National Park Service, lamented that most Americans going into wilderness areas such as southern Utah are inexperienced.
“When you are planning for such a trek it is best to over plan and speak to rangers or others that know the area. This young man did try to do that. However, he broke another cardinal rule and went out by himself,” Heggie said of Levi, adding that hikers should go out in groups of no less than three people. “Even if you are experienced, it’s so easy to get turned around in wilderness areas like southern Utah.”
The father and son were fortunate, Heggie said. Many hikers in similar situations don’t survive, he said.
“They were just lucky that they found this old backpack from another hiker who had tried to be prepared and that helped them survive,” said Heggie, who’s researching hiking fatalities on the Angels Landing Trail in Utah’s Zion National Park. “They are lucky to be alive… You really need to know where you’re going and what you’re getting yourself into and prepared for it.”
Paul said Washington County search and rescue, with about 100 volunteers, has one of the highest call rates in Utah – between 130 and 180 calls a year. There were at least two heat-related deaths in the area last year, and dozens of severe injuries from falls, he said.
“Every few days we’re going out on one of these calls,” Paul said.
