Dummies are inert props that only look like bullets, loosely filled with tiny BBs so they rattle like maracas. “That is a mix of blanks, dummy rounds, and what we are suspecting are live rounds,” he said.
Santa Fe sheriff Adan Mendoza said at a press conference in October that about 500 cartridges had been recovered from the set. In late February, the D.A.’s office expects to receive a forensics report from the FBI’s crime lab that they hope will reveal critical details about the live round of ammunition that killed Hutchins, including-possibly-who physically handled it, placing the deadly object in an environment where it never should have been. Rust was supposed to be the next step in her life, not the end of it. American Cinematographer magazine named Hutchins one of its “rising stars” in 2019, and she was fulfilling that promise. She then devoted her focus to cinematography, graduating from the American Film Institute in 2015, and made splashes at Cannes in 2017 with the sultry thriller Snowbound and at SXSW in 2019 with the fright-fest Darlin’. Hutchins studied journalism at Kyiv National University and began her film career working on documentaries in Europe. And my phone just started dinging, I was getting text messages, and it was just like, ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding.” I’m driving along, and all of a sudden I come back into cell service. “There’s a spot in between Santa Fe and Taos for 30 to 45 minutes where you lose cell service entirely. Her wife and kids would join her the next day for her birthday weekend, but first she needed some alone time. “I was going to just spend the night up there and have a nice, relaxing evening off,” she says. So she scheduled some vacation time, and on the afternoon of October 21 started a solo trip to Taos, New Mexico, a small town known for its historic Pueblo dwellings, art galleries, and majestic views of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. It was a gruesome, emotional case, and Carmack-Altwies needed to decompress. In October, her prosecution had successfully sent a man to prison for his role in the child abuse death of a 13-year-old boy. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.