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men many many many ♪ ♪ many men wish death 'pon me ♪ [ cheers and applause ] this is nightline. tonight, delphi killer richard allen locked up for 130 years. >> today is not closure. it is just turning the page and starting a new chapter. >> sentenced nearly eight years after the bodies of abby williams and libby german were discovered near a hiking trail in indiana, the family speaking out for the first time in two years. >> justice has been served for the girls. >> how prosecutors say the
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victims helped solve their own murder. plus, nicole kidman, like you've never seen her before in the erotic thriller baby girl. an older, married woman. i want to be with you. like having an affair with a much younger man. >> she's a good mother. she's a good wife. she's very successful in her job. and then this is her achilles heel. >> the advice from her late mother that made it all possible. and supermodel petra nemcova's mission to serve the most homes here don't have flood insurance at all. overcoming trauma and loss. 20 years after a devastating tsunami, i feel like everything changed. >> my personal life. my professional life. >> how she's now helping others recover and heal. plus, paul and ringo. should we rock the beatles reunion no one saw coming? it's the lonely hearts club band. the surviving members performing sergeant pepper's
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killer sentenced today. >> today is not closure. is just turning the page and starting a new chapter. >> not closure, but justice. some say inside an indiana courtroom today where richard allen was sentenced to 130 years in prison for the 2017 murders of two teenage girls. >> richard allen was very calm. he showed no emotion. he gave no reaction when the verdict was read. that's basically how he acted through much of the trial. >> it's a case that gripped the nation for nearly a decade. 13 year old abby williams and 14 year old libby german were brutally murdered while out for a hike on a local trail in the small town of delphi, indiana. >> it used to be a place where people didn't lock their doors. i believe that the verdict and the sentencing will help ease some of that sense of security for the people of carroll county. >> after a gag order was lifted today, investigators and family
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members speaking for the first time in over two years, including libby's grandfather. >> the investigative team and the prosecution. thank you for staying steadfast and continuing to work towards this. it's been almost eight years coming. >> there were family members from both abby's family and libby's family in the courtroom, and five of them gave victim impact statements. they were very moving. they were very emotional. it was their first opportunity to address richard allen. >> the tight knit community often frustrated. it took five years for the police to find a viable suspect. 52 year old richard allen, a husband, a father and well known around the delphi community. key evidence in the case was this chilling cell phone video captured on libby's phone just before the two girls went missing. >> nice young girl. >> i'd be remiss if i didn't think abby and libby themselves. libby for recording the defendant as he walked across
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the bridge, having the wherewithal to pull out her phone and record that individual, having the wherewithal to know that something wasn't right, and then to abby for hiding the phone, hiding the phone from the killer so that he couldn't take it with him. >> for the families so deeply wounded today, they express gratitude to the jury, the judge, and so many others. >> this community has embraced our families from day one and continues to lift us up and support us. >> these families will live every day without two of the most important people in their lives. they're missing milestones because of a low life. coward decided to take their their innocent lives. >> and now we shift gears to a provocative new film starring nicole kidman, making headlines for her risqué role and generating oscar buzz. why? kidman says the movie is unlike anything she's ever done before. here's abc's chris connelly.
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>> she's a good mother. she's a good wife. she's very successful in her job. and then this is her achilles heel. she suddenly starts feeling things that she knows are not right. >> you shouldn't. you shouldn't drink coffee after lunch. how many do you drink a day? >> none of your business. >> seven. >> so it begins in baby girl, an early encounter between nicole kidman's high powered ceo and an enigmatic company intern, leading to a shocking affair. what excited you about it? >> the honesty that means that at times, that's disturbing. that's sort of uncomfortable. it makes you laugh, it can turn you on, but it's all told through the eyes of a woman. >> you certainly put the thrill into erotic thriller in this one, don't you? >> i think it's sort of a deep digging around inside the female psyche. and what desire means,
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and being able to be honest with who you are, changing your mind. >> i have to go. >> unacceptable. unacceptable. >> and she's like, oh, the sensations that come towards me when i'm feeling the danger are the things that i'm actually now really drawn to. the constant shifting of power and the way in which they both sort of find their way through. that is what's interesting. >> there's also the upheaval it all brings to her character's work and home life, and the uninhibited pleasure of a life free from society's strictures. from dutch writer director halina reijn, baby girl enticingly flips the gender script on a kind of movie that was much enjoyed and buzzed about during its heyday, where the issues of control and passion and power that drove 80s and 90s turn ons like nine and a half weeks now, getting freshly imagined from a female perspective. we're talking about basic instinct and fatal
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attraction and films like that. yeah, and nine and a half weeks. >> i mean, they were great, entertaining films. they were male driven primarily. so therefore, it's nice that you have a woman like helena, who's the director, going, okay, i love those movies. how do i now tell them with my voice and with my storytelling? >> the demands of the part placed the 57 year old in intimate scenes with rising star harris dickinson, 28, and as her husband antonio banderas, 64. what can you tell us about how you created the vulnerability and the trust to do these intimate scenes together? >> you're my baby girl. >> you've got the protection of experienced as antonio's very experienced. and then harris, his brain is so adept at being able to know what's needed to
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create things. >> kidman is now golden globe nominated for baby girl only, the latest acclaim in an acting career. she began at age 14 back in her native australia. i remember asking you almost 33 years ago when you were starting, you know, i know, right? you know, we're talking about your early stages of being an actor when you were still a teenager. what did you like about it? i said, well, you get to meet boys and you get to kiss boys on stage. >> still doing that? >> oh 2024 saw the hard working kidman star in six different projects, including the netflix hit the perfect couple, reflecting in part what kidman sees as a new era of opportunity for actresses. >> these stories that are being told are being told with women now, not just in their early 20s but 30s. 40s, 50s, 60s. we're all living longer. and i think there's a there's a hunger for it. we see it on television, it gets devoured. it has to be good. >> but the success and acclaim of kidman's latest decade on
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screen nearly didn't happen in 2008, as she welcomed daughter sunday rose, nicole felt that her career might have run its course until a trusted voice counseled her otherwise. >> my mother said, no, no, no, keep your finger in the pie a little bit. don't give it up completely. i was sort of i'm done. i've got my baby. this is it. and she's like, i think you'll need a creative outlet. and you've worked hard and you might not want to just throw it all away. so it was great advice. >> nicole's mother, janelle, passed in september of this year. do you keep your mother's voice in your head now? >> the same way? i keep reaching for it. yes, but i would much prefer that it was right here. >> she shows no signs of slowing down, eager to continue fulfilling her pledge to work with more women directors, writers and producers, and hopes audiences will seek out the provocations of baby girl. we wanted people to see this not at home, but around people.
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>> i like the idea of that, but i'm a huge believer in cinema, so and the experience being a shared experience. >> thanks to chris. baby girl opens in theaters on christmas day. coming up, supermodel petra nemcova's mission to serve how she's helping others. 20 years she's helping others. 20 years after surviving a devastating or active psoriatic arthritis symptoms can sometimes hold you back. but now there's skyrizi, so you can be all in with clearer skin. ♪things are getting clearer♪ ♪yeah, i feel free to bare my skin♪ ♪yeah, that's all me.♪ ♪nothing is everything♪ with skyrizi, you can show up with 90% clearer skin. and if you have psoriatic arthritis, skyrizi can help you move with less joint pain, stiffness, swelling, and fatigue. skyrizi is just 4 doses a year after 2 starter doses. don't use if allergic.
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20 years ago, and now helping others. >> you've seen her face, that beautiful woman on the cover of magazines. the world renowned supermodel petra nemcova, also a woman with a powerful purpose, turning a horror she experienced into hope for other people. 20 years ago, she was a 25 year old on a dream vacation in thailand with the boyfriend she loved. then the historic and deadly tsunami savaged southeast asia. the monstrous wall of water, steel and metal carried her boyfriend simon atlee to his death as he called out her name. somehow, she managed to grab onto the top of a palm tree, and she held on for nearly eight hours in searing pain from all her broken bones. >> i think in everyone's life, in some point, you know, there's a there's a tragedy in some way.
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the tragedy gives us an opportunity to put a meaning in our life. >> that was petra nemcova when i first met her 20 years ago. this is petra today. >> i feel like everything changed. my personal life, my professional life, my values, my purpose in life. >> but even as she healed, she kept reliving the screams of the children, propelled by that water just out of reach. >> children trying to scream for help. i couldn't go and swim to them or try to help them because i couldn't move, move my legs. i couldn't do anything. that pain, it's with me so strongly every single day. that day of the tsunami, i didn't have a choice to help children. but today and every day, i have a choice. and
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that keeps moving me every day. and we all have a choice every day. >> and that's why two decades ago, she had an idea she would use her own money and time to try to build an army of volunteers to keep helping the victims of natural disasters, long after the world's attention has moved on. >> the two three months after natural disasters. it's usually the time when also different organizations leave. the depression goes deeper. and that's when many suicides happen. and if there is no more support from organizations, you are like how i ever going to rebuild my life? >> and today, her idea has become a global nonprofit, now called all hands and hearts. through the years, 68,000 volunteers deploying in the aftermath of tsunamis, tornadoes, hurricanes all around the world rebuilding schools and
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homes. almost two months ago, hurricane helene smashed into the mountains of north carolina. >> and helene, we were there day two, and we made a commitment to stay for one year. >> for one year, there will be those people in purple shirts, the healing sight of all hands and hearts, kind strangers who have come to help and to stay. >> hi, robin. >> robin young is an experienced contractor supervising the volunteers. >> this is incredible. the destruction here so high. it's high. was the debris here at least 30ft tall? >> trees, cars, houses. across the street. there was a cabin wrapped around that tree over there. >> they plan to help 500 families in north carolina. families like maggie and craig chamberlain. their home before the hurricane, now still standing but gutted by mud and water. >> but we were not in a flood zone here. hence, that's why we
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didn't have flood insurance. >> most homes here don't have flood insurance at all. you would never expect flooding happening here in such a mountainous areas. >> the volunteers in purple shirts have arrived to help maggie clear out the wreckage of her home. the black mold, the debris, the despair bedroom. >> it was actually like a little mini hospital in here, because my husband has been on hospice for, i guess, about eight months. he was comfortable here. >> but the healing happening. this is you're fighting two big fights. >> two big ones. yeah. >> these volunteers calling on everyone watching to join their army of hope. >> in a new year. we will need lots of volunteers, lots of support. so come and join us. and we have an incredibly experienced staff. you don't need any skills. >> jessica thompson is the ceo of all hands and hearts. >> right now we are responding to hurricanes helene and milton in north carolina and florida. we still have work in maui,
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hawaii for the wildfires, and we also have school construction projects in mexico, nepal and the philippines. >> there's still a lot more to do. >> and among the volunteers at petrus side there to help are the family of someone she loved, someone who was lost in the tsunami 20 years ago. photographer simon atley. >> simon's family became my family. and simon's friends became my friends. i'm so grateful for them because they embraced me with so much love and embraced her own new family. >> in 2019, petra married entrepreneur benjamin larock. they now have a son, bodi. >> and they have a son. and i have a beautiful husband and. and there's so many blessings to be grateful for. yes, i was lucky because i met another twin flame and ben is my twin flame,
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and he's an incredible soul. and i just feel so lucky because i didn't know what was going to happen. and he's they're my two loves of ben and bodi and just bring lots of sunshine. and bodi means enlightenment. >> and so next week, when we all look back at the 20th anniversary of the tsunami, remember petra nemcova and her volunteers, who will be lighting candles not to remember the darkness, but to believe in the power of light. >> and we will invite everybody to join us, to light a candle to bring more light to the world. >> our thanks to diane and our friends at national geographic also recently released a series documenting the events of that tragic day tsunami. a race against time is available on disney plus. coming up, paul and
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>> and finally,ight, the surprise reunion of two beatles in london. >> should we rock? and rock? >> sir ringo starr, 84, joining sir paul mccartney, 82, on stage in london performing the classic sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band. enjoy the show. this was the final show of mccartney's got back tour, and the first time the only surviving members of the fab four have performed together in five years. bravo. that's nightline. you can watch all of our full episodes on hulu. we'll see you right back here monday. thanks for staying up with us. go
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