A child killer taunts girls with threatening letters

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Case 282: April Tinsley
** Content warnings: Child victim, sexual assault **
In 2004, several young girls around Fort Wayne, Indiana, received handwritten letters threatening that they would be the next victim of a child killer.
Authorities were immediately concerned. DNA from the letters matched samples they had stored from an unsolved crime that was committed more than a decade earlier - the murder of eight-year-old April Tinsley.
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@angela21975 4 месяца назад

Why would a mother read a letter like that and take it as a joke?? WTF??!!!!????

@blueberries6961 3 месяца назад

I was thinking THE SAME

@scaryhours2220 3 месяца назад

Because she is a terrible mother

@nighthawktt 3 месяца назад

and especially with a used condom most definitely wtf?

@saltyscrublyfe9862 3 месяца назад

That's what I came to say.

@lismary89 3 месяца назад

Some people just shouldn’t be parents

@Mypoint155 4 месяца назад

This murderer lived too long without being caught.

@jennifermaddy2442 4 месяца назад

Yes very much so

@grumpyrhonda6709 4 месяца назад

Heartbreaking. As a parent, I don't know of anything that could be worse than this. The narrators voice is extremely soothing, despite the horrendous content. Very clear and easy to understand.

@ConnorEverything1997 4 месяца назад

Welcome to casefile. It is the single best true crime podcast and there are 281 more cases to listen to

@laurapatrick6845 4 месяца назад

I completely agree with you about our wonderful narrator. I found this podcast in October and binge listened to it for 2 months. Been caught up since December. ❤❤❤❤@@ConnorEverything1997

@jodikennedy2141 4 месяца назад

I’ve fallen asleep to him because of how soothing his voice is despite the content. And i agree, having a 7 year old daughter and son this is my worst fear.

@grumpyrhonda6709 4 месяца назад

@@jodikennedy2141 I have often, much to my chagrin, fallen asleep to his voice.

@Bee-bee83 4 месяца назад

It’s the Australian accent ❤ I’m from Australia

@jasonrublaitus7144 4 месяца назад

Okay okay look, I get thinking something like that note might be a prank, but if you think it’s one of your older sons friends, you might want to follow up on that, because that would be a pretty deranged “prank”

@msvmac9361 4 месяца назад

Very deranged! That's waaaay to close to home since those friends have most likely been in the house AND interacted with the her daughter.

@jasonrublaitus7144 4 месяца назад

@@msvmac9361 exactly!

@LolaR2022 3 месяца назад

Agreed. I was thinking the same.. you'd definitely want to know who had that mind set, thinking it was funny.. around your family.

@rosabart7921 4 месяца назад

i'm sorry how the absolute fuck does a used condom, bomb threat and murderer identification come off as a joke, omfg!

@pv2639 4 месяца назад

Correction, SICK JOKE. it was a sick joke to a t.

@FrogsForBreakfast 4 месяца назад

Someone with a veeeeery low opinion of their son's friends?

@jennifermaddy2442 4 месяца назад

Exactly

@msvmac9361 4 месяца назад

Yeees...wow!!!! 🤢😵

@msvmac9361 4 месяца назад

@@FrogsForBreakfast 🎯 Right...an under the basement level opinion!

@xplamason1029 4 месяца назад

As a Fort Wayne native born in 82 I’ve heard so much about all of these stories. Crazy stuff

@cheekyrabbit 3 месяца назад

Some rando tried to kidnap me from Southtown Mall in the late 80s. Thankfully my mom was paying close attention that day. I often wonder if it was the same guy.

@xplamason1029 3 месяца назад

@@cheekyrabbit holy crap!!!!

@Tangleduponblue 21 час назад

Anything you'd like to add that's not in the video? I'm from Indianapolis, I'd never heard much about this case until recently, so I'm curious.

@xplamason1029 19 часов назад

@@Tangleduponblue I think it was covered quite well honestly. Definitely a scary time to be a kid.

@Tangleduponblue 17 часов назад

@@xplamason1029 Cool. Thanks!

@Bad_Gnasher 4 месяца назад

RIP April Tinsley. That poor little girl.

@lillycurlyandmom 4 месяца назад

I'm addicted to this channel ❣️ The quality of the story format is definitely one of the best. Really this is my favorite true crime channel.

@LeanneFowler-ms5xc 3 месяца назад

I'm beginning to really dig this channel also.

@Aozziegamer99 4 месяца назад

Great to see your subscription numbers slowly rising. One of the best true crime podcasts out there. Thanks.

@BrenMurphy1 4 месяца назад

Those midstream ads are exploitative. Too long and inauthentic. Hard pass.

@EllenLeah-pv2yw 4 месяца назад

@@BrenMurphy1He’s not been doing those on recent episodes, probably due to the constant bellyaching from people like you, and I worry that the Casefile team will continue to deny themselves even this meager ad revenue and barely be compensated at all for all the time/effort/care they put into researching/writing/producing these podcasts. Assuming this is their full-time career, hard to see how that new model (catering to lazy critics who don’t understand how to use youtube’s fast forward function) would be sustainable for long.

@606808909 4 месяца назад

@@EllenLeah-pv2ywI agree 100% casefile is the most respectful and best researched presented ect IMO. Also that guy who commented @BrenMurphy1 makes videos on anger management and mindfulness funny he can't follow his own garbage he spews 😂

@reign80 3 месяца назад

@@BrenMurphy1 calm down boy.

@teng00n 4 месяца назад

i can’t imagine being the son who thought it was his dad and reported him only for it NOT to be him… what would that relationship be like at that point 😬

@elenagarcia8565 4 месяца назад

Why would he his dad was a sicko either way

@breeirish5743 4 месяца назад

Excellent documentary. God rest little April and I’m thinking of her family.

@zannrivet1193 4 месяца назад

This is a very disturbing crime, praying for the victims families and friends. Also, praying for the victims, may their souls rest in peace.

@dalynak.9540 3 месяца назад

Why the hell would the mother not immediately report that letter anyway? Damn…..some parents just really are airheads

@missmaggie2620 4 месяца назад

If someone says to me..."I have something to tell you, I'll tell you later" Ah, No! tell me now. So I can not even begin to fathom what families go through when their child disappears or is found murdered & 30 years later you get your answer. And so many have been missing year after year after year with absolutely no answer, family members pass away without ever knowing what happened. Just heartbreaking what not only the victim goes through, but then the legacy of heartbreak to the surviving family members.

@Evergreen1400 6 дней назад

I’m the same way you are and I hate surprises. It would probably literally drive me crazy if something happened to one of my loved ones and there was never any justice or answers. Even if the person that hurt my loved one was caught and put in prison I’d still struggle with knowing they are alive watching tv / reading / playing cards etc after hurting my loved one especially if they had killed my loved one. I’d struggle with wanting to get my justice personally so something like an unsolved murder of a loved one of mine would bother me to no end. I’m not a violent person I’ve never hurt any innocent person but I’m extremely protective over my family especially the females so like I said if someone hurt them I’m the type of person that would feel like a failure and extremely upset I’d want justice at my hands.

@rhondamcewananderson3968 4 месяца назад

Many thanks Casefile ♥️

@loopthetube 4 месяца назад

This is one of the first cases that genealogical DNA was used.

@jennam9226 4 месяца назад

BEST CHANNEL EVER!! NOBODY DOES IT LIKE C A S E F I L E

@mikeevans7381 4 месяца назад

Im really glad that you're finally getting more subscribers you deserve it. One of the best podcasts on true crime on RU-vid. 💯👍🇺🇸

@LukeMcGuireoides 4 месяца назад

Brilliant storytelling. Best true crime podcast, for sure

@mollylittlewolf9192 4 месяца назад

I listen to these ones during daytime to get the story and again at night to put me right to sleep. Soothing voice. Thank you Casefiles ❤️

@daytonasayswhat9333 4 месяца назад

Pretty sure it’s AI.

@mollylittlewolf9192 4 месяца назад

@@daytonasayswhat9333 ? Al who?? ... Jk..😁

@EllenLeah-pv2yw 4 месяца назад

@@daytonasayswhat9333This narrator is 1000% certainly not AI. Listen to some older episodes in which he does jovial ad reads and talks about the Casefile team’s experiences researching/conducting interviews for some of their Spotify-exclusive podcasts. He does have a slightly stylized (slower, unerringly clear) way in which he reads these Casefile scripts, one which he’s refined over the years, but I can’t even imagine mistaking it for AI. I can tell that you haven’t listened to many older episodes of this podcast, and I’m envious of that tbh. Wish I weren’t all caught up on these, especially since no other true crime podcast I’ve found even begins to measure up to this one.

@daytonasayswhat9333 4 месяца назад

@@EllenLeah-pv2yw OK, fair enough. But he’s definitely using some type of autotune or voice modulator voice modification thing.

@cherylmyke1693 4 месяца назад

Not sure I could fall asleep to a story this horrific….just saying

@PollyAmorous 4 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing this story ❤.

@MR-pv7qg 4 месяца назад

Excellent presentation!

@tyronebuewly3791 3 месяца назад

It's crazy that mother thought her daughter getting a used condom and a letter telling her he gonna kidnap and kill her as something not serious terrible mother

@bunnykisses 4 месяца назад

If this is the case I think it is I have been trying to find it since I remember hearing about it as a kid

@Habanero_Chi 4 месяца назад

Is it?

@bunnykisses 4 месяца назад

@Habanero_Chi yes!

@jennifermaddy2442 4 месяца назад

I wonder if April was the only one.Somehow i dont think so

@Missimoo91 4 месяца назад

Agreed 💯

@Maligroot 4 месяца назад

Thanks Matey 👍

@MistyFox628 3 месяца назад

My heart breaks for Sarah who was terrified of this happening to her, just for her nightmare to be realized. At only 7 years old, she must've been petrified beyond belief. RIP to both those innocent children who had their lives ripped away. 🕊️

@grrman 4 месяца назад

This is rough. At least it was solved, which is something, but damn, this is rough.

@ericalexander5890 3 месяца назад

Did law enforcement pat themselves on the back for solving this, like they always do when it was actually someone else so solved this? Edit: as soon as i finished typing that, yep, they did. Gave themselves awards and everything. But it was the genealogists who solved it, not law enforcement. But they love taking credit for nothing other than doing their jobs, even when they didn't actually solve it.

@lesleywilliams1210 4 месяца назад

Emily’s mother Crystal seemed incredibly naive, even if she hadn’t heard of April Tinsley. Some “sick joke”.

@emileelamica7701 4 месяца назад

Creepy note? Sure, that alone might be a cruel prank. But a note and a USED CONDOM???? Excuse me, ma'am, but wtf? I would be flipping out.

@BohemianLifer 4 месяца назад

Yes, ma'am, we would all touch it, hold it, then discuss it with friends....Unbelievable.

@teeclark2111 4 месяца назад

She and her kid were kind of off. 8 in the 3rd grade says a lot.

@learobinson4450 4 месяца назад

8-9 is the norm for 3rd grade. Most kids start 1st grade when they are 6 yrs old. 2nd grade is 7-8 years old so 3rd grade would be 8-9 years old. I was 8 in the 3rd grade.

@vigorlilover 4 месяца назад

@@learobinson4450yeah I was confused about that comment too. 8 is the age for 3rd grade.

@Missimoo91 4 месяца назад

Rest in paradise april ❤️ sorry this cruel deprived person done such horrible things to you 😢

@MsLucia4179 4 месяца назад

When you work Walmart overnight shift, listening to this 😮

@Maligroot 4 месяца назад

Sorry Mate , when in Bali on holiday and listening to CF 👍😉

@SpicyTexan64 4 месяца назад

What about it?

@BlueTickCH 4 месяца назад

@@Maligroot weak . I'm out in SF holiday eryday

@robyn7287 4 месяца назад

I think just working at Walmart is scary, from what I’ve seen online shorts, then you listen to this as well 😮😮

@MsLucia4179 4 месяца назад

@@robyn7287 overnights are pretty tame, at least at my store anyway

@ShanoaRussell 4 месяца назад

This happened in my home town

@deeparks1244 4 месяца назад

I lived there during this. I remember.

@jasonvoigt6575 4 месяца назад

Good to see the subs have grown over the past week..

@Beckaboo3397 3 месяца назад

It took a community member to tell the mother to take this to the police!! I’m just at the start and that blew me away!

@lisawilson105 3 месяца назад

Memorial Day weekend in March in Indiana…. Pretty interesting.

@deeaplw 3 месяца назад

Wow! I watch lots of this kind of stuff, and this was very well done! Thanks!

@WVgrl59 18 дней назад

In the 1960s, I wasn't allowed to walk to a friend's house around the corner even up to 11 years old.

@carolball5764 Час назад

When I was 10 years old in 1971 I had to look after 4 younger siblings ages ranging from twins who were 6, 5 and 3. We had to go out and not come back until dinner time, then after dinner, back out again until teatime. Not just hang about outside our home but somewhere at least where it would take half hour to get home . I was responsible for them all, and if any of them ran off home I Wouk’s be responsible for that and get a good hiding ..all the while I would be abused and SA by my father ..

@desireefasanella562 4 месяца назад

love this channel. Best crime content

@jamesb.9155 4 месяца назад

Why didn't Crystal take the evidence from her daughter's bike to the police?

@annegiorgio5602 3 месяца назад

Because she didn’t know it was evidence at that time and even if she did it wouldn’t have resolved anything.

@jamesb.9155 3 месяца назад

@@annegiorgio5602 Still . . . That's what you do!

@annegiorgio5602 3 месяца назад

@@jamesb.9155 still, that’s what happened, what are you going to do about it now, after so many years. It took years to find him, stop trying to blame people.

@alysononoahu8702 3 месяца назад

@@annegiorgio5602you don't know that

@annegiorgio5602 3 месяца назад

@@alysononoahu8702 neither do you, testing of the semen did not result in anything until years later when they got a familial match

@pixl8me 4 месяца назад

So many cases mention a missing shoe…

@hilarywallace3007 4 месяца назад

And a pink bike.

@PolumbiusTheThird 4 месяца назад

@@hilarywallace3007 and a victim

@alysononoahu8702 3 месяца назад

They fly off when the child is picked up or if the child kicks etc Many shoes are knocked off during a car accident fyi

@markkromer1238 4 месяца назад

Since when is Memorial Day in March?

@jcmottern 4 месяца назад

That's crazy! I didn't know Sears sold such things.

@Missimoo91 4 месяца назад

That's really the comment your gonna leave 😮

@daydreonmckinney 4 месяца назад

I think that's a ridiculous bill.

@StephanieHickey-v5e 2 месяца назад

Until we have lived thru this we can’t say what we would have or not have done. Hindsight is very much 20/20. I’m just glad they found her body quickly. It would be maddening to not know what happened to your kids for decades. Might never know. All of this national center for missing children age progression photos as the child has been missing from one big growth to the next. I remember Natalee Holloways mama to this day begging for information. I remember Kyron Horman. Maura Murray. They are all still missing.

@kingcarcas1349 2 месяца назад

I called it, he'd still live nearby laying low like in the Delphi case.

@taracolwart3663 3 месяца назад

Memorial Day is in May, not March (in America anyway). Just wanted to say that (the very beginning of the video incorrectly says March). Stories like this are so awful, scary, and heartbreaking. How anyone can harm a child is beyond me.

@mattskustomkreations 3 месяца назад

My girlfriend lived in Grabill, IN at the time. Not a likely place for such a tragedy, the town was at least half-Amish. The 7-11 had hitching posts for the horses and buggies out front! 😅. Not making this up.

@lilsmom2000 3 месяца назад

It's still very much an Amish town.

@saddlebagssally4692 3 месяца назад

Oh nooo....I feel so bad for Sarah. She was so scared of being killed by the person who killed April and that's exactly what happened to her. Ugh.

@pikeman80 4 месяца назад

The killer wrote that way so the police would understand it.

@rec.thecritic 2 месяца назад

Release???😡😡😡😡

@Drilly_frmdao 3 месяца назад

I like these your cases for sleeping. But when I’m awake it’s a piss off I don’t get to see his face or what she looked liked, or what Sarah looked like.

@LovableLex 3 месяца назад

To think… if he lives until he is 100 years old he will get out… very very unlikely but not impossible. Why couldnt they have just given him life in prison?

@miss-nomer 4 месяца назад

Sorry but I can’t take this case seriously with the narration. It’s so deadpan and robotic and I’m pretty sure I’m listening to AI.

@annegiorgio5602 3 месяца назад

Definitely not AI

@cyberspelunker1980 3 месяца назад

Yeah it sounded like AI to me too…?

@dcallins 4 месяца назад

The killer lived within walking distance or a short drive from the barn.

@katefevre6222 2 месяца назад

RIP girls

@rec.thecritic 2 месяца назад

Why don't u have videos? And photos ? To at least put a face to the people? Why

@johnoneill7947 4 месяца назад

I never thought Moose did it.

@BeansInThePark 4 месяца назад

I remember April Tinsley, but who is Sarah Barka? Grew up and still live where this happened never heard of a Sarah Barka being another child victim.

@vicorkit 4 месяца назад

I cannot reconcile events like this with the concept of a benevolent god. The loss that poor family must feel is unimaginable.

@doesitmatter9085 4 месяца назад

This has nothing to do with God. God's will was never for things like this to occur. However, original sin and free will was the introduction of evil into the world, of which Satan is the prince. At no point ever did The Lord promise anyone an easy life free of grief and pain. This sort of thing is NOT God's will, and dismissing the concept of the existence of The Lord simply because life isn't Candy Land is about as Reddit as it gets.

@daytonasayswhat9333 4 месяца назад

Ain’t no, “god,” Broski. Just try to push on through and leave that chilly thought behind.

@doesitmatter9085 4 месяца назад

@@daytonasayswhat9333 there's most definitely a God.

@daytonasayswhat9333 4 месяца назад

@@doesitmatter9085 and he is a sadistic asshole

@jerrysizzler44 Месяц назад

Damn you get lots of clicks from me before i remember there are no visuals lol

@sidbobby3233 4 месяца назад

Morning world have a sunny day this sunday 😎😎🙏🙏👊👍✌🇬🇧

@starion88esir 4 месяца назад

I have to stop listening to these cases. 😔

@cdrwin 6 дней назад

Love all these but Ai voice over isn't 💯

@HB-iq6bl 4 месяца назад

Well told. Beware of recluses.

@frakismaximus3052 4 месяца назад

Heeeeeeeey!!!!!

@MsVanorak 4 месяца назад

i'm reclusive - thanks for avoiding me!

@MrGMoney1944 4 месяца назад

Hey I resemble that.

@doesitmatter9085 4 месяца назад

If anything, hearing about the prevalence of evil in the world is an encouragement for people to become reclusive themselves. As people get increasingly selfish, greedy, lustful and violence prone, I don't blame anyone for keeping a healthy distance from others.

@MsVanorak 4 месяца назад

@@doesitmatter9085 exactly so. i've realised that the 'system' is protecting or turning a blind eye to so many criminals that it's just not worth the hassle of meeting o.k. people and then finding out they are otherwise.