Case 155: Danniella Vian 

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Julie is such a heroine, what a fantastic person to have on your side. I’m so sorry for the loss for Cora and her family. 🌹

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I just listened to this episode yesterday. Denson was the last known person with her, she strangely followed him, they were in a shady parking lot, he was being super sketchy with her phone and his calls to her, the cars entering and leaving that lot, the weird voice messages left of the both of them were found…. Not to mention she had just met him for the first time. He wouldn’t even bring the phone to her workplace when Julie asked him to multiple times. Am I missing something here? It seems obvious that he is at least involved if not responsible. I found it weird that police didn’t look further into him as a suspect. To me it seems pretty clear…

You tell these stories with such fascinating detail, efficiency, and intrigue! They sound like fiction and its amazing they are real life! You do a fantastic job!

RIP Danniella. I rarely post on videos but I wanted to say a couple of things. I hope the truth does out, for her daughter and her family. This case feels very much like someone is guilty of something bad. I did look for an update and saw she would of been 30 in March and that there was a vigil. Also some people won't believe it but her coming to her daughter in a dream to let her know she has passed on but is ok and will continue to come see her is something I experienced only once in my life time and it was a message for someone else and not me. There's something about these dreams and it's hard to explain but I personally believe it. I'd probably be sceptical if I had never experienced it myself.

Love your podcasts Anonymous host...there is always so much detail and case put into these stories which I’m sure many people would never have heard of if you did not bring them to light. I’ve listened to nearly all of your videos and I must say the way you presented Steven Steyners story and his life, it was amazing and was quite touching, a very good tribute to an amazing person. Keep up the great work...

Thank you for your videos 💜💜

I am so sad to hear this is how the story ended. She was a young woman trying to turn her life around and be a good mom and she reminds me a lot of my own daughter. It is so sad to think one night of celebrating the goal of buying a car took everything away from her and I truly believe somebody was behind her death. There are too many unexplained questions and I’m sad the police want to slap a Band-Aid on this case and call it closed. I will always hope that the truth will come out eventually and Daniella‘s friends and family will have the answers they seek.

Fishy as hell that the police seem to be trying to cover up some things.

The Facebook messages was his poor attempt to fabricate an ailibi! I live in Saraland and there's a lot more questions than answers. Cars that are in park don't roll unless forced! I think Denson, Randy, or someone drugged her or even have her a Xanax and took advantage of her. She was not the victim of a random attack someone she was with did it. Maybe a stalker from the car lot and had access to her gps coordinates? Nobody randomly would or could have drive to the boat launch in saraland! Find out who had knowledge of that boat launch

Hello Mr BC. This report is particularly well done, sir. It seems to me that the research and the organization of said collection of research has been very well arranged to optimize our understanding and definitely our connection to this family and her loved ones. Miss Julie truly loves Daniella and little Miss Cora. It is evident that she supported and did her best to help Daniella live her best life and Julie continued total support her as Cora’s mother. While she, her husband (and eventually Cora’s daddy), were doing most of the daily care for the little girl. This is a very good, righteous and loving Godly woman. Can not say enough about the respect this MIL deserves. She has my total respect As far as her causing her own accident into the Bayou-that is complete BS. She got there and didn’t hit anything or anyone? BS I think she was put there. 100%. And not right away. She clearly would have been seen. Get a grip. That last person with her has some explaining to do. What was going on during the fb calls. Why was that man trying to pretend to call her when he clearly had her phone. Why did he pretend to not know her when he was actually the last person to see her alive. Come on Mobile. You are not some dumb country bumpkins from the 40s. You have every bit access to all the scientific advances of the 21st century

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A car in park, w/ebrake activated? She may have been too drunk to be driving and even if she wasn't she was definitely buzzed. The caller at the end states that road was deep off the beaten path and very dark it doesn't sound to me it would be a road she would've tried. The last man to be with her,Denson, was his phone ever checked to see if his pinged off any towers near that area? He obviously had his on him and could've easily drove her with someone following. Now the ebrake being activated throws off the accident theory because who would pull the ebrake AFTER they accidentally hit water. That rear window being open an inch or two,was on purpose. Most people especially in Alabama would be driving with driver's side down if there's was no a/c on because as stated, the engine was off. Normally a cars ebrake has some slight movement and could be pushed off the boat ramp but this was brandnew /used and dealership would've made sure it was working in order to pass inspection. Could it have been in neutral first and pushed then she pushed it into park to stop the rolling n when that didn't work quick enough she yanked the ebrake? She wouldn't have been able to open windows or unlock since car was off, and car probably wouldn't start once submerged in water, so she was pushed and was drowned. Prayers to Cora n her family.

I live in Mobile, Alabama. Her murder makes me soooo mad! They auctioned her car off to a buyer in china. Someone happened to see it online and told the news. Oh and her back seat seatbelt was CUT OUT. Gone. It made no sense for her to end up where she was. She told the guy (I think he killed her) that she had left her cell phone at the bar. Where she ended up was in the opposite direction. She would have had to get on the interstate and know where that boat ramp was to get to it. If it was an accident she would have gotten her phone first. It's a habit everyone has. To check it. Scroll mindlessly through it. She would have went back for it first. That's where she was going so how in the less than 5 minutes to where she left her phone change her mind and not get it and drive into a boat ramp in Saraland?? He barely knew her. My most important question no one asked is how did he get her phone? She was on her way somewhere else after she got her phone. He barely knew her and drove to the bar and they gave him her phone???? I thought maybe he stole the phone from her for whatever reason. To distract her and get her vulernable. What he made up as a reason to have it. Anyone else would think we'll she didn't show up. She must not want to hang out. She went home. Barely knew her but went back to the bar she left the phone at when it would have taken her one minute to get the phone and go to the other bar she had supposedly told him she was going. By the time he got there she would have been gone since she was getting the phone. She went out of the way to go from the first to the second place. Once again that HE supposedly said she was going. It makes more sense for him to have lied about it and would explain her choices in route. She bought a car that day and was out celebrating. Nothing is going to make her suicidal and an accident she was would have had her phone first. This guy needs to be locked up. I also found it weird the police find her while doing a scuba diving practice. Whatever. Mobile police and the coroner for the county are use to homicides involving obvious signs of trauma. Being shot, stabbed or beaten. I think she was strangled and from the inexperience people that worked on this case could not see this due to decomposition. Trained and experienced individual's in this line of work would have been able to determine strangulation even on a decomposed body. The top of the car was one foot under the water at the end of the boat ramp. You could have stood on her car. Yet she was down there for a year until the police decide to do scuba training in this very little known boat ramp??? Ughh!!!! Unbelievable.

This was no accident. Like people have said, a drunk girl would not have been able to drive all the way over to that area (hard to get to and not well known) without hitting something first. She did not go there willingly, if she was even the one driving. She barely knew Denson, and you can tell how much authority he had over her in the voicemails, where she says "you're scaring me." He then decides to hold onto her phone, ignoring pleas to hand it over to coworkers. He was the last one to be seen with her. He disabled her GPS at the shell gas station, before heading to that remote area and killing her, staging it as a drunken "accident." It was only minutes away to the bar to get her phone (according to his story), so why would she be all the way over there? This was a clear homicide. What a coincidence the GPS is turned off right at the gas station. I can't believe the incompetence of this police station. They should be sued for negligence. They claimed they didn't capture CCTV footage, and did they even ping Denson's phone? Was Mallory questioned? This is a huge injustice.

the voice sounded very authoritative… like ya know, a cop. i wouldn’t put anything past these small town bible belt cops.

Something happened to the GPS on the car at the Shell station. The people with her there know something! Speak up and let her family have closure.

Julie is the greatest human being ever

This doesn't sound like an accident at all.

I truly feel sad for the family and especially for the baby she gave up for adoption. Imagine him getting that letter from his mother on his 18th birthday and then finding out she's passed away to never get to meet her and get answers and closure. 😢

So wait, she took painkillers that she wasn't prescribed and the bottle specifically says you shouldn't drive while under the influence of them. Then she then drank alcohol which is something you aren't supposed to do on them because they make you feel intoxicated, dizzy and mentally unwell but she did it anyways and THEN she decided that she'd be fine to drive? Yeah I don't think this was anything but her reckless behavior, and I don't think the police are in the wrong for having that information and then spending their time on cases that are actually important. I think she got herself hurt and we should just be grateful that she didn't hurt anyone else anymore.

I preach this to my friends and family, you should always keep a window breaker and pocket knife in your vehicle at all times, preferably on your key chain. They make a combo seat belt cutter, window breaker that is small and fits on a key chain or hangs on seat belts, it is crazy how many people die from driving into water and are not able to escape! A simple $20 tool could have saved many lives!

After listening to the Casefile and reading EVERY SINGLE comment, my opinion is that it was an accident. I would not be shocked if years from now it is proven that this was a murder. my opinion. RIP Sweet Danniella!!!

Theirs something about Denson weirdness and being told that night to bring the phone to pf changs then again what 2 more times and still didnt and was trying to get someone to get it why? Why did it take so long to give it up i just find that weird and the fb voice messeges i highly doubt she drove off the boat ramp

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Can anyone type out what the two voice mails at 57:04 were saying. Listened several times cannot understand it, and why it was distressing for viewers to listen.

❤️🔥👽🔥❤️ I don't get it, she turned right out of the car and THEY pulled over in the shell. What has he said, what happened to last person to see her alive ❓❓

Just a heads-up: When someone is adopted, it becomes ‘father’ and NOT ‘stepfather’.

awesome. you said Mobile (city) right!

The mums thing that no one can drive wrecked. Iv known of people absolutely smashed that have driven 30 miles and no path of destruction

Denson is guilty of raping and murdering her the predator, why isnt he in jail? Rip Daniella, poor girl. Also the police are an absolute disgrace.

Why wasn't the GPS locator used to track down Danniella's car?

No disrespect but she sounded completely drunk on the recording - he sounded calm and relaxed. I’m sure it was an accident - painkillers + alcohol = traffic accident…. Very sad.

I smell a huge rat here. It seems the police know something & keeping quiet about it. This might sound strange but the guy in the voicemail sounded somewhat authoritative to me. Very strange. Rest in peace Danniella.

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Weird how you add an r to Danniella and remove the r from Tyler… Daniellier and Tyla 😂😂😂

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Weird to just be browsing true crime and finding your cousin's story

Why is no one blaming the guy in his early 40s that had Danniella's phone, left weird voice mails where u can hear them both where she sounds like she's on drugs and his alibi seems to be that he was with her? People have been put to death with less evidence

There's overwhelming evidence that she was driving impaired. There's almost no evidence that she was a victim of violence. But her family & friends won't accept the obvious conclusion that she drove into the river. They'd rather have someone else to blame.

Why does it sound like the police had something to do with it? I would've bought the accident theory if the issue of CCTV hadn't come up.

This is what life is like for soo many people in the US. It just downright sucks. We need healthcare and a living wage

I'd say that she was driven into the river by another person but unfortunately that will be next to impossible to prove, at least they found her as some people are never found. RIP

Phones are easy to track if the mpd actually want to find out what happened, if someone else's phone was in or near her car it will tell the story.

The Bible Belt states aren’t turning violent because of the people you’re describing lol. Times are changing. Good episode though

Denson white did it

Heads up on the unsolved ones next time? Please?

Man i rock case file every single night and the night were i heard the chick speaking in tongues and sounded demonic scared the shit out of me. lol

She got pulled over, was the cops

I prefer this podcast over that crime junkie podcast 🤮

I'm about 30 minutes in to this podcast and not going to finish because what ever happened to Daniella, I'm not going to be able to feel sorry for her.

Why do you keep putting A in front of peoples names like 3:25 A Daniela and again at 9:53 Tyler and A Daniela and 3:04 A Daniela

Woooow you gotta wonder why MPD DON'T seem to wanna SOLVE this case could it be that maybe 1 of their own are involved?? Its a red flag getting rid of her car so fast & not telling ne1 about the broken seatbelt in the back ! ! ! Also the investigators who1st found the car said it would be difficult to tell where Danniella was sitting becuz of the decomposition but yet the police insist she wuz in the drivers seat IMO if sum1 from MPD wasn't directly involved they KNOW who wuz & could be close friends with the person but they are hiding something thats for sure & Just a resident of the bayou said that given all the activity that goes on there that there wuz no way the vehicle had been there undetected for over 9 months come on this poor girl got ROBBED of justice I'm glad she has to people in her life that care becuz the MPD sure as hell don't ! ! ! 🙏R.I.P Danniella🙏Give this girl & her family the justice they deserve ! ! ! Here's another example of why so many HATE the police ! ! !

Aint no way the police dont have some level of involvement, even if their involvement was simply turning their heads the other way. If they cared, why not investigate her phone messages more and the voicemessages left, try and identify or profile the male voice in the call or figure out what they were saying. Even leaving out details about the car like the seatbelt was important info to release. And if they thought her death was an accident, why keep the case open unless it was to satisfy her friends and family they were "doing their job". It doesnt say in the video, but were the people she last saw interviewed more after the report or after she was found? Was there no cause of death found? What about any toxicology or autopsy reports. You hear about cases with less known information being solved. The police werent preventing her case being solved, but they certainly weren't helping. She was known to be caring for her daughter and wanting and starting on a path upwards in life before she went missing, so why say her death was an accident, even while they note there was evidence she was conscious and trying to get out of the car while it sank. The suspect could have knowledge of how phones track the user which is why they left it at the bar on a car so it didnt look suspiciousand if the car was 2014, i would assume it had some sort of tracking in it other than the post installed onr by pearl automotive. If the police really cared, they would have kept the car for evidence or in case of a breakthrough, not give it back to be sold as parts. And police finding the car is shady itself because they could have tampered with the scene before officially reporting or investigating and no one would be the wiser.

LE dropped the ball on this case .

mobile ain't no joke...don't mess around in mobile...swomp nickels are like no other...

Tyler is disgusting, stealing her possessions and pawning them. It's like he knew she wouldn't be returning.

I'll be honest I lost the plot on this one by the 30 min mark

How does no one know this case is closed? She drove her car drunk off a bridge into a river. They found her. You can tell by the accidental voicemail how shit faced she was

What a Pollyanna rendition of a total abyss of disorder

"conventional treatment" is utterly inadequate to heal ptsd. THAT is why so many people "self medicate".

Well done to Tyler quitting the smack and stepping up to look after his daughter. God bless you and your family I hope you have found some peace

stopppp that was so sad when she said that she had dreams about her mom and she said she will always visit her :((((

WOW! Not only is Casefile the best true crime podcast/yt channel they actually helped the family with the case. I love Casefile even more.

Been a few months since I've listened but I'm excited to hear this familiar voice. Excellent work bud. I've spent dozens of hours listening to your content and I'll spend dozens more.

I’d want an explanation as to those Facebook voice messages - what was he doing? Where was he? Who was he with??? I’d also wanna see cc tv footage from the bar where he found her phone and see if that’s in-fact how he ended up with it. I’d also check with the e apps like Facebook and Snapchat to see if any of them tracked his or her locations… I wonder if the phones were actually together the whole time. …but mostly just an explanation for those weird voice messages on Facebook AND WHY POLICE PUT SO MUCH EFFORT INTO ACTIVELY NOT DOING THEIR JOBS

3:42 This is immediately alarming. Wtaf. Why wouldn't the man take the phone to the police. And why doesnt the mom want the phone dropped off at their home?

That voice recording thing was quite creepy. But it defentally sounded like whoever recorded was doing something sketchy.

my annoying is that this great talent and story teller is underrated

These are my favorite thing to listen to at work, thanks for the great content!

It is weird as hell that one of the cops just happened to mark the sunken vehicle's location for a 'training exercise' without knowing what it was. Weird to the extent that I find it pretty hard to believe. Seems pretty convenient to me that a whole pack of cops were there for a 'training exercise' when, oh, gosh! It's a car! And we just learned that! All of us here, together! Nah. And public safety/evidence recovery diving is a specific certification. To do it, you have to be certified to do it. This cop was gonna bring a group of certified specialist divers out to a freakin lake to have a look-see at some random object when he didn't even know what it was? Really? He wasn't going to check that first? Was he a dive instructor, this cop, so that he could do any meaningful training in the first place, of people who were already trained? Seriously...nah.

I am wondering what came of the accidental voicemails?

God this makes me so mad. There’s CLEARLY enough evidence to suggest a homicide. That dude who had her phone looks super super suspicious imo

My first thought when hearing the second butt dial was that the voice sounded like law enforcement.

she chose a lifestyle and whatever happened to her, it was inevitable.

I think it’s great that you are helping families out, especially when the feel left out in the cold by law enforcement. My two main questions after listening: what did the guy say that met her at the gas station say about their meeting? That whole part seemed really vague and he seems like the person that would have the most to contribute to what happened . What were they doing while parked? Why would she follow him just to say “I left my phone at the bar”? I understand it’s confusing, but is the families only proof that it wasn’t an accident that the boat ramp was hard to find? What caused the damage to the body of the vehicle and what was the condition of the gps unit that ceased functioning? That last bit is really confusing. Why would she disable it and if it was someone else how did they know it was there?

Is Denson the son of the local Police Chief?!

I wonder if she left her car door unlocked at Dublins and someone snuck in her car, since the bar’s parking lot at the time was PITCH BLACK right beside a wooded area. Leaving her phone at Dublins on purpose

To make things clearer, the Bible held does not suffer from the crime rate cited. Those crime rates are owned by Alabama.

Wait.....what? She bought a car and the first thing she does is drink and drive? Hmmmm

You an Aussie.... Here's hoping you don't live in Victoria. If you do, stay safe!!!

How drugs blighted this whole family's future. So brave of Daniela to do the right thing for the boy. Bringing another child into rhis messy situation was not the right thing to do. So selfless of her.

Sounds like an accident to me. Don't drink & drive.

Hard pharmaceutical drugs + reckless lifestyle = accident.

Don’t drink and drive folks

Whoever disabled the GPS killed her. Am I the only one who thinks she was intercepted by a dodgy car dealer(s) who took a liking to her that day. Tracked her and befriended her at the fuel station. Drove her to a quiet spot where something went very wrong and they disposed of her. I can’t believe that the dealership can have access to GPS tracking like that! Surely that is a contravention of civil liberties…

Wait it was sold with no keys? Were they not in the car? Didnt they say it was on because the parking brake was on -_- well if thats the case theirs a big hole in that

Police should track Denson’s phone during the crucial hours after Daniella’s last hours. But this being Mobile PD it’s most likely never done. They’re a bunch of over paid imaginary heroes. .

Alright, Comment Number # 3 ! Casefile Rocks !

It was either a strange choice of suicide or benson killed her for some reason