I definitely vote for a "Part 3". These stories in your format are so well done. You spend the perfect amount of time on them & make them even more interesting to listen to. Great job as always.
Bryce giving away things like his Xbox to his friend, is significant. Often, people who are going to commit suicide give away items to friends and family before doing so. Him taking all that time to go home was likely because he was going back and forth about killing himself.
100%. I’ve seen and studied people with suicidal ideations and they often seem quiet, conflicted and their behaviors may be a bit erratic (not in an obvious or overt way)
Ok... But where's his body? It's not like he could've hidden himself after he did it. They dredged the pond. They searched near the car. How does he off himself then hides? Or how did he plan it so meticulously that he would never been found? This case, Maura Murray and every other case where s*icide is suspected, but no body is found never sits well with me.
Hannah Upp is the person/case I always reference when explaining the baffling existence of the disorder currently known as Dissociative Fugue. Like, truly nobody knows how or why, but usually they disappear/reappear in/near bodies of water. Fugue sufferers often have "traveled" extremely large distances with zero memory/recollection of whatever they did following their disappearance. Steven Kubacki comes to mind as the other extremely odd case of what was very likely an episode of extreme Dissociative Fugue. For all we know about this disorder - we know basically nothing except for the fact that it exists. This has got to be one of, if not THE strangest mental illnesses/disorders that we currently know of, imo.
I'm baffled by the fact that in USA a person showing clear signs of psychic problems is repeatedly nominate to take care of children?! What if she had an episode during the class, or a trip, or if she became dangerous not only for herself like when she was in the bay? ..maybe an office job in the school was better for her?
@agostinodublino1387 sometimes it comes down to testimonials. If people around and close to them are clueless, ignorant or just plain "simple" it could cause a lot of wrecklesness in their decision making about said person having this mental illness.
What triggers a fugue state? Fugue states appear suddenly and spontaneously. They are usually caused by severe trauma, including childhood abuse, rape or sexual assault, severe car accidents or other types of accidents, natural disasters, exposure to military combat, torture, and genocide.
OH dear GOD..I literally gasped when I saw the picture of the dad of the Phillips family. I have never seen a head shaped so strange before in my life. He was definitely a character you wouldn't soon forget.
When I was little , around 8 years old, my brother (9 at the time, we also shared a room ) used to bully me and make fun of me so bad that I also prepared a little bag with my things and had decided to leave . My parents never thought my brother was a bully , they just saw it as “kids being kids” , but I was determined to walk away if he was mean to me again , and in fact I did but I was found ten minutes later . Had I gone missing , and had my parents been asked if home life was good , they would have said absolutely, without knowing how I really felt on the inside . Perhaps something similar happened to Aisha , except that this time something really bad happened to her after she left . I’m not saying this was the case but she sounds like a very sensitive child , and maybe something minor affected her more than what her parents knew or she let show . Poor baby .
I instantly thought S abuse from brother as soon as i heard 'shared a bedroom' tbh. I know things to a 9 year old that are major can be trivial to an adult but I still feel it was much worse than just trivial to us for that act of completing running away...🤔
I’m from Mobile, Alabama. Britney Wood’s case is absolutely horrible. That whole family is sick and you could do a whole hour long video on that case and still not cover it all. You’re absolutely right about it being some True Detective type stuff. A friend of mine served on the jury of one of the uncles. He said it only took them 5 minutes to convict and that he along with other grown men on the jury were weeping from hearing the monstrous things done to the children. They were all offered counseling following the trial.
That's a real shame. It's horrible how abusers tend to create damage that ripples out from them, and even spans into generations long after they are gone.
I watched a documentary on this case, and the mother of Brittney was being interviewed and defended Donnie. she was getting boatloads of people accusing the mother of all kinds of terrible things. It must be something going on in Alabama that these weird things keep happening.
@@paranormalwarrior5193 I subscribe to the streaming service, Peacock, and they had a 3-part documentary on the Brittney Wood story. I think I watched it about a year and a half ago. I think it was first shown on the Oxygen Network. It might be found on On Demand from your T.V. provider. It was really in-depth, and pretty horrifying that a family could be involved in something like that. Donnie was a real POS.
Where's his body? How does one meticulously plan their end with no body being ever found? They dredged the pond. They searched everywhere. It's almost impossible that a stationary body is never ever uncovered. Unless he had another vehicle to drive and did it miles away. But it's not likely.
Honestly taking that much amphetamines people get really bad psychosis, logic or patterns can't remotely be applied to their behaviors so it isn't as much a sign as you'd think, and also why he'd be weirdly just sitting places in his car Also if he topped himself they'd have found him there, no that's definitely not the answer
The girl walking out in the storm and having planned it, they'd just mentioned going to church, so wouldn't be shocked of the priest had been abusing her, way way way more common than stranger danger, and she was coerced or tried to escape
I’m sure this is true, but also I have had several times in my life when I gave a lot of my possessions away or sold them. Anyone who has a minimalism ideal could then have that be used to not search for them longer or close a suspicious case as a self h a r m
Seems like every time Hannah faced something scary, like the first day of a particular school year, or a hurricane, her brain just checked out. Poor girl.
It reminds me of Natalie Wood; always terrified of water; then ends up drowning. Everyone knows the last thing you want to do is panic. Becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. I don't know why she reminded me of that, except, not only did her brain check out, she had that impulse to jump into water while in that state.
@@quickchris10 I’m terrible because every time I hear her name I turn into a macabre dad and have to bite my tongue to avoid saying, “ Oh, ya mean ole driftwood?” No, seriously, her fear of drowning and subsequent death by drowning has terrified me since I was a kid.
I don’t want to cast any aspersions on Aisha’s family, but a ten year old girl scare of thunder and the dark packing a bag and running off into a thunderstorm at midnight reminds me of a lot of very familiar stories. That’s something abused kids do. If she was being abused, who would tell us that? Her abusers? No. They’d say “we don’t know why she did this, she had such a happy life here.”
Yes, something does not add up. And with another girl's belongings and photo with her bag makes you wonder if it was a ring involved or the same person serially.
@@hhusherit’s called poverty… not everyone in America can afford a home with separate rooms for each kid, especially in Lawndale NC. Perhaps you should step out of your bubble and look around at the parts of America that are not entitled.
The Bryce Laspisa story drives me crazy each time I hear it. I wish his parents would've just driven to him after he kept acting strangely and wasn't driving home himself, but I guess you just never expect this kind of thing to happen. I wonder what really was going on with him or if he's still out there somewhere. I hope his family can get some sort of closure someday.
Unexpectedly losing a loved one would be bad enough. But the NOT KNOWING esp as a parent…has got to be its own perpetually unresolved limbo hell on Earth.
Yes! Not knowing must be the worst! I think I’d end up in the mental hospital, couldn’t handle it. I don’t know how people survive after having something like this happening to them. 🙏🏻
I was just thinking the same. Especially when children disappear and parents have to live without knowing. I believe that is the hardest and the worst thing that can happen to someone. I send prayers to all parents who have to experience that "hell on earth" ❤ 🙏🙏🙏 I wish they all receive answers and closure and be able to bring their children home.😢😢
Update on Thomas: he's back in the news in NZ. Reappeared over the last day or two and dragged one of the kids, most likely the oldest one, along to join in his destructive behaviour. CCTV have footage of him and his child. But still not found. Go figure.
@___Alina___24 he doesn't seem very well mentally at all. I've seen first hand how parental alienation can cause serious trauma and those kids are going to need a fair bit of therapy when they are found. On top of family therapy with their mum to rebuild the bond that's been lost while away. Welcome to parenting in NZ 🤦♀️
asha degree was not far from me. i remember it. something very odd was: her relatives were on tv like the next day saying the situation was 'hopeless'. who gives up that quick? killed by kinfolk
My deepest condolences to anyone that has a missing family member or friend. I couldn’t even imagine how that feels to not know what happened. I hope and pray the police start finding some of these missing people
Thank you for your kindness towards families like mine…I was my family and friends missing person… it’s awful, terrifying and honestly feels violating… I’ve gone missing many times from a few days to a few weeks… the last time was 6mths. Until recently when I started getting my teeth fixed I had no idea where I’d go, who id go with, why I’d go, what I’d be doing, nothing… I didn’t even know why the dentist visits were unlocking the memories.
i have a cousin around the same age as me and when we were around 9 or 10, his best friend went on a family holiday during which they had decided to take a rubber dinghy out to sea as a family. they were never heard of again
@@Hopeandpeaceinjesus Wait..what? It started when you were getting teeth fixed, or stopped and you now have memories of disappearing? Horrifying for you AND your family, for sure... What do the BH field think of this? Did you have anesthesia during your dental visits?
@@Hopeandpeaceinjesus WOAH. That is a wild story. Thank you so much for sharing. I’d love to hear more, but I certainly understand if you’d rather not. I can’t imagine how difficult that would be- the idea of having days, weeks, or months missing from your life with no idea of how and why is terrifying. That must be disturbing to no end. I have had a few instances of not remembering things - completely due to my own fault, so there’s very little comparison to your story there, but still. It alarmed me to no end to think that I had been walking around, functioning (mostly), making decisions and having conversations and not knowing about any of it afterwards. It was always a period of hours, and still disturbed me profoundly. I cannot imagine going missing for months and not knowing what caused it or where you were sleeping, how you were eating, who you were with, etc. for all that time. And I also can’t imagine how potentially upsetting it might be to then remember it after struggling with that. Like, if it were me, I think I’d want to know - but it’s not hard for me to believe that I might wish otherwise once I actually did know…
With Asha Degree I feel like whatever she was running from in that home was scarier to her than the storms and dark that she was scared of as well. I still wonder about the dads story.
She's young, sweet, and respectful. I always felt like she made a promise to someone. To whom it was will always be the question for me. She must've really trusted that person... family or school
I don't know why but the moment it was mentioned that there was a picture of a girl found in that shed along with things that might be Asha's... I immediately thought she had a pen pal. Maybe someone pretending to be another little girl, who convinced her to run away. And then hearing they had no internet at home, I just had this gut feeling that she was communicating with someone through the mail
i live in charlotte nc. i remember when this took place. the candy wrapper was from her classroom valentines party. the family was on tv the next day & said the situation was hopeless. i knew then& there they were guilty. nobody gives up that quick
@@jenellenelson4447 if your standard of "not being able to deal with stress" is making you dissappear without your possessions, losing your memory and waking up in near death situations, you need therapy dude. It's very abnormal.
All of these are crazy but the Brittany thing is absolutely horrifying. Poor girl is probably on the run…her whole family against her, she probably had no choice but to run… I hope she’s not dead… I hope none of these ppl are dead… The world is so weird
The Summer Wells case deserves an honorable mention, or its own video. Her parents even went in Dr. Phil and got exposed yet still no leads or arrests made
@@amiematthews6469 thats not what i was saying, the police here is clueless. I mean it seems pretty obvious the parents know what happened, but no charges have ever been filed to this day. I never said the police was hoping Dr Phil would crack the case 🤣
Got exposed for what? Not being attractive? Or particularly intelligent? I find it interesting that people that dont like Summer Wells parents because they are simple, also think the Wells are masterminds that outsmarted police and detectives. The only time I've seen stupid ppl get away with murder I when the cops don't notice the victims missing, or they can't make a connection. But when the police are breathing down your neck and combing every part of your messy home that obviously hadn't been cleaned,,,, it's much harder to cover your tracks. Even the latest killer who bought burner phones and hired workers with no connection to him,,,once they looked at his home,,,they found so much.....he's smart. And it was months after. The Wells home and vehicles were inspected withing 24 hours. When you say things like Dr Phil exposed them,,,,,when what he did was bully them and tell them he thinks they did it, I can only guess you aren't too smart yourself....so let's hope your kid never goes missing. Ppl will assume that because you're stupid, there's no point looking for them.
I'm from New Zealand and this case is beyond ridiculous. No one can understand how he hasn't been found yet. Those poor babies out there. It's a control thing for him. He's not thinking of those babies just himself. I'm thinking there is a cave system somewhere that only he knows of. But someone is definitely helping the fool. 🥺
Yeah its concerning and worrying for the kids. Don't care about him. I wouldn't call it a scary mystery. He has a motive and he has assistance. What I think is a scary mystery in NZ is the stepdad and his step son whose car was found off the cliff but no bodies were discovered.
Until he allegedly robbed a bank he didnt really commit a big crime other than wasting police time... I moved about 50km from his area about a year ago so im on the lookout.. But tbh he and the kids look very much like the normal 'rural' people you see here
Two things: One - Hannah in the first case most likely died in the hurricane. It's not unusual to not find a body in a storm like that. She could have easily been dragged out to sea. And two, the father in the second case looks like Brain from Pinky and the Brain
Amen 🙏🏼 Me too, I truly hope she’s found 💔 My first thought was that she was sleep walking, that’s why she took her bag & went out into the dark, stormy night.. I was a sleep walker at a very young age, my Mom thought she heard our front door open & close late one night, after hearing it again over an hour later she woke up my Dad & he heard our door close so he gets his hunting rifle, headed to our living room & as he held the rifle up, my Mom turned on the light & they both realized in that moment it was me… I only remember waking up the next morning wondering why I had dirty feet, my Mom explained what had happened the night before, she said she asked me where I’d been & I told her I was going to my friends house across the street to see if she could play~ I had No memory of any part of it, my Dad was completely shaken, even tho my sisters & I thought it was funny my Mom made it clear that my Dad almost shot me !! I was 8 years old! Luckily I outgrew sleep walking & my Mom put a chain on our front door high enough so I couldn’t reach it, the older I got the more I realized how scared it had made my parents (especially after I had my 1st child) I never found out if I’d actually been to my friends house, did I knock on their door?? Asha made me immediately think of sleep walking, especially her being afraid of the dark (plus it was storming) who knows if she thought she was going to a place she’s familiar with & did someone think she was “an intruder breaking in”?? Or like Mike said, an opportunity for someone who took her? I pray her family gets some information of what happened to her 🙏🏼💔
She was definitely groomed to leave.. or she wanted an adventure? Have anyone looked what books she was reading or what were her favorite fairytales or tv shows? Maybe she wanted to recreate her favorite story..? But her bag found tells me her adventure ended poorly.. 😢
This is honestly the first I’ve heard of it. My first impression is she was with an older girl. Maybe 10 years older or so. I was only a couple months older than her. I’m very familiar with childhood in the ‘90s. The picture found wasn’t likely from the ‘90s. The style is much more ‘80s. It was found with stuff believed to be Asha’s. Then the NKOTB sleep shirt. If Asha was born in 1990, NKOTB had well faded out of popularity by the time she would have fit that sleep shirt. That belonged to someone else. It could be argued that she was alone because she was the only one the driver saw, BUT she was terrified of the woods AND terrified of strangers. It would be totally plausible that whoever was with her chose to walk in the woods to stay hidden, but Asha didn’t want to walk in the woods because she was scared, so she walked on the side of the road. When she was approached, I don’t believe she just ran into the woods. I believe she ran TO SOMEBODY.
The picture of the girl that they found while looking for Asha...wtf. She looks so similar to Asha; they could be twins. Absolutely baffling, creepy, and disturbing. And to this day, not a single person has came forward and said "yeah, thats a picture of me" or "that's a picture of my daughter, niece, sister, cousin, best friend, etc". Radio silence. No one knows apparently. Hmm...
The sad part about Daniel Robinson is that he disappeared the same time as the young woman Gabby Petito (sp?), and the family was trying to get his name out to find him, but news stations were focused on the young ladies disappearance they wouldn't pick up his story.
Yeah, there were many cases that didn't get the attention they deserved, even her own parents at one point appealed to media that while they are extremely grateful for the coverage, because it might help, there are other cases and other families going through same thing. Not so long ago Adrian from Coffeehouse Crime covered two cases "overshadowed" (for lack of a better word) by Gabby's disappearance.
Thank you for including Daniel Robinson. His father is still out there looking for him. *the photo of him (in the beginning of Daniel's story) was taken in my hometown G.J. at the Colorado National Monument.
First case: Hannah probably was suffered from dissociative disorder. And when hurricane hit, it was very stressful (like before when she must go to the first day on job) for her and activated her disorder
that or a psychotic disorder of some kind. An interesting pattern but such a sad story, it sounds like she had everything together until she fell ill (over and over)
She sounds like she was definitely mentally ill and something about that time of year spun her into some kind of psychosis or episode of mania possibly. Very bizarre but even I have trouble with the changing of the seasons and fall is always my hardest time of the year- that and when we transition to winter also. I get super depressed and want to stay in bed for days and let the world go on without me for awhile. Nothing as serious as what she went through but it is very hard on me and my family when I go into those depressive episodes and just want the world to be put on pause for me.
That's what I was already thinking when he said she had been seen walking around like normal but then didn't remember anything. And then when he said the disappearances all happened around the same time of year it made me think that's probably it. I wonder if it wasn't necessarily the stress but some traumatic event that her brain dissociated around certain anniversaries of to keep her from remembering it or getting too upset by. I'm sure the stress made it worse though. Like if the stress of starting a new teaching job or the hurricane was too much on top of the stress of the anniversary then the brain would just be like "nope, not this year". Could have also been why she seemed "robotic" the last time; She wasn't giving one-word answers cuz she was already having the problem but because those were her natural sad emotions anyway towards whatever event made her upset every year so her mind was too preoccupied to talk to anyone
That makes sense. Would be interesting to know if she talked to anyone about “lost time”.. or past trauma. Either way, she was dealing with something serious. Very tragic story.
Thanks for doing the Rich and Danielle disappearance. I'm from Philadelphia and this still haunts everyone. She never would have left her baby. The fact that they found absolutely nothing is so bizarre. So many people searched for years.
I’m West Chester -> Bella Vista -> out of state. Went to Abilene a lot because they always had live music. I’ve heard the strangest things about this. The families got really close in the aftermath and suddenly turned on each other. So *something* happened… Also, that the FBI confirmed they know who did it but it would jeopardize a larger case. That kinda tracks but I guess these are just rumors until proven otherwise. Really strange case
Her soon to be ex husband may not have done it himself but I think that he may have hired a hit man to kill both of them.After all,he did threaten to kill Richard repeatedly.
Eh, if a vehicle goes missing completely 99% of the time its underwater somewhere. Given the large amounts of waterways in the area it's the most likely. And even if something has been dredged it doesn't mean much, its very very easy to miss a vehicle underwater and plenty of vehicles are found in areas that had been searched many times.
If it's a Pro Hit....they cremate. Alternatively, they usually have body dump-sites. Ex-husband's background would probably be revealing, and he made sure he was seen by a lot of people on that fateful night....naturally.
I'm from Chicago - my great-uncle was a hitman for the Outfit here. This was a pro hit, and probably not the Mob since a woman was killed. The Mob only kills women as a very last resort... But a hire hitman certainly would.
The Bryce thing always made me sad. I guess I personally don’t Get why his family didn’t just drive to his location. There was so much time to do that. I guess hindsight is 20/20
This always got me too. He wasn’t that far from home. I would have driven through rush-hour traffic to get to my kid. Especially, if my kid was showing signs of being suicidal like Bryce was. I will never understand why his parents didn’t just go to him. If they could afford to live in a house in Laguna Niguel, they had money to drive to him. Smh
Same here. His odd behavior went on for hours and hours and even days, yet they stayed home. If I remember correctly, they were only 2-3 hours away and knew exactly where he was.
It almost seemed to me like he was hoping they would drive out to meet him, given how lethargically he approached his journey home and how he stayed in nearly the same place various authority figures visited after he knew his parents knew how to reach him.
Yea this story has really haunted me ever since I heard it. The fact that they supposedly even talked to him on the phone a few times throughout that ridiculous length of time yet STILL didn't do anything is utterly baffling. I don't want to say "things don't add up" because I don't think the parents were involved in any way, but they were seriously negligent here.
My grandfather went missing. Before I was born. My dads father. The family rumor is that he owed some mafia money and was either killed or just disappeared. No one has heard or seen him since like the late 80s. I always wondered what happened to him. It affecting my dad pretty bad not having a father growing up and made him an awful father himself . He’s an addict and still is to this day. I feel so bad for the families of people who have close missing loved ones like children or parents. I can only imagine the pain they have to endure not knowing where there family member is. Especially when it’s children or even someone’s adult child. I hope these families get closure😢
That first case about Hannah Upp has baffled me! Never heard of a case like this one before. For her to go missing 3 times in 4yr gaps, around the same time of year and appearing near/going missing near bodies of water is beyond bizarre. It’s a shame that whatever was happening with Hannah wasn’t discovered before she went missing that 3rd and final time. Maybe if it had something could have been done to prevent it from happening. But it sounds like a very odd situation.
Unfortunately I could imagine Britney was killed and then they attempted to frame her for the uncles death in an attempt to close the investigation that was going on. :/
No, that's not how it happened. I was FB friends with people who knew the family so I started getting posts about it pretty much immediately. My sister went to elementary school with Britney's aunt Wendy, the one who was married to Donnie, and was friends with her on FB though they hadn't spoken in many years and we didn't really know any of them personally. Posts about Britney being missing were started well before Donnie was found and after the rest started coming out, the assumption was that he had killed Britney (how he came to have her gun or that maybe he'd had it awhile. She'd bought it for herself but it wouldn't have been out of the question for her to keep it at their place or in his vehicle) and then later either shot himself (the gunshot was behind his ear, not really on the back of his head) or his wife had shot him. This was because he had an appointment to talk to police just like a half hour later about all the shit they had been doing. As far as I know, not one person ever thought she killed him- not friends or family, not strangers on the internet, not police. It is believed, though, that it's possible she went to police herself about the lifetime of abuse (all the young generation had been a used sexually since childhood by the older ones and they were all late teens/early 20s by then) because he or some of the others might have been trying to get her daughter involved and she finally decided to spill. I'd like to point out that apparently this had started many, many years before, maybe even when Britney's aunts were kids. See, her aunt Wendy and Wendy's twin sister were adopted as kids- by the Holland family. Their son was Donnie and he was a good number of years older than the twins. My sister remembers Wendy as being "odd" but also that she got married as a young teen to Donnie, who she thinks was already at least in his late 20s by then, maybe a bit older. So the abuse started even before those women were adults and just kept going and spreading, dragging other people into it as they'd meet folks, have kids, etc. I know what people think of the part of the country I'm from but in reality, this was something that stood out as horrible to everyone because it's not something that is normal there (or anywhere, obviously but people seem to believe Alabama is incest from border to border. It isn't). And this was no backwoods, 1 stoplight town- this happened in the 3rd largest city in the state. But we're all still hoping to find Britney at some point. She, nor any of the others, deserved this shit.
@@mommy2libras Thank you for sharing. Even so, they could’ve still killed her prior if they were afraid of her talking at any point. Then still attempted to frame her as the one who killed donnie. (Even after some time had pass since she was assumed to be missing)
Hannah kept winding up lost during fugue states and recollecting herself while submerged in water -and she took a job on an island?! I'd have chosen a job in Arizona!
@@donnalynn12 It might not really have been premeditated. When you are harmed that deeply you might be able to convince yourself that you can handle being around the monster(s) who hurt you but be in denial about how much it affects you. It would be hellish to live in such close proximity to all of those abusers.
I can think of several possible scenarios: 1) She killed him and ran off, now in hiding 2) She killed him, and has killed herself somewhere else 3) They were both separately murdered by somebody else, using her gun 4) Witness protection
The one about Bryce is especially painful to me. Imagine all the mixed feelings the parents were feeling just begging for him to come home only to disappear. And mass respect for Christian being a good friend, trying to keep watch of Bryce. Hopefully in the end the parents will get closure.
The story of Brittany Wood almost sounds like a case of Witness Protection to me especially with the subsequent takedown of the family. Sounds like she was providing details to the authorities. Or perhaps I'm just hopeful that she was able to escape and live a better life, one she clearly deserved.
@@AnonymityA my thought is that the family were trying to get her daughter into their disgusting clutches and that was too much for her so she shot him and disappeared knowing the investigation would take everybody else involved down . I hope so anyway, and that she’s living happily somewhere with a new identity
Thank you for covering a New Zealand case! The whole leave him be attitude that always comes out when this story hits the media again winds me up so much, no one knows what those kids are going or have gone through. My Dad lives in the area and this winter was bloody rough 😕 my gut says we wont see all the kids again.
I think the only way to find out what actually happened to Asha, is to identify the girl in the photo. Even if somebody was pretending to be the girl, I think it would still bring them a step closer to solving her case. Justice for Asha.
Hey Mike thanks for covering the story of Bryce. I played ball with this kid back in high school, and he was a great dude from a great family. While the years have gone by, there’s still so many questions so any additional coverage could always help.
I didn't want to be the first to mention it ,but if he robbed a bank I was in,balaclava or not I'd spot him a mile away ....the SIZE of that man's bonce.....😂😂
I met my husband in SoCal and I’m from NorCal, so we drive up and down 5 all the time to visit family and every time I think of Bryce and wonder what happened to him.
I think Mike looks good with the style of glasses he wears, he is a stud with or without the glasses but I think the glasses give him a classy look. His presentation needs no work as it is near perfect as it is.
He said in a video earlier that he was weaning off the glasses for the sake of his audience, because his audience is so used to him with the glasses. He's just such a caring guy 😁
@rachelsill79 Did you miss the part he talked about how he had it, but didn't feel like we were ready for the change? Don't give sass without a reason, human.
I lived about 45 minutes from where Asha disappeared. I don't believe she left the home alive. I believe the "sightings" were people wanting to help so much, but didn't know what to do. I remember that night. It was one of the worst storms we had in the area. I just don't believe a child that afraid of storms would've went out in it.
Good chance she was sleepwalking. Explains why she grabbed her schoolbag and was seen walking alone in the rain, she wasn't herself so she wouldn't have cared about the storm. Sleepwalking can make you do crazy things
@@tannerb1527 hmm.. I don’t know. The suggestion was that she had already packed a bag, since no one heard her do it. And while that’s certainly not definite, there was the person who reported her running off into the woods when they stopped. If true, that wouldn’t fit. I have done some pretty complex tasks while sleepwalking, but they’re mostly automatic type stuff - avoiding obstacles, closing doors, etc. The thing that disturbed me most about that one though was that her family had taught her to be so afraid of strangers. That, to me, fits in very well with an abusive dynamic - if you trust no one, there’s no one to tell. It’s not an uncommon tactic, and is often used on kids who are experiencing abuse specifically. It also creates an “us vs. them” mentality between the family and the world, which is effectively used against victims of abuse as well. I’m not saying there is zero reason to teach your kid stranger danger. I’m just saying it seems like a sketchy extreme. Who knows.
You're right Roxanne.The whole story is suspicious.A little girl,afraid of the dark and afraid of thunderstorms,then suddenly she sneaks out of the house in the middle of the night during a storm? None of that makes any sense.
Asha’s story really stood out to me. Someone had suggested that the shirt was in fact one of those stretchy nightgowns that were popular back at that time. That made a lot of sense to me. What if it had been given to her by the person who abducted her? The theory that she had been groomed seems really plausible to me. Hers is such a heartbreaking and tragic story and I hope they keep working on finding out what happened to her.
Prolly someone in the church posing as a good faithful Christian. Especially considering that was the last place they were at before she disappeared, it sounds likely the abductor(s) went up to her that night and told her he would take her to the beach, Disneyland, shopping, or some other exciting place; and instructed her to meet him somewhere. The backpack was prolly unplanned (meaning he wasn’t expecting her to bring it), and once he noticed she brought it he knew he had to dispose of it. But he was scared that his DNA was on it, so he tried to make it look like it was someone else’s backpack by putting a different shirt in there with another kids picture so authorities would quickly rule it as being the kid in the photo’s backpack.
Bing watching Fatal vows Which is just people killing their spouses for money I always wish mike did these episodes cause we would get to see the life insurance dance every episode
Why would that couple not call 911 IMEDIATLY i SURE AS HECK WLD IF i SAW A CHILD WONDERING ALONE AT NIGHT 'SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN DENMARK' ABOUT THAT CASE...and no child is going run away in middle of the night at her age especially if she is afraid of thunderstorms.
That Hanna one sounds like a retrograde amnesia attack. My mom had one of those once, she looped the same conversation with me most of an afternoon and tried to find keys for a car we no longer owned to go “somewhere” but she couldn’t definitively tell me where. If I hadn’t been with her at the time, I kind of wonder what would have happened. Apparently that can just randomly happen to you if have the right genetics and/or if you over stress about something you can’t affect. Damn worrying when it does happen though.
The little 9yr old girl Asha's story has always intrigued me as it's so weird. Just can't think of any reason what would have compelled a child with no worries to run away
I know, initially I thought is she sleep walking but that theory was blown out of the water pretty quickly. Someone was involved, a 9 year old just doesn't go missing like that.
Same!! She comes into my mind from time to time and I'm creeped out by this story. The idea that a small child walks alone in the middle of the night never to be seen again is heart breaking...
This one haunts me as well. My daughter is nine and I can't imagine her keeping secret this midnight adventure. The police thought that she might have left to meet someone. What would entice a nine year old to go out into a dark and stormy night, carrying possessions that only a nine year old would give importance to.
@@KatherineAcosta20 I was thinking the same thing, wonder if someone killed her and the uncle and he was too big to move, or the took her so it would look like she did it.
I agree with you but Brit might have thought she didn’t have a choice.Remember that Mike said she had already been victimized.I hope that Brit killed her POS uncle and that she just started a new life someplace.
My heart breaks for people who spend years or even the rest of their lives looking for missing loved ones. No answers no closure. How horrible. I remember Amy Billings mom. That poor lady looked for her daughter the rest of her life. 😢🥂
Armchair psychiatrist here. If Bryce was bipolar whether diagnosed or undiagnosed, popping adderall would skyrocket him into a manic state. Especially w/o mood stabilizers. As a bipolar myself, if I'm depressed I don't go anywhere. I was nearly catatonic when depressed. It's very physical. His would be mania. If he's suicidal it doesn't necessarily mean he's depressed. He's just in a mixed state which can contain both elements (dysphoric mania).
fellow professional here. Appreciate bringing up the bi-polar issue. Very few understand the disease or understand it is physical/neurological in nature.
Bingo. Happened to my ex. He nearly killed me by strangling me one night because I forgot to order him a sandwich. No joke. His idiotic nurse practitioner kept giving him large amounts of Adderall and he was clearly in the middle of one of the worst schizophrenic episodes in 16 years. I tried to help but now he's banned from coming anywhere near me or our kids via CPO and a judges order at sentencing. He only received probation for 2yrs, though. 🙄 Pisses me off but it's time for me to start my life over. Take care, ya'all.
Edit: I know you’ve covered hundreds even thousands of cases. I love this kind of format of like 5-7 random crazy dissapearance cases. You cover them way better than like any “Top 5 disappearances” From random RU-vidrs. That Daniel robinson case is super weird. I do find that a psychotic break is plausible considering proof came out that he was stalking that girl. BUT the fact that forensics proved his car was moved after the initial crash into the ravine to look like that was the spot of the only crash. And that it was tried to be turned over like 30+ times. Just super bizarre
Thank you for covering Daniel Robinson's case. My partner and I are both geologists and i dont know what I would do if something like that happened to either of us.
Been having a That Chapter marathon today, refresh the home page and see the new upload! Evening has been made. Thank you for the in depth videos, Mike. You explore these cases in such detail, ensuring to maintain the dignity of the victims and their families. Favourite channel on RU-vid currently. Keep up the fantastic work.
I've been having a MAJOR marathon....to the point I only recently realized I've never subscribed, I only realised when I heard people talking about how they make a night of it when new uploads are released.I
lol, when NZ media released the CCTV pic of him on the bike there were comments all over social media about how that couldn't be him doing the robbery, because no one makes helmets big enough for that cranium...
What a HELL of an upload! We adore you Mike! Thank you so much for your presence in our lives. Hearing that, "I love ya" at the end sure does hit differently when you've gone days, weeks, and even YEARS (like myself) without having been told that by another person...Hell, I'm bout to shed a tear.. 🤧
Unfortunately, as is often the case with missing persons cases, I don't think the investigation will go anywhere unless/until they find her body, or if, by some miracle, she is found alive.
I'm from New Zealand and the Thomas Philiips case is one of the weirdest things we've encountered here. Really feel for those kids. It must have been a rough winter.
Yeah, this Philips guy.....nice farm.Nice House.Another case of "you can't fix stupid." Feel for the poor kids, out there, in the rough. Robbing banks ? Stealing a truck ?....may be he saw one Action movie too much.
@@bakielh229 whats cringe here is people that have to comment their opinion when they dont like others being happy... we'll smoke one for ya, maybe u need to and learn to just move on w ur life...
Thank you Mike. I can't imagine that last girl, Britney(sp?) leaving her daughter voluntarily in the hands of those monsters. She couldn't even trust her own mother! That was one I've never heard before. These are all sad and VERYscary. None of us ever really know...I hope help and closure and peace find them all soon.🙏💔🕊️💚
Bryce's case sounds like it was due to stimulant abuse (the Vyvanse he was taking), likely causing him not to sleep for days on end, which likely brought on delusions and paranoia, eventually possibly leading to psychosis. Could've crashed during the microsleep phases people that have stayed up for so long on stimulants get and possibly experienced drug-induced psychosis, may have wandered off believing he knew where he was or something. Really sad. It does explain his odd behavior leading up to all of this as well. Anyone have any other theories on his case?
I do believe the drug induced psychosis for sure (also explains why he broke up w his gf and gave his brand new Xbox away). To me all the signs point to suicide and that he was hesitating & scared/nervous during the hours leading up, but eventually went through with it. I think the car crash was staged to make it look like he accidentally crashed & drowned, but he really went somewhere else to kill himself. I actually work in Buttonwillow (the town he was in before he disappeared), and wanted to point out that its barley even a town, its more of a rest stop area consisting of only a few gas stations surrounded by hundreds & thousands of miles of desert terrain and mountains. So if you were to walk away from the main road you would perish into the hot desert within a day or two, and would get eaten by a pack of coyotes or mountain lions. It’s a very odd choice of suicide method, but it is one that would work quickly as it gets well over 100 degrees out here, and no one could survive the heat without water for more than a day or two. He either died from the heat then got eaten by animals, or just straight up got eaten alive. Either way, very sad.
@@aleyahaforlifeamphetamines affect people with ADHD very differently compared to people without ADHD. It speeds most people up, but it slows ADHD people down. Caffeine does the same as well.
I think he got phycosis or something and couldent cope the whole scent to the truck stop makes me feel he staged his death so he could run away and start a new life because he wasent thinking straight on the medication he was on
Thank you for covering these people. Not only is it interesting content, it's a good service you're doing for the people who have gone missing, as well as for the family members and friends who are missing them and still searching. Your research, editing, and production are on point as always. You're such a good guy, Mike. (*edit for grammar)
Daniel Robinson's case is particularly of interest to me as I live in the Sonoran desert. I am so baffled at what could have happened to him that they haven't found his remains yet. I know the desert is huge, but there's only so far someone can make it without a car out there.
When I was 4 I used to sleepwalk & I actually walked right out of our townhouse & ran into kids playing flashlight tag (1971). These kids took me home to their house & I don’t remember anything except waking up & they were trying to give me Cheerios. I just screamed,”I want my mom.” I was right next door.
I remember the Asha Degree case. It was very big around here and there are lots of theories, including that her parents may have had something to do with it.
Her parents had nothing to do with her disappearance. The cops have been adamant about that, since there's no evidence (circumstantial or direct) and no motive (they were known to be great parents).
@@denisehagwood4542 I didn't say I thought it was true. I just said that it was one of the theories. The parents are always looked at when a child goes missing.
@@SILSAL67witness testimony is notoriously unreliable. Lots of folks straight up lie just so they can be part of things. I’m not saying they did or didn’t, just that unconfirmed sightings shouldn’t be the end all be all.
Hey Mike, if you happen to read this, I just wanted to say how much I personally appreciate you and your dedication to creating content for us. You must be working all day and night to put out so much quality content at this rate, and I know that's gotta be tough, so... really appreciate it all, truly, and I know others must feel the same as your channel has grown an incredible amount since I found out about you a few years back.
I'm from New Zealand and that family are definitely getting help. Also it may have been his daughter with him at the bank robbery. So sad for these kids missing out on schooling and living in hiding.
The Bryce Laspisa case has always baffled me. Not just his disappearance but why he was so afraid to go home. What was going on in his head? And his poor parents have lived with this all these years, must be hell not knowing.
I've been bothered by Asha's disappearance for a long time. I have a theory (well two versions of one theory) on what happened to her. It revolves around the photo of the other little girl found with her stuff. I think Asha was made to think that the other little girl was her pen pal. When I had pen pals we would send each other our school photos. Now this could be a real child or an adult posing as a child. Also, if it was a real child, the child could have a parent who was an abuser or an offender. I think Asha thought she was going to help another child and they had a meeting spot picked out. When Asha got there, it wasn't a child but an adult and they took her and probably killed her.
Imo. You're on the money! I would like to kindly recommend scearching Det. Ken Mains on TY his take on her case. It's interesting to see how a cold case Det. takes possibilities of what might have happened and eliminates them into Probabilities based off the victim, evidence at hand ect.
It could be that, or that the killer put the picture there to throw the investigators off (to make them think it was another kids backpack so they wont test it for DNA). Also explains the unknown shirt… Looks like someone was trying to stage the scene to make it look like the backpack wasn’t hers. That, or the backpack wasn’t actually hers. This was back in 2000, they didn’t have a wide selection of backpacks back then. It was extremely common for ppl to have the same backpack, so its very possible it wasn’t even hers at all.
PLEASE give us a part 3, 4, 5, INFINITI ! These stories had me saying WTF one after the next, I couldn't believe it, wow, super scary and interesting. Great storytelling as always Mike
So you are basically wishing for more and more people to dissappear in twister, weird and mysterious conditions for your own pleasure? Do you realize that every one of these cases means families and friends suffering? That's sick.
I have a family member who is a 911 dispatcher in Ontario, Canada. There were not only hoops and hurdles to jump through but also extensive training and testing. After seeing this video, I completely understand why it was all necessary.
With or without glasses he’s still awesome! I always look forward to listening to him he has a unique way of telling stories with a little bit of humor
When you were telling the story of ASHA and mentioned/showed the picture of the unknown girl....that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, it really gave me instant chills. The most likely reason for her leaving would be to meet someone having been already groomed by someone she knew.
Everyone of these cases is truly heart breaking. The emotional torture the families must go through is something I pray I never will. Thank you Mike for highlighting these cases. You never know, someone watching this may have information. They are all someone's child. I pray their families will get answers.
Have been waiting all day for this to come out. Have been watching Mike from day 1. Any time I get a notification, doesn't matter what else I'm watching...i change to this straight away 💯Love from Dublin 🇮🇪❤️😢
Love these missing person cases videos Mike. I would love it for you to continue to tell them. You are the only presenter that I know exactly when the videos are coming out and I look forward to it every week.
I would bet $1000 that Bryce was experiencing his first episode of psychosis due to schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. He was exactly the right age. Probably didn’t mean to get himself killed.
Hey YOU! I really needed this today- Mike’s smiling face and humor- the whole house is down with the Rona and we’re all slowly going insane from too much togetherness… so I’m locked in the bathroom, smoking a bowl and enjoying Mike’s new video, alone.😊 Love these compilations uploads too, thanks Mike!!😮
Hey! I had a crap day at work and really needed to hear something like mike’s cheerful voice today as well and I’m smoking a bowl now too! Silly but it makes me feel a little less alone. Hopefully your family gets well really soon! Enjoy the video ::toasts my bong in your general direction:: 🥂💨
I love your videos! you’re the only RU-vidr that I constantly watch. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos! Take care of yourself because we love you!
I live in the area where Tom Phillips is hiding.. the nz police have really let that family down. And the amount of people in this country who are in support of him & say things like “he’s their dad, leave him be, he’s just trying to raise his kids different” etc blows my mind
