Killer Breaks Down Crying After 8-Year-Old Victim is Found ALIVE (Case of Jennifer Schuett) 

Yah to think that she can get pass of her fear of men is amazing! I was not raped but was touched by a man when I was 8 years old, and I am still disgusted and have never fallen in love till now that I am in my middle 20s

A true legend

Its a miracle

​@@Nai7547I'm so sorry (◞‸◟ㆀ)

I have just recently found your page and absolutely love you girl!! The way you explain everything and in detail, I applaud you, for the justiciable of the victim(s) sake.. keep doing what you are doing! You are definitely reaching a more broad audience!!!!

if he really felt any ounce of guilt, he would have admit to his crimes years ago. but he never did

i’m like a minute in and i was gonna say maybe he did regret it. not justifying but maybe regretted it. however, after reading he did it again… clearly no regret or remorse.

He was hiding his smile… he was trying to conjure up tears etc. … his first reaction was pleasure for what he had done.

This is how I feel every time every time someone is arguing like rehabilitate criminals and I'm like they make conscious decisions to do what they did. There's no rehabilitation for certain crimes like you could rehabilitate. Maybe a thief. You can rehabilitate someone who assaulted. Not assaulted but like physically assaulted somebody. You cannot rehabilitate our predator once a predator always a predator. The only difference is there is scientific studies showing like as they get older the desire to commit these crimes lowers because they were trying to connect it to testosterone because of you notice like there are tons of serial killers who have never been caught and the reason that they probably stopped was because they were just getting older. Obviously as males get older testosterone levels drop and all that other stuff but you still can't rehabilitate them. They still need to be caught and pay for their crimes. I don't care how old they are. The dude can be 98 on his deathbed. He needs to be put on trial. He still committed the crime even if it was 40 years ago

I disagree. People are more complex than that. He might be sick in a head, have sort of violent impulses, lose control and on the next day - be normal again. His criminal history doesn't look like well-thought and premeditated, no killing sprees whatsoever. I would bet more on him having ability to feel full spectrum of emotions, rather than being cold blooded socipath with no feelings. But did he really prayed for that girl? Honestly, who cares. Him getting away with his crime looks like more of a flop of a police and lack of technology at that time. I'm sad he got those 20 years of life.

I really liked that too! I have PTSD from r**e and I don't really relate to the terms victim or survivor (not sure why, and that's not to say that no one else should, it's just me personally) so I loved this new perspective on it

@@TheWheelBry oh god damn… I hope you recover and you are well feel free to vent here

They are powerful words ♥️🙌

@@hxney_jxyde sorry I've only just seen this. That's very kind thank you 😊 I'm doing ok. Thank you for saying I can vent here, because it happened a long time ago a lot of people think that I should move on and not focus on it (which I obviously want to do!) but unfortunately PTSD doesn't work like that, you have to talk about what happened and process the memories to recover. So I often feel like I boring my friends and family by talking about it. And it's not a nice subject to talk about.

@@TheWheelBry well ptsd is real, I have it, and it’s not fun at all. Mental health is real and should be taken care of the most. And if people are gonna “move on from it” then they’re not worth your time. I know you’ll find someone in the real world that will be open to talk to you about your feelings and past.

Sometimes their in the same home same room .

@@matildamarmaduke1096 ooo that’s spooky I like it >:000

When I tell someone about my childhood I always say “you know little kids tend to be scared of imaginary monsters under their bed, but I never had had to imagine those monsters, I already had my dad to be scared of”.

"Fairytales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairytale tell children that dragons can be killed."

Several are politicians in our own government

Oh yes but God let her live to catch is evil ass.

When l was a little girl l was raped by two of my brothers and swore that l would remember every single thing they did to me, maybe she’s like that and remember though it’s very, very bad l pray she remembers it.God has the last say.

Instead of thanking his medicine he go s and kill himself like a punk.

Well that Miracle came! I’m so glad her life is happy now.

Bro got scammed by himself by going to hell

yup. he didn’t want to face the consequences. absolute cowardice

It's like that he is the one who had ptsd chasing him not her, what a strong woman ❤😂

@@Nermeen. You don't think she had PTSD from this horrific event? You are living in fantasy land.

@@mattjack3983you misunderstood the comment

@@mattjack3983 can you read ? genuinely asking

It's truly the stuff of nightmares.

I wouldn't forgive myself...

I was literally thinking this and I can't even fathom the guilt she herself must feel. I mean of course it isn't her fault but as a mother you send your child to do something and they listen and then this becomes the result of it. You can't help but blame yourself; and I wouldn't be surprised if she refused to sleep just to make sure her daughter could sleep peacefully

Mine would never sleep alone again 😢 I'd be too afraid to let them out of my sight.

Hopefully her mom has been able to heal along with her. I know I could never forgive myself.

He seemed happy. that fucking monster

It's called "rape" believe it or not...

My only conceivable line of reasoning I can think of is that he only felt guilty for killing the girl, not the rest. Maybe not guilty but just scared and backed into a corner because it's the one thing they never thought would come to light.

I would LIKE to believe that he hated himself so much for what he did to Jennifer, that he actually DID pray for her over the years. Then, when he found out she was alive, it was SUCH a relief for him. Perhaps that's why he felt he could now die in peace. 🤷

Crying for himself because he knew his disgusting excuse for a life was over.

I don’t know if it’s any consolation to you, but I like to think of monsters like this in the deepest recesses of hell

He definitely wasn’t praying for her. He was praying for himself.

I laughed tbh - at him as it just shows what a pathetic loser he is. He wanted to feel powerful by raping and killing a little child but is too much of a coward to face his own actions.

@@sophast0730 probably, to feel less guilty and bad

@@itsmeanna7850 exactly. really shows how sick they are and disconnected

Hope you're OK 🫶

Mine started at that age and ended 4 years later when I finally told my mom and she took me seriously. I told my dad first(it was his wife’s son and I lived with him at the time) and he alienated me and made me move to my moms, it took awhile but I eventually told her and with my step dad they confronted my dads family

I don’t like telling the details makes me feel, weird. But to say it had happened doesn’t hurt anymore. It’s been 20 years

The same happened to me and man its traumatizing but thanks to my psychiatrist i am recovering

I've told a small number of people but unfortunately the details are too much for me to want to go into even after trying in therapy. I used to fantasize about justice and comeuppance but I cant even get the perpetrator to admit that it ever happened, so I've basically accepted that I'm not gonna get real justice nor even validation.. It's a big gaping hole where love and family should have been, but werent.

@@nero48 I would become the biggest ant fan, ants Canada would have nothing on me

Stuff like that truly makes you think of the various crazy wonders of this world. Most the time seen as pest, those fire ants saved these women's life

And when I was about five I was playing hide and seek with my grabdmother (so it wasn’t fast paced) and turns out I was standing on a fire ant bed in full Sunday church tights and everything and now I have a severe allergic reaction. My story is just dismal compared to hers. THAT is hadass

Wow

Omg I just commented to say the same thing

I agree. Those bites were an ironic blessing. So glad she made it through. It's also impressive how she had the presence of mind to recall everything despite the trauma she suffered. What a fighter!

That’s what I was thinking too. It’s like she should have died but this weird coincidence of landing on an ant hill is what’s different from most. It seems impossible otherwise to have laid there like that for that many hours.

😮 that's really interesting

I don’t know much about venom and such but honestly… It’s possible. Perhaps the stinging numbed her pain in a way that allowed her brain to focus on something other than her neck injury. It seems so miraculous and divine like that specific ant hill was purposeful for her survival in a way. I would love for anyway who is an expert on insects and venom to comment on this!

@@danii1. ever watch the guy that gets purposely bit,stung, ECT by bugs ,snakes, scorpions like anything that bites or whatever? I watched him get stung/bit by a fire ant and the pain /tingling or like I guess even numbing their bite causes is amazingly horrific, but I imagine that the pain of the ant bites would be minor to not being able to breathe and the weird sensation of bleeding out. You get warm really warm and in some cases feel pulsing like if you wound your finger, I think she could've felt like that just all over so an ant bite would send a more shocking type pulse and stimulus that causes adrenaline and yes more pain in the sense she's been bitten by dozens .but I'm not sure of the pain comparison to the damage to her throat. Like the ants bite is similar to a bee sting just a bit worse 🤔.but so many all over is a lot worse than a bee sting 😅

the fire ant bites probably stimulates the nerves and help the body to sustained itself until help arrived

right how are hospital records so bad that he wasnt caught then and there

Nothing unusual for southern American cops.

@@AyoitsJ69 he will burn in the pits of hell in the afterlife, do not fear

​@@AyoitsJ69with his documented previous attempt and how long it took to get him, they really should have considered him at risk and put him on watch/no sheets or anything. I hate that she didn't get her court date.

and he literally got convicted for the same crime only 7 years later… like how did they not get that

I wonder if he imagine the same thing been done to his kids.he is a monster

the same thing should have been done to him at the very least

He should have had to face the judgement on the faces of the people he loved the most. What a horrible thing to do to anyone let alone a child. What people can endure and come back from is truly devastating and impossible for most people to understand. I hope that the positive outcome of true crime as a genre is a better informed approach to supporting those impacted by crime.

I think he believed his mistake 20 years ago was not making sure he killed her. Nasty little bugger.

I just wish too, seeing his stupid little face rotting in prison, God will punish him severely i swear

I want to tell you that I was once that same 16 year old. It does get better. I’m 23 this year, I’m training to do my dream job. I’m finishing up my last year of uni. I’m in a loving relationship, which is something I thought I could never do, considering yk. You can be strong and you can get through it x

The huge juxtaposition of what happened to her & the reminder of the innocence of a girl her age is just fucking horrible. & when they said she was so excited for 3rd grade… to me that painted an even more vivid picture than just saying 8 years old. I don’t remember being 8 specifically, but I remember being in 3rd grade, and me and my friends were just riding our bikes, coloring with chalk, & going on ghost hunts at school. This was not something I would have ever been able to imagine at that age, and I’m sure neither could Jennifer. It’s scary enough to know what’s out there, but not knowing until it happens to YOU?

That’s because our lives are up to one person, and it’s not a doctor. When it’s not our time miracles can happen.

ME TOO, I’m so proud of her

I listen to these while I work and I just had to take a toilet break to go cry, this story has made me more emotional than any I heard before

I started bawling my eyes out

i immediately started crying i am so happy for her

It's still astounding to me how she healed from that and went on to have kids of her own.

Trauma does that to you. Your brain has a way of remembering these things even when you don't realize it yourself till later on. Look up the Lisa McVey case

@@jasminekennedy4774It also has a way of making you forget things. 🤷🏼‍♀️ The brain is a crazy place.

god is great

@@miatawill ..did you even watch the video?? where the hell was your god when she was being violently assaulted and left for dead??

Oh yeah, so great. So great in fact, that he let one of his “firm believers” commit this crime in the first place. (S/) If god were so great, none of this would have even happened.

Wowwww 🤯

Effing incredible I remember standing in a fire ant hill in Dickinson at approx that age in approx that same year screaming and crying in agony until my dad rescued me

*to JESUS

Holy cow I didn’t know

That's crazy!

he already confessed before he started crying, i think he cried because he was afraid of going to hell for killing someone, "i'm a man of christ i prayed everyday that she was alive" but then goes an rapes another girl, he doesn't care about the impact it has on others, he only cared about it because killing in his eyes is the worst sin, child rape can be forgiven though, just ask his priest

exactly

@Sam-pd9mp obviously he doesn't have remorse, i'm saying that he cried happy tears because now he doesn't think he's going to hell

I agree. What a disgusting scumbag he was. This same exact thing happened to two kids (brother & sister) I grew up with, it happened right down the street from me, they both surprisingly survived, they caught the guy, it was my friends older brother who did it! He was released 8 years ago, he came back to the area but was ran out of town. I hope he doesn't kill again, smh.

I realize nobody is likely going to believe it because we live in a world of extremes, but: he confessed fully and made no excuse before he knew she was alive. Those tears were relief that she was alive, not tears that he was caught. He knew he was caught already before this. People don't want to think about it, but it's true that the worst monsters are still human, and even if their morals make no sense to normal people they still have them. He was clearly plagued with guilt and hated himself for what he did, but was afraid to face the consequences, so never turned himself in. When he realized he was caught he confessed immediately, and only after he found out she survived did he cry - either out of happiness or relief. He still wasn't willing to face the consequences of that in prison, though, and so he took the quick way out. He's monstrous for what he did, and no one should feel bad for him, but it seems - unlike many who take similar horrible actions - he's capable of feeling remorse for it. Often juries and the justice system function in such a way that saying 'well they feel remorse' is a defense or used to get lesser punishments, and thus we're trained to argue against a killer or monster feeling remorse, but in this case it's simple fact. And while it wasn't an official judgment, he did ultimately receive the death penalty for it and he didn't offer his remorse as a plea for lighter sentencing or sympathy, so I am willing to believe it is true remorse.

When victims go through traumatic experiences, they either remember every detail or none at all 😞

​@@H2oestruee:(( either way the amt of trauma that they face after is so so sad...im so pissed that the perpretrator killed himself because he knows that his life after being caught is gna be shitty😮‍💨😤

She did say she was gonna stay aware

You need a full stop.

as someone whose been through a traumatic event, i remembered EVERY single detail. even to what i wore. its weird.

Jennifer actually, but you're right! So powerful!!

@@_Fairies4ever_ No i meant stephanie lol, how steph said jennifers story to the guy if ykwim

@@amia4754 ooooohhhhhhhh, misunderstood! Sorry, that makes sense!

Woman just can’t win 😮

yeah, no matter what happens, men will always spin it in a way to make the woman be the villain....

thats just fucked up, that shouldnt be the reason why that dude didnt get life EDIT: I am a person under the age of 18 saying this just to let you all know. also the guys a fucking coward

Isn’t everyone underdressed in their own homes? I usually just wear a top and underwear when I’m at home… and if she was cleaning the floor ofc she was bent over wth is wrong with some ppl using this as an argument even

@@sas534 it's because women are held responsible for the reactions that men have to female bodies. Women are expected to follow the laws but men are not because 'they can't help themselves'. Basically the law grants them the same privileges as minors and women are the only real adults in the world. This is a standard that is held by most countries in the world today m

Sobbing? Ok. It’s an emotional story. But sobbing? Get a grip.

Doctors are all swabs.

Very few good doctors these days. As even then there have been moments of people coming back from dying of natural causes. Even how a person CAN survive, they could have died if otherwise, but when a person has a will, there's a way. Or at the very least, they can die in a little more comfort. As some people die en route to a hospital or at the hospital or merely wish to not die alone, or even walk to get help despite terrible excruciating pain. There's miracles, I know there are. Some have proved where there's a will, there's a way. Some don't believe in the almighty, some don't even believe such nonsense can happen. But me? I believe miracles can happen. God or magic, it can happen, scientific explanations or not, there is much about our own bodies we don't understand, the mind and soul. There's things we still don't know about ourselves. Which I find very intriguing.

the anti doctor hate here is ridiculous considering how hard those doctors and nurses worked to help jennifer heal and later on have a family. people need to stop thinking that doctors only give out negative prognoses because theyre evil or something - that kind of thinking is what leads patients to get scammed by health gurus instead of getting professional care

for real tho

@@RiazKhan-el9nh The very same doctors that treated her and helped her heal to begin with?

F him.., sick evil demon!

Exactly.

And not continue to harm others afterwards.

didn’t he also get arrested for doing it again to another kid!!

Yes and wouldn't assault another person or who knows how many of them.

Wait what?! O.o I need to look that up. Are those monsters caught?

@@jetsam666 hi, yes they were. Did you end up looking it up?

Alison's case is both horrifying and remarkable, especially since she had to crawl on the dirt with her organs out at one point and despite being told she'd be unable to have children now has 2!

@@greyblueme9711 I know right, it's just such an unbelievable story.

Stephanie did an episode on the Rotten Mango podcast about this case! Episode 54: Abducted, Tortured, Left For Dead (Case of Alison Botha) it's an incredible story

He will get it,in hell. Frankly we don't need a bunch of psychos that sit in jail. In hell is where they belong

😢😮eee😢eee😮😮😮

Absolutely. The fact he committed 20 years later instead of on the day he attempted to kill her shows his only regret was getting caught, not hurting her.

Agreed

He honestly desserved to go through the exact pain he caused his victims

❤

She wasn't the victim she was victorious❤

​@@senudi3759You can still be a victim, being a victim doesn't mean you're weak.

@@Louise-ls4jv they never said she was weak. theyre quoting a line jennifer herself said

@@izumi325 Ohh, alright! I must have missed that, I apologise.

Same with animal abusers.

@@natk4017 yes your right.

And not to mention he took the “cowards way out”.

@@Brin-en8bldid he kill hisself?

@@dequetta_lashaeyes

Quiet literally destroyed every normal function of her life… absolutely awful smh. I am so glad and amazed that she proved them all wrong and recovered and grew into a beautiful person

i was wondering this. if the fire ants helped keep her conscious

Wow to think the only thing that saved that poor baby was more agony.

Lol bits? 😆😆😆

@@koharumi1 i think they meant bites /:

@@koharumi1 bites

I love writing. When I’m older, I wanna find her and get her permission to write her story

@@nationalinstituteofcheese3012 please do

@@ReenaRebeca Anyone know where she lives?

When people are really sorry for what they did, they do things to make up for the mistake. What did he do? Nothing. Just cried. And not for the little girl he hurt, but for himself that he got caught.

Well if there is a higher power or several up there, I hope he's getting what he deserves now.

idk if you know this, but the emoji you used is usually used when something is funny, not sad

​@@lanababeeno dear, thats the 😂emoji, they used the right one

I use this one when I’m actually sad 😢and this one when something is funny sad 😭 (running out of toilet paper for example) and this one when something is actually funny 😂

@@lanababeeyou can use it for both

@@lanababee🤓

The police do this every. Goddamn. Time. They always leave inmates alone and unsupervised for hours on end, with which they always use to kill themselves. You would think this is obvious and legal professionals be prepared for it, but no. It doesn't make any sense.

Wait! The bastard killed himself!?

​@cococherrymango1225 yes. Steph mentions near the end of the video that he ended his life in his jail cell, months before his trial.

Thats why idc for men self deletion rates. 21% of r*pists and abusers kill themselves to escape charges

They prob didn’t believe him. Just like when he talked about how messed up his life was, or that he prayed for her. Like when an abusive person tells their victim that if they’ll leave, they’ll end their lives. Police were probably like “oh *sure* you will”, since it could’ve just been another way to manipulate emotionally.

I FORGOT ABOUT THAT! :0

Meaning they really don’t feel sorry, the only thing they feels is embarrassed and pissed cause they got caught

And that they are sorry they got caught not that they did what they did

the only person they feel sorry for is themselves, not the victim, not their behavior, just themself.

Hope u heal

We all fuck up and make mistakes just because you may have not been doing the best things doesn’t mean you deserved to be stabbed in the neck 💯nobody deserves that unless your sins consist of raping anyone (men,children, and women), murderering someone, abusing animals, children, women aka the defenseless, ect things like that then you didn’t deserve that same as that little girl didn’t deserve that those are the few exceptions where I feel I’m not gonna hurt, kill or stab anyone but if someone else hurts or stabs them I’m not gonna get mad about either ya know.? But form the sound of it you didn’t do any of those things that’s why you’re not in jail so if you mean just by hanging by the wrong people, saying some things you shouldn’t have, threatening someone, ect things like that then you 💯% didn’t deserve that iont care what you said with ur words facts are you didn’t do it nor did you ask to get ur throat sliced just like this little girl didn’t ask to be treated how she was by this horrible man

The amount of self-awareness and empathy you have is admirable. Chin up, you may have made your choices back then, but you can make new ones now.

Don’t blame yourself for getting stabbed

It sounds like he was relieved about the fact that he wouldn't be facing a murder charge. Fun fact! Texas still uses capital punishment aka execution for murderers

IMO I think it's more of a sigh of disbelief, I think his emotional reaction was more about him realizing her survival meant his life as he knew it was over. He was sincerely crying for himself and used that emotion to seem remorseful

​@@absoluteterror9098I agree with this. His secret was out so his life was over. That was the sound of him realizing it's "the end" for him

He does seem truly relieved. Even as a sick individual that has to affect a person

@@absoluteterror9098 i agreed 100%

It must have been completely overwhelming

As a mother who sleeps with my child, I could not stop crying about this. What a horrifying thought 💔

She must have needed to go through a lot of healing herself😔

I was thinking about that as well, I'm sure her path to trusting people and even trusting that her daughter could be safe without her watchful eye was incredibly difficult.

The get the guy and just put him away unsupervised The guy that said he tried to kill himself already They let him escape Jennifer's statements in court the same way they failed to pursue the information she gave them 18 years prior.

Yes, as if she didn't look over her shoulder for all of those years? It's laughable when perpetrators try to make themselves into the victim.

I think it was a parachute that didn't open 🤔🤔🤔 and the poor woman landed on a fire ant colony

Back on September 25th, 1999, a forty seven year old woman named Joan Murray went skydiving. Unfortunately, on that day, Murray’s parachute failed to open after she jumped from a plane that was flying at an altitude of fourteen thousand five hundred feet. Murray’s secondary parachute also failed to deploy, which led to Murray crashing into a fire ant mound at more than eighty miles per hour. These fire ants did not waste any time attacking her unconscious body before she was rushed to the hospital. According to doctors, the fire ants shocked Murray’s heart into beating in addition to stimulating her nerves. By attacking Murray, the fire ants were helping to preserve her body until she reached a hospital. Murray was in a coma for two weeks and several operations had to be performed on her, but she survived thanks to those fire ants.

@@mc_va Oh. Sorry😅

@@mc_va This is one of my worst nightmares

I was wondering if the fire ant bites kept the adrenaline coursing through her body.

@@Chaitra_2009 yes it is. Rip the 10 girls who died by the hands of that monster

That happened here, my home town of Tampa, Florida.

I watched the movie & cried

This case sounds really similar, and it’s super sad. But impressive on both of the children’s behalves

frr!

I love you my kindred sister..I'm so sorry for all of our pain💔🙌🏼💗

I'm sorry for what you went through! I hope you have found joy in your life! God bless🤍

I'm so sorry for all the abuse and torment you suffered. I hope you have had some therapy and hope you are healing. You are a survivor and a very strong person. God bless you, and I wish you all the best for your future.

I was abused as a 7 or 8 year old when it started as well... by 2 family members even... it is never a good thing and i do feel deeply for her, but it does make you stronger. My abuse went on for years and was told to never tell as it would do harm to the marriages.... I am glad at least Jennifer was able to move past this. Thank you... God had plans for you Jennifer

@@dragonmoon4413I’m sorry that happened to you. I hope you have healed ❤

I am so sorry this similar happend to you. I can't imagine the rage and anger and sadness.i hope youre also healing and hope youre ok.

I hope you are healing too.

@@NyaNyaNyaaaaaNyaaaa It’s been a tough journey 🩷 I hope I can help others by speaking up. Thank you

I’m so sorry this happened to you. May the person who did this to you suffer forever. Sending you strength and love

I work with teens in a group home and many of them have been through similar situations. If you don't mind me asking, what things would you say are the most important in helping trauma victims? What helped you? Sometimes you get the most sincere answers from strangers, thanks.

Coming from a teenage girl, for the love of god, PLEASE always check on your children,create a good relationship with them, build trust! And make sure to monitor any shes talking to

ALWAYS be sure supervisors are safe and truly going to be supervising.

Same. I have 3 under 3 and ever since having kids they become my biggest soft spot, any hurt happening to kids i take very hard and become mama bear for all kids if something bad happens... It's so bloody upsetting that those things happen

I saw this exact statement on google

She had fertility issues because of an infection from being assaulted but a IVF clinic helped her for free and she had a daughter and years later she had a son I’m very happy for her that she found her happiness after that terrible man

Thanks for the succinct detail with date and name, and whether you wrote it or not, it was helpful. 👍