I’ve seen the dead bodies found in the West Memphis three case, and I can assure you they did indeed look like mannequins. You can even watch the documentary here on RU-vid it’s called Paradise lost, that image has stuck with me and I will never forget it. On top of it there are plenty of videos here on RU-vid of Indians from India fishing out dead bodies from the rivers and they all look so white like a mannequins too
just like the commenter above me, your brain likes to tell you what you would like to believe not reality. also it could be teenagers thinking it would be funny to place mannequins in the outdoors so you never know until you investigate
Damn that Georgia case was hard..... imagine seeing your dad being assaulted, stopping getting beat and arrested then a few hours later getting beat within an inch of your life, the hospital won't help you your wife drives 60 miles to another hospital....and you die, but the cops who did it will never be charged.....thats phucked
@@torey4322 maybe it’s a true crime watcher thing. If a true crime fan saw it they’d probably assume body. Someone who isn’t a fan will probably think nothing of it
The case in Illinois, the man may not have been guilty of that girl's murder, but if he was caught kidnapping another child (which sparked the suspicion), he is not innocent.
These killers are walking around today, all professions, all areas, some "pillars" of society or your beloved grandpa. All unknown and unpunished. Think about that the next time you're in a room full of strangers.
My mother was murdered in 1978 in Oklahoma. Her case went cold and the OSBI refused to test the DNA evidence. This 1980 case is not the oldest cold case in Oklahoma.
@@drewhempwood2113 yes. She was stabbed many many times and buried on the side of wild horse mountain. Her name was Sandra Kay Carter Davis. She was poor and Cherokee.
I'm not sure which database he's looking at. It's considered a cold case in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma and with OSBI. Her case has been in the media... internet and television. It isn't hard to find. My problem is with OSBI. They refused to test the genetic material because they said it was too expensive. My husband and I offered to pay for it and were ignored. I saw the title of this video and was hoping someone had brought my mother's case up again. I was disappointed when it hadn't, and I corrected him, but I don't accuse him of skipping it on purpose.
@@kristisoileau6868 I understand totally I'm so sorry for your loss ma'am. Thank you for posting this. I honestly hope for your mom's case to be solved.
That case has haunted me for years. That poor beautiful little boy just discarded like trash. There are undoubtedly so many people who would have done anything to have been able to love him and give him the life he deserved. It breaks my heart. I pray they can identify him and his killer.
I’ve remembered this case since I first saw it on America’s Most Wanted YEARS ago. I don’t think I will ever forget it. It just stuck with me for some reason.
For those saying "it's never a mannequin" I have a story... I was 8 years old, riding in the car to visit my grandma in the winter. Out the window I SWORE I saw a baby laying in a ditch under a tree in a red sleeper. My family didn't believe me. I begged and pleaded for someone to drive me back to the spot. Finally my aunt agreed. When she saw what I saw, she ran down in the ditch to the "baby"...she thought it was a baby too. It ended up being a 3-d wall hanging picture of Santa 😂 It looked JUST like a baby laying in the snow in a red sleeper! I don't regret going back to check. Anyway, not exactly a mannequin, but still...
Idea!! Get a little bell and when you change stories hit the bell. Sometimes it’s hard to know you have moved on to another case. I enjoyed your presentation. Thank you :)
The Washington State case of Candy Rogers was solved in late 2021 when DNA linked John Reigh Hoff, 20 years old at the time of Candy's murder, as the suspect. Hoff committed suicide in 1970 at the age of 31.
Georgia: Pretty easy case to try and close now? The officers are probably dead by now, but they can still be labeled the criminals they were. You know that wasn't the only time they did that.
New Mexico: Tara Calico...abducted from her home town of Belen NM in 1988. Just about a year later in 1989, a photo of her was found in the parking lot of a convenience store in Port St.Joe Florida. In the photo Tara is shown bound & gagged in the back of a van. Absolutely chilling!!!
There are 3 photos of Tara that I’ve seen ( might not be her). The one in the van with the boy, one in a camper van type vehicle where she’s tied up and being abused by a man and one where she is tied up on a bed. I doubt and hope they are not her but there are links when you look in to her case. Awful for whoever these young women are.
We still have so much work to do today to stop racism, I can not believe we are in 2021 I feel like we are going backwards. Err We are going backwards and it is so very sad and dangerous.
This was a really fascinating video! It would've been easier to follow if you could've paused or maybe said the state between cases. I mostly watch RU-vid when I'm cleaning the house or working on projects so I'm not constantly focused on the screen, mostly listening. But it was very interesting! Thank you!
Well, would you rather find a mannequin or a rotting corpse? I guess it's a sort of survival tactic their brain thinks up. "The skin's paper-white, must be a mannequin, no need to fear!"
Most people haven't ever stumbled upon anything as horrific as a body of a murder victim, and certainly aren't expecting to. Many people haven't ever seen a dead body in any setting. I think (just an opinion, I think this would be true for me at least)it's natural for some people to assume it's fake at first because the alternative is so far removed from anything they've ever seen or experienced. Not that we would necessarily have ever just found a weird random mannequin in the middle of nowhere either but you probably get what I'm saying lol.
@@nicholedawn7481 if you have ever found a dead body(i have a few times) you automatically think.... hmm wonder if this is stabbing, shooting or asphyxiation ... seen burning too... now... i just go the other way... the smell will tell you to just call the police... it lingers...
Sure! I always take my mannequins to the woods when I get rid of them. Seriously thou,gh, the human mind always tries to rationalize things we cannot understand into things we CAN accept. It's a coping mechanism.
The only problem is, is that some of the cases are too old to solve because we didn't need to collect certain types of DNA samples because those tests didn't exist.
@@darthjarjarsstopmotions5642 Usually items from the crime scene were preserved. DNA can be lifted from fingerprints as well as anything the criminal handled-not just bodily fluids. They were able to figure out who Jack the Ripper was from a victim's clothing preserve since 1880. They've gotten really good at gleaning even degraded DNA from minute samples.
You know there is the St. Louis Jane Doe that was found bound and decapitated in an abandoned building. Jane and John Doe cases just have my heart 💞 ESPECIALLY this one. For a little girl around 12 years old to have went through such a horrible death and so very alone and thrown away. I hope they solve this one.
"It's never a mannequin" well, sometimes it is. Funny story incoming: Back in 2000 I was a photographer for JC Penney/Lifetouch. We had these baby training dummies that were surprisingly lifelike for about 9 month old babies. One time my manager and I had to travel to another studio to train new associates. So we get to this mall and unload the "babies" from the trunk of the car. Now maybe it was our mom tendencies but we both carried each "infant" on our hips into the JC Penney's. About 4 hours later after the training session we were headed back to the car and waiting for us was two police officers who had gotten a call about potential child abuse. We cleared it up pretty quickly, since we had the dolls with us and all, and it's still a funny tale to this day. After our studio closed I got to keep one of the dolls too. Honestly, I'm glad someone spoke up and it was nothing, rather than see something and say nothing and it be a real problem.
These stories are heartbreaking. The fact that so many predators escaped without consequences while victims are families were left to suffer... it's a reminder of why justice is so important
Wait.. what about Laura Law from Aberdeen, WA who had her skull caved in with an axe in 1940 while her husband and family were out at a union meeting and her toddler son was sleeping in the bedroom? They never found out who killed her so…
The Boy in the Box is the most famous unsolved case in Pennsylvania not the oldest. There is a case in Ellwood City Pennsylvania that is unsolved form the late 1800's.
I want to thank you guys for making this video. I was reading some of the comments and Instead of just watching and moving on they have to make pointless abusive comments. I don't have to point them out I'm sure you've read them. I just want you to know I appreciate the work you do.❤️
Here in Bethlehem PA we have a unsolved murder that had its 40th anniversary in Oct. Holly Branagan was stabbed to death in her home was in a lil wooded area. I live right down the street and it’s built up more now. But back then it was a very quiet area. Many of her family has passed away by now. She was 17 at the time. RIP Holly
@@tonyprice2256 This is a sad case. It happened 40 yrs ago. No DNA. Everyone from family has passed away now. It will have to be a death bed confession at this point. People on their walks will walk by this house and just stop and just look around. Really a lovely house on a hill in a wooded area. All kinds of deer and nature around. There were a few theories back in the day but nothing came of them. People need answers to their cases. 😭😭😭
For PA, the boy in the blue box is the most well known but there's older cold cases. The lost boys of Allegheny county has been a mystery since the 1800s
First time seeing your channel. I like it. Nice voice , bonus points you said Texarkana correctly. My hometown. The Starks who family from my grandmother. Heard that story for years. That happened not too far from the house I grew up in. Keep up the good work.
I am also very happy to see RU-vidrs like AWP now solving some old cases as private citizens just trying to clean up our rivers, and boom case solved in sometimes as little as hours just being there, thank you everyone who brings these cases back into our views, maybe just maybe you could be just the reason a case gets solved, simply by doing these videos, don't see law enforcement doing anything like this in Vermont that I know of, so hey maybe they could do this too!
I'm looking for one of these true crime peeps who could look into my grandma's "suicide" closer...I've tried to look into it but have no clue how to do it...happened March 30 1970 I don't believe it was a suicide but...small town cops in Michigan in the 70's seems like it was the norm to make things easier
This was very interesting, thank you for the different cases. Cold cases are so horrible, it means victims families never have an end to their suffering, it also means perpetrators are still out there reigning terror on someone somewhere, as they don’t tend to stop unless they are caught. I hope with all the new advances in DNA that are happening, that everyone’s case will be solved one day. ❤️Jodie 🇦🇺
The lava lake murders is just barely more old than what you put for oregon, happened in January 1924. Triple murder of hunters found all floating in the lake.
It almost seems worse when it is known who killed someone, but nothing will ever come of it for various reasons. I've told this on some other channels also; I became a private investigator on my own because of my father's death. Warren A. Hitchcock was last seen alive by his brother Frank on Nov.28, 1970. He'd been staying with him at his home at 96 Heath St., Hartford, CT, and my father had left to "go get his family back." His VW Beetle was found on the Glastonbury side of the then toll Putnam Bridge (CT route 3), which spans the CT river. He had previously attempted suicide, so nobody found it out of order --although a loose search yielded nothing (I was surprized at how half-assed it was, from what I read). My mother told little 5 year old me that "Daddy jumped off a bridge" She made damn sure to plant that seed...Nice. Thank GOD that a pleasure boater noticed what looked like a body on Penikese Island, Gosnald, MA on Feb.24, 1971. Recovered on the 26th by Mass. State Police with a Coast Guard helicopter (this in a report I finally managed to get 51 years later)...he was fully clothed still except for one shoe. Case was closed at that point. In the summer of 1985 I briefly lived with my uncle...and he told me that he believed my mom had lied to me, and that he believed it was foul play. That's when I started my investigation. When someone is having issues and is suicidal, it's easy to have that person suicided. He was 25, and it destroyed our family. Everyone. My mother married who I suspect got rid of him, as he was into major organized crime. He lives scott-free and his home is one town over from me (they divorced years ago). Sorry, but I don't think that if someone jumped where he supposedly did (in his car was a staged bunch of valium on the seat, would'nt he have taken them?), they're not going to float 140 miles and wind up fully clothed on an island after 3 months in the water. None of us talks to mom any more, I have'nt seen her since 1996 (there's more good reasons). Damn it all!
Wyoming here. Too many places to disappear or hide a body here. And my spouse grew up here and said finding human bones wasn’t uncommon when hunting/camping as a kid and it raises very few eyebrows. It was explained to me that years ago it was soooo tough on hunters that relied on hunting to provide food that many died each year when doing last minute hunting (especially when winter hit earlier than expected). There was almost an accepted amount of casualties to hunting and bodies were rarely recovered.
#2 - Wait, how do they know she managed to escape her attacker and fall off a ledge?? That's a lot of assumptions and complex. Occams razor would say she was simply thrown off the ledge from her murderer.
There could've been defensive wounds, or the drop trajectory of where she landed matched more w/ her falling straight down vs if she was pushed or thrown, landing further from where she did. Forensics is amazing.
Lisa Au's case in Hawaii is one of two unsolved cases featuring a young Asian woman. It was theorized there was a man impersonating police pulling single young women over and kidnapping them. It changed protocol for both police and citizens, and since then, we are warned to keep our car doors locked and only roll down our window a crack for a cop. If it feels fishy, we are urged to drive to the nearest police station. This advice would be useful today against the recent high numbers of auto hijackings. Still today, when I gas up, I take my wallet and keys and lock the car behind me, while using the pump or anything else.
The oldest cold case in Hawaii is that of 13-year-old Dawn "Dee" Bustamante. In 1975, Dee and her friend Cherry McCoy (formerly Verdugo), we abducted, and sexually assaulted. However, Dee was shot after she was sexually assaulted but Cherry managed to escape. A suspect belived to be the murder, was arrested in 2001, but was released 14 months later. It's both sad and disturbing that this happened. All the victims on this list that were murder before they reached adulthood is truly saddening.
Ty for video so sad R.I.P. all victims. Hope their cases get solved and ones of crimes that are still alive can be found and justice served if not they will be judge in afterlife
The accuracy of Joe Kennedy’s evolvement in bootlegging may be colored in a pro- Kennedy shade and no mention of his pro-nazi statements which ended his Embassadorship, are telling about how this videos possible dishonesty.
I call BS on the "Oldest" Cold Case from Missouri being the 1983 case of a child in St Louis. I'm pretty sure the 1954 cold case/unsolved murder of Bonnie Huffman near the town of Delta in Southeast Missouri is quite a bit older. Someone needs to do better research.
Josiah Moore family and two sisters of another family were found murdered by an axe in Villisca, Iowa on the night of June 10,1912. There were several suspects, but the murders are still unsolved today, so your segment on Iowa in this video is incorrect due to the above information. Also for Oklahoma two little girls were abducted/murdered in 1967, which are also unsolved. Their names are Judith Ann Ellwell and Brenda White.
How are you determining what the oldest is? The case you had for Maine is from the 70s. Just off the top of my head I can think of two that are older, one was from like 1911. There was a body of a Canadian baby found in a sand pit in Frenchville around then.
So sad... it's so hard losing a family member and not knowing why... When I was 16 my mom went missing.. cops didnt do anything because she was a recovering addict that was sizophetic. They said she'd show back up eventually. But my family and I all believed my grandfather had something to do with it. There were just too many things pointing to him and he was very abusive towards her. Ten years later she was found a ten minute walk into the woods behind the house she lived in with him. Unfortabtly time cleared all evidence. But the police know that she wasn't there when they first investigated because they had used dogs in the area and she would have been found. He was never charged and died in a hospital.. choked to death on a peanutbutter sandwich. Karama comes.... eventually.
I didnt blame them but it was clear that they didnt put the same effort they would have if my mom hadn't been a drug addict with mental illness. Unless you were in the same position and experienced what I have... you wouldn't know. Thanks for your opinion tho
There are older cases in Iowa and Illinois. 1940s at least in Davenport Iowa. Woman found at a park. Jane doe with tattoos , A lot still unsolved. Need to do more research. Just picking ones that was in recent news.
As a person who has always had an interest in true crime and cold cases, it crazy to learn that a the oldest cold case in my state is in my home town of Portland. I literally work mile away from the old high school. Guess you learn something everyday. I hope someday, those effected in my community can find some peace.
@@robinnico7702 If you guys are talking about Portland Maine, i agree. I visited that town back in the 1970s, and had a great time. I had a guitar and jammed with some strangers and spent time in a park called The Oaks, i believe. The squirrels were so friendly there. Everybody i met there was awesome.
When I was a teen, I found a mannequin all tangled up, no hair just a pinkish skin color. It had teeth and was just put in a strange position. I don’t know if it was a body or not, I didn’t call police or anything, I just saw it and left. Sometimes I wonder if I should have checked it out more.
Could you say witch state your speaking of when you change cases, I just listen while I work so I don’t watch the vids. Very much appreciate your vids though!!!
The Jeatrans aren't Florida's oldest unsolved murder by far. I've seen unsolved cases that go back to the 1920's, including an infamous one in 1959 (The Walker Family) that had a possible link to the Clutter Family murders.
