What Happened to Rebecca Reusch: Dead or Alive?
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Hey simon, in response to your question about the Amber alert system in America, I will say that it's definitely a prominent thing. I was on a bus one time when literally every person's phone began to go off with text messages from it. I'm not sure how they get the numbers or anything but they get that info out there quick! At least where I'm at in Pittsburgh
@@ryancollins8837 same here in Canada.
Hey Simon, a few suggestions here: Junko Furruta (aka the Concrete Girl Case), the Assassination of Peter R. de Vries (Dutch crime investigator who also worked on the Natalee Holloway case among others) for the Casual Criminal. And perhaps for warographics or biographics: Raymond Westerling (Infamous dutch commando, coup leader and failed opera singer)
Thinking about it, you could make 2 videos of de Vries, on bio and one about the circumstances of the assassination. Also interesting topic would be Dutch 1977 train hijacking situation.
"M.O.T." ?
I came home from dinner once to find a neighbor talking to a police officer. She sobbed to me and my husband, "Have you seen my little boy?" I briefly went to my apartment and then went back out to help her out, and between the time I'd gone to my apartment and when I went back outside her little boy had been found in their apartment hiding under his bed, and she was apologizing to the officer. The officer told her, "Never be afraid to call us in a case like this. We'd rather find a missing child hiding under the bed than not find them at all."
That officer was a good cop. That's the very thing that mother needed to hear and so very true, especially with the horrors they can see on duty. So glad the little boy was ok and safe.
my daughter did something similar but ,we were playing hide and seek,I thought she got out of the house, I ran around our street and lanes everywhere, checked top to bottom of the house and eventually gave into saying please please come out game over you win. 3yr old her pops out of no where upstairs and says ok. I asked where she was she wouldn't tell me and asked why didn't you answer me when I called your name, she said because you'd have found my hiding spot . To this day I still don't know where she hid. But I was so relieved to find her ok I didn't care, just said please don't do that again if I call your name answer. She agreed. Never happened again. Kids they'll keep you on your toes🤣 .
That officer is a model one.
Preach, sir. Preach
As it should be. If they berated you, you might be less likely to call in time in a real emergency. Don't be annoyed by a false alarm, be relieved that nothing bad happened.
I took a criminology class on non-custodial child abductions taught by a detective and she said basically the same thing. “If we find the child hiding in the garage or back yard that is the best case scenario. That is the way we wish all cases would go.”
Which is quite different from when I was growing up. If you called the cops about a missing kid, you'd be told to wait a couple days because the kid may have just wandered off or run away and would be back. Which is true most of the time. It's just *nerve wracking* for the parents. My youngest sister and I put out parents through that a few too many times. I'd get distracted and lose track of time and place. There's a reason Mom had a leash for me when I was a toddler. My little sister would find creative places to take a nap. We found her in the drier once. Mom generally managed to keep her cool, being the second of seven kids probably helped. Dad was usually close to a complete nervous breakdown. Then again, most of his emotions are dialed up to eleven, so hardly a surprise.
When Simon said that there are far fewer adults reported as missing, my mind immediately went to "because it's much harder for them to hide in the garden in a bush"
I mean that and the cops almost refuse to file a missing report for an adult because most of them can go wherever they want 🤷♀️
I go to the clothes circle rack at the department store
@@XYGamingRemedyG I too like the clothing rack, but I scare old ladies when they browse through the sales items. Maybe a parking garage with a good book and snacks.
@@jeaninefeldtmann423 oh yeah, that's a great choice! 😎💪
@@XYGamingRemedyG
This is where I would first look for my daughter when she was between 2 and 4 years old - she was an escapologist
Simon, thanks for saying that teenagers who have suicidal ideation should not be dismissed as just being angsty.
Growing up I had severe undiagnosed depression and suicidal ideation featured a lot. I was only diagnosed later in life. I'm all right now but I do wonder what my life would have been like had I received a diagnosis earlier.
I used to think it was normal and everyone thought like that.
Came here to say the same thing. My parents thought that I was just "being a teenager" because I was angry and withdrawing. Nope, just anxious, depressed and self-harming. Luckily, I eventually was able to tell my mum that I felt like crap all the time and couldn't go on. Fast forward to me now being Simon's age. My depression has come back twice, I've gone through ten years of therapy and I'm on antidepressants to this day. But hey, I'm feeling fine, living a normal life and also I'm not dead. I know at least two of my old classmates ended up committing a suicide in their 20s. There's less harm in bothering someone and asking if they are okay and not dropping it when they say that they are fine, than in them really, really not being okay at all and harming themselves. Deep down depressed people generally appreciate somebody caring even when they are pushing others away.
I agree I had the black dog as a teenager, learned to manage it as an adult but it was grim, runs in the family, my cousin topped himself when he was 16
Hey Magnus, excellent point. How are you doing now? I hope you’re managing ok 🤗
@@MelanaC thanks :) much better than I used to be when I wasn't on meds and not in therapy!
Me too! When I was young people would say, "Cheer up! What do you have to be depressed about?"
For the first time, I noticed how the music cuts off when Simon goes on a tangent, I now find it rather funny, and a total giveaway that he's ranting. Cannot unhear.
I noticed it yesterday! It's really helpful. I hope Editing Jen keeps it going
Now I can't unhear it either.
dude i didn’t notice until reading this
My youngest went missing when she was 7. We lived literally in the middle of nowhere (seriously the nearest house was 10 miles away) and she was playing outside while my husband and I worked on a car. She went inside, and we assumed her older siblings were watching her. Turned out they didn't want to play with her, so she decided she'd leave. We looked everywhere and the called the police, and I was certain some crazy person had picked her up in the road or something. They found her 15 minutes later; she'd taken her bike and road four freaking miles down the road >.< She was heading back when they found her cause she saw the footprint of a scary animal. Kids are weird man. Most terrifying moments of my life for sure.
When I was 4 yrs old, I packed a little suitcase with my doll and doll clothes and decided to make a break for it....it was official, I was running away from home because mom put us to bed while it was still light outside. As I left the house mom was sitting on the porch and asked me where I was going. I told her my plan. She said," How are you going to cross the street?". I walked 1 block, got to the street and turned around and went home...it's true, kids are weird and their reasoning is truly unknown to adults.
My 14-year-old has dropped off the grid a bunch of times. Absolutely mortifying. "My phone ran out of battery." I've bought her not one, but two power packs for her phone.
💀 Man I think I must of been around 4, defo under 7 cause it was before we moved house, but we were on our weekend holidays to the campsite we had a caravan on [I feel like this is a v British thing to do, tbh, a few people were p much on there all the time but I think legally you can't live there all year round?] anyway, I don't remember this myself, but I was told when I was older of my antics I had as a child and this time I had taken my bike and some how road this tiny thing with stabiliser wheels still attached to it from the campsite all the way to the city's/town's Zoo. Which I just googled, it's apparently just over a mile away which doesn't seem far and looking on maps, it isn't... but even now I'm like??? How the hell did I manage to get there? I didn't know directions, no phone maps, I had NEVER been before even with my mom and dad @@ Apparently I wanted to go "see the lions" 💀 So can confirm, kids are weird... but I'm 32 now and I'm still v much weird
@@Jellybean_xI entered the alligator exhibit at the zoo cause I saw bleachers in there like the metal ones you see at baseball games. I was 3 and gave everyone a heart attack.
Simon, we also have silver alerts in the US. They're for missing elderly people, who may be suffering from dementia.
That's awesome! (Not that they go missing, 😅) We only have the amber alerts for the missing kids. I think this is a fantastic thing to implement.
And the Silver Alerts always have a car at least 20 years old.
@@saritacruz3020 Not always. I live in an area with a lot of elderly folks who don't have access to vehicles (several assisted living facilities + a couple of immigrant neighborhoods where elders live with the whole family and don't drive). I get a Silver Alert every month or so for an Alzheimer's patient wandering off on foot. Honestly, those scare me as much as the ones who drive. They can do less damage to others without a car, but they're vulnerable to so much more of the environment, and this area isn't set up well for pedestrians. 😬
Australia (at least NSW) has geotracked sms for anyone that missing, kids or adults.
This is in addition to FB posts, radio and general searching.
I used to work at a restaurant as a host and this lovely elderly couple came in, sat in a booth and ate. They were polite and friendly and sweet so we chatted a bit. The husband came past me to use the bathroom. About 2min later the wife walked past on her way out and said goodbye and smiled so I waved at her and told her to have a good day, thinking nothing of it. The husband came out of the bathroom 5-10mon later and flipped out bc his wife was missing and has early dementia. HE SAID NOTHING. TO ANYONE. Called the police and luckily I had seen which way she went and she was found within minutes but oh good lord I was so scared. She behaved normally, neither one notified a single member of staff even though he talked to me on his way past to the bathroom, leaving her alone. Could have told me not to let her leave and I could have distracted her but he said nothing. I was all of 16 and so upset that this sweet lady was missing. We were both distraught and I didn't even think until later that he should have told somebody. He was leaving her alone and saw and spoke to me on his way by. To this day I always make sure I know which way someone went in similar situations. I never want to experience that again. I was so grateful the police stopped by to tell us she'd been found and was okay. If still be worried to this day 17 yrs later otherwise. Never be ashamed to notify staff. We will worry about your loved one and help any way we can should the worst happen but preventing a lost person is always better than the terror that follows when they're gone 😥
Small kids just randomly hiding is such a stressful deal. As a young teen, a family used to hire me to come shopping with them in the closest city to our town. My entire job was watching their youngest in department stores because the child would just take off and hide deep inside different clothing racks. The family'd had way too many stressful trips of being unable to find their child for many many hours and just wanted to be able to take their eyes off their child for two seconds together to do things like read labels or look for correct clothing sizes.
My younger sister (2 years) was a 'wanderer'. She was the reason my mother had one of those child leashes.
It velcroed around my sisters' wrist with the other end around our mother's wrist.
Though if we did 'misplace' her she'd almost always be in the toy department.
@@melissaharris3389 I bought one of those when I was pregnant with my first, but my kids haven't ever been wanderers. IIrC they weren't readily available at the time this family would hire me to come with ^___^
@@nettness That reminds me of an older picture I saw on Reddit where a woman was holding the end of a rope that she had tied a rope around the waist of a toddler. I think the picture was either taken inside of a store or on the sidewalk outside of a store. It was an older picture, although I wouldn't be able to pinpoint the exact time era.
But anyways, there were a lot of people in the comments who were calling it child abuse. But as the oldest out of 6 kids, I had spent a LOT of time keeping an eye on my younger siblings when they were toddlers. My parents ended up buying one of those toddler leashes (in the form of a backpack you strapped to the toddler, with a leash that someone more responsible would hold) for one of my youngest siblings because they were particularly troublesome in wandering off.
So it totally makes sense to me that people would end up having to take more drastic measures like hiring someone to specifically watch a single kid or even just tying a rope around their waist when out at the store or other public places. Young kids can move FAST when they want to.
The amber alert system works extremely well. They flash them on road signs and we do get the cell phone notifications with that blaring emergency notification noise.
Yes, it's a very distinct sound from the phone. Definitely always take up thinking it's war. But, it does what it needs to: get attention.
People in my province complained about the alarm and now we don't get them :( in their defence they kept doing it in the middle of the night
From my experience most people don't read them and just shuts them off without reading.
@@Dancingonthesun Are you in Ontario? I always get alerted for missing kids nowhere near where I live. Like, yes, I will definitely keep an eye out for this kid that's gone missing at 2am in Ottawa when I live ten hours away.
@@jentucker same but from texas. I've gone and looked up the cities and they're at least 6+ hrs away.
To be fair, this Florian dude might have been up to other shady stuff. Doesn't neccesarily mean he killed a teenager. That could have explained the suspicious car ride and the whole "tell them what happened" line. The other guy could have known about Florian's allegedly shady dealings and wanted him to tell the cops so they would stop focusing on him and actually look in the right direction for the girl.
That's just my two cents.
It does sound like he may have been involved in something at least a bit shady.
Considering he is a murder suspect and refuse to tell the police where he went that is for certain.
However, if he is involved in Shady dealings and Rebecca found out that is a motive, and even if she didn't it doesn't exactly make him innocent of murdering her.
No, I think he is by far the likeliest perp here and if I were the cops I would spend some time investigating this dude to see what he is up to. Drug dealing would be my guess because if it was just a lesser crime I think he would have admitted it.
My initial reaction was 'he's gay and closeted'
@@blueashke Possibly, but for all we know maybe he had an affair with the younger sister.
@@loke6664 She wasn't old enough for it to be an affair. That would be 'he raped her'. And therefore not innocent.
I live in America. We get both Amber Alerts and Silver Alerts (usually elderly adults who may have dementia or something). Seems to work pretty good. When you hear one phone going off, suddenly all the phones will be buzzing.
It's a good way to get the information out fast.
The amber alerts are pretty detailed, too. They usually include a make and model of the vehicle the child was last seen in if that information is available. Sometimes even a license plate is included. I've never seen a silver alert in MN, but I did see them a couple of times when I was living in CA.
It's even more fun when you carry 2 phones everywhere.
The reason Simon never saw that growing up is that smart phones didn't exist in the late 80s and early 90s
Amber alerts still only go out immediately if the child has a disability or was seen being abducted. Otherwise, parents have to wait 2 days to file a report.
@@AlakaxamM this is not true, in the US there is no wait time to file a missing persons report on a minor. A few places require 24 hours to file a missing persons report on an adult but many states are removing that requirement.
As a german this was quite fun to see factboy struggle with our language.
I so want him to do the Hinterkaifeck murders just to listen to him butcher all those Bavarian names.
@@shadowfox009x Yes please, that would be hilarious!
@@shadowfox009x as a Canadian that moved to Bavaria with only simple knowledge of High German before coming here I completely agree
Funny, I wrote a comment similar to this on this channel a couple of months ago and it was deleted in about five minutes
It's like he never even watched Hogan's Heroes.
A lot of people in the US believe falsely that you have to wait 24 hours to report an adult missing. You don’t, especially if the person is vulnerable (disabled, mentally unwell, etc.), or if you have a good reason to be concerned for their safety. I reported my mom missing when she ran away in the middle of a manic episode, and the police took the report three or four hours after she left our home.
Unfortunately, many times the police are under the impression that it must be 24 or 48 hours after the person goes missing. So you may have to convince the police otherwise.
The thing about that was she had a condition to take into account, a neighbor I had when I was a teen went missing and his parents hadta wait 24hrs to file a report because most people ain't actually 'missing'.
@@Dean89420 But that's not actually a rule/law. Police will incorrectly tell you that's the case sometimes, but it's not. Police may be there to enforce the laws, but they don't necessarily understand what those laws actually are. I am not aware of any jurisdiction which has a law mandating a specific waiting period to report any person as missing.
@@kathryncumberland all I know is the cops told the parents to wait and it ended belly-up
@@Dean89420 Exactly - cops don't know the law most of the time. That's terrible :(
I think the fact that Florian's father told him to tell authorities the truth indicates that Florian was involved in some sort of illegal activity that had nothing to do with Rebecca.
Or he just told his father that as an excuse, but he knew it wouldn’t hold up to official investigation. If you’re guilty of something horrible and your family is questioning the evidence against you I think it makes sense to just come up with an excuse like that to keep your family on your side and also conveniently have an excuse to not talk to police.
I very much enjoy that you have started hiring writers to do stories in their local countries. I like hearing about crimes in China from a person in China more than a person from America
When you don’t have the translation issue it makes a huge difference.
As long as they’re fluent I don’t care where they’re sitting in the world to be honest.
Simon, thank you for taking the time to spell out healthy ways people can react to a person with psychological issues. I wish someone like you had been around in my youth. I'm not ragging on my family or medical professionals, but I have serious issues that went undiagnosed for over 3 decades. I can only imagine how much better life could be if I had been matched with the right professionals.
Diagnosed with ADHD at 40. It has been incredibly destructive.I feel your pain.
@@MsJazbren I feel ya. I got diagnosed in my 20s after I got my own health insurance for the first time and after 2 disastrous breakdowns that left my life in pieces with no one to help me figure out how to put myself back together. My parents had refused to have me seen when I was younger, and it was extremely obvious I needed help, because they "didn't want to be judged by strangers". Like, really?! Idgaf about your insecurities about being (accurately) seen as incompetent parents, you left me to drown! Needless to say, I'm still working out some issues, but at least my adhd and severe anxiety are managed well enough for me to hold down a job and I'm not self destructing from bad coping mechanisms and self medicating.
I still remember when Amber Hagerman disappeared and watched the local news daily for updates and the devastation when her body was found. 9 days. The Amber Alert system was named after her.
I wasn't born at the time the case happened, but I do live close to where she was kidnapped, so I often pass by the mural dedicated to her, seeing how close it is relative to where I live and where I used to live down Browning Street always gave me the chills (plus I imagine my parents were always nervous given how close it was to the elementary school my siblings and I were enrolled in)
That's very interesting, I always assumed it was named after traffic lights - ie green, amber, red
I would like to see Simon do an episode on the Amber Hagerman case and how it started the Amber Alert system.
@@sharoncox1734 amber light? Is it not orange?
Yes I remember when she went missing. I lived in Plano (Dallas)then. I think Texas started using it before it became nationwide but I can't really remember for sure. Anyway it was heartbreaking. I don't think they ever found who took her life.
A few episodes back someone was like 'we should check on Simon, see if he's ok after that Pedro episode - he's brought it up a few times'.
Well now it's confirmed, he's definitely not ok after that episode and fair enough - that episode was horrific.
Take care of yourself, mate - we love the content you put out, but we also love your mental health!
Wouldn’t be the first case where someone tried to have sex with a girl and when they resisted they raped her. Leading to the realization they now have to kill her to get away with it. Happens too often unfortunately. That guy that went on drives is still the main suspect to me.
Me too. Sometimes the simplest choice is the right choice.
Me too...Occam's Razor. The physical evidence points to the brother-in-law.
Eh, the flippant way he discarded the sex trafficking thing was annoying. Its the fastest growing crime in the EU. Has been a HUGE problem for two decades. Hell, he fucking lives in one of the MAJOR crossroads for trafficking - Prague. Like, its one of the top three crossroads where girls are trafficked through. Im literally shocked he doesnt know that.
They often bait these girls with online "boyfriends" and will often be impersonating a real person (which would easily explain why the police cleared the boy, because it wasnt actually him).
This one hits close to home, as a German I very much remember this and all the reposts on social media with her outfit description. With her basically never proven to be seen outside the house that day it sure looks grim for Rebecca :(
how did they know what she was wearing if the sister didn't check on her before leaving? did i miss something?
@@toxxicx if she was only staying there for a night she might have worn the same clothes as the day before
Also people missing for this long usually don't turn up alive. I'm pretty sure she's dead
So much respect for Simon for questioning his own script writers and fact checking not to many presenters are not bothered with things like that
Okay, but Simom has straight presented tons of misinformation in the past. This is just one of those times he's interested enough, paying attention enough and it triggered his suspicions. Still pat on the back for some effort, but it'd be nice if he added a fact checker to his team
Simon is 100% correct about not brushing off suicidal ideation as “just teenage angst”. I self-harmed and attempted to take my own life (thankfully managed to snap myself out of the attempt before I got seriously hurt), and my parents IMMEDIATELY took me to therapy. No “teens are just a bit emotional” no “it’s a phase”, they took me almost the next day because they weren’t risking it.
Happy Friday, fellow Cas Crims! 🤙
Likewise!
I thought it was Thursday most of the day 😂
@@terischannel Relatable. I once went to work by accident because I thought it was a different day.
@@sundaywasabi I feel so much better knowing I am not the only person that's happened to.
"I say it's going to be fun and then it's not because there's so much murder."
That's... what we are here for.
Some thoughts:
1) Florian was having an affair and that's why his actions were weird
2) She committed suicide on a whim and therefore her body is hard to find. Think jumping off a bridge, etc.
3) She was kidnapped and trafficed, or just plain kidnapped and murdered by a stranger.
I had the same thought about an affair, then i thought itd be much easier to admit that then have the police and likely the public think youre a child murderer. Idk
@@overwhelmingapathy721 I would think so too, but people are weird. I think it could be something else too
I'm kinda surprised the Reusch family didn't out his little secret if they knew it just to get the cops looking somewhere else. Surely at least the wife knows the truth. That makes the family look weird to me. Not complicit just weird.
Personally I like option 3. Option 2 just feels a bit like an easy out when it comes to that mid teens point.
Yes but if Rebecca committed suicide, Florian would've found her and reported the suicide...the guy is guilty...
@@jaimyjerchig5240 What? She could have done it literally anywhere other than the house and he'd have no reason to find her.
I love when we have videos on missing people.
The best tool for finding these people is often letting people know about the case. These videos could potentially be helpful in finding them. I hope they are. Not just because it'd be super awesome to find someone... but also, it'd be super awesome if it was a casual criminalist video that saved someones life.
That’s a really good way to look at it I never thought of it like that. I know how much of an effect the crime stoppers TV show and new segments have had so stands to reason that this would help also
Simon, if it gives you any perspective, I learned about Pedro Lopez a few years ago. I have not stopped thinking about it. It kind of haunts your mind how someone could do something like that at all and the sheer scale of the brutality.
I think I have blocked Simon's video about Pedro Lopez from my mind. I know I watched it but I honestly do not remember a single thing from it! Which I'm thankful for every time Simon mentions him and how horrible he is.
@@meld0507 I couldn't watch it, I think I told RUclips not to recommend it to me, just by the way that Simon was acting and that it was kids. Too much for me.
Simon you have no idea how glad I am that someone on the internet knows that statistics without proper context are incredibly misleading.
One of your writers should look into the Justin Gaines case. He is/was (?) a good friend of mine that was last seen leaving "teen night" at a, then, very popular nightclub in metro Atlanta about 12 years ago. You guys an amazing job on this video and I think you could do a good job with his story as well.
Just FYI, Converse as a brand are from, like, the 50's. My Dad had a pair, and he's 67.
Edit: Googled that shit, and Converse were founded in 1908!
They literally never go out of style.
It’s wild to me that the family are so firmly discounting any possibility of the most likely suspect being involved, but somehow are able to make the leap to their daughter just running away to Korea one day.
there's a reason why she was convinced she had nothing and no one left to live for after all
@@galia.Very good point!
I can only assume maybe the family know or think they know where and what Florian was doing on those car trips and it is something he is not sharing with the police for his own reasons...very odd 🤔. Great work.
I was thinking that he must have been doing an unrelated illegal activity. Maybe he’s involved in drug smuggling or something and that’s why the family is so confident it’s not him, but he won’t admit to it because it’s still illegal and he doesn’t want to go to jail. Either that or the family is delusional and it’s obviously him.
@@-MarcusAurelius It was alleged that he was into shady stuff in the media pretty much as soon as the info appeared and the family defended him, back then. It really was over the media back then. I think he was reinvestigated pretty recently?
@@-MarcusAurelius I had the same thought.
in some countries you can get 5 for a murder but 15 for standing on a street with a blank a4 page
The fact that the family is willing to sell out their daughter to protect their son in law is unconscionable to me. If Rebecca's dad knew what Florian was participating in, then the burden of responsibility is on the dad to tell the truth.
Hey Simon it is incredible how quickly you pump these things out I'm a long-time fan from back in your top 10 day I hope all is well with you over there I hope the Ukraine situation hasn't been too traumatic for you guys just wishing you well and your team
I think it's partially to do with someone else writing the scripts. Seems like a very efficient way to make content.
Plus I think he's a workaholic 🤣
Simon is a gem.
But that's what I'm saying like he's efficient 2 a level of production most could only dream of I'm pretty efficient with a couple of things in my life but this guy all around has his house in order over there at Whistler Incorporated yeah he may have Scripts written for him but he's recording at the rate of a full-time worker at a job I wouldn't be surprised if he's literally 9 to 5 Monday thru Friday with a Saturday morning 9 to 12 yes to brag lol
@@bradlargay6704 Thats a normal working week? Quite a good one actually.
@@wonwon3251 Simon a workaholic? U don't say!
Actually he's on a mission to take over the world 😂
As a dad, I can totally relate to the little mini heart attack that ensues when your child wanders around a corner.
And then there’s that heartbeat skipped moment when your little one trips/falls/gets hurt.
I was into true crime stuff waaaay back before the internet (Simon is close to my own kids' ages). Adam Walsh- his father went on to host "America's Most Wanted"- went missing at a Sears. He was just around the corner from his mom. Just out of sight. If you want to be forever paranoid about your kids, read his book about it. It is awful.
On a less terrifying note- Converse and Vans were popular in the 80s when I was a teen. (I currently have two pairs of Converse high tops)
my dad used to wear converse/ vans sometime in the 70s as he was in the socal surf/ skate scene... ive worn them for most of my life too haha
The latest I stay out these days is when my wife and I go out for our anniversary....having kids will do that whistle boi, I feel your pain.
A little info- Amber Alerts are only issues when the child is expected to be in immediate danger/suspected abduction/etc. The alert will include information on the person suspected to have them: name, height/weight, etc, and information on possible vehicle. The system would not work nearly as well if ALL children reported missing were issued Amber Alerts because almost a million are reported missing every year. By comparison, there are only slightly over half a million minutes in a year. Your phone would be going off pretty much constantly and people wouldn't pay attention. People continue to not understand the criteria for an Amber Alert and get angry or emotional that one isn't issued for every child reported missing but if that were to happen, it would pretty much make them insignificant and not at all effective.
If your child is missing, the old ways are best- use all available resources to get their face and info into your community: local news, posters, fliers and now, social media. People are on there constantly and will generally share that info, getting it even more into the community to people who might not otherwise see it. Unless you're aware that someone took your child and have information on that specific person, the people in your community are the best assistance at making sure your child ends up in that 99% of kids who returns home alive and safe. We hear stories like Rebecca's and people believe that children going missing forever is becoming more prevalent and is the norm but both things are very untrue. Child abductions are down from what they were in the days people refer to when they say "when i was a kid we all played outside all day and didn't have to worry about things like this". Yes, you absolutely did have to worry, you just didn't know it because aside from very sensational stories, people in Texas didn't know that 25 kids had been reported missing that day in 4 other states.
Thank you for this!!
Matters of public safety are written in blood. Just because you can't see the blood doesn't mean it wasn't there.
One of my college roommates went missing, I found out by a cop showing up to the dorm and asking questions (we barely saw each other because our schedules rarely synched up). The cops said they thought that she was just a run away since she was an adult. I often think back to that and wonder if she is okay. I hope she is.
If it's not too rude to ask, who were they?
@@fee9224 tbh not sure if I should answer???? But I don’t remember her last name, so I think it’s okay, her first name was Hannah
It's never a stretch to look into human trafficking when beautiful, young teenage girls go missing, and there's no body to be found. It's never laughably impossible for that to happen, given the colossal number of girls who are trafficked globally every single year. They have to consider the possibility, even if they don't have the abduction caught on a high resolution surveillance camera.
There isn't a case on this channel without some idiot claiming it's human trafficking. It's always based in no evidence whatsoever.
Please do Tristan Brühbach and the suspected two other victims of his killer next! He has no Family to advocate for him and his (and thosr other 2s) killer has yet to be identified.
I know it’s only circumstantial, but surely the fact that there was her hair and fibers from the blanket in the car and the picture from the highway of him driving the car shows the blanket in it which has now disappeared also…. I can’t think of any innocent explanations for that?🤔🤷♀️
Well they are related so she being in his car at some point isn't suspicious. The hair could come from any time he drove her somewhere. The blanket could have an innocent explanation as well, I guess the most suspicious thing is that he refuses to provide one. Even if he drove around because he had an affair it would look better to tell police about it than to just refuse to speak. On the other hand, keeping his mouth shut worked for him so far. If you don't speak, they can't prove that you lied.
@@evapreu3011 the hair yeah, it could have come from any time. The blanket less so because she brought it from her house to theirs and it’s now missing, presumed with her, but was seen in the car in the hwy camera footage. So it was visible in his car the day she disappeared and arguably after the time she has disappeared (she didn’t answer her phone when family tried to get in touch) but is now nowhere to be found? By deduction, he would have to have known the blanket was in his car and removed it for it to then be missing, in which case why did he get rid of it and where 🤷♀️
It’s super sketchy that he doesn’t want to cooperate with the investigation. An innocent person has nothing to hide and would therefor lose nothing by cooperating, but would gain being able to be removed as a suspect
@@kyky8862 The footage showed what could be a purple blanket...there is no definitive assertion that it was indeed the same one, from what I heard.
The hair was not from her, they just found hair. Idk if this was known at the time of filming this episode, but it's known now for sure. Idk how you're gonna tell that fibers came from a specific blanket
Here's a little hint for you, Simon: If you can't find your kid in a clothing store, they might have gotten under the rack that has all the clothes on hangers. From the height of adult eyes, it's not readily apparent that this would be an interesting place to hide, but it is, especially when people move the clothes around on the rack and become surprised to see a kid hiding in the middle of all the clothes. I worried my mom by hiding in such a rack but I blew my own cover because I found it funny that she was all worried and calling out my name so I started to chuckle.
I feel like Simon and everyone else needs a reminder of the vast differences between the three countries in both the physical size of the entire country and the population itself.
America is 28 times bigger than Germany in size (or Germany = about 3.5% the size of America) and has less than a quarter the population. 11 of US states individually are larger in area than either nation. There are five times as many people in the US than the UK. The US is bigger than the European Union in area and nearly the same size population as all of Europe.
And the laws change from state to state. I feel a better comparison when thinking about how many go missing is authorities are looking for a missing person in an area nearly the size and population of Europe.
So it wasn't just me: I felt the whole statistics game there missed two crucial elements: the size of the population, and the number of persons per square km. I mean, I don't think even in the northern most parts of Scandinavia and Finland which largely consists of forest and mountains and forest on mountains (though strangely there are no mountains on forests - at least none that I know of, so if there are, they have to exceedingly rare: I've lived in Scandinavia for more than 4 decades, and I can't recall ever hearing about it. So maybe ... yeah, that might actually be worth checking into come to think about it.). From a European perspective, there are vast areas up there in the north that's virtually uninhabited. Likewise there are areas that are inhabited, but those who do live there, can easily be 10+ kilometers removed from their closest neighbor. But compare that to the U.S and its geography. I mean, amateur hour doesn't even begin to cover it! Not to mention that due to the geography of both locations: the U.S, and the far north of Norway, Sweden, and Finland - far more people, on a regular basis, will travel through those uninhabited areas of the U.S, than there will ever in those areas here. The U.S still has a network of roads going across deserts and shits, and people need to travel through those areas for a number of reasons. Here on the other hand? There are no roads going through those areas: there are hiking trails, sure. And people *do* disappear on occasions. But there are no roads, no delivery trucks, no railroads: A, because there are no one to deliver anything to; and B, because they are wildlife protection areas so it's literally forbidden to drive trough those areas if you were stupid enough to try with there being no roads and, you know, nothing but forest, and mountains, and forests on mountains. And .... Mmm .... Mm-hm. Yeah, I'm gonna go and do some research. Look in to those elusive mountains on forests.... yeah....
Cheers!
@@deviantoutcast don't forget Alaska. It's the biggest state by far and the emptiest people wise. The percentage of missing people in Alaska versus other states is much higher; either because people go there to disappear or because there's just so much area they could get lost in and their bodies are never found.
I am interested in your thoughts about northern Europe versus places in the US like the desert, etc. You have some good points.
*America is 28x bigger than Germany in size and has about 4x the population.
There's also a problem with reportage. The rules for what to report as what kind of crime or incident varies wildly even within the US, and more so in other countries. There can also be political interference in crime reporting. Statistics is a very useful tool, but that's all it is. It should never be taken as gospel.
Very condescending of you to think *EVERYBODY* needs reminding of the bloody obvious...
Simon afraid of losing his kid is pretty cute and relatable.
I don't have kids, yet, but already have a plan. Similar to Simon's idea of sowing air-tags in their clothes, my idea is to implant some air-tags in them... I mean, kids lose stuff all the time, losing a coat with an air-tag seems easy, but losing a hand is a bit harder :D
Conspiracy theorists : the vaccine is a tracking device. Parents : I wish
@@stephjovi hahahahha I almost made a joke about vaccines in my comment, but I was afraid that people would take it seriously xD
This is why I refuse to plant bushes so I know when my kid's really missing.
Simon is looking dapper in that red sweater.
Then: "It's getting light out... what have we done?"
Now: "We're out til 1am!? That's crazy!"
Lol, yeah; that's a sentiment that hits home. 🤣
I remember the shift where we had a missing child emergency. I found the child in the dressing room, and they giggled and asked me not to give them away. Best case for the call, really.
5:20 - Chapter 1 - Gone without a trace
11:00 - Chapter 2 - The investigation
22:15 - Chapter 3 - Theories
23:00 - Chapter 3.1 - The brother in law
28:50 - Chapter 3.2 - The mysterious lover
31:20 - Chapter 3.3 - Suicide
35:10 - Chapter 3.4 - Human trafficking
37:20 - Chapter 3.5 - Korea
38:10 - Wrap up
Perhaps it's a topic for Into the Shadows... but it sounds like Simon may need a refresher on just how prevalent human trafficking is in the world.
how so? it simply isn't at least not in the west.
@noth606 I wish that were true. It's a very real problem. I think it's pretty telling when I can walk into a gas station restroom in a rural town in Minnesota and there are signs about how to get help if you are being trafficked. Those signs wouldn't be there if there wasn't a problem.
@@ceirwynsinclair4198 Yes they would, because of people making up stuff all the time. How come none of them are nearly ever caught if it's so widespread? I've heard of something like 3 cases in all my life and I'm 43yo.
@@noth606 I've not met anyone (that I know of) that's been raped. Does that mean rape doesn't happen? Of course not.
Sadly human trafficking is very much an issue in every country.
@@christinebenson518 I disagree with your "very much" bit, I don't doubt that it exists, but I'm absolutely sure it's very rare where I live.
As for rape, that's very different, I personally know several girls who have been raped, I'm male and I have been molested as a child. It's very disingenuous to try to equate things that are common with things that absolutely obviously aren't.
Most missing kids in the US who are genuinely away from home as opposed to hiding in a bush turn out to be with someone they know, most often a non-custodial divorced parent who thinks their ex-spouse shouldn't have custody.
YES!! Stranger abduction is actually vanishingly rare...
In the US, the Amber Alert system is directly responsible for almost 20% of recovered kids. So it definitely works.
In fact, it worked just the other day!
This past Sunday in the Philadelphia area, a woman stole a car that had a 2-year-old in the back seat. An Amber Alert went out and the child and car were tracked down that same day. The kid was safe and unharmed. The woman was caught and is being charged with auto theft and kidnapping.
I am thankful for it, it’s a good system.
The only other side to it why sometimes I think they are hesitant to issue one is that about 10 years ago in my city, 2 kids were abducted by their biological mother (after custody had been granted to their maternal grandfather.)
She was in the wind all over the state with the kids for a few days. They issued the amber alert about 2 days after they were abducted and I believe the following day she drove to the police station and turned herself in. When they asked her where the kids were she said they were ‘in the car.’
When they went to grab the children from her car, they were both deceased. They later revealed the parking lot footage and the children were alive when she pulled into the parking lot, before she walked inside to turn herself in she smothered them. It was so horrific, I think that was the first time I cried while watching the evening news. I even remember I told my grandmother, “hey those kids from the amber alert… they found them…” and she said “oh yeah, it was their mother who took them.” But I could tell she was not concerned, I replied “she killed them.” And my grandma gasped and she started to cry with me. No one was really too concerned in the public because when you hear “a mother kidnapped her own children,” it’s hard to imagine a parent doing something so horrible.
Later when they asked the mother (she was diagnosed with mental illness previously, and considered an unfit parent) about why she would smother them if they looked fine, why she didn’t just turn herself in?
She said “I was going to just turn them in, but when I saw their pictures on the tv from the amber alert I panicked. I knew I had to do something.”
I don’t know if this is realistic or not because, like I mentioned she was mentally ill, I mean that was well known about her. But there has been a few cases about parents panicking and doing something to the children once they see the amber alert.
I’m not trying to shoot it down, I definitely believe wholeheartedly that it’s benefits MAJORLY outweigh the possible outcomes if it didn’t exist. I just think it’s an unfortunate but interesting aspect of the system.
Converse shoes will never die lol
Amber alerts are only given if the child is seen being taken by someone without parental custody. A large amount of them are parents that don't have custody either taking the kid or keeping them much longer than allowed and not responding.
Not true in every state such as mine.
Every amber alert in my state (pa) in the last few years have all been custodial
I'm 2 minutes in but here's a fun story. When I was a little kid I had this cardboard house that was supposed to be some sort of indoor prebuilt fort for kids. I LOVED it and hardly ever did anything outside it, everyone in my family knew that it was effectively my fortress of solitude.
Well, one day I fell asleep in there while playing.
When I woke up it turns out everyone in my family didn't think to check my fort and thought I had gone missing. My brother was the one who found me. My mom was nearly hysterical and her reason for not looking in the fort was "I called your name and you didn't answer" so I guess nobody thought I could have fallen asleep in there?
If they hadn't found me that soon I'm convinced my mom would've called the cops. For a kid who fell asleep in their room.
My mum was Hysterically shouting for my Brother for about 4 hrs in and around the Estate we lived on, called the police to have one of them try to lift a box in our Driveway ...My brother was curled up asleep , didn't hear a damn thing from umpteen people screaming his name...he was 4
Right now, in the US at least, vans are more popular than converse. I was a converse kid but now at 28 I have three pairs of converse and many many pairs of vans
LOL She went to Korea to see BTS?? How does a 15yo make it to Korea without a job or a trust fund?? That's a $1000 one way plane ticket impossibility. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Remember the micro Renault car her parents had? I don't think they were walking around with 800 Euro's in their pockets.
Given that the car was shared with Rebecca's sister, I presume it would have been entirely reasonable for Rebecca and her blanket to have been in it of her own accord. That makes for some pretty weak evidence imo.
Then where did it go?
Right? How did Rebecca get to her sisters? Did her sister pick her up?
@@bamagirlce12 where ever rebecca and the rest of the shit she brought went
Happy Friday the 13th everyone.
Simon sewing tracking devices in his kids clothes 🤣
What did the family know about the brother in law? That they protected him. Poor girl. I remember this story on the news asking if anyone saw her in Europe.
14:32 let me tell you, this for sure is german in it's truest form. You have to love our needlessly long word salads.
PS: Schöne Grüße an Jenny
Schöne Grüße zurück!
Human trafficking is way more common than you think, it's hidden in plain sight. Seeing a prostitute online or in person, you might not think they were sex trafficked, but most of the time they are. The trafficker has complete control over the advertising online and things like what streets they walk, and never let the victim out of their sight. Being pimped out IS being sex trafficked, and it's super common in Europe. And America, frankly.
At the end of videos like these i like having some hope that they will be found alive and well, but there's always this worry that the next update made on this channel will be a recap and discovery of their passing.
Also keep in mind, Simon, that if a missing child turns up dead, that means the missing persons case is solved - the child has been found. That 95% doesn't necessarily correspond to the proportion of missing children that get brought back to their families alive and healthy. The 2% of unsolved cases are only children who were never found, they don't include children who were found dead.
And of course, missing adults are much harder to report because adults are allowed to just up and leave, and the police assumes they left because they wanted to. If you manage to report an adult as missing, basically that means you've been able to prove to the police that they didn't leave of their own free will.
Yeah I would not describe true crime as ‘Fun’ but it is Compelling.
I love this channel, but perhaps you can add in some non-murder episodes? Like maybe bank or art heists?
We have that amber alert system here in Canada too. I get notices on my work (I work for the provincial government) email and on my phone through the relatively new emergency system. This system is also for weather/environmental emergencies as well such as tsunami warnings (I live on Vancouver Island). Plus notices also get posted to Facebook through the local police detachment pages and those get forwarded around very quickly.
The dad not telling the police what he was doing is damn weird, but my mind instantly went to "He's cheating on his wife" that's the only thing that's not illegal that he'd want to keep his mouth shut about surely
I agree.
I thought the same thing
I mean he could be doing something illegal which is also why he isn't talking to not get himself in more trouble, but I feel like he could get some sort of immunity ?? I don't know how police stuff like that works 😅
@@anonymousfrog1441 that's also a good possibility
I heard somewhere it was allegedly buying or selling illegal substances. I don't have a real source for it, I just saw it in another video, but it makes sense.
BTS stands for Bangtan Sonyeondan, translated to bulletproof boy scouts in English. However, in 2017 the band rebranded themselves and now BTS stands for Beyond the Scene. They've also been around since 2013, so they're not as new of a thing as a lot of people think they are.
We have a very damaged economic system that doesn't support struggling families. Many kids are in a broken foster care system. A lot of "runaways" are traumatized and looking for a way to get out of horrible foster care situations. This is a topic that needs air time.
Oh MAN the Amber Alert System *sounds* great “on paper”, but there are so many restrictions and rules that it seems to kinda “get in its own way” perfect example- 5 year old on the spectrum disappears from the sand box in her backyard. No Amber Alert, no “heads up y’all” nothing really. Because she didn’t “fit the requirements” to issue an alert. BUT if there HAD been some sort of alert; people would be aware of the situation and be keeping an eye out. Instead, most didn’t even know about the case until the news did a story about her being deceased. So, yeah. Any person under 18 and/or with certain medical issues disappears? INSTANT state wide alert. imo.
Sorry for the tangent, great job as always.
I agree it's different from state to state. Wtf?
That makes no damn sense!
There is reasonable belief by law enforcement that an abduction has occurred.
The law enforcement agency believes that the child is in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or death.
There is enough descriptive information about the victim and the abduction for law enforcement to issue an AMBER Alert to assist in the recovery of the child.
The abduction is of a child aged 17 years or younger.
The child’s name and other critical data elements, including the Child Abduction flag, have been entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) system.
This is straight from the amber alert website. It does differ slightly state to state but first and foremost its the discretion of law enforcement to determine if the child was abducted or got lost. So if the officer believes a child with mental disabilities is simply lost then no amber alert. So law enforcement officials need to change their understanding of children with disabilities. Their are other agencies that deal with all missing children. I think one is CART.
If there is an alert every time a child with mental differences disappear from the sandbox, it will be sending alerts all the time and drown out the cases that really need an Amber alert
Another good missing person case is that of DeOrr Kunz Jr &/or the Bobby Dunbar case! Lots of twists & turns in those cases.
I'm Canadian and we get the Emergency Alert for missing children. It gives descriptions of the child, "kidnapper", and vehicle, and states the city and relationship (if any) the child and "kidnapper" have. It's a wonderful tool and every country should take advantage of it!
Most of the time its a close family member that does it and the rest of them are often either involved in some way or want to keep it covered up in denial.
The Amber Alert system has a really sad backstory but it is an amazingly helpful system! You usually get info about the car the kid is in so people can report it as soon as anyone spots it. We have one for elderly/vulnerable adults as well, at least in California. The alarm is *terrifying* when it goes off on your phone though lol.
I'd like to see them do that story. I've heard it before but not many people outside of the us and true crime fans really know the stroy.
Did Callum write any of latest episodes? I get feeling he is missing 😱
He's been abducted by another bearded bald RUclipsr.
A new episode exactly as long as the time I have to get ready to leave the house? 🥳
Love ya Simon.
BTS stands for Bangtan Sonyeondan (Bulletproof Boyscouts), their english name (for convenience of english speakers) is Beyond The Scene!
I always thought it was for Bind Torture Sing.
"He was asleep or kidnapping her." There's a huge difference between the two, lol
I don’t know. The whole name thing has me a bit confused. Jennie the Writer, Jenn the Editor, Simon the Reader.
Might be better if we call you ‘Jennifer the Reader ‘?
Simon, I'm the same. I was always bothered by bad things happening to kids. But it got a million times worse after having kids of my own. Totally understand. I feel so bad for Rebecca. I really hope they find her alive. And if not alive, I hope they catch the person responsible for taking her life.
Amber alerts, at least where I am, require evidence of abduction, not just a child being missing. There's been some criticism lately about that part.
We also have silver alerts for missing elderly, often used when a person with dementia wanders off, but also for any elderly person who goes missing.
"There should be 9 Helicopters!" - you will never imagine how shocked we Germans were, when Word got out, that we have a fully functional Helicopter for the Government after a Member of the Parliament used it to send her son on vacation last Week. 😅 So yeah, its great we have at least one working police one aswell! 😬
The Amber Alerts are AMAZING! They've been a huge help here in the states. We even have silver alerts for the elderly. Every country should have these!
On assumes Florian was up to something unrelated to Rebecca's disappearance that the father-in-law was in on, hence the request to tell the truth so the police wouldn't go on a wild goose chasse.
Maybe not an affair as the entire family supporting his innocence suggests they all knew, but seemingly something illegal or highly embarrassing as he never spilled the beans and neither did family members.
Goddamn I wish there was a way I could volunteer or become certified to help find folks. I’m exceptionally good at tracking things down…. but without law-enforcement connections, the general public just doesn’t have access to resources and tools helpful in the process..
I spent all of my summers growing up through middle school and high school three months out of the year in a forensics laboratory (usually playing Mario with the resident students or bodyguards)😂
Also spent countless hours at THE “body farm“ from the age of about 10 or 11. Deaths acre they call it.
I just kind of had a natural knack for problem-solving so growing up around all that stuff made me really good at tracking people and things down. After all I was being “prepared” to follow in my family’s footsteps with forensics and science, but one too many nights spent crying in the shower floor…. trying to wash off the smell of decomposed folks, ….. let’s just say I chose a different path in life.
Even when wearing a full bunny suit, the smell can stay in your pores and scalp for what seems like three months, always brought out by the heat from the shower.
Im glad to see that Simon is reasonable enough to realize and talk about the fact that statistics aren't alwaya a reliabke wah to formulate an opinion about a location or subject.
Does anyone else find it odd that the sister didn't check on Rebecca in the morning? I'm 30, married and have a little one and I know if my brother stayed over I'd be like "wakey wakey" or at least say I'm going or something
Especially if my understanding is correct that she's supposed to be sleeping on your couch in the living room, which I assume you'd probably have to pass by or near to get ready and leave in the morning. If it's in a basement or something like that, I suppose it's makes more sense that you wouldn't bother.
Simon pronouncing long German words: Nailed it!
and yes, amber alerts are super helpful. they ping off geographically appropriate cell towers and send a VERY LOUD noise to them with details of the child - age, appearance, etc, and the last known details, like vehicle and license plate.
I love that Simon is STILL vocalizing his mental strain at the paradox of there being two people named Jen. I guess we couldn't expect much more than this out of a giant singing chipmunk right?
18:52 I believe you're thinking of the Fiat Multipla.
There’s been many times I’ve carried a blanket into the woods or the park accompanied by a female friend. Only a few of those times was the blanket meant for picnicking.
Let’s just say I learned the hard way that I’m exceptionally allergic to poison ivy. And a blanket solves a lot of those problems.
You get poison ivy in a situation like that, and your only hope is a lot of Benadryl, and precariously balancing in front of a box fan… If you catch my drift.
16:36 yes I ask myself the same quite a lot. I am german and we seem to just have the strange trait of overplaning and regulating everything. That can help a lot but it would have to be checked up once in a while to make sure it's not a redundat system that just waists money. And that is a very german way of countering it I know.
Also, the thing with words is really strange yes. "Transatlantikverbindungstunnelkommissionsvorstandsvorsitzendenrat" is a legit word. But I think this way of merging words is mostly used for official designations. In english you would just put a space between each word. you could still say "moterized gasoline engine powered vehicle" but in german we would simply cut the spaces for some reason.
dunno why I even explain all that but it might interest some people ^^
1- Yeah. I agree with Simon, this should have been a Decoding the Unknown Episode.
2- Simon is usually quick to support more uncommon theories. I suppose that if it was one of his girls that got abducted once they'd have reached their Teens, he would be much quicker to believe in the Abduction Theory for S€X Trafficking, as it's sadly much more common than he wants to believe, especially in Central/Eastern Europe...
3- The fact that the Female Horseback Eyewitness in the Forest wasn't seen by the Guy dressed in black isn't at all a sign that the guy was high, sloppy or not observant!
In the Forest, in broad Daylight, a big mansized Black mass actually really stands out, while a Horse tends to blend in rather well, especially if brown or paler (grey/white), and its Rider can blend exceptionally well too in the higher background if they wear lighter color clothes and even wear a black hat.
The reasons for the Horse Rider being able to clearly observe the suspicious Man dressed in Black while remaining Unseen are all about basic scientific principles.
When you are on horseback, you're at a good VANTAGE POINT since you are situated quite high above ground, where you can see farther away. Also, riding a horse also greatly helps with remaining unseen/camouflage, as the horse fits/blends well with the colors of the Trees, the usually lighter clothing people wear white horse riding help break from the potentially darker mass of the horse and fit with the usual pattern of lighter colors at medium height in the Forest.
So, riding a horse helps with having a great vantage point and camouflage. The Suspicious Guy, all dressed in Black, tended to stand out like a sore thumb, especially due to the fact that the way he was acting was drawing attention to him by being nervous, always checking if he was being observed, which is something that must be done with a great deal of stealth, while acting normal, since ACTING suspicious is the best way to LOOK suspicious... It's the very first behavior people will pick up on and immediately know that something is off.
Yes I agree on both. Sex trafficking is a very real and very wide spread problem and accounts for a lot if not the majority of missing girls. I sometimes get really irked by Simon he is so obviously "well off" and out of touch. I stopped watching regularly after he was scolding a serial killers mum for not getting him in to therapy. A single mum in the early 1900's in a South American slum.... Like get your head checked...
@@anathema2325 While nobody's perfect and Simon, being a very decent guy, is right most of the time in his views and comments, there are still some points where he's strangely very much off the mark...
When you mentioned the time he scolded a serial killer's mom for not getting her child in therapy, believe me, it came back very clearly, as I had the same reaction as you had when I heard that!
I would argue that probably, Simon, while growing up, hasn't been exposed to a single mom taking the burden of raising a child on her own, hence his lack of sensitivity to this issue. At least that would be a reasonable explanation.
But, as a guy who got raised by a single mom, I know all too well how incredibly hard it can be, especially when the parent doesn't have enough support from her family and entourage and that the father, while being alive and supposed to support his kid financially, could as well be dead as he doesn't lift a finger to take responsibility...
I can't imagine how it must have been in the 1900's, although I have an idea, as my grandmother (my mom's mother), born in 1920, got divorced in the early 60's and had to endure the ensuing social stigma, especially strong coming from the religious figures who judged her harshly and influenced her family and friends to be @ssholes too...
Thanks for your comment!
Amber Alert is only used when the person is considered at risk. Like custodial interference, medically fragile missing person. Basically some known threat for the person being endangered either due to their condition or the person they are presumed to be with.
The amber alert system is great. It has helped fund so many children
Also have Amber alerts for the elderly at least here in Indiana
I think those are US wide, too. We have them in Utah but they’re called Silver alerts
@@HappyTheNeko fair enough
Another thing that might skew the numbers is bat sh!t crazy women that will report their kids "missing" if their ex is three milliseconds late to drop them off. It's a common technique to make men look bad and restrict their visitation rights.
How about not be late with the kids? Or notify her? Or not act in a manor that makes her fear her children's lives if your minutes late? But no, she's CrAzY for fear the man has induced. But let me guess, NoT aLl MeN right? 🙄
@@Autisticwanderer it's sad that your ok with telling the world you don't mind if your kid is available for kidnapping. I hope your kids are with their mother and safe, since you clearly lack the care and empathy to be responsible for a defenseless human.
"automatisches Kennzeichenerfassungsystem" is indeed one of those cases where several words are put together. It means "system to automatically capture number plates".
Florian is the most suspicious person in all of this. Out to the wee hours of the morning, two mysterious round trips, and silence.
So, what if Florian was having an affair. He was out with them into the wee hours of the morning, came home to see his wife off, and once she was gone he brought his lover into the house, forgetting that his sister-in-law was still there. She died because she knew too much. The drives could have been to scout out a location before transporting her body, or the first was the lover dumping her body and the second was Florian driving his lover back to / toward Poland. And the silence is because his lover is a man - possible Polish military, where Don't Ask, Don't Tell, is the rule, and because this lover committed the crime and dumped the body - thus Florian can technically claim to not have killed her and not know where she is. A Polish driver might not be as aware of the cameras, a male could look like it was Florian driving when it wasn't, and the affair- especially if both are married with much to lose if it got out, explains the silence.
Of the theories, that sounds just as plausible as the best of them. Either way, I don't believe she is still alive.