The YouTuber That Became a Killer - The Insane Case of Trey Sesler (Mr. Anime)
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
- This true crime case looks at RUclipsr Trey Sesler, also known as Mr Anime. Trey Sesler was one of the founding RUclipsrs in his genre, but following his growth, subscribers saw Mr Anime become less coherent, more turbulent. How it would end though, was not something anyone would ever expect.
This case looks at the donward spiral Trey Sesler took into annihilating his own family.
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00:00 Intro
00:50 Who is Trey Sesler?
02:48 The Rise of RUclipsr Trey Sesler
06:24 The warning Signs
09:32 March 2012
10:15 The Fall of RUclipsr Trey Sesler
12:36 Trey's Confessions
15:17 Outro 
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Thanks for watching folks. This was such an interesting case to cover... Trey Sesler though, what an insane man. What do you think happened to him? Let me know below. Please hit that red button if you like my stuff, it really helps me out. Thank you, and see you in the next one!
I have never heard of this case and I love true crime. How have I missed this guy?! Anyway, thank you so much for telling his story, you did an amazing job ❣️ This case is heartbreaking. I find myself feeling sorry for Trey, I can't imagine what was going through his head, and the demons he was battling. I'm in no way excusing him for what he did either. As a mom, I can't imagine realizing I'm about to be killed by my own flesh and blood, that goes for the whole family 😢😢 That is just horrible.
Pre existing childhood signs, no follow up...then isolation seemed to kick it all off...
Hey Adrian, I would like you to speak more . And more ☮️. So calming
@@kims364 kk7 I 765kl52 hu uhhhyhrh hygiene uu
@@crystalehlers6029 Umm ok, translation please
"No warning signs" except him making a plot to steal a cop's gun and kill his friend, and also shooting his pet rabbit.. these are not "normal teenage things"..
right but one or two events over the span of several years, to anyone that would seem like no warning signs. or they could have not known or had been in denial, who knows it's hard to accept someone you know or love is actually loosing grip on reality. And when you say its not normal, that is from your perspective what you are actually saying is not socially acceptable or from my perspective its not normal. Most people have these types of thoughts but don't speak them or act them out, but even if they attempt to act them out it could make them understand its wrong. Everyone has a different way of dealing with things it just so happens to be this dude chose poorly and had that shadow take over.
Where in the video does it mention him trying to steal a cop's gun and kill his friend?
@@RachelScalfani It said he thought about it and made plans not that he tried. But if we are to say that thinking about something is grounds for action or punishment people will simply not say anything and you accomplished nothing.
@@RachelScalfani At the beginning doh.
Lol not just steal a cops gun but to bash him in the head potentially killing him and take it.
"He had become fascinated with former killers"
Me watching this channel:
*Nervous Chuckle*
Underrated comment
That no one has liked cause they fear the truth
@@dracosxroses4368 *I don't have such weakness*
@@gandalf_thegrey *respect*
I’m in danger
Right?
Breaks my heart when I hear people like him having poor defenseless animals at his disposal to hurt and murder like that. 😢
I had a sweet, sweet grey rabbit whom I loved so much that I still have a photo of him on my nightstand ! He died in 1995, and I still miss him. The fact that people like Trey and Magnotta are allowed anywhere near pets drive me crazy with rage!!
O discovered recently your channel. I have problems to fall asleep because I suffer a high level of anxiety. Your voice, narration and presentation is so soothing it's helping me very much. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
You’re very welcome Drew, I’m glad I can help you!
I got a confession to make bro, I don’t grab a coffee while watching these, I generally have a whole meal
Cheese sandwich. 👍
Air
ohhh nooo you betrayer
420 salad
Anything that’s near me
No warning signs?? The dude literally used his pet rabbit as a firing target
Hell, him wanting to kill his friend early on was a warning blowhorn. How the hell was that dropped?
yeah people harming animals as a "warning sign" is actually unreliable and overrated. If people go "hunting" and kill innocent rabbits its apparently not seen as a problem. But add the word "pet" and everyone starts losing their minds. I mean, would it make any difference if it was said that the farmer broke the neck of his "pet" chicken and ate him for supper? This kind of behavioral psychology is pretty shaky and misrepresented. The thing is, people retroactively plac e emphais on such stuff. Meaning, they take people who have committed some crime and see how many out of them made animals some sort of targets. If one took the people who made animals their targets and saw how many of them committed such crimes, the number would be very different. More of a warning sign was 1. His "prank" at 13. 2. increasing alcohol abuse 3. Obvious chnage in content towards guns and 4. Chnage in presentation which seemed unintentional and suggested a mental health deterioration because of all the rambling.
@@wrongturnVfor i feel like pets should have a more emotional bond to its owner compared to livestock and random animals that are hunted. Thats why imo its more fucked up to kill a pet and thats why its a warning sign
@@wrongturnVfor When you kill for food that's one thing, when you kill your pet you're a psycho!
When this comes along with the right to have guns in America. It's getting worse.
I’ve watched ao many of these stories and one thing that really sticks out is how so many of these cases there were VERY clear signs of a mental disturbance that just gets ignored. It seems to me that all these types of killers have the same formula. Neurodivergence + inappropriate special interests + isolation / abuse from family and peers. Look at all the other similar killers, the fact that society outcasts people with mental issues, it turns those people against society. We need more involvement / counseling / mental evaluations in schools. We HAVE to stop ignoring these warning signs
I can never understand these actions. If there is anything good with this is that Trays guilt of killing his family weighed so heavy on his sole that he was not able to proceed with killing innocent children while attending school.
Great narration with this story!
My sister and my ex went to high school with him and were really good friends and theater partners with him for their video content. I was a freshman in college when everything went wrong, after he'd graduated, so we all got a pretty good first hand account of all this.
I remember my boyfriend at the time calling me and asking "Does Trey know where you live?" As I was writing an essay at the time and hadn't been watching the news, so this was completely out of the blue. He explained that he had killed his family and was still loose, and no one could find them. Since him and my sister were fairly close with him, we were all a bit scared that he would show up at OUR houses. Luckily, he didn't.
During this, all three of us were pretty angry at how the news portrayed him at the time: holding guns in every picture, saying he's evil and a cold blooded killer, etc. Which....he was, but that's not the point. The guns he was holding were prop guns, and the picture they took and plastered all over the news was a screenshot from one is his sketch videos. He wasn't a violent guy. They would have had to dig through his content to find that picture, and they took it completely out of context. Keep in mind that at this time we didn't know the entire story except what was being shown on the news.
Suddenly, everything started to make more sense, though. The past few years, cows had been disappearing overnight, and horses too. I'd discovered bullet holes in my high school auditorium my senior year (and the administration did NOTHING, saying that "it was probably just some kid doing a drive by.") Fires started and kept spreading out of control, going all the way up to Magnolia to the Renaissance Faire. The Faire thought they were going to lose buildings. Earlier that year, my boyfriend had gotten a Facebook message from Trey thanking him for being such a good friend and that he loved him, "no matter what happened," and that he only had 6 months to live because of a chronically leaking lung after a car accident.
The car accident in question happened to him in high school, his junior year I believe. He spent much of his last two years in high school working from the hospital because the aftermath of the accident had causes headaches so severe that they were concerned they would cause him brain damage. Yep, that's right. Brain damage.
After my friends got called in for questioning, the police dished a few more details that weren't covered by the media. Apparently, Trey had come up with a plan with a few friends to all kill their families and then shoot up the high school. When he showed up at his friend's house with guns and body armor and said "I did it, did you? Let's do this!" They were terrified and said they thought he'd been joking. They then convinced him to turn himself in after hours of talking in private.
Needless to say, I won't really ever think of black Chargers the same way.
I don't often comment on videos, but I figured I'd toss in my perspective on this one. I'm not really a follower or viewer, but I wasn't expecting to see Trey's face in my recommendeds and I had to click.
Wow, thank you so much for sharing your story and perspective! I often worry about the “edge” media tends to give on these people and it seems they did it again with Trey. The story of his plan with friends is terrifying, i had no idea that’s how it unfolded. Thank you again for sharing your story, nice to have you drop by 🙂☕️
You mentioned something of critical importance - his car accident. Did he hit his head pretty hard? Watching him talk - he looks like somebody who had experienced a bad frontal lobe trauma at some point. Such head injuries often dramatically affect a person's character and facility for empathy. Whoever let him have the means for destruction, after that, shares culpability in his killings. Because the bone, inside the front of the skull, is quite uneven and even sharp in places - even small force impacts can produce dramatic changes. The part of the soft brain, implicated in all sorts of higher complex interpersonal understanding, is right behind the less smooth part of the skull. Blows to the back and front of the head (side impacts - not so much) can hurl the brain at the ridges.
He's still always going to be dangerous, if it's true that he's incapable of empathy/compassion/reasoning etc., but he may not be so deserving of punishment if it's not actually his fault that he's the way he is.
this is so interesting. i definitely think the brain damage caused by the car accident contributed to his mental state deteriorating.
Thanks for sharing
@@CoffeehouseCrime Glad to offer some insight. Thank you for your response :) There is still so much misinformation about Trey's case out there. It seems a lot of things will stay quiet D: I watched a few other videos here on YT about him after yours--apparently he was into drinking and had a huge stash of real guns. Things that me nor my friends really knew about him. Strange how small towns can hide big secrets
It must be devastating to have a child, raise him, put your efforts, tears, sweat towards his future, and then you see him kill your wife. That is just too sad
Jesus.....
@Dis Johnson Americans*
@Dis Johnson wow, you're so edgy and cool 🙄
@Dis Johnson That's neither a true or kind thing to say.
@@JollyTurbo1 no no no, it's true though.
It seems like a lot of mass shooters, a young person's mental health starts spiraling and either no one noticed or no one cared enough to do anything about it.
@Cools DOODS Which is less than ideal mental health is it not? There's a bit of a leap between having ASPD and deciding to go on a spree killing, like any physical disorder it can be treated, if not always curable if caught early. At the very least they could spend a good portion of the rest of their life in a high security mental facility well away from even slightly pointy objects.
@Cools DOODS ASPD doesn't equal school shooter
@Cools DOODS But you cited it as a reason for people becoming school shooters.
@@caramel9154 mental illness is one reason why people shoot up schools. And isolation and abandonment is another. It's also the reason why people commit suicide. It's just people don't care about suicides and isn't that ironic.
With me growing up with Trey…he WAS bullied…verbally. He was always highly intelligent and also at the early years of only 8 years old, he tried to bully me in elementary and it was that point he found out he couldn’t bully me. Over the years I had him in my health class when we both were 13 and we would joke about the whole incident back in elementary school…but he was always awkward about it…like it bothered him….then in high school softmore year, I had him in my health class again and yet again he would approach me and joke about the same incident….after high school I had a job with him at yogi bear park in Hempstead when we were both 20….and yet again he would approach me about the same incident back when we were children. The whole vibe I would get from him was that he seemed to love me but hate me at the same time…he wanted to befriend me, but at the same time, there was an aggressive vibe he would maybe unintentionally give….nonetheless…he was never normal….and honestly, I always thought he was probably hiding his sexuality. My personal information to put out there to the public of someone who actually grew up around him.
You suspected he was gay?
No offense, but how did you get to that conclusion about him and his sexuality?! What does that have to do with any of that?
@@seymourbuttz2253it has to do with awkwardness towards another guy
Aggressive vibe unintentionally 🤣🤣🤣
"Natural part of growing up"
Clearly I missed that stage 😅
Yeah I also missed the "Lets bash the brain of a cop with my baseball bat so I can get a gun to murder my friend" stage.
@@benjamindeh873 Ah glad it wasn't just me, clearly we must be strange
@@benjamindeh873 the way they said it was "normal teenage behavior" like NO?? How in the living fuck is that normal behavior?
@@areeanachowdhury9070 I just bake bread and work on my dads car... guess I’m weird😀!
Same 😂
The mental health care literally failed this man hard. He had a plan to incapacitate a officer and steal his gun to kill his friend and after a while everyone just went "Yeah, that's just normal teenager behavior."
Not saying therapy would have helped him, but what if it would have?
Yeah I can’t wrap my head around how that was dropped.
@@Lunataari Very true, however that was a classic manipulation attempt. If it's the case I'm thinking of ( The kid who tried to start a race war by shooting up a black church ) the kid in question appeared to have severe Autism or special needs of some kind. Two main ways of intelligence gathering are torture and false kindness/manipulation a la Good Cop Bad Cop. They apparently chose kindness. But I don't think violence would have worked on him.
It’s sad how therapy fails people. It can fail anyone with any kind of mental health issue. I was in the pshyc ward with kids who had been through many places and some that had parents give up and send them away until their adults. Its insane how the system fails kids who need help.
what ifs are just what ifs, there is but one path, the here and now
There is never a clear indication of a "cure" to mental illness. I mean this dude had severe mental issues that involved planning in killing someone at around a preteen age! How do you find therapy for something like that? The only thing I find that helps anyone is lock up these kinds of people. It's sad to say but even considering the most effective mental health procedures will fail this level of insanity in an individual.
I love how on the internet, and with the benefit of hindsight of course, everyone and their mother suddenly becomes a mental health expert..
Lol! I was just thinking the exact same thing!
Yep. Most of these early videos are so totally normal. But they like to say how it was an indicator
You are so kind and pleasant in your videos that I almost forget I'm listening to a true crime story about people getting brutally murdered.
I like the fact that you don’t treat these cases as a joke and that you show great respect for the victims.
He's makes deadpan comments, but it's not aimed at the victims or their families. For example, in a video about a crime in the UK committed by Jemma Mitchell who coldly killed Mee Kuan Chong, he made a deadpan comment that Jemma was a "fucking snake".
trey: has a detailed plan to kill his friend
license psychiatrist that went through years of schooling and training: nothing wrong here, off you go 👨⚕️
I actually did part of a psychiatry residency, and this is a large part of why I switched to another medical specialty. People think that psychiatrists or other Men. Health providers have the power to “make” people who “might” do something get care. That is Hollywood nonsense - the reality is that, even with mental illness, you get to decide your own medical care and it is almost impossible to force treatment on someone if they don’t think they need it. There was an elderly person we were aware of who would hang out their 4th floor apartment window all day in winter because they thought their apartment had “poison gas” in it, and the courts said “not even close” to allow us to intervene after they said “don’t talk to me.” That is good in most way and the Barr for taking away someone’s freedom needs to be huge, but the trade off is cases like these.
I saw multiple teens brought in due to violent stories or drawings, including very specific ones. You can be the doctor. Here is how much training you get on how to treat violent drawings or writings.....none, it is all in surgery, obstetrics, neurology, peds, family practice, etc. and medicine-based illnesses like schizophrenia, etc. In reality you can’t legally lock them up for something they could do in the future, just like police can’t bring in a RSO and say “no charges yet, but he “might” do something - jail em.” Remember, also that the psychiatrists pretty much ONLY see people with red flags- dozens per week. 99.99% do fine with outpatient care, but one will do something. Without being Captain Hindsight...Can you predict which one? If you spoke with them and they dropped out of care after two visits (which they absolutely can with literally nothing you can do about it ) .....is it now your fault?
I now work in oncology, and it is odd that although a cancer has much better treatments, you virtually never hear someone blame the doctor when a patient dies of cancer. But in mental health issues, so many like you think “they spoke to a psychiatrist once - why didn’t they make him all better through the power of words. That psychiatrist really dropped the ball!”
@@Itried20takennames im not saying the psychiatrist shouldve forced the kid to get treatment but what it said in the video is nothing came of his visit with the psychiatrist, no alarm bells no warning to the parents or school? just nothing came of it. what this kid did is nobody's fault but his own but the fact he was able to carry on from that incident and later in life purchase a multitude of firearms with no issue is extremely concerning and i think we can all agree on that
@@punxonlyy It's not always psychriatrist's fault. Sometimes law, conduct ties their hands. Sometimes even if you clearly see things taking a dark turn you just cannot do anything because you lack legal rights to do so.
@@tastethecock5203 I typed a whole comment about how America is failing the mentally ill but it didnt go through. my original comment was knocking how easily things can be dropped BECAUSE of the laws in place. im not blaming the psychiatrist, I'm not blaming any single care facility or ward for these kids slipping by. what trey did was his issue. but it's worth noting that kids like these arent obligated to get help until they do something legally bad enough to land them in a ward or juvy. I've been in and out of psychiatric care and a ward since the age of 13 (now 19). I've met many of these troubled kids. all the wards do (or at least the one I've had run ins with) is treat these kids like animals, throw them on a pill and then release them. no further check ins. there needs to be a change in the law, if a child displays these early warning signs they should have to get psychiatric help, no choice in the matter. it's very sad the kind of tragedies we see in today's world as a result of untreated or unmonitored mental illness, whether it be suicide homicides, or violent crimes. just 70 years ago psychiatric care was electrically shocking patients, giving them pills to simulate waterboarding, throwing them on different medications, casting them out from society. only 70 years ago. its ludicrous to think that with only 70 years of change the mental healthcare system is exactly where it needs to be. but I truly hope that one day it will be for the sake of the mentally ill and for the sake of those victim to tragedy because of mental illness. it makes me sick thinking about how cases like this could be prevented.
Double whammy here -- Texas psychiatrist and Texas laws where saying that you're going to shoot or kill somebody is considered normal everyday conversation.
It’s terrifying to raise children in a world where people like this exist.
That psychiatrist he saw when he was 13 absolutely failed to identify and treat him, they could have prevented all of this if they did their job right.
And the parents too.
Welcome to reality
This is a large part of the reason I left Psychiatry for another medical field. Imagine you are the doctor: parents bring a teen to the ER for drug use, isolating and a notebook full of violent drawings. The teen says he just uses pot/drinks at parties, just doesn’t like the school because few friends/school work is hard, and the drawings are just “for fun.”
What do you do? Here is how much training you have for this scenario: none, it is all in depression, schizophrenia, etc. In the particular state, this case ( parts of real ones from years ago) absolutely doesn’t meet the criteria for hospitalization. Let’s say he comes to 2 follow-up appointments, then stops.
Remember also that you see multiple people every single day saying that they have thoughts of killing themselves or others. 99.99% won’t with good outpatient care, but 1 in a thousand will. Which one? When someone does do something, all the world will know is “he told the doctor and they didn’t stop him...how awful,.” If you do prevent a killing, no one will ever know. If you can spot the 1 in 1,000, then you owe it to society to take on medical school debt (average 200k) and work the 100 hours/week residency (making less than minimum wage per hour) to do so.
@@Itried20takennames Very well said, it's quiet the dilemma. My brother had schizophrenia and also did meth. He was beyond delusional and sometimes would be picked up off the streets for being crazy, like yelling at his car and whatever else he did. He was very smart and they would always just let him out the next day. I was always worried that I would see him on the news doing a mass shooting or something. He was basically non violent but if something set him off his eyes would change and it was quite scary. "God" told him to get rid of all his possessions and he did, what if "God" told him to shoot everyone I'm sure he would have. When he was younger my parents did everything to try to help him, but there was no help. He is dead now, he overdosed about 2 years ago, found dead, alone in his van. I will always love my brother and feel for the families that suffer through this dilemma. The reason I put some blame on these parents is that they let him live for free, doing nothing with his life, and they knew he had problems, you know, the old "enabling" thing. Anyway, thanks for your input, very true.
Don't they often? 😅
This channel is criminally underrated, you my guy are a great host, keep up the great work.
Thanks dude! I appreciate you saying this :)
Give it a little time and people will start to take notice of the quality work.
@@jacobcarr5647 when I saw his first video he was at 323 subs!!
I'm happy for Adrian & his hard work is certainly paying off @ 5k now!
@@hbelle3997 he's about to be around the point with exposure that he should gain views quickly now. Hard work definitely shows in the end product and people definitely appreciate that.
@@jacobcarr5647 yes for sure!! 😊
His family didn’t die for nothing. The guilt of killing them kept him from killing more people at the school.
Wonderful!
Thats how I want to die, like a hero
he's a sociopath, he had no feelings, if he had felt remorse he wouldn't have killed his dad and brother after killing his mom
Ironic.
What a noble way to die
just wanted to say what a great job you've done with this channel, man. i would never have believed you only started it 5 months ago. really excellent work, you deserve the success you're getting.
*tells a friend that he plans on killing his dad*
*kills his dad*
Friends: *surprised pikachu face* No WaRnInG sIgNs
I can understand a bit how they didn't see it coming. Lotta people will say they wanna kill someone but they just say it outta anger, gets written off as stressful day. If mr anime said that so many times, it'd be less and less effective for warning sign.. at least for the immediated warning sirens in the head.
Lets joke about the dads death aye...so edgy
@@TheDuke4100 imagine being such a clod that you think this is a joke instead of a completely warranted criticism
@@nidoqueef4453 I'm not taking sides, but jokes with criticism implied do exist though. Don't comedians do that? Do you deny the humorous implications? They probably would prefer you to be more formal about a pretty messed up situation like that.
@@MrJerkdude1 I don’t care what they prefer.
"grab a coffee, sit back, and relax" unbeknownst to you coffee gives me diarrhea
wow
thought that was worth sharing didya?😕
@@joymcnally6781 😆😆😆
@@joymcnally6781 the people need to know
Coffee gives me migraine.
Well lactose intolerance is the natural state!
What’s crazy is that he looks like such a normal guy, you could pass him by on the sidewalk and not give him a second glance. You never really know what someone’s capable of. I’m just glad he didn’t go through with his plan.
No tf he does not look normal if you look long enough you can tell he’s crazy
@@Ostine8333 and this is why I isolate myself... People like you..
This is officially the first one of your videos I’m watching with a coffee. I feel amazing.
This is such a crazy story, I remember watching some of his anime reviews back in the day. He always seemed a bit odd but never would've imagined he was planning literal killing sprees. Good video man!
Hey dude, I remember seeing your video on Bob Crane - You nailed it! Good job right back at you!
@@CoffeehouseCrime Appreciate the kind words man! Looking forward to more of your videos, working my way through your other ones now while I'm playing Mass Effect lol.
@@MirrorMindYT ME:LE? I'm envy ... saving up to buy it
I also watched his videos back then and I remember how shocked I was when I found out what he had done. Looking back, there were definitely signs that something was wrong. His speech got slurred more and more, he seemed to have serious issues and there were more sketches involving guns. Tragic story.
This guy is so infamous in the RUclips anime community. Some of the creators who've been on here for a long time had interactions with him way back in the day
Me before watching the TrashTaste highlight:
4:36 is that fucking Joey!?
@@Kyla8132 That's The Anime Man right? I'm not even a big fan of anime but I'm sure I've watched that guy before
@@Kyla8132 I thought I saw wrong or someone who just looks like Joey..until I found your comment..so it really is him...I think Joey made a video about Trey but I'm not so sure, I could be mistaken..
@@fyeelessarndra3392 Yeah. There is a section of a Trash Taste episode where all 3 guys talk about this too. If I recall right Joey brought this up because some fans reached out on the topic from stuff like that video clip and the like. Connor I think was ignorant of it all as it was a bit before his time if I recall right so Joey and Garnt start explaining it all. Garnt actually had like, full connections with the guy and they spoke before. Crazy
@@orderofthejedi1826 late but Garnt even made a video at the same time giving his thoughts on the situation
I think he did exactly what he thought would be the way to spare his family the heart ache of him hurting/killing people. He knew he couldn't face their disapproval. However, after killing them it hit the weight of his actions weighed him down. Sad story for all those involved
I just found this channel yesterday and it's already a new favorite. Your voice is just so calming.
Interesting disassociation. “When I killed “THE” family.” Not wanting to or refusing to come to terms that HE killed HIS family.
I like this but I think a lot of people refer to their family as “the” family. Like “oh I’m just hanging with the fam today” just like some people refer to their spouses as the husband or the wife when they’re talking to someone else.
@@meghanhenderson8417
Valid point but I think it makes sense in this scenario, there was another lads case I watched on JCS Criminal Psychology, I want to say Chris Watts? That name could be wrong though.
Anyway, he killed his 2 daughters and then his wife.. in his full interrogation video he would use the same language patterns, "I love those kids" for example, disconnecting himself from them out of guilt.
@@user-mx7ux8je7g it was Chris watts yes
@@user-mx7ux8je7g I still hear and feel a huge difference to “the family” and “those kids”. Most people will refer to their family as “the family” at least once in their lives…but who refers to their kids as “those kids”??
@@meghanhenderson8417
The aforementioned family murderer referred to his children that he murdered as "those kids" on numerous occasions and didn't actually change his language until prompted to by a detective where they suddenly became "my" kids.
Again, you made a valid point as regular people use words like this too - "those kids" is something I've said myself, but in relation to people who have murdered members of their own family they consciously avoid language that would associate their family to them.
So what I'm saying is the difference between somebody who kills a family member/s and somebody who doesn't is although we may say "those/they/them" etc in day to day conversation, we don't actively avoid association and use language that connects us to relatives more often than we use words that distance us.
It's a psychological defense mechanism that the guilty demonstrate.
“The incident was dropped…both by police and the psychiatrist. Nothing else ever came from this”…First huge mistake!!! I cannot believe how these early warning signs are so often overlooked. Calling 911, and then plotting to steal a firearm from the responding police officer IS NOT NORMAL! SMH.
I really like the way you tell these stories. Treating the situation with the utmost seriousness while providing intriguing facts about the lead up to the crime itself. Very well done
"a natural part of growing up"
i never tried killing my friends but i guess that's just me
I tried poisoning by brother by putting baby powder is in his Coca-Cola when I was 7. It didn't work but I got a belting and never did it again lol.
I was really sad and lonely as a kid, mostly due to home life and being raised in an extreme religious sect. I honestly remember a moment at about seven years old where I was in the school gym in a PE lesson, looking at the other kids and tenders and having a fleeting thought of chopping all of their heads off! I'm 46 now and haven't even been in a fight, but that's still very weird to me that I had those thoughts.
this sounds like he was descending into psychosis. Combined with isolation, he lost his grip on reality. But I feel we don't have the full picture. The shock of killing his family brought him to his senses, but seems that he will never be fully himself again. Dropping out of college, combined with desensitization to the shootings of the day, combined with a unhealthy fascination with shootings, fights with family, feelings of blame, and escapism from that reality seems to have innured him into psychosis. Which lead to a snap. This is sadly not something you are just 'not right in the head' over. It's very possible to engineer these breaks in regular people of all stripes. You can glimpse this behavior in mob behavior. If Coffeehouse' research is fully accurate, the constant evolution of his plans, once for relief towards some kind of target, only continued to edge him towards the act. It became..methodical. At that point, you aren't you anymore. That is the lure and deadly consequence of developing psychotic tendancies. Even psychotic people are not always...aware....of these things. Not all act on them.
Well said! As with a lot of these horrific cases, the detail is in their psychology.
@@CoffeehouseCrime Intelligence is Man's greatest gift. It seems, also his curse.
And the alcohol. That was a major contributing factor.
Interesting. My immediate take on the case was that he was seeking fame by any means necessary.
I became curious about people who hero worship mass shooters or serial killers and began reading up about why this happens - why do people who commit terrible crimes develop a fan base, whether they express remorse or not? The implication was that many of these fans are seeking the reflected fame, like people who become obsessed with actors or singers. The actor, singer or mass murderer is almost secondary, it's their fame that is the real attraction. This led to a further implication that in some cases mass murderers are attempting to garner attention in the absence of any outstanding talent or skill. It can't be refuted that they are catapulted into the public eye overnight as a result of their actions.
In this case, the youtube connection and the later claim to having been head hunted by the film industry made me lean towards fame being the end goal. Now, though, I think I'm probably oversimplifying. A wish to become famous can't be the only motivation for such actions. I find your hypothesis more compelling. Perhaps fame played a role, but it was likely corrupted by other factors.
It’s antisocial personality disorder (ASD) with possible addiction to alcohol or substance usage
As someone who has had my own issues with mental health and alcohol, I can say with confidence that alcohol makes EVERYTHING worse. Never better.
Im a happy drunk. Sure does solve my bad moods, makes me a more fun person too. Then back to work and do it all over again. Moderation, and not bringing in your bad shit during youre high.
@@flynnlivescmd for now!
Indeed.
Depressant with depression doesn't make it better as I so was the same way in college.
It's never the answer.
Then why is it so GLORIFIED in media and entertainment?
His dad Lawton Sealer was my 4th grade teacher and a family friend. A family member also worked at Robinson elementary when this happened so i remember this very vividly.
His grandmother's home where he lived is 3 blocks from my home, I remember this well, he had been riding around the county for several weeks shooting livestock as "practice". He shot his father over 60 times. My stepdaughter who lived in Magnolia were he was found was a friend of his. He is very much alive and in TDCJ for the rest of his life.
I wouldn't say his Family died for nothing. The regret which surfaced after shooting his mom definitely saved people.
I was going to comment the same. Saying they died for nothing almost hints that if he had shot up the school, it would have been for something. Poor choice of words
true
His family failed him. They abandoned him, left him alone, and then he lost his mind and killed them all.
They just weren't as lucky as other families who can abandon their children and get away with it unscathed. Sure he was an adult but just because your kids grow up it doesn't mean that your role as a parent ends.
@@MrJames1034 Yeah, he had the privilege to live alone, something that seems common in the united states, but he was lucky. abandoned him? how? he discussed with his family because he was an alcoholic, his family didn't failed him, he failed at life. Period.
@@MrJames1034 i agree to a point, but both the brother and father where having heated arguments with him about his drinking
The fact that he admitted he had made a plan to assault/kill a police officer and take his gun to commit a murder should have put the brakes on everything that happened next. Having been raised in a small town in Texas similar to his, I suspect that his parents being a teacher and working for the local paper afforded them enough influence to have the incident swept under the rug.
I've also heard he was walking around the house with a gun, knocking on his family's door, and doing a sort of guard duty against "demons". I feel like it was a warning sign. I feel like if he got help when it started nothing like this would've happened. It's so sad that people ignore it when something is wrong with someone's mental health and just hope it goes away...
Thank you tremendously for not spoiling everything at the beginning. I hate videos that do that.
Watching him melting away mentally, it really bugs my heart and soul, he was definitely lost in his own mind, he showed a lot of remorse over killing his own family, thanks for the upload, great work, 👍🏻from Florida be safe all✌🏻😷
The lady that knew him and posted with more information stated he’d been in an accident, one that damaged his brain. If that’s the case, then we know that the type of brain damage he had would have changed him and made him lose empathy , etc.
Well now I have another channel to binge.
Terribly sorry! Welcome to coffeehouse crime :)
@@CoffeehouseCrime it gives me something to listen to at work and so far I give it a solid 9/10. The reason it's a 9 is because I can't actually watch while I work so I can't judge your visuals :) I watched/listened to your entire backlog at work. You should talk about Marcus Wesson. He's my hometown.... Awful person of the hour? He's not a serial killer but he's a mass murderer. And slightly culty. I can email you articles if you would like. A lot of true crime people don't talk about him.
Hi Adrian I love your channel keep up the good work!
"Killed THE family" He does feel guilt here, and remorse, which is why he makes the dissociation of "THE" instead of "MY/OUR" in addition to "it just feels too real" IE: in that footage he's struggling to process he actually did that. This implies he's dealing with intense guilt, driving him to deny reality. Sadly, not an uncommon thing in those who kill from a psychotic break.
I like to think differently about this. His family didn't die for nothing, they 'saved' dozens of innocent people that he was planning with his 'Killing Spree'. In his mind, he was trying to 'protect' them of the hate that he would cause and possibly revenge from the victims and families of the victims, and because of his actions on killing his family, his mind was so overwhelmed he didn't go through with the massacre. I know this is some horrible rationalization, but this is how I look all this whole case.
That’s true. He wanted to save them from the shame and embarrassment...but I’m sure if given the option to live or lay down their lives to prevent another mass shooting of other people’s children by their child, they would willingly take the latter. Now Trey’s family are all together, students families weren’t torn apart that day, and Trey is safely away behind bars and hopefully receiving treatment for his illness.
Circular reasoning, but it is a glass-half-full kind of analysis that finds positive outcomes to horrendous acts.
@@turtleonahottinroof8734 one of the very few instances in these kind of horror stories where any positive can be found. It’s just a tragedy of Greek proportions all round.
@@virginiaviola5097 When I first heard of this, I was horrified! And now it seems that there are similar cases most months.
"The needs of the many outweighs the needs of the few"
You're videos are so interesting, thanks for making my work days bearable lol keep it up.
There were plenty of red lights flashing on the dash board, with this guy, but there are so many kids with these signs that its easy in a gun culture environment for a 'real one' to slip through the filter and commit such a hideous act.
His poor mother. One can only wonder at her feelings during her final moments, as she saw her own son turn on her.
So he tried to steal a gun from a cop, and the psychiatric evaluation was dropped?
Are you serious?
Sadly this seems to be common. I had a student bite a police officer once and chargers were dropped because she was already getting "therapy" at the alternative school but really it was more like a hippy lady just talking to her about her day... Nothing improved.
Psychiatrists can only do so much, they don't have the magical ability to know that someone is going to become a killer someday, and they aren't in the business of having kids locked up just for plotting something (remember he didn't actually do it). If they by all appearances, after psychiatric evaluation, seem to be sincerely remorseful and appear to have no intention of doing it or anything like it again, then there's not much they can, or even should do. It's just a kid, locking him away in a mental institution for a mistake would be messed up and frankly in most cases likely does more harm than good.
It's easy to point fingers at him and say "See he obviously would have become a killer, anyone with half a brain can see that", but I'm sure you've heard the overused phrase "Hindsight is 20:20"?
It's easy to spot the signs when you already know the result.
Ohh a merp!
@@GoodPersonTestWebsite i would say biting a cop and acctively plotting to knock them out to steal their gun to go and kill someone with it is very different
As someone who's grown up in a home with a lot of anger, condescension, and a lack of caring I 100% believe there's a LOT more to his home life than what's mentioned. There's a lot of familiar signs there.
I agree, really the story feels like it’s missing just one piece. Growing up in a similar situation I can see how that would fit in.
Another comment mentioned he got in a car accident and suffered a brain injury, people with healthy brains are resilient to traumas
I hv similar situation and i agree.
No he is a pathetic murderer
Hm I didn't think about that
In the hour that I subscribed, this channel was at 398K AND NOW ITS AT 400K. WOW. 2000 subs in under an hour!! You're doing sumn right Adrian. Congratulations!!
1.95M as of April 9, 2024.
His real target was his family. He somehow just justified to himself mentally that he had to do this to protect them from future suffering. Once this was done, he didn’t really have the impulse to carry on the rest of the plan. Lost in fantasy but not really insane. Filming yourself and broadcasting your actions can have a consequence of enhancing such fantasies, taking them to another level.
I was in school when this happened. I lived in Waller at this period and at first when we heard about this we all thought people were joking. Then the realization came in that oh shit this was almost us. I graduated 2012 from Waller. This was just super crazy, cuz people knew who this was and was friends with him and knew his family.
wow that must have been scary mate... I can't imagine thinking about someones face you recognised from school and yeah
I also used to watch his anime reviews and I never thought he would go this route. It’s so heartbreaking on hearing what he did. My heart goes out to the family of the victims.
What his RUclips channel?
You do realise he is family of the victims right?
@@benjamindeh873 Yes but I also mean their surviving members of the family too. That’s what my wording meant.
I’m also dyslexic so my grammar isn’t the best.
@@takoholic I meant it as a joke :P Sorry
I finally get to listen to your videos while having a coffee! I just stumbled onto your channel over the weekend, and I've really been enjoying it thus far. I enjoy watching true crime stories, and you have a soothing voice. It's easy to picture it as having a conversation with a barista while waiting on my latte.
Your videos are very well made and informative, Thank you for your work! Ill keep watching!
Brand new fan to this channel. Why do i enjoy it? No cringy intro, no cringy environment setting narrative. Just tells all the facts in a way you can straight understand. Marvelous
This is a relatively common thing. People stew and build a big violent plan, then it sets in immediately. There's at least two dozen cases I've heard of where someone murdered a friend or family member with the intention of getting them out of the way before comitting a public masacre, but the first murder snapping them out of whatever was wrong with them so they just give up instead.
still this dude went around the house killing his mother, father and brother one after one, he had time to stop after the first killing but didin't
New subscriber here!
Your voice is so soothing, making these crime stories less morbid to listen too.
After watching your video on Randy Stair I was looking for a way to suggest the case of Trey Sessler to you. I'm so happy to see you've already covered it! Can't wait to hear your take! Love your videos. Keep up the EXCELLENT work!
"Hi, my name is Mike, and in this old video..."
LOL!! I looooove Mike! Let's give it a gooo....
Tisday!
@@MariaFernanda-nh3jp 😂😂
@@kims364 This kid is doing a good job, but in my opinion, he is trying to be the "UK's That Chapter" hehehe
@@UriVel Yes I understand where you were coming from 😉 He was obviously inspired by Mike and that's ok! I'm sure the more content he makes his personality will come through and he'll find his own footing. I love him though! He's doing a great job. 💜
Looking At his earliest footage he looked healthy. Then later he was under the bridge he was wasted and skinny
Booze will do that to you.
nutrient deficion clearly... goes hand in hand with drug abuse.. imagine your brain eating/burning itself basically due to malnutrition.
People who eat well dont use drugs and people who use drugs dont eat well.
zengerz Thisssssss 🔥. I love coming across intelligent comments 😍
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Thank you very much miss, same here :)
I learned some things here and there and connected some dots to get a decent insight in this crazy electric world where knowledge is power ;)
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And it's crazy to see how thin the line here becomes when you look at the bad western dieet and quality of food and the kids/people who have 'add/adhd' or other problems and the drugs/medicine they take to keep their brains going....
crazier to know most of those 'doctos' take an oath of a famous man who was about food.... too many blind fks!
I will watch videos about subjects I already know about just because you give more detail and more discussion about the topic. You’re the best my guy, the best.
After a couple of videos I've decided to subscribe to your channel I find it creepy, interesting and entertaining
Keep up your awesome work
I am so glad I found your channel. You present cases with so much respect towards the victims. Thank you for that.
Thank you Jo, honestly it feels like the least I could do. They were real people, they deserve a good legacy. I'm glad to hear that you enjoy the channel!
He did his best to give them signs, its a shame the psychologist didn't pick up on anything. This is a sad story all around
Thank you for your informative videos. Great job!
I was reminded of this case watching the Trash Taste Podcast, where Grant (Gigguk) was discussing his semi-friendship with the guy. It’s honestly shocking that some of us, many of us, have encountered these kinds of people, and really makes one think if we could prevent or at least see the warning signs
Your videos are so well made. Was genuinely shocked when I saw your sub count. Hope you rise up the ranks soon!
Thank you Kafka! Time will tell, for now I just thoroughly enjoy creating these cases!
Hi chie
Excellent work- love the fact that your videos are so informative in such a short amount of time. I wouldn’t be mad if they were longer 😀
You have a very chill way of talking. Subbed. You should have more subscribers imo.
True but the background music in this video is not fitting for it. This is not hate, just constructive criticism.
You opinion matters
Just came across your channel. Brilliant! Subbed 👌
Thank you Adrian for another fascinating story, I am a super fan of your podcast and Im addicted to watching, the stories are so tragic and horrifying, yet it’s so important the stories are heard💛💛💛
This man was THE anime youtuber back then, such a sad fate for his family.
"So.... when do you first remember RUclips becoming a thing"....that moment you feel instantly old.....I remember when the internet became a thing haha
Just found your channel bro and been binging your stuff all day long tbh :p your presentation is on point and you clearly make the difference between facts and speculation. Keep it up bro
Man I just phone this channel yesterday and have watched a bunch of cases already, you deserve way more subs
New subscriber here. Recently found you through the yandere video. Im a fan of true crime content but i just follow a few accounts in that category that i really like and now you are one of them 😋
Thank you! And welcome to Coffeehouse Crime, Morning Coffee Subs! Haha
This channel is going to explode 🙌🏽 love your videos and how much work you put in to telling us the whole case. Keep um coming’ 😎
Thanks Sofia! I appreciate ya!
Hi Coffeehouse Crime im from Malaysia and I'm watching your videos while doing my assignment. Thank you for making great contents!
I love that you're sooo polite speaking!
I’ve watched a couple videos on this case already, but I really appreciate your portrayal of it and for adding different video clips. It makes this “old” case feel new and generates interest.
Though it is a speculation; I wonder if he may have sustained any type of head injury in his life, serious or not. The reason being is because, from watching Bailey Sarian's series, she made a comment that while looking up some of the killers and accomplices, the killers had a shocking ratio of having sustained a head injury at some point in their lives. Like she said and like I agree, I DUNNO IF THAT IS A THING THAT EFFECTS THINGS, but... maybe? It seems like it could.
There’s a comment further up from someone who knew him that says he did in fact hit his head in a car crash and suffered headaches from therein.
Head injuries definitely change you. I've had 4 concussions and I get angry alot easier than I used to. But its also about self control and knowing how to deal with those feelings as well. Some people are trying to say its not his fault, but that argument would apply to me if I did something similar, so I can't take the blame away from him. Its easy to just say that caused it, and it might seem a bit easier for someone who doesn't understand that struggle to say thats what made them that way. (Not saying thats what you are doing). But everyone is responsible for their own actions, and taking that responsibility away from them isn't how we teach other people with similar problems to deal with them. Sorry if I came off condescending in anyway, just wanted to share my own experience with having similar issues and to show that there is completely another way for people in a similar situation. Its alot of hard work but its possible!
Might also tell us something about the area of the brain that was concussed. EG: The frontal lobe being that more of methodical, strategic thought... If that was damaged it could skew decision making. Then theres the Amygdala which is like that primal "fight, kill" detection system in the back of the brain, basically 'monkey thoughts'.
But that's definitely something that seems common. Im'a keep an eye out for that now.
Movie," concussion". True story. A good number of American football players have issues like this that continually get worse. And then we see their brain scans. Interesting movie.
Also, a man who shot people from the tower, after telling family members about how his thoughts have been continually turning violent (I think this was the 60s?) They could see him changing over time. He kept saying something wasn't right with himself. Then he did a mass shooting. In his autopsy they found the brain tumor. Famous case.
That is very interesting, and worth looking into, Somnaire.
Just found you, subscribed and am binging. These are all well done. I don't sub to many channels like this even though I like true crime shows, but you're the best I've seen so far. You have a pleasant voice and I like the way you tell it, it does feel like a friend telling me about it over coffee , and I like how it seems that so far you're not covering the super well known cases like Bundy or gacy, because people who would love this type of thing would already know about those guys. It's hard to believe you're a fairly new channel. Keep up the good work! There was a murder here in my small town that was interesting (and sad, I had met the victim because she was in nursing school and good friends with one of our friends) maybe I'll see that case on here someday. I think it made national news because he was a cop and his cop buddies clearly saw what they wanted to see until they couldn't be blind any more. But I digress sry lol. You're doing great and I look forward to more! 💜
I remember seeing another True Crime video that delved into the fairly recent history of Mr. Anime, who he is as a person, his actions on RUclips, and his murders. Sadly, that one basically treated him like a monster who deserved the death penalty (and a comment by a former friend of Trey, saying that he should burn in hell for murdering his family). This video is much better, going into the mental issues he had and making him seem more like a person. No, I'm not excusing what he did and he does somewhat deserve his punishment; but at the same time, I feel bad for him. He went down a dark spiral and by the time he was able to pull himself out, it was already too late.
I personally haven't heard of the majority of the cases you've covered and that's awesome! So tired of see the same story told by different channels.
Every time I watch one of your videos I want to be on edge but I find myself so relaxed by your voice. At one point in the last video I just wanted to go to sleep after I watched the video about the yandere, you're doing amazing!
It’s really sad seeing how he felt he had no choice after he regretted killing his mom and then he went to the school and stopped because of the guilt. Like I can’t really sympathize with his actions but I do feel some amount of sympathy for him when he regretted it
I really love how you make your videos. I’ve been watching true crime for several years. But your videos are well-paced and to the point, without being too graphic. And you always highlight the victim’s and who they were. Well done.
So glad I found your channel.
Thank you for interesting content. I dread when it comes to an end yet look forward to a new video.
Great work!
Love your content brother!
I wouldn't fully say his family died for nothing. As much of a tragedy it was. Their deaths prevented a massacre that could've happened at that high school. Only a loving family could've put that amount of weight on him to bring him back from the dark place he was in. Respect to them.
I feel That Chapter has spawned some of the best crime RUclips channels. I’m subbed , love the format and the productions value. Thank you for the hard work on making. These videos top quality.
Imagine being one of his early viewers that got to see all of this happen while they were a fan of his channel..
I’m catching up on your videos since I subscribed……I really enjoy your introduction! I’m usually having a glass of wine instead of coffee in the evening. Your voice and invitation are very welcoming….thank you so much!
His parents didn’t die for nothing. They saved the high school from being shot up. Who know what could of happened if he just aimed at the school instead of his family. It’s a sad story but I would like to think his family saved the kids.
I'm glad to have come across your channel. I've been binge watching your videos. Thank you for the new content, can't wait till the next one.
Much Peace & Love ☮💟
Same!! I'm loving his content! It won't take long for this channel to blow up!
Thanks Sam! I appreciate that :) See you in the next one!
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See you then 👩🦰☕
@@kims364 I agree ☺
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels! Just found you yesterday.
Thank you Anne!