Hey everyone! Just as a follow up, Doug and Venus' family have since reconciled. Them being unhelpful with the search, they hadn't come to accept that their son had done wrong, it can be hard to believe someone you love has done something horrible. Later, both families came to terms with what happened, and their relationship is good now, on positive terms. The actions they've shown in the videos here aren't representative of where they are today. Just to let you know!
So crazy how you posted this a day ago. I was going to say, I'd like to see his parents response after they acted like that. The denial of a child's actions, is what's wrong with so many children today. No consequences for their actions and no punishments.
I was hoping that you'd also say that the prison officials immediately confiscated the XBOX as soon as he showed where her body was. Instead of "Coffee is for closers" it should be "XBOX'S aren't for murderers!"
The parents tearing down the missing posters and mocking the victims' parents tells you all you need to know about what a piece of crap they raised for a son.
Exactly, I don't agree that it's immature for a grown man to play games ( a lot are 18+ anyway) but when they come before your family then that IS immature. Even when I was a step dad to my ex's kids I'd play for less than an hour and turn it off and not even play that every day. TEN hours is crazy for a single young lad let alone a so called family man.
@@ShadowWizard123 I mean true, it looks really stupid from our point of view. Understand however, that this is their child I don't think anyone would willingly believe their child is capable of what he did. I am sure he lied to their faces and swore he was innocent and of course they are going to want to believe their child. Now that the truth is out I wonder how they feel, I wonder if they even talk to their son anymore, I feel bad for them.
If that would have been my child, my sister who's poster she was ripping off I would have beaten the shitt out of her fk the consecuenses.. I swear this should be a crime
it breaks my heart hearing how sad venus' mother sounds. she clearly has no maliciousness in her, I can't understand how you'd be that cruel to someone grieving looking for their child.
Ricky just as guilty. And it's understandable the in laws. I'm sure if Doug didn't lie to em and say he's innocent they'd have been more upset and truly sad for Venus. They're still shitty human beings tho. Ricky , Doug and the in-laws are all terrible human beings regardless.
Or was it for show in court to receive a slap on the wrist? He wasn't that sad when he stayed in his apartment pretending to be the other guy. You was in on the plot. Any one with any heart would be like oh ok then🏃🏃🏃🏃right to the police. Smh why even get caught up. They both deserve life.
My friend Tom is blind and every morning he comes to my house. We sit outside and wait for a new upload! We love listen to you Mike. Thanks so much for your content and entertainment! 💜💜💜
I'm helping him through the services for the blind to get cataracts surgery. He's homeless atm but trying to get his life back...He loves saying Let's give it a Goo! 🙏
@@steviej-IRL he could probably get help from the government I get some people don't like doing that and want to be independent. But I know they'd probably help him.
Why can’t you just say ‘me & my friend love your videos’ like do you really have to mention he’s blind hoping you’ll get likes & attention from the creator?
@AbJams youll have to excuse the parents for not being huge fans of this girl after they saw her take their grandkids away in the middle if the night….
Watched a re-aired episode of this case on Dateline, what stands out to me how vehemently he denied everything in the interview with Dennis Murphy, I almost thought he was innocent , to finally lead them to the body years later. This goes to show, a person can appear totally sincere and genuine and still lie without batting an eye.
That’s the biggest “I don’t get it” with all these people, they kill to keep their kids, the house or the money and they end up losing absolutely everything.
I agree with you both - What they are worried about is losing control over what they no longer deserve to have control over… In this guy’s case he was also going to lose the chance to molest his daughter.
@@AABB-bm9kk thanks for mentioning it again. A lot of people are overlooking the fact he was also molesting his daughter in between Xbox sessions. That’s part of why he wanted custody, and was still filing for access after Venus initially went “missing”. He inadvertently made sure he never saw his children again.
@@ItsOnlyMeAgain hire xbox engineering expert. Have them wire up xbox to work but only just long enough to get the information out of him. Cover up any evidence of tampering with xbox. Added bonus of him thinking he won the having it snatched away from him. I know it wouldn't be much but still somewhat satisfying?
Or the Microsoft gift cards for the actual XBOX live service & internet WIFI access!! You know the stuff I used to buy my son for Xmas when HE WAS A KID!!
How broken Venus’s mum sounds: ‘We don’t want to fight with you.’ Mocking the victims family like that is just vile. Tearing down the victim’s poster is just cruel and delusional. Can they still say that their son is innocent when they see the footage of him showing the police where he buried her? He waited 8 years to reveal where her body was, torturing the family from behind bars. He is not sorry. If he had any true remorse he would’ve given them closure immediately.
Yeah, they need complete and total humiliation, and public shunning, for the rest of their pathetic existence… Tearing down ‘Missing’ posters of the woman their son murdered. That’s Evil.
Wow just read your last comment Mike and I was just going to say how much I despised his family. Thank God they finally saw the truth and stopped wounding that poor woman’s family further.
25:15 He doesn't regret committing the crime; he regrets getting caught. He wanted a bang maid who earned a living for him while he sat at home and played Xbox for 12 hours a day, ignoring his kids. She took that from by leaving and he resented it. His crime was totally about jealousy. You can tell by the narcissism and entitlement in his parents' behavior that he believed the world owed him a free ride.
"I was afraid I'd never see them again" Idk if he was truly abusing them, but I hope the kids never visit him. They deserve better than trading their mother's remains for a fucking Xbox.
My father was very abusive towards my mother, he would beat her every day and treated my sister really bad, but towards me he was really nice bought me whatever i wanted and always treated me very well. Unfortunately when I turned 18 i could not forgive him for what he has done to my mom i kept having horrible dreams for most of my childhood seeing him beat my mom and her bloody face, even now at 43 i still have these dreams from time to time. At 18 i completely stopped talking to him and haven't talked to him in 25 years. He lives in Toronto, Canada and i live in Chicago, US, the crazy thing is my sister forgave him and they talk daily but I simply can't get the abuse out of my head I remember my mom running around the house with her face covered in blood because he would use hammers, pots, pans and metal baseball bats to hit her and he would keep hitting her until she was covered in blood and passed out. I will never forgive him, even though he was very nice to me I still hate him for it. I was always a mama's boy, even now at 43 i am still mama's boy and would give my life in a second for my mother.
@@AviationNut I'm sorry you went through this. Nobody deserves to live with any kind of abuse around, or have their loved ones taken this way. You have every right not to forgive him if it brings you any peace.
Mike! You brought up, and categorically described, the 3 local lakes in the surrounding areas, just so you could end up saying "... the t'ird in colon" ! We SEE what you did there! Naughty you. Never change.
plans out his whole alibi and then leaves tarp packaging at the scene with his fingerprint and leaves the receipt in his truck and uses his credit card to buy a burner phone lol
@ it's usually those details that people screw up, focusing on other aspects when it's this sort of thing that is just throw-the-book-at-them-damning. Thank goodness most people who intend to commit these sorts of crimes don't have the higher processes to complete "the perfect crime," however, it doesn't help that the crime is still committed and lives are ended and destroyed
Wow, I'd like to see his parent's faces when he led the police to her body..... innocent they said?! If he was abusing his children he probably wanted them back so he could continue to abuse them!
Not excusing murder, BUT both sides of the story are important, and research shows most claims of abuse made in family courts are false. In all likelihood, he actually didn't abuse his kids. And something that could drive someone to killing, imo, would be a false abuse accusation at the hands of the woman who took your kids away in the middle of the night without your permission, and won custody after said abuse claim...
I like Mike because he never promotes things, he never talks about his private life, thinking about it, haha he does not even show what’s behind him except a black wall, but I like that he literally just jumps into the crime story. Hats off to Mike.
I literally saw red when his parents started tearing down the posters! Venus’ mother has a lot of patience and restraint because I would’ve broken someone jaw if that was my family they were disrespecting in such a way.
Some parents are blind to the faults of their children they will fight to the death to protect them, just as Venus parents must have refused to believe she was dead. The really sad thing about the parents is by continuing to look for their daughter they must have thought maybe he was innocent.
@@barefootcontessa3112 I believe they were searching for her body after seeing what Doug had purchased the day of her disappearance & his prints left on a wrapper by her drive.
I'm glad that Ricky did not get a whole lot of time in jail the poor kid was completely manipulated and you can see when he was on the stand how absolutely distraught he was about that happening.
He still should have said something, he could have saved her life. That said, let this be a warning to teens on Xbox Live: if you meet a grown man with kids who wants to be your "friend" don't talk to them. You don't need to be their friend. It's like how you never help a grown man move a piece of furniture or find a kitten if you're a kid. Adults don't need your help, they're up to something.
Agreed. At first, I was a lil skeeved. But you watch him testify. It’s the voice of a scared, clueless, inexperienced kid. The perfect patsy. And I bet he goes thru some pretty dark shit as he gets older & this all sinks in.
I knew from the beginning there was abuse somewhere, you don’t leave your partner in the middle of the night without there being a reason to protect yourself or your kids. How disgusting, now these children have no mother and they never had a father…
@@66hoodwitch I’m happy you made it out to tell your story, and be there with your child. I’m deeply sorry for what you had to endure, but wish you, and your daughter complete happiness and fulfillment!
Bingo. And it disgusts me that he is even given a moment of air time on the news saying "I just loved my kids, I just couldn't handle not seeing my children again...." No. He was sad that he lost access to his vulnerable, defenseless victim and his powerhouse of an ex wife would literally die trying to keep them safe from the child molester she realized she had married. People don't often lie in diaries that they meant to keep private. This situation hits me really deeply, his regret has nothing to do with loving his children the way a father loves. His victims were suddenly taken from him, so he made everyone in his wake a victim. Except for his disgusting parents. They can literally rot in hell with him, a reunion of sorts.
Would these posters really have helped them find Venus? Or were they a reminder to the community that Doug killed Venus? In such a small town, this had to be hard on Doug's family, and likely made them "demons' by association (blood) in the area. I think they just wanted their lives back to normal. I am not saying they were right in removing the posters, or how they spoke to Venus's family.
@@dmreddragon6 I get the feeling but I don't see how being rude and uncaring towards the victim's family would undo the "demons" association. Taking responsibility and apologizing would go a long way in "humanizing" the family. It would at least show the community that they are different from Doug.
Mike's videos are so professional. With his personality..I think he should be on mainstream television. Some have what it takes...and Mike definitely has what it takes.
I try not to judge families too much for refusing to believe their relatives could be murderers. That's really hard to accept. Unconditional support is what family should provide people. That said, this guy is rotting in jail where he belongs.
I would be petty as heck -- you'd find me outside his parents' home every single day, at the door, ringing and asking "What'chu think now?" You got 8 years to make up for.
"there wasn't more than one second passed from the time i committed the crime that i did not regret it" it took him 8 fckn years and an xbox to give her family her remains, and thus a chance at getting closure. he only regrets getting caught.
I am extremely disturbed by his parents behavior!! I understand that they wanted to believe their son was innocent, but ripping down the missing person posters was COMPLETELY unnecessary and heartless!! Her family deserved closure! They didn't want to create any issues, they just wanted to bury their loved one.
Those parents sound like Chris Watts parents... Their son pleads guilty and shows where the bodies are... but still saying he's innocent and blaming poor Shanan. And what about the kids who don't have their mother anymore, for the rest of their lives?
Read Mike’s pinned comment/update. His parents have acknowledged that their son viciously murdered his wife and that they had been in deep denial (and swayed by their son’s constant lies and claims of innocence). They’re now on good terms with Venus’ parents and family. They’re not like Chris Watts’ parents.
I really kind of think Venus parents were low key trolling and being petty, Something tells me they were just posting those flyers only in Doug's parents immediate neighborhood.
"This was single-handedly the worst thing i'll ever do in my life. There wasn't a single moment since I committed the crime that I did not regret it. Except I did not want to own up to it until I got an Xbox out of it. You know how it is..."
He was shaking his head the entire time when he was talking. He's not the least bit sorry and shows no remorse. Also, I am fairly certain that he did sexually molest his daughters. He murdered the mother to get her out of the way so he could continue to abuse his daughters.
I feel like we were cheated out of seeing the next interaction between the two families. Disgusting crime, and then gross behavior from the killer's family
I’ve never had a greater urge to punch anyone through a screen than when his family was tearing down the posters of Venus. The restraint her family showed is…amazing. If that was my loved on those posters I would have been arrested for what I would have done to them. Unbelievable.
That really agitated me watching that,not that two wrongs make a right but i wouldn't of been able to control my rage and would attack man women or beast in that scenario!
“I felt regret every day since the day I committed the crime” *Refuses to give his own in-laws closure by refusing to tell police where he hid the body for 8 years unless he got an Xbox* Yeah. Right.
“I felt regret every day since the day I realised I had exhausted all possible appeals of my life sentence and so then I started trying to think of ways I could get my hands on an Xbox..”
@@K-Riz314 I won an Atari 2600 in an art competition when I was a kid. I was so happy that day. And here you come to shit all over my childhood happiness!!
5:48 for some reason, i have always loved the term "sawing logs" or "sawing wood". idk why, but every time i have a little chuckle to myself any time i hear it.
I wouldn't judge by just snippets of footage. At least not with the dad, it's pretty often parents of murderers keep being in denial that their kid murdered someone, and do crazy shit out of sheer denial. They want to believe their child didn't do something heinous like murder
@@bitcoinfandom I agree...they should defend their son...but what they did had nothing what so ever to do with defending their kid. Putting up fliers to find their daughter has nothing to do with their son. What they were doing was out right cruel to the grieving parents. I wonder what they think now that their precious son has admitted to the murder?
love how they always keep their obvious body disposal receipts after the murder... i am surprised walmart doesn't offer a "bury body in the woods"-kit.
99.9% of the stories Mike covers are truly heartbreaking. But he always finds a way to make me chuckle. Love his style and timing. Let's give it a goo. 😊😘😊
I live just across the lake in Ontario, and the SECOND I heard Colon being mentioned I lost it. Props to you for managing to take this one so seriously and only include a small number of puns. 10/10 would love to see outtakes from this recording tho.
I'll never understand people like this; "I did it for my kids." Yea you killed their mother and now you're locked away for the rest of your life, so now they have to grow up without any parents. Great job genius
And if those mol--tion statements from the mother are true... what he really wanted was isolate his children and take her out of the picture. Not a lot of talk about this in the case, I'd like to know if this is accurate at all? If I heard right one of the kids confirmed it?
it’s like they watch one season of forensic files and think they can get away with murder but then make trivial mistakes that makes them look like idiots
It's crazy how the kid showed more emotion about a woman he didn't even know, throughout the trial than Doug did. Just tells you all about what kinda person he is! 😡
@@user-gj4ez6qj2z i'm just speculating but: adimitting you've been manipulated is embarassing, being part of a murder plot to kill a mother of 2 so her abuser can get custody isn't flattering eighter, knowing these kids don't have any parent now is awfull and standing in front of the court is scary in it self. This and the fact thes could have jailed him for conspiracy to commit murder if he misspelled is propably a lot of pressure as well.
It used to surprise me when I would watch documentaries on cults and how people would follow someone who is obviously a crazy nut job. But now I understand how there are a lot of gullible weak minded people out in the world who are just easy to be manipulated.
I live in the UK but I have family who live in Richmond Virginia which happens to be RIGHT NEXT TO Newport News. When you mentioned it my heart just dropped for a full second and a half.
I wonder if the killer's father is even alive. That man was so filled with rage and disappointment that his Marine kid embarrassed him. His red face and body type...a heart attack or stroke just waiting to occur. For a instant, he looked human when Venus's mom pleaded she didn't want to fight, but immediately he snapped back into his comfort zone of rage and denial. Now, the killer's MOTHER, she's subhuman. She was gleeful, blowing kisses at THE MOTHER OF A MURDERED DAUGHTER and being generally Karenish. They don't strike me as the apologetic type.
@@patricialessard8651 Yepp. Like, it's obvious they were in denial and not coping, I can imagine having a family member murder someone is hard to accept and process, but like. Go to therapy or something. Hire an investigator if u believe she's really alive. Don't be hostile to the family of the victim.
I doubt it. They didn't seem like the type of people that would ever admit their kid is a murdering douche bag, but what do I know it was a pretty short clip.
@@tessaducek5601 oh I'm sure, anything they can latch onto to preserve their point of view and not have to deal with having to totally reframe what they've been sure was the truth.
@@imtoxiq_ LOL. It's "good parenting" to see a preponderance of evidence that your son is a murderer & then deny it/ cause more heartache for his murder victim's family? That's a big "nope." Good parenting would be admitting that your son committed an evil act, telling him he needed to repent & pay the consequences, and that you still loved him, but you didn't love what he did. Their parenting style is called "enabling" & is a rancid pile of the bottom of the colon...township
@@sarahparis8691 yes 100% this. I haven’t gotten through the full video yet-was his mother the one who took down the missing persons flyers? If so, she’s not just a bad parent, she’s also a bad person. This is the kind of example she’s setting for her children? Nononono: she’s a bad parent and bad person. Edit: just watched the scene where they’re tearing down flyers-yeah, they’re bad people, bad role models, and therefore: bad parents.
@@WhisperedDelightsASMR it’s a bonus from The RUclipss. The auto-captions deal with accents in hilarious ways, but the best is when it translates Germans speaking German into the closest English-sounding words!
If it were me, I'd buy a billboard and put it next door to their house. Have it livestreamed 24 hours a day in case they wanted to vandalize it, so you could start charging them with misdemeanors. Get them in prison with their dirty offspring.
I feel like that should be illegal, at least a misdemeanour or something. That lady looks like a Karen and you can tell she's an arrogant POS from the get go.
The actions by Doug’s family make no sense at all. They tore down missing posters because they thought he was innocent, but she was still clearly missing! The missing posters literally had nothing to do with Doug!
Not defending them. Just saying that the posters they were tearing down talked about Doug murdering her. That’s what the father says. He said something to the effect of “ we left the ones up of her missing for months but you put muderous on these. “
If there was ever anything I have learned in my so far 62 years of living on this planet, Humans are some of the most barbaric creatures here, the mind is something else, the parents can not handle the truth and are in total denial, and denial is IMHO the lowest form of a psychopathy, sadly people all over the world deny things about many things each and every day, people hate it when the illusion their living in is being challenged or confronted.. people are animals, many will tell you that we live in a civilized society... Really??? now. if this is civilized I hate to see an uncivilized society.
@@falynoliver81 He did murder her. Tough shit. They should lick the feet of Venus's parents in shame that they spawned and raised a murderer, instead they were too bothered about their own reputation and defending their subhuman son.
Family before 2018: “Doug would never do this” What they probably said after he led police to her grave “Doug was just trying to protect his children from that witch, what a good boy”
Sadly, that happens a lot. Some people have this notion that you should always blindly defend your children. Even if that child murders someone. I say no way. I have two teenage kids and I will ALWAYS love them unconditionally, but that doesn’t mean I can’t call them out when it’s needed. Never holding children accountable is how the world ends up with people like Doug.
Dougs parents owe the family a MASSIVE apology! Also i wouldnt never let them see the children either for doing what they did, ripping down posters and that!
Read Mike’s pinned comment/update. His parents have acknowledged that their son viciously murdered his wife and that they had been in deep denial (and swayed by their sons _constant_ lies and claims of innocence). They regret their actions and are now on good terms with Venus’ parents and family.
When a parent loses custody, it means they have to start paying child support. That is what he was really "scared" of. That is when you see these parents lose their shit and start kidnapping and murdering.
We see this so often, it’s insane. And, it always ends with the poor children losing both parents. One permanently and the other one behind bars (and even worse than being dead). Awful
You see this a lot, it seems. It's kind of like their critical thinking just short circuits and they can't see another way. Reminds me of those who commit suicide, where they think there's "no way out" and they end up doing the most permanent thing of all. I wish I could sit down with all these people, tell them to breathe and think about the consequences first... because I do believe the vast majority of people are good people.
@@butHomeisNowhere___ well if you see this a lot, it means that something is wrong with the legislation. Giving the kids to the mom by default and let the guy pay child support in 90% of the cases seems unbalanced. In todays age there is no place for a law from the 50s when most women stayed at home and had no income, there is no reason to make just one of both pay child support, both are adults and have to have a job, especially if ur family supports you it should be no problem. So many deaths could be avoided by reforming the law regarding divorces.
Same logic as the one's who don't want to get divorced because of their religion and how they will be looked at by family, friends, their church, etc. So they murder their spouse instead because being a widow/widower will look better lol
So- he basically manipulated a kid that he met on Xbox with alcohol to be his alibi so he could kill his wife to ‘save’ his kids? My god there are just so many things wrong with that sentence I can’t even begin to dive into.
This channel taught me: Don’t get married, don’t date anyone, don’t have friends, don't get life insurance. Just stay in your house lock the doors and don’t talk to your family either.
And the biggest one, I've learnt is don't have a custody battle over the children. Also its worth noting how many ex-military guys are murderers too...
@@iona.1footinfront840 maybe you need to understand that ex military guys have no mental health services when they get back. No healthy ways to deal with their trauma. This guy was a fake marine. Defiently the kind of guy that said "I saw shit" never actually seeing anything being an ammo guy. Any veteran who comes back doesnt delve intonation stupid video game to relive their experiences. People hating veterans for stupid reasons your part of the problem be part of the answer.
@@TomboyGirlfriend you categorized 3 different career paths someone can take and suggested that the individuals that end up in this field are not trustworthy. Everyone has their own opinions but damn.
I hope you realize your mistake and learn the life lesson that is to be found here. Put yourself in the shoes of the parents, imagine what they've been through, the amount of social pressure they've been through, at every minute of their lives they're reminded of what happens, every conversation they strike up will involve what their child did by other parties, everywhere they look they see these pictures that remind them, over and over. There will be people that haras them because of people trying to take justice in their own hands, purposefully putting these posters around where the parents work/live/get groceries, everywhere, to name the slightest example. On top of that, getting fired from their jobs, friends and family turning on them, hate calls, etc, etc, etc. All for something they didn't do, that wasn't their fault. You would snap too and take down the posters, and then another piece of shit harrases you when you take down these posters, you would act up too. It's like a son being socialy prosecuted for the crimes of his father but in reverse. Their entire lives collapsed because of something out of their control, yet here you are, giving them more shit. This is an example of why I hate people, they're monkeys in suits, pretending they're not monkeys in suits, while they're throwing their shit at each other. Religion, starsigns, pseudoscience, fallacies, biases, jumping on the narrative hate/hype train without thinking for themselves, people not understanding that they're at mercy of the chaos that is our world, etc, etc, etc. I could name a hundred more examples, it fucking sucks to not be born as average, I suffer immensely from the general public short sightedness and their stupidity. They haven't the faintest clue how fragile the bubble is that they live in.
@@mymusicmen13 jesus christ dude "It fucking sucks to not be born as average" very classy. If they had acted differently and not been so against Venus in the first place, they wouldn't have gotten any hate. Ironically, you are defending the same type of people you despise: these "moneys in suits". Grow up, get off your high horse, and stop being a contrarian
I don't think they wouldn't have taken it down if the poster didn't mention about their son as murderer.. they didn't want to believe that their son did it..I understand their action.. it's very easy for us to sit on our couch and comment on someone when these videos as more or less like entertainment..I am almost sure they wouldn't have taken it down if they didn't believe their son was innocent
wow 1 real cheery out look . why don't you shut up and crawl back into your hole ? and leave the rest of the world to find solutions instead of wallowing in your bad attitude of festering and hopelessness
Doug’s parents are delusional. Hope they felt dumb when they learned their son really did kill her. He should have be given an Xbox with no extra batteries for the remote and only the Peppa pig game after he showed the remains.
@@ShadaeMastersAstrology Sadly..yes. Last time I was...incarcerated, we had premium cable and once a week a new released DVD was played on repeat for the entire "day" in the common room. SOME of them had playstation/xboxes (no wifi back then) and had limited access to computers (like you might do at the public library)
I must say, you tell these horrid stories with dignity to the victims. I feel like, also I’ve learned a few things on how to stay safer too. Thanks for the uploads Mike! We love you!
I have such conflicting feelings on Ricky , on one hand he totally went along with this guy's plan, but the real true anguish he shows on the stand is something you don't see from these killers, the people who kill their own family and spouses usually just look bored. I feel like he was manipulated, young and probably felt like the older Doug knew how the world worked and probably just didn't have the strength to question him. One one hand, I'm so angry at him for helping, but on the other... I hope he gets the therapy he needs...
You could help ppl .. But helping them to kill Some one is just insane no matter how KIND you are.. Also What if he is putting up a show cus he got caught? U never know with these psychopaths
i love how `protecting the kids and getting them back` in stories like this always result in the children actually never being thought of. if they did think of the kids one parent wouldn't be killing the other, resulting in them growing up having neither parent. such selfishness and now the poor girls dont have parents at all
And he claims to have confessed because he was worried he'd never see his kids. Not because it was the right thing to do, not to give her family some peace, not even to make a pitiful attempt to salvage his reputation. Everything is all about him. Turds abound in this video.
OK. When I saw the uni-bomber sketch and choked on my lemonade laughing so hard...I decided it was time to become a Patreon patron. Now I feel less like a stalker and more like a supporter. Keep up the great work, Mike!!! (You help me get through my work from home work day.)🥰
It is kinda comforting, isn't it? His narration and asides help us through the tragedy of these stories, we relate to gallows humor. Especially if we have had similar personal experiences. I love Mike's take on things....the take everyone should have except some don't have that "switch".
Shows the uni-bomber and I freakin' lost it. On the serious side, Doug is a sleaze bag of epic proportion. So are his parents. I feel so sorry for the children and family.
@@kellanaldous7092 was it necessary to be mean? not every country has quality cameras back then. i mean its 2021 and my country news channel looks like its been taken in the 90s.
I think his dad knew what his son did. He looked so sad when Venus' family was trying to talk with him. He knows, but he just doesn't want to believe it.
@@dodiroe8920 I thought it seemed more like arrogance than sadness tbh, especially the callousness of the mother, she was gleefull at ripping down those posters.
Why the hell would the parents tear down the missing posters? If they thought she was alive, wouldn't they want her found faster? They probably already suspected/knew their son killed her, and just didn't wan to be reminded of it around town.
It seems the newer posters mentioned Doug being a murderer, and that was the impetus for his parents to tear them down. I think the reason nobody got too steamed there was because the parents all probably had gotten on well.
Wow when Venus's mum said 'we don't wanna fight with you. We will not fight with you' that made me cry so much. She's already in the worst possible situation and then people are mocking the posters about her murdered child and being so cruel and still she remained calm and kind. That's so impressive.
THANK YOU.💚 I was looking for a comment like this because I cried so much as well, but I couldn't immediately figure out why. My first thought was, "Damn, she should slap somebody," but to hear this woman say "Please, please...we don't want to fight with you" was so heartbreakingly desperate. Truly, her patience is remarkable.
Read Mike’s pinned comment/update. His parents have acknowledged that their son viciously murdered his wife and that they had been in deep denial (and swayed by their sons _constant_ lies and claims of innocence). They regret their actions and are now on good terms with Venus’ parents and family.
I think it’s very sad that Dougs family wouldn’t leave the posters up.. I understand they would be hurting for their son, but at least they knew where he was.
Hey everyone! Just as a follow up, Doug and Venus' family have since reconciled. Them being unhelpful with the search, they hadn't come to accept that their son had done wrong, it can be hard to believe someone you love has done something horrible. Later, both families came to terms with what happened, and their relationship is good now, on positive terms. The actions they've shown in the videos here aren't representative of where they are today. Just to let you know!
So crazy how you posted this a day ago. I was going to say, I'd like to see his parents response after they acted like that. The denial of a child's actions, is what's wrong with so many children today. No consequences for their actions and no punishments.
I was hoping that you'd also say that the prison officials immediately confiscated the XBOX as soon as he showed where her body was. Instead of "Coffee is for closers" it should be "XBOX'S aren't for murderers!"
Welp….
Looks like I gotta delete the comment I just posted. 🤣
Sturgeon is a fish. And cause it's a lake maybe they have sturgeon fish in it..
A reconciliation is fine, but their horrible behavior will be seen forever. Shameful.
The parents tearing down the missing posters and mocking the victims' parents tells you all you need to know about what a piece of crap they raised for a son.
like the Watt's family.
Exactly! Dishonest, dirty people.
@@gjh9299 I do believe these freaks are worse
Exactly, right on point!🎯🎯🎯🎯
Agreed. Trash raising trash.
I hope they gave him literally just the X-box. No cables, controllers, or games.
Perfect idea 🤣🤣😁😁
or a broken xbox - maybe deliberately unscrew the case and break something inside, and put it back together.
I hope it was just a shell, no guts in it.
Oooo, or a glitchy one that goes on the fritz right as you start winning a game.
That's would make for some sweet justice!
Doug's parents seem nice don't they?
I can see why he turned out so well.
I wonder if they realise now what a c u next Tuesday he was ?
@@jamesaftvbrother5285 yo why ar you tryin ta make plans with her rn when she's taking about something this Sirius that's messed up bro
@@Thesavagemeister77 c u next Tuesday read it take first letter of each word
@@Thesavagemeister77 bad word worst word to use in English vocabulary and yes his family realised he was a c**t
@@jamesaftvbrother5285 oooo hahahaa I gota remmber that one lullz.
X box for ten hours a day? He didn't even know his kids, much less love them.
This is a great point. All about control.
Exactly!
Really? So men that work 10-12 hours a day don't love or know there kids?
Exactly, I don't agree that it's immature for a grown man to play games ( a lot are 18+ anyway) but when they come before your family then that IS immature. Even when I was a step dad to my ex's kids I'd play for less than an hour and turn it off and not even play that every day. TEN hours is crazy for a single young lad let alone a so called family man.
@@pookieknowsit You don't think taking thier kids to another state in the middle of the night and fighting for full custody isn't about control?
"It was worth it so my kids will have a future", now they have no mother or father. What a great future...
Yup! Not to mention how traumatizing it must be for them to jus see ppl online tlkin bout how their dad killed their mom w jus a click
A future full of trauma related issues. Nice job, "dad"
And the trauma of it all, growing up knowing that their father murdered their mother, such a terrible thing to do to your kids.
Hopefully, their grandparents will be able to help them.
Hopefully they will also never see the paternal grandparents either! Tearing down the posters of their mom. Their loving Mom!
Ppl who rip down missing ppl'a notices send me into a different kind of rage
Yes they are pigs!
I wanted to see them after they found out the truth that he did it.
"Woopsie daisy"
Me too! They were willing to keep someone from finding their daughter just so that they didn't have to admit that they raised a damn murderer.
@@ShadowWizard123 I mean true, it looks really stupid from our point of view. Understand however, that this is their child I don't think anyone would willingly believe their child is capable of what he did. I am sure he lied to their faces and swore he was innocent and of course they are going to want to believe their child. Now that the truth is out I wonder how they feel, I wonder if they even talk to their son anymore, I feel bad for them.
If that would have been my child, my sister who's poster she was ripping off I would have beaten the shitt out of her fk the consecuenses.. I swear this should be a crime
it breaks my heart hearing how sad venus' mother sounds. she clearly has no maliciousness in her, I can't understand how you'd be that cruel to someone grieving looking for their child.
Ricky showed more grief about a stranger's death than her own in-laws
Crocodile tears
Yeah he could save her, we see others life as expendable for reactions and stuff so much lives could be saved if more solidarity is shown
Ricky just as guilty. And it's understandable the in laws. I'm sure if Doug didn't lie to em and say he's innocent they'd have been more upset and truly sad for Venus. They're still shitty human beings tho. Ricky , Doug and the in-laws are all terrible human beings regardless.
Or was it for show in court to receive a slap on the wrist? He wasn't that sad when he stayed in his apartment pretending to be the other guy. You was in on the plot. Any one with any heart would be like oh ok then🏃🏃🏃🏃right to the police. Smh why even get caught up. They both deserve life.
@ramiro 100%!
My friend Tom is blind and every morning he comes to my house. We sit outside and wait for a new upload! We love listen to you Mike. Thanks so much for your content and entertainment! 💜💜💜
I'm helping him through the services for the blind to get cataracts surgery. He's homeless atm but trying to get his life back...He loves saying Let's give it a Goo! 🙏
@@steviej-IRL hopefully, everything will work out for your friend and thank you for helping him🙏
@@steviej-IRL he could probably get help from the government I get some people don't like doing that and want to be independent. But I know they'd probably help him.
@@steviej-IRL I wish more people in this world would do things like u are doing for him a gooo!
Why can’t you just say ‘me & my friend love your videos’ like do you really have to mention he’s blind hoping you’ll get likes & attention from the creator?
If his parents really believe their son is innocent, why would they tear the signs down? Wouldn't finding her help prove his innocence?
EXACTLY... came looking for this comment!
Those people are garbage.
So many like this. Best to not produce humans ugh
@AbJams youll have to excuse the parents for not being huge fans of this girl after they saw her take their grandkids away in the middle if the night….
The parents are brainwashed!
Watched a re-aired episode of this case on Dateline, what stands out to me how vehemently he denied everything in the interview with Dennis Murphy, I almost thought he was innocent , to finally lead them to the body years later. This goes to show, a person can appear totally sincere and genuine and still lie without batting an eye.
“…worried I Was never gonna see my kids again…”…
Doug, you seein your kids a lot now ?
He was on his Xbox all day when he lived with them.
That’s the biggest “I don’t get it” with all these people, they kill to keep their kids, the house or the money and they end up losing absolutely everything.
I agree with you both -
What they are worried about is losing control over what they
no longer deserve to have control over…
In this guy’s case he was also going to lose the chance to molest his daughter.
@@AABB-bm9kk thanks for mentioning it again. A lot of people are overlooking the fact he was also molesting his daughter in between Xbox sessions. That’s part of why he wanted custody, and was still filing for access after Venus initially went “missing”. He inadvertently made sure he never saw his children again.
@@Tracymmo and instructing them to touch his member 🤮
An addict and a sicko
Anyone else laugh at the mustache man sketch, only to have an officer look exactly like it next scene?
Just you bro
Just you
🤭lol
I tought Mike was gonna mention it.
Yup. Said out loud, "there he is".
@@punkybrewstar83 Me too. lol
🤣🤣🤣🤞
He regretted it so badly and felt so much remorse it only took him 8 years and an Xbox so her family could finally lay her to rest
What a Gem.
Yup. He’s regretting now he has all that time to think about what he done. His only remorse is for himself being stuck in prison.
I guess he was an actual sociopath.
The deal was for the Xbox, I would have given it to him, broken and no games. It’s still an Xbox!
@@ItsOnlyMeAgain hire xbox engineering expert. Have them wire up xbox to work but only just long enough to get the information out of him. Cover up any evidence of tampering with xbox. Added bonus of him thinking he won the having it snatched away from him. I know it wouldn't be much but still somewhat satisfying?
That woman taking down posters should have been arrested for obstructing justice. What a bundle of evil.
Needs a humanitary lesson
"So here is your XBox"
"Where are the games and controller?"
"That wasn't the deal."
Oh yes!!!
Or the Microsoft gift cards for the actual XBOX live service & internet WIFI access!! You know the stuff I used to buy my son for Xmas when HE WAS A KID!!
Can’t wait to check in on him still playing the Xbox One in 2041 unless he’s got any other secrets to own up to 🥴
HAHAHAHAHA yes
they should have run it over before giving it to him. Nobody said it had to work.
How broken Venus’s mum sounds: ‘We don’t want to fight with you.’
Mocking the victims family like that is just vile. Tearing down the victim’s poster is just cruel and delusional. Can they still say that their son is innocent when they see the footage of him showing the police where he buried her?
He waited 8 years to reveal where her body was, torturing the family from behind bars. He is not sorry. If he had any true remorse he would’ve given them closure immediately.
Denial is a strong, strong emotion.
It benefited him on his appeals process. When he had exhausted all of his appeals he had an x-box to gain by telling.
Spare me@@slix96
Sooooo American.
Exactly and he would have give them the truth straight away if he truly felt remorse, however he wanted an Xbox in exchange 🤯 absolute animal
I'd like to see an interview with the proud parents now that their son has confessed and showed authorities where her body was buried.
That is a million dollar show premise my friend!
😃🤔👏
Absolutely. Rub it in their evil narcissistic faces. Disgusting inhumane creatures.
Me too.
Yeah, they need complete and total humiliation, and public shunning, for the rest of their pathetic existence… Tearing down ‘Missing’ posters of the woman their son murdered. That’s Evil.
Wow just read your last comment Mike and I was just going to say how much I despised his family. Thank God they finally saw the truth and stopped wounding that poor woman’s family further.
25:15 He doesn't regret committing the crime; he regrets getting caught. He wanted a bang maid who earned a living for him while he sat at home and played Xbox for 12 hours a day, ignoring his kids. She took that from by leaving and he resented it. His crime was totally about jealousy. You can tell by the narcissism and entitlement in his parents' behavior that he believed the world owed him a free ride.
I appreciate the IASIP reference!
Absolutely. I feel that way towards his parents as well, disgusting ppl all around.
@Richard Joubert Sounds like you are upset he got the girl.
My soon to be ex husband 🙄
@@zak4tt4ck you're just on here starting shit with everyone.
"Takes more time to move a big mac through your Colon Township" - That was sheer poetry.
I loved that line too!
Agreed 👍
Me too😂🤣👍🏻
"I was afraid I'd never see them again" Idk if he was truly abusing them, but I hope the kids never visit him. They deserve better than trading their mother's remains for a fucking Xbox.
Absolutely.
And they should be kept away from his family, especially those sicko parents of his.
My father was very abusive towards my mother, he would beat her every day and treated my sister really bad, but towards me he was really nice bought me whatever i wanted and always treated me very well. Unfortunately when I turned 18 i could not forgive him for what he has done to my mom i kept having horrible dreams for most of my childhood seeing him beat my mom and her bloody face, even now at 43 i still have these dreams from time to time. At 18 i completely stopped talking to him and haven't talked to him in 25 years. He lives in Toronto, Canada and i live in Chicago, US, the crazy thing is my sister forgave him and they talk daily but I simply can't get the abuse out of my head I remember my mom running around the house with her face covered in blood because he would use hammers, pots, pans and metal baseball bats to hit her and he would keep hitting her until she was covered in blood and passed out. I will never forgive him, even though he was very nice to me I still hate him for it. I was always a mama's boy, even now at 43 i am still mama's boy and would give my life in a second for my mother.
Preach
@@AviationNut I'm sorry you went through this. Nobody deserves to live with any kind of abuse around, or have their loved ones taken this way. You have every right not to forgive him if it brings you any peace.
Mike! You brought up, and categorically described, the 3 local lakes in the surrounding areas, just so you could end up saying "... the t'ird in colon" !
We SEE what you did there! Naughty you.
Never change.
plans out his whole alibi and then leaves tarp packaging at the scene with his fingerprint and leaves the receipt in his truck and uses his credit card to buy a burner phone lol
Thank God he is stupid!
@ The crime practically solved itself.
@ it's usually those details that people screw up, focusing on other aspects when it's this sort of thing that is just throw-the-book-at-them-damning. Thank goodness most people who intend to commit these sorts of crimes don't have the higher processes to complete "the perfect crime," however, it doesn't help that the crime is still committed and lives are ended and destroyed
Anyone called Doug is destined to have a single digit IQ.
@@Technicallyimright 'single digit doug' lol i like it
I would have loved to see the look on Doug’s parents faces when they found out Doug took the cops to Venus’s body 😳
Great work , Mike.
I would rub it in their face so hard. I would post videos of them taking down flyers and then cut to him singing to the cops.
They deserve much worse but life seems to be kind to those nasty types.
@@monicawatson2537 I pray the national exposure of the case and their audacity has brought them a ton of hell.
They would have been heartbroken..
@@dragoonTT ain't that the bitter truth
Wow, I'd like to see his parent's faces when he led the police to her body..... innocent they said?! If he was abusing his children he probably wanted them back so he could continue to abuse them!
Exactly! I was hoping that Mike would include Venus' parents approaching them after Doug 'fessed up - I'd really like to see their stupid faces now!
@@ElaAusDemTal They we’re probably dead by then.
Lol
They'd probably say the real killer told Doug where the body was or something. People like that never concede, only double down
Not excusing murder, BUT both sides of the story are important, and research shows most claims of abuse made in family courts are false. In all likelihood, he actually didn't abuse his kids. And something that could drive someone to killing, imo, would be a false abuse accusation at the hands of the woman who took your kids away in the middle of the night without your permission, and won custody after said abuse claim...
I'm not surprised he turned out to be such an awful person with parents like that
I like Mike because he never promotes things, he never talks about his private life, thinking about it, haha he does not even show what’s behind him except a black wall, but I like that he literally just jumps into the crime story. Hats off to Mike.
Exactly no frills and straight to the point exactly what I want for crime stories and I love his accent!
He used to promote Hunt A Killer. And I wish he kept getting the promotion. For that breaddddd
Absolutely. Spot on
You Tubers need to make a living. Do you work for free?
"Hunt a Killer" is one of his promotions.
Imagine being such a bad person that you take down missing person fliers…
I know, right!
Couldn't even imagine
Despicable people!!! Who does that? Their granddaughters will know that some day.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree...
So true the saying is!
I literally saw red when his parents started tearing down the posters! Venus’ mother has a lot of patience and restraint because I would’ve broken someone jaw if that was my family they were disrespecting in such a way.
Lack of community and a lack of pre-emptive ass-kickings is why society is crumbling.
Okay but can we just appreciate your name for a second. Gold.
girl, call me for backup!! They’d catch these hands, these feet! UGH.
Some parents are blind to the faults of their children they will fight to the death to protect them, just as Venus parents must have refused to believe she was dead. The really sad thing about the parents is by continuing to look for their daughter they must have thought maybe he was innocent.
@@barefootcontessa3112 I believe they were searching for her body after seeing what Doug had purchased the day of her disappearance & his prints left on a wrapper by her drive.
I'm glad that Ricky did not get a whole lot of time in jail the poor kid was completely manipulated and you can see when he was on the stand how absolutely distraught he was about that happening.
Yes. He was groomed and lovebombed by him. I felt so bad for him.
He still should have said something, he could have saved her life. That said, let this be a warning to teens on Xbox Live: if you meet a grown man with kids who wants to be your "friend" don't talk to them. You don't need to be their friend. It's like how you never help a grown man move a piece of furniture or find a kitten if you're a kid. Adults don't need your help, they're up to something.
@@smorgensterin4990it's hard when you're manipulated
Agreed. At first, I was a lil skeeved. But you watch him testify. It’s the voice of a scared, clueless, inexperienced kid. The perfect patsy. And I bet he goes thru some pretty dark shit as he gets older & this all sinks in.
I knew from the beginning there was abuse somewhere, you don’t leave your partner in the middle of the night without there being a reason to protect yourself or your kids. How disgusting, now these children have no mother and they never had a father…
Right? She tried to protect her and her kids by getting out of there and not confronting him first.
Exactly what I did...scary part is that when we were leaving (me and my daughter) we met him on a highway lmao...one of the scariest times of my life!
@@66hoodwitch I’m happy you made it out to tell your story, and be there with your child. I’m deeply sorry for what you had to endure, but wish you, and your daughter complete happiness and fulfillment!
Yeah I'm friends with the oldest daughter
Bingo. And it disgusts me that he is even given a moment of air time on the news saying "I just loved my kids, I just couldn't handle not seeing my children again...."
No. He was sad that he lost access to his vulnerable, defenseless victim and his powerhouse of an ex wife would literally die trying to keep them safe from the child molester she realized she had married. People don't often lie in diaries that they meant to keep private. This situation hits me really deeply, his regret has nothing to do with loving his children the way a father loves. His victims were suddenly taken from him, so he made everyone in his wake a victim. Except for his disgusting parents. They can literally rot in hell with him, a reunion of sorts.
“The nearly bald guy with a mustache asking for a cigarette is a person of interest….”
Pops up the sheriff
Nearly bald with a mustache!! 😂🤣
Yeah I had doubletake when that happened 🤣
I thought the exact same thing lol
Yep spittin image hilarious.
I noticed that too. I was like uhhhh.....???
I saw that as well. The sheriff was the image of the drawing. Lol
"He hopes you find her" she says as she takes down the thing that would help them find Venus
Shameful behavior by the parents!
Would these posters really have helped them find Venus? Or were they a reminder to the community that Doug killed Venus? In such a small town, this had to be hard on Doug's family, and likely made them "demons' by association (blood) in the area.
I think they just wanted their lives back to normal.
I am not saying they were right in removing the posters, or how they spoke to Venus's family.
@@dmreddragon6 maybe they should have persuaded him to reveal where he buried their daughter in law, the mother of their grandchildren
@@dmreddragon6
Is reputation more important than finding a missing or murder victim?
@@dmreddragon6 I get the feeling but I don't see how being rude and uncaring towards the victim's family would undo the "demons" association. Taking responsibility and apologizing would go a long way in "humanizing" the family. It would at least show the community that they are different from Doug.
Mike's videos are so professional. With his personality..I think he should be on mainstream television. Some have what it takes...and Mike definitely has what it takes.
The murderer's parents are so punchable in those videos. I have never wanted to teleport into a video to fight someone so badly before.
😂😂
I would pay crackhead after crackhead just to screw with them.
lol thought I was the only one who wished they could do that lol
I try not to judge families too much for refusing to believe their relatives could be murderers. That's really hard to accept. Unconditional support is what family should provide people. That said, this guy is rotting in jail where he belongs.
Right!!! Got me heated 🤬
I would be petty as heck -- you'd find me outside his parents' home every single day, at the door, ringing and asking "What'chu think now?" You got 8 years to make up for.
I’d cover their houses with those missing person posters. Lol
LOL! They're not worth anyone's time. The victim's loved ones got the answers they wanted. No need to deal with that garbage of people anymore.
I'm that bitch too lol
Well I'll take his place and start making up for him to you now...
@@livingwasteland2710 Huh ?
"there wasn't more than one second passed from the time i committed the crime that i did not regret it"
it took him 8 fckn years and an xbox to give her family her remains, and thus a chance at getting closure. he only regrets getting caught.
And it was the only way out. How about sorting your addiction out and taking care of your family.
Also when ricky testified in court he was asked what Doug said when ge asked was it worth it. Doug said absolutely....
You're supposed to keep these sober, Mike. But when you slipped in that sketch of the Unabomber I lost it.
I would love to see what Doug’s parents think now that he brought the police to her body. “He could never do that”…
Same! His mom was cocky af while tearing down the missing posters.
With a mom like that it's understandable he's a killer 🙄
Excellent point! I get loving your child no matter what, but, to Angrily take down Venus' missing posters.. that's low.
But now they, and everyone else, can watch them acting like that on you tube forever!
@@verucasaltbaum2358 can only imagine how much time he spent shit talking her to mommy before murdering her that’s probably part of it.
I am extremely disturbed by his parents behavior!! I understand that they wanted to believe their son was innocent, but ripping down the missing person posters was COMPLETELY unnecessary and heartless!! Her family deserved closure! They didn't want to create any issues, they just wanted to bury their loved one.
If I saw that happening I don’t know if I could control myself. I would just see red
Those parents sound like Chris Watts parents... Their son pleads guilty and shows where the bodies are... but still saying he's innocent and blaming poor Shanan. And what about the kids who don't have their mother anymore, for the rest of their lives?
Like the family of Tina Watson's killer. Going to her grave and taking flowers to hurt her family. Pure filth.
Read Mike’s pinned comment/update. His parents have acknowledged that their son viciously murdered his wife and that they had been in deep denial (and swayed by their son’s constant lies and claims of innocence). They’re now on good terms with Venus’ parents and family. They’re not like Chris Watts’ parents.
I really kind of think Venus parents were low key trolling and being petty, Something tells me they were just posting those flyers only in Doug's parents immediate neighborhood.
"This was single-handedly the worst thing i'll ever do in my life. There wasn't a single moment since I committed the crime that I did not regret it. Except I did not want to own up to it until I got an Xbox out of it. You know how it is..."
He most likely got it taken away from him immediately and it was put in his property to be held (likely stolen). They don't allow that shit in prison.
Give him an xbox but no games to play.
@@loributnotthatlori4786 😆😆
I hope the prison guards destroyed his XBOX in front of him and made him eat the remains! Oh but he "regrets" his actions, psss!
He was shaking his head the entire time when he was talking. He's not the least bit sorry and shows no remorse.
Also, I am fairly certain that he did sexually molest his daughters. He murdered the mother to get her out of the way so he could continue to abuse his daughters.
I feel like we were cheated out of seeing the next interaction between the two families. Disgusting crime, and then gross behavior from the killer's family
I’ve never had a greater urge to punch anyone through a screen than when his family was tearing down the posters of Venus. The restraint her family showed is…amazing.
If that was my loved on those posters I would have been arrested for what I would have done to them. Unbelievable.
👊🏾….. Me too! He’s a sorry son-of-a-🔫!
I'd have hurt someone.
That really agitated me watching that,not that two wrongs make a right but i wouldn't of been able to control my rage and would attack man women or beast in that scenario!
The mum even said 'we don't wanna fight with you'. Incredible restraint and kindness in the face of awful bullies.
Mike's channel is better than anything on Netflix. Happy Friday everyone! Lets give it a go!
Appreciate that!
@@ThatChapter youre coming up on your tree hundred and turdy turd video
you should do something special
@@ThatChapter I thought it’s give it a Goo?
It is GOO
Check out the new doc about the lady Elize who chopped up her husband and got less than 10 years!!
“Venus finally went home” man that hit me hard. RIP.
She went to Venus.
His hatred towards Venus was much stronger,than his love towards his kids. If he loved his children,he wouldn't kill their mother.
“I felt regret every day since the day I committed the crime”
*Refuses to give his own in-laws closure by refusing to tell police where he hid the body for 8 years unless he got an Xbox*
Yeah. Right.
More like "I felt regret every day since I was denied access to my Xbox."
“I felt regret every day since the day I realised I had exhausted all possible appeals of my life sentence and so then I started trying to think of ways I could get my hands on an Xbox..”
That would be an ultimate injustice for them to ever give that pile of excrement access to even an Atari 2600.
Here's hoping a fellow criminal breaks it
@@K-Riz314 I won an Atari 2600 in an art competition when I was a kid. I was so happy that day. And here you come to shit all over my childhood happiness!!
Also, I wish they interviewed his parents after he confessed to see how they felt about tearing down posters…
Yes!
For sure yes nasty people
That camerawoman’s voice as the father tears the poster down, what a kind soul.
She was the mother of Venus. Even more heartbreaking.
She was broken
People like him get beat tf up over here
She was annoying af. Still acting so nice while she should have been furious
@@MrRisingapple Don't tell people how to behave when someone in their family is murdered. You're disgusting.
5:48 for some reason, i have always loved the term "sawing logs" or "sawing wood". idk why, but every time i have a little chuckle to myself any time i hear it.
By how his parents act , you can see where he gets his issues from
I wouldn't judge by just snippets of footage. At least not with the dad, it's pretty often parents of murderers keep being in denial that their kid murdered someone, and do crazy shit out of sheer denial.
They want to believe their child didn't do something heinous like murder
@@FlyingElbow I agree...look at Chris Watts POS parents! Ghastly!
Nah man idk. I think it's much easier for the parents to defend their son than to admit to themselves that their son killed someone.
@@bitcoinfandom I agree...they should defend their son...but what they did had nothing what so ever to do with defending their kid. Putting up fliers to find their daughter has nothing to do with their son. What they were doing was out right cruel to the grieving parents. I wonder what they think now that their precious son has admitted to the murder?
@@LifesPeachy321 true that CW mother knows she's vile and continues to be knowingly 👹
love how they always keep their obvious body disposal receipts after the murder... i am surprised walmart doesn't offer a "bury body in the woods"-kit.
camping/home improvement aisle pretty much covers it all. Oh, and cleaning supplies. :x
LOL 😂
...Or also surprising that combinations of tarp/shovel/gloves/bleach etc doesn't get flagged up on screen with automatic police referral.
Best comment
Oh man, do you only have “body in the woods” kit? I need either “beach disposal” or “dumped at sea”.
🤣🤣🤣
99.9% of the stories Mike covers are truly heartbreaking. But he always finds a way to make me chuckle. Love his style and timing.
Let's give it a goo. 😊😘😊
Yeah. Love hearing say 3
His Irish sense of humour
I live just across the lake in Ontario, and the SECOND I heard Colon being mentioned I lost it. Props to you for managing to take this one so seriously and only include a small number of puns. 10/10 would love to see outtakes from this recording tho.
Just thinking about how many times a Walmart receipt has spelt out guilt.....
I was like oh yeah, he bought a murder kit.
So true!
Yep. Why do they always keep the Walmart receipt????
And they always leave it in their messy vehicle.
Whenever there’s a murder, the first place the cops check are Home Depot and Walmart.
I'll never understand people like this; "I did it for my kids." Yea you killed their mother and now you're locked away for the rest of your life, so now they have to grow up without any parents. Great job genius
Right. "I was afraid of never seeing my kids". Well now you never will.
Imagine what it could do mentally
And if those mol--tion statements from the mother are true... what he really wanted was isolate his children and take her out of the picture. Not a lot of talk about this in the case, I'd like to know if this is accurate at all? If I heard right one of the kids confirmed it?
Reminds me of what Mickey said to Rocky in Rocky 3. “What goes on inside your head, anything normal functions?”
it’s like they watch one season of forensic files and think they can get away with murder but then make trivial mistakes that makes them look like idiots
It's crazy how the kid showed more emotion about a woman he didn't even know, throughout the trial than Doug did. Just tells you all about what kinda person he is! 😡
Good point. And the kid was probably an easy target for manipulation and found himself in way over his head.
why was this kid crying though?
@@user-gj4ez6qj2z i'm just speculating but: adimitting you've been manipulated is embarassing, being part of a murder plot to kill a mother of 2 so her abuser can get custody isn't flattering eighter, knowing these kids don't have any parent now is awfull and standing in front of the court is scary in it self. This and the fact thes could have jailed him for conspiracy to commit murder if he misspelled is propably a lot of pressure as well.
@@user-gj4ez6qj2z ah guilt. Duh.
It used to surprise me when I would watch documentaries on cults and how people would follow someone who is obviously a crazy nut job. But now I understand how there are a lot of gullible weak minded people out in the world who are just easy to be manipulated.
I live in the UK but I have family who live in Richmond Virginia which happens to be RIGHT NEXT TO Newport News. When you mentioned it my heart just dropped for a full second and a half.
I wonder if his parents ever apologized for their behaviour.
Doubt it
High chances are, no.
I wonder if the killer's father is even alive. That man was so filled with rage and disappointment that his Marine kid embarrassed him. His red face and body type...a heart attack or stroke just waiting to occur. For a instant, he looked human when Venus's mom pleaded she didn't want to fight, but immediately he snapped back into his comfort zone of rage and denial.
Now, the killer's MOTHER, she's subhuman. She was gleeful, blowing kisses at THE MOTHER OF A MURDERED DAUGHTER and being generally Karenish. They don't strike me as the apologetic type.
You know those poor excuses for human beings didn't. They're trash just like their son.
I saw a comment saying that they were actually that the funeral and that the victims family had forgiven them.
I wonder if his family ever apologized for ripping down all the posters n stuff after he showed the police where the body was. Doubt it.
But now they can revisit themselves being total stupid arses on you tube forever!
I am willing to bet they are convinced the other kids did it still. And he told doug where the body was! They didn't seem real bright!
@@patricialessard8651 Yepp. Like, it's obvious they were in denial and not coping, I can imagine having a family member murder someone is hard to accept and process, but like. Go to therapy or something. Hire an investigator if u believe she's really alive. Don't be hostile to the family of the victim.
I doubt it. They didn't seem like the type of people that would ever admit their kid is a murdering douche bag, but what do I know it was a pretty short clip.
@@tessaducek5601 oh I'm sure, anything they can latch onto to preserve their point of view and not have to deal with having to totally reframe what they've been sure was the truth.
Well, it looks like Mr. Stewart inherited his stellar character from those parents of his.
The parents that wanted to protect their own flesh and blood? How can you possibly see what their doing as anything but the epitome of good parenting
@@imtoxiq_ LOL. It's "good parenting" to see a preponderance of evidence that your son is a murderer & then deny it/ cause more heartache for his murder victim's family? That's a big "nope." Good parenting would be admitting that your son committed an evil act, telling him he needed to repent & pay the consequences, and that you still loved him, but you didn't love what he did. Their parenting style is called "enabling" & is a rancid pile of the bottom of the colon...township
@@sarahparis8691 yes 100% this. I haven’t gotten through the full video yet-was his mother the one who took down the missing persons flyers? If so, she’s not just a bad parent, she’s also a bad person. This is the kind of example she’s setting for her children? Nononono: she’s a bad parent and bad person. Edit: just watched the scene where they’re tearing down flyers-yeah, they’re bad people, bad role models, and therefore: bad parents.
I wonder how they felt when he not only admitted it but swapped her body for an Xbox.... I mean wow......
our little boy has never done a bad thing in his entire life. sociopath.
Me and my wife can't wait for your uploads very very easy too listen too
2:00 “and a turd in Colon”
*THE STARS HAVE ALIGNED FOR THE GOOD BRETHREN OF THAT CHAPTER*
Thank you for noting that. 🥴 “The yak, soon to be ex-husband.” The closed captioning on this channel never cease to impress. 😂👌🏽
LMAO 🤣
@@WhisperedDelightsASMR it’s a bonus from The RUclipss. The auto-captions deal with accents in hilarious ways, but the best is when it translates Germans speaking German into the closest English-sounding words!
When the murderers parents tore down the posters, I’ve never wanted to hurt anyone as much.
And do it slowly too.
I hope they feel terrible now that the truth has come out...but I doubt it. What pieces of crap.
If it were me, I'd buy a billboard and put it next door to their house. Have it livestreamed 24 hours a day in case they wanted to vandalize it, so you could start charging them with misdemeanors. Get them in prison with their dirty offspring.
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 I like you lol
I feel like that should be illegal, at least a misdemeanour or something. That lady looks like a Karen and you can tell she's an arrogant POS from the get go.
The actions by Doug’s family make no sense at all. They tore down missing posters because they thought he was innocent, but she was still clearly missing! The missing posters literally had nothing to do with Doug!
They knew. They tore them down hoping it would go away! 😒
Not defending them. Just saying that the posters they were tearing down talked about Doug murdering her. That’s what the father says. He said something to the effect of “ we left the ones up of her missing for months but you put muderous on these. “
If there was ever anything I have learned in my so far 62 years of living on this planet, Humans are some of the most barbaric creatures here, the mind is something else, the parents can not handle the truth and are in total denial, and denial is IMHO the lowest form of a psychopathy, sadly people all over the world deny things about many things each and every day, people hate it when the illusion their living in is being challenged or confronted.. people are animals, many will tell you that we live in a civilized society... Really??? now. if this is civilized I hate to see an uncivilized society.
@@falynoliver81 He did murder her. Tough shit. They should lick the feet of Venus's parents in shame that they spawned and raised a murderer, instead they were too bothered about their own reputation and defending their subhuman son.
I just suppose assholery runs in their family.
"I think it takes more time for a big mac to move through our colon township." Okay, that one broke me. Good job!
Family before 2018: “Doug would never do this”
What they probably said after he led police to her grave “Doug was just trying to protect his children from that witch, what a good boy”
Sadly, that happens a lot. Some people have this notion that you should always blindly defend your children. Even if that child murders someone. I say no way. I have two teenage kids and I will ALWAYS love them unconditionally, but that doesn’t mean I can’t call them out when it’s needed. Never holding children accountable is how the world ends up with people like Doug.
Such a gud boi!
@@yellowmelancholy4875 Thank you for having children and sending them out in he world as decent human beings.
@chris kibodeaux Nope, parents shouldn't!
@chris kibodeaux so you'd defend a murder
“4 days…I think it takes more time for a Big Mac to move through the Colon township”
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Dougs parents owe the family a MASSIVE apology! Also i wouldnt never let them see the children either for doing what they did, ripping down posters and that!
I wouldn't be surprised if they were involved in some way or at least knew where she was buried
Read Mike’s pinned comment/update. His parents have acknowledged that their son viciously murdered his wife and that they had been in deep denial (and swayed by their sons _constant_ lies and claims of innocence). They regret their actions and are now on good terms with Venus’ parents and family.
Just came across your channel a month or so ago, I love you already.
I'm from MI, and the "Big Mac goin through ur Colon Township" got me.
I have to come rewatch the minute straight of jokes about Colon Township every so often 😂 "Let's keep this serious" Mike says with a gleam in his eye
That was particularly hilarious 🤣
So he was afraid to lose his kids, so he did something that would definitely make him lose his kids. And those parents were loyal to a fault.
When a parent loses custody, it means they have to start paying child support. That is what he was really "scared" of. That is when you see these parents lose their shit and start kidnapping and murdering.
We see this so often, it’s insane. And, it always ends with the poor children losing both parents. One permanently and the other one behind bars (and even worse than being dead). Awful
You see this a lot, it seems. It's kind of like their critical thinking just short circuits and they can't see another way. Reminds me of those who commit suicide, where they think there's "no way out" and they end up doing the most permanent thing of all. I wish I could sit down with all these people, tell them to breathe and think about the consequences first... because I do believe the vast majority of people are good people.
@@butHomeisNowhere___ well if you see this a lot, it means that something is wrong with the legislation. Giving the kids to the mom by default and let the guy pay child support in 90% of the cases seems unbalanced. In todays age there is no place for a law from the 50s when most women stayed at home and had no income, there is no reason to make just one of both pay child support, both are adults and have to have a job, especially if ur family supports you it should be no problem. So many deaths could be avoided by reforming the law regarding divorces.
Same logic as the one's who don't want to get divorced because of their religion and how they will be looked at by family, friends, their church, etc. So they murder their spouse instead because being a widow/widower will look better lol
So- he basically manipulated a kid that he met on Xbox with alcohol to be his alibi so he could kill his wife to ‘save’ his kids? My god there are just so many things wrong with that sentence I can’t even begin to dive into.
We can meet people on Xbox.. the game console I did not know
And in the end he got an Xbox. I hope they gave him the most shitty game
I hope he didn't get the Xbox in jail. I guess, people would steal or break it, if he did.
@@mlpencola they have xbox in prison
Idiocracy is rampant in America.
This channel taught me: Don’t get married, don’t date anyone, don’t have friends, don't get life insurance. Just stay in your house lock the doors and don’t talk to your family either.
And the biggest one, I've learnt is don't have a custody battle over the children. Also its worth noting how many ex-military guys are murderers too...
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@@iona.1footinfront840 maybe you need to understand that ex military guys have no mental health services when they get back. No healthy ways to deal with their trauma. This guy was a fake marine. Defiently the kind of guy that said "I saw shit" never actually seeing anything being an ammo guy. Any veteran who comes back doesnt delve intonation stupid video game to relive their experiences. People hating veterans for stupid reasons your part of the problem be part of the answer.
@@iona.1footinfront840 yup. That's why I never date cops or military. Or lawyers for that matter. I don't trust any of them
@@TomboyGirlfriend you categorized 3 different career paths someone can take and suggested that the individuals that end up in this field are not trustworthy. Everyone has their own opinions but damn.
😂😂😂😂I had a very bad Day today BUT you made me laugh so much that I forgot about that bad Day. Thank you very much
“I was afraid to lose my kids, so I decided to go to prison for the rest of my life.”
Gg Doug
Very disgusting of his parents to rip down those signs. His mother was especially cruel.
I hope you realize your mistake and learn the life lesson that is to be found here.
Put yourself in the shoes of the parents, imagine what they've been through, the amount of social pressure they've been through, at every minute of their lives they're reminded of what happens, every conversation they strike up will involve what their child did by other parties, everywhere they look they see these pictures that remind them, over and over. There will be people that haras them because of people trying to take justice in their own hands, purposefully putting these posters around where the parents work/live/get groceries, everywhere, to name the slightest example. On top of that, getting fired from their jobs, friends and family turning on them, hate calls, etc, etc, etc. All for something they didn't do, that wasn't their fault.
You would snap too and take down the posters, and then another piece of shit harrases you when you take down these posters, you would act up too. It's like a son being socialy prosecuted for the crimes of his father but in reverse.
Their entire lives collapsed because of something out of their control, yet here you are, giving them more shit.
This is an example of why I hate people, they're monkeys in suits, pretending they're not monkeys in suits, while they're throwing their shit at each other. Religion, starsigns, pseudoscience, fallacies, biases, jumping on the narrative hate/hype train without thinking for themselves, people not understanding that they're at mercy of the chaos that is our world, etc, etc, etc. I could name a hundred more examples, it fucking sucks to not be born as average, I suffer immensely from the general public short sightedness and their stupidity. They haven't the faintest clue how fragile the bubble is that they live in.
@@mymusicmen13 dude, t h e r a p y
@@mymusicmen13 jesus christ dude "It fucking sucks to not be born as average" very classy. If they had acted differently and not been so against Venus in the first place, they wouldn't have gotten any hate. Ironically, you are defending the same type of people you despise: these "moneys in suits". Grow up, get off your high horse, and stop being a contrarian
I don't think they wouldn't have taken it down if the poster didn't mention about their son as murderer.. they didn't want to believe that their son did it..I understand their action.. it's very easy for us to sit on our couch and comment on someone when these videos as more or less like entertainment..I am almost sure they wouldn't have taken it down if they didn't believe their son was innocent
@@mymusicmen13 you tried troll
The saddest part is that both of those little girls are old enough to understand and remember what happened.
wow 1 real cheery out look . why don't you shut up and crawl back into your hole ? and leave the rest of the world to find solutions instead of wallowing in your bad attitude of festering and hopelessness
@@bobsaturday4273 Huh?
@@bobsaturday4273 wrong target my guy, go find an actual edgelord
yeah that is sad i hope theyre doing okay
Fully agree . I was wondering if these children will ever vist their father in jail . Poor kids
Doug’s parents are delusional. Hope they felt dumb when they learned their son really did kill her.
He should have be given an Xbox with no extra batteries for the remote and only the Peppa pig game after he showed the remains.
"Alright, here's your Xbox as promised."
"Wait, where are the games?"
"Well you didn't ask for those, did ya?"
I really hope this has happened! XD
They can play Xbox in prison?
@@ShadaeMastersAstrology Depends on the country and the type of prison.
@@ShadaeMastersAstrology Sadly..yes. Last time I was...incarcerated, we had premium cable and once a week a new released DVD was played on repeat for the entire "day" in the common room. SOME of them had playstation/xboxes (no wifi back then) and had limited access to computers (like you might do at the public library)
@@ShadaeMastersAstrology Hell nah
I must say, you tell these horrid stories with dignity to the victims. I feel like, also I’ve learned a few things on how to stay safer too. Thanks for the uploads Mike! We love you!
I have such conflicting feelings on Ricky , on one hand he totally went along with this guy's plan, but the real true anguish he shows on the stand is something you don't see from these killers, the people who kill their own family and spouses usually just look bored. I feel like he was manipulated, young and probably felt like the older Doug knew how the world worked and probably just didn't have the strength to question him. One one hand, I'm so angry at him for helping, but on the other... I hope he gets the therapy he needs...
@@MrWatchmeskate1 you are correct, he was lonely and believed the lie that she was a bad mum
@@happyguy2k still doesn't matter hes the dumb ass that got her killed.........
@@b-bopeddie1290 well you cant really choose your iq
One word-“grooming”
You could help ppl .. But helping them to kill Some one is just insane no matter how KIND you are..
Also What if he is putting up a show cus he got caught? U never know with these psychopaths
Those parents owe a MAJOR apology to the victim’s family. Too obnoxious for words!
i love how `protecting the kids and getting them back` in stories like this always result in the children actually never being thought of. if they did think of the kids one parent wouldn't be killing the other, resulting in them growing up having neither parent. such selfishness and now the poor girls dont have parents at all
And he claims to have confessed because he was worried he'd never see his kids. Not because it was the right thing to do, not to give her family some peace, not even to make a pitiful attempt to salvage his reputation. Everything is all about him. Turds abound in this video.
“It takes a longer for a Big Mac to move through your town of colon..”
Underrated.
Takes time to digest that one
@@MarginalSC
Brilliant! 🤣🤣
I love Mike's sense of humor. He always manages to sneak in funny references in every video. Some are really quick and you have to catch them. 😉
@@ginamarshall7691 his one liners kill me.
His whole colon schtick had me giggling when I had a bad day
Weird listening to a man casually talk about where he dumped his deceased wife.
Yah, absolutely no emotion.
While they are standing right above her. "Yea so anyway, her decayed corpse is below us right here."
It was fucking weird how casual he was, it was like he was describing to somebody where he may have dropped his keys.
He was way casual about it.
Did they say they actually found the body? I missed that part in the video.
OK. When I saw the uni-bomber sketch and choked on my lemonade laughing so hard...I decided it was time to become a Patreon patron. Now I feel less like a stalker and more like a supporter. Keep up the great work, Mike!!! (You help me get through my work from home work day.)🥰
Always love hearing that "Hey you" at the start
Love you being here!
Me to lol just love it . I always say hey back lol
i love hearing "lets give it a go"
It is kinda comforting, isn't it? His narration and asides help us through the tragedy of these stories, we relate to gallows humor. Especially if we have had similar personal experiences. I love Mike's take on things....the take everyone should have except some don't have that "switch".
And, "Mike out!" at the end.
You know, I really hope Doug's parents never got custody of those poor granddaughters. They don't deserve to see those kids, not even for Christmas
Shitbags beget shitbags.
He didn’t want to save his kids or be with them, he just hated her so much that’s why he did it. 🙄
And he didn't regret it. He just got bored and wanted an Xbox.
Apparently he wanted to be with the one child a little TOO much from the accusation that was made.
Judging from the molestation claim i think it was a little more than hate
He could use Xbox to manipulate ppl from outside ... they should find a way to take it from him
“I think it takes more time than that for a big Mac to move to your Colon Township” LMAO
Shows the uni-bomber and I freakin' lost it. On the serious side, Doug is a sleaze bag of epic proportion. So are his parents. I feel so sorry for the children and family.
Why does news footage from only 10 years ago always look like it was recorded on a VCR in 1983?
I remember life being 16-bit from 2003-2008
I've seen photos from the 1990s that look like they were taken in the 70s.
Camera and playback quality improving yearly… duh?
@@austins.2495 We had HD cameras and TVs 10 years ago. And the news on TV looked sharp and clean. The clips don't look like that. Smart ass.
@@kellanaldous7092 was it necessary to be mean? not every country has quality cameras back then. i mean its 2021 and my country news channel looks like its been taken in the 90s.
I think his dad knew what his son did. He looked so sad when Venus' family was trying to talk with him. He knows, but he just doesn't want to believe it.
Mother too!! Had my ex killed me, his parents would have used their $ & pull to protect him.
I was thinking the same thing..No parents what to think their child can do something like this ,so sad
They are pathetic
@@dodiroe8920
I thought it seemed more like arrogance than sadness tbh,
especially the callousness of the mother, she was gleefull at ripping down those posters.
@@amp279 I agree. No sadness, shame or remorse.. Arrogance, yes
If his parents wanted to find her/ believed she was alive, they wouldn't be taking down the posters.
Why the hell would the parents tear down the missing posters? If they thought she was alive, wouldn't they want her found faster? They probably already suspected/knew their son killed her, and just didn't wan to be reminded of it around town.
Probably kept him and the house that night and fed him his favorite meal!
It seems the newer posters mentioned Doug being a murderer, and that was the impetus for his parents to tear them down. I think the reason nobody got too steamed there was because the parents all probably had gotten on well.
Wow when Venus's mum said 'we don't wanna fight with you. We will not fight with you' that made me cry so much. She's already in the worst possible situation and then people are mocking the posters about her murdered child and being so cruel and still she remained calm and kind. That's so impressive.
THANK YOU.💚 I was looking for a comment like this because I cried so much as well, but I couldn't immediately figure out why. My first thought was, "Damn, she should slap somebody," but to hear this woman say "Please, please...we don't want to fight with you" was so heartbreakingly desperate. Truly, her patience is remarkable.
Read Mike’s pinned comment/update. His parents have acknowledged that their son viciously murdered his wife and that they had been in deep denial (and swayed by their sons _constant_ lies and claims of innocence). They regret their actions and are now on good terms with Venus’ parents and family.
I live 5 minutes from Venus’s family. I met her Mom. That Doug is an evil monster
Do people at least call it "co-lawn"? So ya know it sounds less like butt stuff?
@@GrandDawggy no it’s pronounced just like Colon
I think it’s very sad that Dougs family wouldn’t leave the posters up.. I understand they would be hurting for their son, but at least they knew where he was.
But his mom seems so nice! (sarcasm)
TV: "The police are looking for this man"
*Shows witness sketch*
TV: *Cuts to a detective that matches it perfectly*
Detective: 👁👃👁
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They both have mustaches, that's it. Not that similar. Not that funny either
@@Thesavagemeister77 damn u are savage
@@sofronique9889 yea that's how I came up with the name...thanks homie
I noticed that too😊
I saw that, thought I was the only one... poor lady... 😞