I used to work in a jail where there were always a few mentally ill inmates. They would write hundreds of pages of stuff like that which meant absolutely nothing
I was gonna say… if this man is illiterate and mentally ill, why is the possibility that this never made sense to completely overlooked? As someone from MO I’m more sad that the cycles of generational poverty in St Louis are criminalized and set people up for violence like this. How could someone not struggle with mental health in a system like that…
there was a drug dealer in amerika who acted homeless and crazy all the time but in reality he made millions with drugs. so it could be that he just acted crazy and stupid and he can read. but maybe he was just a crazy paranoid man. who knows
Yeah but also, I’m sure they asked his mother and everyone close to him if they had ever seen him write gibberish. He was 41, he’d have done that for quite a long time and someone would have known that Ricky rights gibberish that only means something to him
Daz and Gaynor, corn fields are not always tall. Before the corn seed is planted, the field is rather barren. I would imagine that this was either before the corn was planted or after it was harvested.
I think people are picturing cornfields in horror movies, he wasn’t very deep in the cornfield at all, even it was “the center” it could be a tiny cornfield which you wouldn’t really be going far at all from the road. During the day I wouldn’t worry about being killed that’s just paranoia
Love the Mr Ballen reactions thanks for all the great videos. This video is sad because the FBI basically gave up on the guy and only really cared about the paper with the unsolved riddle and I feel that if they would have looked more into Ricky’s life there could possible have been more info there to solve this case or even the riddle itself they dropped the ball on this one.
Nothing OP said was unreasonable. The authorities have a long history of failing to follow-up on crimes against people who belong to certain communities.
@@b-six-twelvemaybe because in whatever “communities” your talking about they commit so much violence and murder that they can’t keep up with the workload .
@@mypud4068 It’s almost like you don’t understand how systemic injustice, generational trauma and poverty work. Resources are going to be allocated toward those the world hasn’t written off. The world writes off the poor all the time. Jesus was preaching about it 2000 years ago, and many were doing so eons before him.
The road was right next to the corn field, so the body would be pretty easy to see. And like y’all pointed out, the body would stand out against the yellow corn/corn stalks
@@binxbolling I posted i was incorrect (due to it being July 2nd….). We have a saying in the midwest “Knee High By the 4th of July” (as a saying for healthy Corn Crops) …..had this been before or after Harvest , corn field would just look like an empty dirt field.
@@binxbolling corn fields look like dirt fields until June/July….”knee high by the 4th of July” I assumed this to be an empty lot corn until the video said “july 2nd”. Most of the year you can see the horizon past a “corn field” because the corn hasn’t grown yet. Because it was “july 2nd” i imagine the corn would have been Knee-high. I Live in Indiana….We have A LOT of Corn Fields
I'm amazed that the FBI still had that evidence and were able to locate it after 22 years. I can't keep track of where I put my car keys ten minutes ago.
Sounded like it may have been winter. The Cornfield may not of had Tall Crops. (nevermind…they said it was July. Corn is “Knee High by The 4th of July”)
ive looked at the notes before, and there are groups of letters that repeat. often at the end of each line. i dont know if its actually a secret message but it seems like it meant something to whoever wrote it at least
You we're talkin about decomposition, places over here in the US have fields and buildings and cars where they put people who donated the body to science to see how they decompose, that way if they have if someone has been found they know exactly how long they have been dead
Interesting, that badly decomposed after 3 days? Read this: “If insects can be excluded, a body will decompose quite slowly, because maggots are the most voracious flesh feeders. Although an exposed human body in optimum conditions can be reduced to bone in 10 days, a body that is buried 1.2 m under the ground retains most of its tissue for a year.” There are five stages of decomposition, they are: fresh (aka autolysis), bloat, active decay, advanced decay, and dry/skeletonized. Based on the description it seems like it is most likely stage 4 decomposition. After 3 days? This is weird.
My theory is the "riddle" is just a bunch of gibberish he wrote because whatever mental issues he had. They can't solve it because there is no rhyme or reason to it.
@@Jimbow-sz9kh you are obviously slow. How can a man come up with a riddle, that can't read or write anything outside of his name. The simply explanation is you're not smart enough to clearly understand what illiterate really means and how it's not possible for Ricky to mastermind a coded messages of any sorts.
At leat he lucky enough to have an aunt that supported him!!! My own mom or bro wont aupport me and im 38!!!!!! Not like support suport but as far as encourgant or familial obligarions go….. nope!!! Id help my bro hide a body!!!! Would he do that? Nope!!! Hes gonna call the cops fast as fuck
I think the same thing that the papers meant absolutely nothing. If you were mentally ill and couldn’t read or write, it could be just some gibberish that he wrote on the paper and it doesn’t mean anything.
mrBallen and his hand movements is just over the top, til this day i've never seen anything like it, and just stretching out stories as he can. Deadbug Says is better.
given the information, i'd say he's just paranoid and wrote a bunch of gibberish. it probably made a ton of sense to him, or he thought he was making a real code, but it's really just nothing. homeless, drug use, paranoia, bipolar.... if you have that lifestyle and get involved with drug dealers, what else do you expect. how many ppl get killed when they're involved in gangs or drug deals? too many.
If anything he was writing down stuff that he understands, that’s not uncommon at all for illiterate people. My only thing is you’d think that they asked his mother and friends had they seen him carrying around or writing down gibberish before, boom case solved as far as the note
Cmon Dak. Thank goodness for people who stick their necks out to help. To say she can't mind her business is ludicrous. Dude,as extrovert as you come across,you need 20 acres in Utah with barbed wire.
So if you’re driving past a known area for murderers to dump bodies and you see something in a corn field, you’re stopping and going to investigate on your own? Would it not be safer to make a call to authorities and let them know what you’ve seen?
How did they "help"? The guy was dead... she risked her own well-being because she was nosy and ended up having to call the police. Like she should have done to begin with... common sense
I mean to me if it was during the day your going to be fine looking at something that’s in a cornfield but it was also close to the road, who knows how long of a stretch of road that is and how many bodies were actually dumped. It’s definitely not so dangerous that if you step out of your car in broad daylight to look at something out of place there’s just murderers waiting to snatch you up. I live in Philadelphia and have been to Kensington many times and as long as your not an idiot and go deep into backstreets and stuff you aren’t going to be shot during the day especially
Yall gettin into dark shit now!!!! Love it! By the gayna…. I LOVE UR HAIR AS BLACK!!!! Way better than blonde. Better look out bro…. Ima hope the pond and steal ir wife from you. Lmao. Jk
@@hrussell9677 I DONT watch. But creators should know peoples opinions so they know what vids to do and what's boring for the audience. And wrong sorry Im 40 i havent played video games in 15 years. Mr Ballen is just a waste of time and boring. Its the equivalent of watching paint dry
@@user-wr9ej6xe4jfacts. It's like the videos of any compilation but the uploader adds in their annoying ass voice to "explain" shit that needs no explanation lol. Guy above you is a boob for getting so triggered at your dislike of boring content
If somebody tied this guy's hands behind his back and ripped off that stupid backwards ball cap, I MIGHT be able to watch him for more than two seconds.
I used to work in a jail where there were always a few mentally ill inmates. They would write hundreds of pages of stuff like that which meant absolutely nothing
I was gonna say… if this man is illiterate and mentally ill, why is the possibility that this never made sense to completely overlooked? As someone from MO I’m more sad that the cycles of generational poverty in St Louis are criminalized and set people up for violence like this. How could someone not struggle with mental health in a system like that…
there was a drug dealer in amerika who acted homeless and crazy all the time but in reality he made millions with drugs. so it could be that he just acted crazy and stupid and he can read. but maybe he was just a crazy paranoid man. who knows
@bsixtwelve9799 great question. Mainly bc no politicians care
Yeah but also, I’m sure they asked his mother and everyone close to him if they had ever seen him write gibberish. He was 41, he’d have done that for quite a long time and someone would have known that Ricky rights gibberish that only means something to him
Until they manage to coordinate a complex escape plan and disappear into thin air… I bet those “nothing” letters mean something then
Daz and Gaynor, corn fields are not always tall. Before the corn seed is planted, the field is rather barren. I would imagine that this was either before the corn was planted or after it was harvested.
Per the story: July.
He said it was June 1st so the Corn would be really young.
im soooo happy you guys are watching Mrballen videos..please continue to do it.
Watching you react to these longer stories help me get through work, cheers
Corn is planted in rows, so if you approach a field at the right angle, it would be easy to see something out of place between the rows.
You are assuming the corn stalks are still up. This field could have been harvested already.
Who tf gets out of a car, walks into a corn field to investigate a strange appearing shape?
You don't wander through known murder dumping grounds? Maybe she was just an idiot stealing corn.
@@Laura-mi3nv Stealing corn when you can pay 3 dollars for a 4 pl at target. Who she feeding, a family of Amish kids?
@@LukaDonesnitch #sarcasm
@@Laura-mi3nv #also #Sarcasm
I think people are picturing cornfields in horror movies, he wasn’t very deep in the cornfield at all, even it was “the center” it could be a tiny cornfield which you wouldn’t really be going far at all from the road. During the day I wouldn’t worry about being killed that’s just paranoia
Love the Mr Ballen reactions thanks for all the great videos. This video is sad because the FBI basically gave up on the guy and only really cared about the paper with the unsolved riddle and I feel that if they would have looked more into Ricky’s life there could possible have been more info there to solve this case or even the riddle itself they dropped the ball on this one.
Bless your heart.
Sounds like you're too close to the trees to see the forest.
Nothing OP said was unreasonable. The authorities have a long history of failing to follow-up on crimes against people who belong to certain communities.
@@b-six-twelvemaybe because in whatever “communities” your talking about they commit so much violence and murder that they can’t keep up with the workload .
@@mypud4068 It’s almost like you don’t understand how systemic injustice, generational trauma and poverty work. Resources are going to be allocated toward those the world hasn’t written off. The world writes off the poor all the time. Jesus was preaching about it 2000 years ago, and many were doing so eons before him.
The road was right next to the corn field, so the body would be pretty easy to see. And like y’all pointed out, the body would stand out against the yellow corn/corn stalks
I think it was winter and so there would not be growing-corn
Video said middle of the corn field.
@@binxbolling I posted i was incorrect (due to it being July 2nd….).
We have a saying in the midwest “Knee High By the 4th of July” (as a saying for healthy Corn Crops) …..had this been before or after Harvest , corn field would just look like an empty dirt field.
@@binxbolling corn fields look like dirt fields until June/July….”knee high by the 4th of July”
I assumed this to be an empty lot corn until the video said “july 2nd”.
Most of the year you can see the horizon past a “corn field” because the corn hasn’t grown yet.
Because it was “july 2nd” i imagine the corn would have been Knee-high.
I Live in Indiana….We have A LOT of Corn Fields
Been watching Mr.Ballen for awhile now, love his stories, keep them coming.
We're not a-holes here. We care about more than just ourselves. 🤯
Initially I thought Ricky was just having a panic attack thinking about his big performance that night.. opening night jitters...lol
I'm amazed that the FBI still had that evidence and were able to locate it after 22 years. I can't keep track of where I put my car keys ten minutes ago.
That's funny
Took you a minute OBDaz...hills
😂
Daz had it right, Mr Ballen’s real name is John B Allen, but his RUclips channel is pronounced “Ball-in”
You guys still haven’t reacted to Mr Ballen’s “this island holds a dark secret” episode. I promise it’ll blow you’re mind
I'm going with aliens. The drug dealer was probably Roger from American Dad in a wig.
It's Missouri a lot of people carry firearms with them.
Sounded like it may have been winter. The Cornfield may not of had Tall Crops. (nevermind…they said it was July. Corn is “Knee High by The 4th of July”)
ive looked at the notes before, and there are groups of letters that repeat. often at the end of each line. i dont know if its actually a secret message but it seems like it meant something to whoever wrote it at least
You we're talkin about decomposition, places over here in the US have fields and buildings and cars where they put people who donated the body to science to see how they decompose, that way if they have if someone has been found they know exactly how long they have been dead
It’s Ballen, not B. Allen.
Interesting, that badly decomposed after 3 days? Read this: “If insects can be excluded, a body will decompose quite slowly, because maggots are the most voracious flesh feeders. Although an exposed human body in optimum conditions can be reduced to bone in 10 days, a body that is buried 1.2 m under the ground retains most of its tissue for a year.”
There are five stages of decomposition, they are: fresh (aka autolysis), bloat, active decay, advanced decay, and dry/skeletonized. Based on the description it seems like it is most likely stage 4 decomposition. After 3 days? This is weird.
Have you ever been to a state that has high humidity levels in the summer? Jesus Christ go touch grass
@@Jimbow-sz9kh Yea I live in Florida.. still 3 days is not enough it takes way longer. You’re slow.
At 15 minutes with the vid paused ima go ahead and say it was the police chief!! Hence why it turned into a cold case so fast
Human body starts decomposing after 2 days. By day 3 if it is under water, it will float if it is not tied down.
Ive heard this story before. It hasnt been said what killed him. There is your answer.
My theory is the "riddle" is just a bunch of gibberish he wrote because whatever mental issues he had. They can't solve it because there is no rhyme or reason to it.
Did you miss the part where they said, Ricky was illiterate?
@@kikibigbangfan3540yes so he wrote made up bs . You do realize that doesnt mean u can actually read and write
@@kikibigbangfan3540 Nope. Which is exactly why it would be gibberish. Genius.
@@kikibigbangfan3540I know life can be boring.. but.. usually. It's the simplest explanation, sorry sport
@@Jimbow-sz9kh you are obviously slow. How can a man come up with a riddle, that can't read or write anything outside of his name. The simply explanation is you're not smart enough to clearly understand what illiterate really means and how it's not possible for Ricky to mastermind a coded messages of any sorts.
I bet if you tied that man's hands behind his back, he wouldn't be able to say a word.
Let AI go crazy with it.
I wish Mr. Ballen wouldn’t take forever to explain things.. otherwise I would watch more of him
At leat he lucky enough to have an aunt that supported him!!! My own mom or bro wont aupport me and im 38!!!!!! Not like support suport but as far as encourgant or familial obligarions go….. nope!!! Id help my bro hide a body!!!! Would he do that? Nope!!! Hes gonna call the cops fast as fuck
I think the same thing that the papers meant absolutely nothing. If you were mentally ill and couldn’t read or write, it could be just some gibberish that he wrote on the paper and it doesn’t mean anything.
Corn was probably recently planted
Sucks to be him! Or it could be good. Depends onhow u feel
I want to believe it was a super secret spy message... But come on yall. This is clearly the writings of a schizophrenic person having an episode lol
Now we’re putting out conspiracy theories? Lmao go touch grass.
@@MrYabber ass blasted
mrBallen and his hand movements is just over the top, til this day i've never seen anything like it, and just stretching out stories as he can. Deadbug Says is better.
given the information, i'd say he's just paranoid and wrote a bunch of gibberish. it probably made a ton of sense to him, or he thought he was making a real code, but it's really just nothing. homeless, drug use, paranoia, bipolar.... if you have that lifestyle and get involved with drug dealers, what else do you expect. how many ppl get killed when they're involved in gangs or drug deals? too many.
If anything he was writing down stuff that he understands, that’s not uncommon at all for illiterate people. My only thing is you’d think that they asked his mother and friends had they seen him carrying around or writing down gibberish before, boom case solved as far as the note
Cmon Dak. Thank goodness for people who stick their necks out to help. To say she can't mind her business is ludicrous. Dude,as extrovert as you come across,you need 20 acres in Utah with barbed wire.
So if you’re driving past a known area for murderers to dump bodies and you see something in a corn field, you’re stopping and going to investigate on your own? Would it not be safer to make a call to authorities and let them know what you’ve seen?
How did they "help"? The guy was dead... she risked her own well-being because she was nosy and ended up having to call the police. Like she should have done to begin with... common sense
I mean to me if it was during the day your going to be fine looking at something that’s in a cornfield but it was also close to the road, who knows how long of a stretch of road that is and how many bodies were actually dumped. It’s definitely not so dangerous that if you step out of your car in broad daylight to look at something out of place there’s just murderers waiting to snatch you up. I live in Philadelphia and have been to Kensington many times and as long as your not an idiot and go deep into backstreets and stuff you aren’t going to be shot during the day especially
I don't think anyone can assume Ricky had mental health issues because it appears he had a good reason to be paranoid.
That boy is windier than a sack a farts!
Who are you referring to?
Yall gettin into dark shit now!!!! Love it! By the gayna…. I LOVE UR HAIR AS BLACK!!!! Way better than blonde. Better look out bro…. Ima hope the pond and steal ir wife from you. Lmao. Jk
At like 5:20 u asked a question. Id refere u back to it than twxt me if u think ur rifhtor wrong
Sorry i HATE Mr Ballen. Hes just story telling for 20 mins. It's just boring AF. I'd rather see the interrogations of the actual accused killers
Then don’t watch. Sounds like you can’t focus for more than a minute. Probably addicted to video games.
@@hrussell9677 I DONT watch. But creators should know peoples opinions so they know what vids to do and what's boring for the audience. And wrong sorry Im 40 i havent played video games in 15 years. Mr Ballen is just a waste of time and boring. Its the equivalent of watching paint dry
@@user-wr9ej6xe4jfacts. It's like the videos of any compilation but the uploader adds in their annoying ass voice to "explain" shit that needs no explanation lol. Guy above you is a boob for getting so triggered at your dislike of boring content
The Fat Electrician is a way better story teller. At least he covers military history
I don't hate him, but I agree. Dude makes shit up to fill in the story. It's the little things that piss me off.
This story is next level BS !
I need about 17 adderalls a midget and somebody from sri lanka stat. I got this.
If somebody tied this guy's hands behind his back and ripped off that stupid backwards ball cap, I MIGHT be able to watch him for more than two seconds.