The Real Lolita Who Survived 21 Months of Horrific Abuse!
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- The tragic story of Sally Horner inspired one of the most controversial books of all time-Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov.
A book that wouldn’t exist if Sally Horner didn’t survive 21 months of torture.
It wouldn’t exist if Ruth Janisch ignored the blatant abuse happening right next door.
And it wouldn’t exist if Sally decided that fitting in with the girls wasn’t worth stealing.
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That monster stole her childhood. I really never heard about poor Sally Horner. Great recap!
Totally agree 💯
Nabokov told the story by Humbert's view. We never hear what Dolores Haze is thinking until the end when she told him he ruined her life. She was never the seductive nymphet portrayed in book and movie, and neither was Sally.
Absolutely correct, unfortunately many readers missed this. Nabokov was a master of the unreliable narrator, and his protagonist is a notorious liar. But if one reads very carefully the real Dolores Haze shines through tiny gaps in the manipulative memoirs of the monster Humbert Humbert.
Pretty terrible how nobody seemed to realize the narrator was the villain-- that was Nabokov's intention. Long ago the movie came out and it was just thick with the lie that she was young-- but a major seductress all the same. Some things have improved in this society, recogition of this crime is one.
We were supposed to see that all through the novel. Humbert was the quintessential 'unreliable narrator ".
@amberspaulding I've never read a review nor talked to someone who didn't think Humbert was the villain. However, I've read plenty of reviews from people falsely accusing the author Nabokov of being a per vert. They lacked the wit to realize the unreliable narration.
@jennyclark6183I don't recall that either.
makes a person feel so upset. she got robbed of her innocence and then she died too young.
😢😢😢
I read the book, really sad.
Thanks for the recap.
I'm a bit shocked that he raped several young girls and only received five years in prison. I think he should have been in prison much longer for those original crimes. If he had been, this situation would never have happened.
True.
Unfortunately, short sentences for these types of crimes are still the norm. Many (male) judges think of these crimes as just sex and not particularly serious. I watched a true crime documentary recently about a man in Britain who raped his seven-year-old daughter repeatedly and was sentenced to six months in prison.
@@SummaGirl1347 Every time I watch something about people getting arrested for horrible crimes in the U.K, they NEVER get long jail time. Their system is a joke! I watched a woman who tortured and starved her preteen mentally challenged daughter, allowed her to sit and lay in her own excrement. The neighbors reported hearing the young girl crying out for her mother (as she was locked in her bedroom and wasn't allowed out anymore) and the mother told the neighbors it wasn't anything serious just "behavior issues". The sister of the mother tried and tried again to report her and get the police involved. Nothing came of it until the girl died.
The woman later said"I only abused my daughter, I did not murder her". somehow even after saying that she got 11 years. The highest rated comment on the video said something like "11 years is a slap in the face to all of the loving mothers and women that wished to be mothers". That's just ONE example . That story happened within the past 15 years maybe less .
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I agree! He was a disgusting monster disguised as a human being.
"Whatever she's done I can forgive her." WTF !
How about whatever she has been through, whatever she needs I am here for her! I am her mother and I love her Heart and Soul !
I had never heard about this case. It is tragic. Poor little girl.
This poor girl never caught a break. And it's absolutely crushing to know that human beings could treat a victim like that. She deserve better. Chris, the story was told so well and with a real passion for truth. Thanks. You are very much appreciated.
Vlad was a pedo
The nerve of that absolute monster to send flowers to her funeral. I hope she felt safe and free only just before her tragic and untimely death.
If it makes you feel better, her mother angrily threw them out when she saw them.
WoW, this stirs up memories. I'm 62..when I was in my 30's, I sobered up, and had some (mind) therapy/counseling..and all of a sudden, it had dawned on me that my mom was a survivor of incest..she was abandoned to her g'ma, at 1 yr old.. who's 2 uncles lived till the day they died...One day, I said to my mom.."Uncle Bob molested you, didn't he", To which her response was "(my name), I have NEVER told ANYONE that", which was a definite, YES, that happened. I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! She had ALL the telltale signs...That is so sad to me....
Here's a news flash: everybody lives until the day they die.
She was generous and kind to you that she didn't deliberately drag it into your life.
@@amberspaulding Nope...nice thought, tho. These were just situations not discussed. She was NEITHER generous, nor kind.
i was SA by a neighbor in the early 80’s & when i finally had the nerve to tell my mom, who i thought would kill me cuz she was physically abusive, she thought the best thing was to “sweep it under the rug, no one would ever know”. 😢 i was only 11, i felt like trash, no good, with a big secret no one could ever know. this poor girl 😢 i eventually was able to get therapy thank goodness.
you deserved so much better. you're a strong person to have gotten yourself help ❤
That poor child.
Man, what a terrible, sad, and tragic story. Sally never got a decent break in her short, troubled life. And that piece of trash had the effing gall to send flowers at her funeral!
RIP, Sally Horner. To paraphrase Don McLean, "This world was never meant for someone like you".
Be good be kind don't litter be genuine and take care of one another, TCR Fam.
The world was never meant for one as beautiful as you...
the perv probably thought they had a true love. vomit. pedos are like that.
What's TCR?
@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 TCR stands for True Crime Recaps, Elizabeth. I just use an abbreviation for the channel. It saves me from typing, "True Crime Recaps Family" all of the time.
Never heard of this story before so thank you Chris and Amy for bringing this poor victim’s Sally’s story. So sad that her young life was so tragic and that she never got a chance to live the life she deserved.
I really hate the mother because "whatever she did, I can forgive her." she was like 12. She was abused by a creepy 40-50 man who kidnapped her. No wonder she wanted to escape from her horrible mom. Sadly, she died young with a creepy man again in a car crash
That's the way it was back in the day.
Yes, the shame of being a victim of SA was huge and almost no one spoke about it so that the girls "reputation wasn't sullied" and she could still get a husband. As a result, predators got away with it.
We both know that it is religion!!! Religion perpetuates thus climate of misogyny
And it taking 6 weeks for her to get nervous?!
😊 11:42 11:42 😅😅😊😊
My God so many of these horrible people that keep on living and great people die. It's kinda backasswards so sad. This poor baby.
Thanks Chris love you and Amy. Be safe!💕💕💕💙💙
Thank you Ms C!🧡
She died feeling good, happy with her besr friend and a cute boy. Probably the best thing for her, she could never escape the past.❤️💔
I had never heard this story or seen the movie. How terrible for poor Sally! 😢
Thank you Chris and Amy for the recap! ❤
Oh, gosh. That poor child had the worst of lives through no fault of her own. How can a mother say she would forgive her child, she did nothing to be forgiven for!! I don't care what decade it was, she should have supported her daughter in all ways. RIP, young Sally, let's hope you are having a ball on the other side xx
Man….some people can be such a-holes in life. Frank and the individuals giving her hell before and after the kidnapping are the worst of the worst!
I pray that Sally has been able to r.i.p.! Shame on her mother and everyone that bullied her!
How sad. I’d heard her story before but had stuffed it down. What a sad, short life.
I seen this movie as a pre-teen girl when the internet was BRAND new...searched it up and it ruined my life too. I always knew it was more to this story. Thank you for this.💜💜
You are very welcome. It's our pleasure.
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It should be noted that the novel Lolita clearly shows he's an unreliable narrator, and is constantly framing everything he does as the actions of a monster. He'd say she's wise beyond her years or something, and the author would clearly describe her as a young child. It wasn't at all supportive of their relationship. It pained Humbert as an absolute monster.
The movies some weirdos made in Hollywood clearly tried to enforce humbert's narrative, but the novel didn't.
I wonder if Nabokov had any control once he'd sold it.
@@amberspaulding He wrote the first screenplay for Kubrick's version of the movie.
@Bargle5 And then they cast who they cast! Poor guy knew it would be bad, but not *that* bad. And of course the creeps who cast a "sexy" (still underage but way older than Dolores Haze) girl groomed and abused that poor kid.
But what was his deal with writing about this subject so much? This video says he wrote SEVERAL novels on this subject.
I had a vague understanding that Lolita was based on some true life events. Tragic that after surviving the kidnapping and abuse that she died young. Add with regard to what her mother said about forgiving her whatever she had done is obnoxious because she didn't do anything she was a victim of her kidnapper and the circumstance.
Exactly! I can't believe her own mother would say such a despicable thing. 😢
Most crime channels I follow do recently or the present, but it's nice to have a few who go back many decades👌 you guys are brilliant 👏
thanks!
Her mom was a piece of work.🙄
I have never heard this story. Thank you.
you're welcome!
Another well-told recap. I never heard of her either like most people commenting. So horrific!
I wonder if any of the mean girls felt guilty.
I doubt it. Bad people don’t change.
I hope they never slept again.
Poor Sally.
Once again amazing timing as after a long day of manual labor I'm kicking back in the pool looking for something to listen to while I relaxed thank you for this upload!
Awesome! Hope you enjoy...Kick back💛
It's so heartbreaking… especially that victim blaming 🤯 it's sick…
But at least, she was happy at the time of her death 💔
This is my time watching your video. I was captivated and intrigued by the way you narrated this sad and tragic story. Oftentimes I lose interest in many of the other true crime narratives, however, I was delighted by the way in which you presented Loltia' story. Thank you
SO SAD FOR HER, FRIENDS ARE NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY MAKE OUT TO BE.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😇😇😇😇
There was a poem, Sally horner, stood on her corner.....that's horrid. I had no idea. Poor child.
That was “Little Jack Horner”, not Sally.
Just as an addendum to Nabokov: Yes, CA & SA plays a role in Nabokov's novels and stories, but it's not only about girls, but also about boys (even in Lolita, character Gaston Grodin). Nabokov himself was molested as a child by a relative while his parents turned their heads in another direction. If anyone knew how utterly helpless and lost a child must feel when falling prey to a predator, it was Nabokov.
That's interesting! Is that why he wrote the book?
@VanessaLily Nabokov was asked in a BBC interview in 1962 why he wrote Lolita & he answered: "It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the pleasure, for the sake of the difficulty. I have no social purpose, no moral message; I've no general ideas to exploit, I just like composing riddles with elegant solutions.'
Nabokov was an artist, he did write to create art, not as therapy or to teach a lesson. So the answer to your question is no. But of course his life experience influenced his fiction indirectly , as it does with every artist.
He might think so, but what moves us, what really motivate artists are their experiencies. You can read Alice Miller's books. She explains it
Good evening, Chris and Amy.
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I hope you had a great weekend.
This is another awesome video 🎉
Appreciate you Mary! Have a nice evening.😊
How horrible 😢 I've never heard of this. RIP 🙏 Sally sweet girl
Hi Chris and Amy.
Thanks for the recap. I hope you both had a good weekend. This case is a prime example that some things never change. It never fails to amaze and depress me, that in so many western societies.
there still persists a notion that paedophiles or child predators, can be rehabilitated or prevented from continuing their vile behaviour by a prison sentence with any kind of limited term, and. Even if it is possible. I don't care because, I believe such individuals are a tiny minority. In my opinion. All first time convicted child predators should go to prison for life.
As always, best regards from the Republic of Ireland. 🇮🇪
Exactly right. Cannot be rehabilitated. In the same way that I, as a straight older female, can't feel sexually attracted to a woman or a young person, a pedo cannot find people their own age sexually attractive.
Exactly right. They can't be rehabilitated. In the same way that I, as a straight older female, can't feel sexually attracted to a woman or a young person, a pedo cannot find people their own age sexually attractive.
I’m am so sorry Sally
Once again I was doing something on my phone and immediately hopped over here when I got your notification!! Thanks for another recap. Your videos make my day!
You're the best! Thanks so much!
@@TrueCrimeRecaps That's nice. Thank you!! I do love your channel and look forward to every video.
I have never heard this story. That poor little girl was failed by everyone. I like classic american novels, but Lolita never appealed to me. I might now give a read. Great story Chris.
Thank god for Ruth. The idea that a little girl had any agency in this is so absolutely disgusting.
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It seems to parallel the story of Steve Stayner who was kidnapped by Kenneth Parnell. After Steven became "to old" to be victimized, Parnell used him to lure other boys. Steven decided he didn't want them to suffer the same fate so they escaped eventually. Steven was reunited with his family and began his own. Unfortunately, he died at 24 from a hit and run motorcycle accident.
To make matters worse...his old brother Cary is the Yosemite (Park) Killer.
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I really did not know that this was based upon an actual person. I love Nabokov and "Lolita" is one of my favorites ever written. It is terrfying to read something like that, as a teenager. Knowing that it was based off Sally's life is terrifying and heartbreaking.
Such a sad story.
Ruth was the one with common sense and intuition. Nabokov wrote six books about sex with minors? Wonder if he could be investigated if he was still alive.
*I thought the same...He definitely had obsessive thoughts about it!* 🤔🤨
If he was trying to be awareness to children being hurt I don’t think it’s really a problem, but it really depends on how he wrote it though
Somebody else on here commented that he was molested as a child.
Nabokov was a CSA survivor, and 'Lolita' is told by an unreliable narrator whose bullshit we're not supposed to buy, so I'm inclined to think he was processing.
I looked up more on this case after this video and found out after her auto accident they bought the people from the accident to the hospital I volunteer at
Thank you Chris ❤ I dont believe I've heard this story!!
Extremely frustrating and sad situation
Be a Ruth. Everybody should be a Ruth.
That guy is a vile individual that should be forgotten about
May her soul finally have peace and sing with the angels in life everlasting🙏
Who the heck let him out after only 5 years after assulting other girls?!
It was a different time.
Omg 😢breaks my heart 😢
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This is such an upsetting story
This is so desperately tragic, God Bless Sally!🙏
So many things are wrong about this story. How can an 11 years old pull off a “fake vacation” ? And how come she scared that her mother wouldn’t want her after being abducted for being “impure”
Because victim blaming was the norm back then. I don't think it started changing until the 80s.
@@Bargle5how would you know about "back then"?
@@patriciamoffat1542 Because I'm a long time true crime buff and I've come across mention of it several times in books.
Life makes no sense. Poor kid
After seeing this video I will never feel guilty again for leaving a store and then soon after while rearanging my things while on the move then realising that I have to go back in the store to pay for something not scanned in the self check out line.
poor girl
He looks like Freddy Krueger
My god can you imagine those 21 months.
Hi Chris hope you guys are doing well just checking in on you guys ™️🩶🩶🩶🩶🧠🪽
They never should have let that maniac out the first time.
Hey Chris! 🩷
Hey there Ash & Emi!
Im near vineland. Poor sally. RIP.
Sally would have no luck if it wasn't for bad luck...😢
The book isn't anything like the movie adaptations. You don't sympathize with the pedo in the book, you don't look at the child an see a sexual being in the book. The readers are made aware the pedo has a delusion about the child as a sexual being. If anything the book is very clearly anti-pedo despite it's format being from the pedo's perspective. It's why the author didn't want pictures of girls on his book covers, which some publishers respected but after a couple years many started putting the image of a girl or woman on the book.
The author hated the movies, especially the first one where the director seemed really interested in marrying the pedo and child at the end of the movie and hyper focused on how depending on where you were at it was legal. Reality was that he started a thing with the underaged actress and took her virginity before the movie was completed.
Gross
Vlad must have been trying to say something with his books. I wonder what it was....duh.
😢Such a sad story tho!😠💯👍🤍!
First thing I thought of when I saw this video and it's titled was Jeffrey Epstein's plane and how it was called the Lolita Express
Is the Novel actually based on this story?
The only one that knows for sure is Nabokov and he's dead. He was certainly aware of it since he mentions her in the book.
I kind of got the "but she came on to me!" vibe from Humbert throughout the entire book.
Yeah, because he's an unreliable narrator. That's what grimy predators like him always say.
@@janerecluse4344 Yeah, that whole book sounds like a pedophile trying to justify his actions.
And Nabokov and Hollywood end up making money off this tragedy while no one points out what it was based on until 2018.
My thoughts exactly
Quick story we went to Chicago on a choir trip when I was 15 and we came up a elevator and there sat ted Bundy's Volkswagen I walked towards it and the more pressure I felt pushing on me it also got colder it was the creepiest feeling ever
Not sure this story has anything to do with Nabokov's Lolita...
So that's how Jeffrey Epstein named his plane Lolita Express.
SICK
I have a first-edition, first-printing copy of "Lolita"; RIP Sally!
SHE and Frank DIDN'T rent a room, PERVERTED OLD FRANK DID...🙄
How tragic. Why is it people who have already had hard lives that their luck rarely changes. I hope her spirit finds peace.🎚
Dude, a 5th grader being referred to as a “Lolita” is pretty freaking disturbing.
HOw do you pronounce Nabakov?
I tried twice to read Lolita. I found Humbert too disgusting and had to close the book midway through, unfinished.
Cheers Chris and Amy 🎉🎉🎉
Cheers to you!🍺
How adults used this name to promote CSA is disgusting. So many children have suffered so much damage and abuse because of that movie and mistold story.
A sick man's fantasy.
Be a Carol to your friends.
If you are mutilated or defiled against your will, your dignity is intact. Hold your head up.
He has crazy eyes
Isn't that what Epstein named his airplane? This world needs Jesus Christ!
So, where is he?
@@dinabaughman8731 Epstein is in hell.
😱really how awful
Her boyfriend didn’t seem so bad to me. A 21-year-old man picking up a 17-year-old girl at a club is pretty normal, and he couldn’t be blamed for the car accident. Sad she never found out if he was going to be that boyfriend she wanted.
God really seemed to have it out for Sally Horner.
Also, lots of folks in the comments are hating on the mom. To me, in the context of the statement (Coming after Sally being afraid her mom wouldn’t accept her), it came off as rather heartwarming. Like she didn’t care about anything she wanted her kid home.
Was the Quilty character her escape?
So Lolita thinks, but he turns out to be an even worse pervert than Humbert.
Never saw the film but was always against the theme ie she was the seductress: because she was a child. Sad that at the time many men found the story exciting or credible that a child was seducing the adult. Always hated the story ; never knew it was based on real life 😢
Yeah I knew about the movie but I never knew it was based on real life and I could never watch it because it sounds disgusting.
Return of the yellow chair
It is terrible the way the movies other and media make it sound like she was enticing and provocative. She was 12! He was an ab*ser. That is one book I wished I'd never read. Of course he got off light, laws are not made for women and children.