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Are you going to do a Biographics about Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend? He was a WW1 Major General who surrendered at the 1st battle of Kut and lived in luxury courtesy of the Ottoman Sultan at the time while his men died of starvation and disease as Ottoman POWs
My dad was super protective when I was growing up. Until I was 10 I wasn’t allowed to go beyond the garden to play without asking permission. And he walked me to and from school till I went to high school. It was a short walk. I had a curfew until I was 16. Sure it was annoying at the time and I never understood what he was so worried about. It’s only now and seeing so many of these cases from the past and present that I realise. I’m so grateful to him now. ☺️☺️
@@SongokuJidai I’m a boy and I knew that there were men that may try to kidnap and hurt me. You don’t need much detail. By the time I was 16 , I certainly understood what the “big deal” was.
@@theblackbaron4119 The person didn't say they weren't. They only said that this case makes them feel truly terrible. Nowhere did they imply that other murder cases aren't terrible.
DC Police were notoriously incompetent and corrupt back then, it wasn't until the late 90s, after a massive increase in violence and drug dealing in the 80s and early to mid 90s, that they started to get their act together.
@@josephmichael2096 Now I'm curious. What is the Berkeley Pit? Admittedly, as a Canadian, I have no idea about anything Butte-related, but Buttian seems a reasonable term to assume 🤣 I accept it, if that vote counts at all. It's great when we need to make up our own, or mangle, words for the English language to describe our hometown affiliation. I myself haven't figured out if I'm an Allistonian, Allistonite, or Allistoner. But, I wish to know more of this Berkeley Pit. Montana is just "over the fence" from Canada and I'm intrigued. Of course 2:44 am is the right time for another rabbit hole excursion!
@@tso8174 lol my older brother would pick up my mom's cigarettes when he was 10 years old. The store was across the street in probably one of the safest towns in the world but still crazy
When I was a kid (around 10 years old) I did goto the grocery store a couple times on my own, walked 3 km to the groccery store, spent around 200 dollars picking up pretty much the same stuff I remember my parents grabbing (and maybe adding some fruits and a candy bar I wanted) and took a taxi home with the groceries. When I got older I'd typically goto a internet cafe for a bit before doing the shopping as my father would let me have a couple bucks to pay for a couple hours at the cafe so I could download a bunch of anime and stuff (and than goto a 24 hour grocery store in the event I stayed at the cafe late) I'd be doing it that way for years up until my father got a car I think in 2016.
@@eldridgedavis or just not interested in doing their job when the victims were black girls. Can’t deny the USA was still pretty fuckin racist when it was just 7 years post-civil rights. You can’t miss a dead body when you’re given the exact location unless you just didn’t look
If it had been a white girl on January 6, 2021, they'd have caught the killer in a heartbeat, since they certainly weren't interested in protests that day -- not even violent ones.
@@emilybarclay8831 you're right. When they finally went back to look at the case again, all of the evidence had been destroyed. They were less than interested because the girls were black
That’s the city brotha, doesn’t matter which one. Takes a while for the sheriff or officer to come out a lot of the time. Unless it’s literally “I’m being stabbed help” police ain’t gonna bother.
@@springbloom5940 Of course they were busy. Wasting taxpayer money on the war on drugs that just begun. Who's got time to bust murderers when you have people smoking the devil's lettuce?
Professor James Moriarty, master criminal and nemesis of Sherlock Holmes, described as the "Napoleon of crime". So a detective with that surname is ironic. Hope this helps.
"not among the most notorious names like zodiac or jack the ripper, yet he managed to do the same thing" That might've been because he was murdering black women in the 1970's...
I am in my late-twenties and this is the first time I have ever heard about the Freeway Phantom. I know that would not be the case if his victims were white.
Flawless logic “I didn’t hear about it therefore it wasn’t reported because muh racism” So any crime investigation involving multiple black victims you haven’t heard of is the result of racism?
@@Autisticwanderer Oh yeah, definitely race had nothing to do with it. Since ACAB, It's standard procedure for them to not even look out their car window when investigating reports of a dead body. Chud loser.
It’s two different production teams. Simon doesn’t always choose them. From what I gather sometimes he suggests, but otherwise the team chooses & he reads what lands in front of him. True crime videos on Biographics always get a lot of hits, so saying ‘only Casual Criminalist can cover people who do crime’ is a bit of a shot to the foot. Plus there are people who only watch one channel.
@@--enyo-- Yeah 100% should cover them across 2 channels, just feels like he doesn't. Haven't seen any crossover and that feels deliberate, and regrettable
I live in the D.C area it's so weird hearing where some of the bodies where dumbed and to think "oh I know exactly where that is" It's odd having one of these be so close to home
I know right. I live in right off 295 and it was spooky, I recognized every area he mentioned. I drive 295 or 50 everyday. I will be thinking of these poor girls now too. I have lived here my whole life and never heard of this case.
I thought I was the only one who felt that way. It’s bizarre knowing one of the bodies was dumped literally right around the corner of where I live currently. 😳
7:50 170 miles? Was that a typo in your script? Because 17 miles could make sense, but 170 is ridiculous. Depending on the girl's exact neighborhood and the route taken, her DC home might have been a whole 17 miles from VA. 170 miles from DC, southbound, would put the girl somewhere around the NC border.
Definitely an error. I live in the DC area and people take cabs in and out of Virginia, Maryland and DC all the time. DC is about the size of a postage stamp (or 16 miles at it's widest). In fact, the current DC Metro Subway travels through all DC, MD and VA.
@@SimonKnight1023 No and the victim said she believed that she might be in Virginia, but did not say where. She was picked up in the north west part of DC which buffers both Maryland (northern and eastern sides) and Virginia (western side). Her body was found in Maryland, north east of DC near the Baltimore Washington Parkway which connects to the Beltway interstate that circles DC and runs through Maryland and Virgina. He may have taken her out of DC, into Virginia and then followed the beltway north and east, taking him into Maryland where he could get off and travel east to the Baltimore area.
Exactly what I was about to post. They might have meant Virginia Beach and either accidentally left off Beach or didn't realize that Virginia Beach is a city.
Yeah I need more info cause what I found online says she either went to get groceries or went to the movies and it was in her call home that she said a man was giving her a ride back and she thinks she's in Virginia which would imply that's she's just across the river idk where the 170 miles comes from
We rarely ever have serial killers up here in Michigan. We're a state that produces people who move out of state and then become serial killers, like Aileen Wuornos and John List
I've watched a couple of these serial killers and I just can't believe parents use to send their pre teen children into town to do stuff, I know it's just the way it was back then but it's just insane to think about doing that now. My parents would only let me and my siblings go down the road to the corner store if we went with someone else
This is such a depressing episode. I live right off 295 and have lived in PG county/DC my whole life. I have never heard of this case. It is so awful how little the cops cared and how lackadaisical they were. I hope the families one day, somehow get close sure.
Detectives then had a much harder job: no cameras anywhere, no smartphone data, no DNA matching, no whatsapp neighborhood alerts etc. No even a automated fingerprint data bank.
It does seem an odd coincidence but it's entirely possible that denise as a middle name was incredibly popular across the span of time when the victims were born and this is the extent of the connection. It seems like one of those coincidences that seems unlikely but is in reality quite statistically likely. But without knowing how many people within the geographic boundaries the killer operated in who had denise as a middle name my guess is just a potential variable that may be baseless.
Most people suspected the green fibers to be from a car carpet or some sort of bathroom rug since the victims were bathed before there bodies were dumped
12:17 This kind of handwriting analysis has almost entirely been debunked, so I wouldn't trust any of these conclusions that she was relaxed and knew the killer.
I write stuff multiple times until I get it right. If I were a killer (which I am not) who abducts people (which I do not), I'd ask the same from the victims. Let them rewrite the letter until it all looks perfect.
@Jay Ro hahah I live in Texarkana. There is a great book about it written by a longtime local reporter for the Texarkana Gazette. He wrote it some years ago. He actually has a PhD in history from the University of Texas. It’s called “The Phantom Killer,” by James Presley.
“DC’s first serial killer…” I got news for you guys… actually I very much liked this video and I mistakenly thought this was about the *DC Sniper case (*hint: Simon)
Can I recommend military groups for several future biographics videos. Like the 82nd airborne, Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), Green Berets, Marine Recon and Navy Seals?
@@GoodAtSpeling A good theory. Based on what I've heard from people who live there, the biggest thing that gets in the way is Bureaucracy. It competes with the sociopaths in terms of getting in the way of stuff getting done.
If the police would of got off their asses they may have found carol right away. This whole case is filled with negligence from the police! All that DNA from all 6 victims and the case files also were either destroyed or lost. It's sickening that 6 very young girls can be brutally murdered and they had evidence that could of closed it. Very sad
4:28 My grandfather was an officer in DC at the time, from 1970 to his death in the line of duty in ‘79. His former beat partner was one of those two officers convicted. The guys name was Simmons, had only been with the department for a handful of months, maybe about 8. Anyways, Simmons and another officer became close friends, and for whatever reason, simultaneously left the force only a few months into their career. It was only a few years later that a body of a young girl was found with a .38 special round through the back of her head along the Highway. My grandfather responded to it, not knowing it was the work of his former partner.
This one cop became a serial killer. While around 40-50% of cops will simply beat their wives instead. Good on them for keeping their impulses under control AND within the family.
7:55: "... that did not make a lot of sense (Brenda saying she was coming home in a cab), since Virginia was over 170 miles away." False and inaccurate statement. Virginia, via the Wilson Bridge, is less than 10 miles away from where Brenda lived.
Hey Simon! Just wanted to stop by and say I loved this episode. I love the crime stuff but The Casual Criminalist can be too long form and fluffy for me. Hope this feedback gets to you 🙂
Over the past 2 years alone should give you enough material Simon for the next 20 years alone. I was really surprised you didn’t do a 20 year anniversary for “9/11/2001 this past week
Simon - Please do one on this guy! Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Karelin (kah-RE-lin, Russian: Александр Александрович Карелин, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ kəˈrʲelʲɪn]; born 19 September 1967) is a retired Greco-Roman wrestler for the Soviet Union and Russia. Nicknamed the "Russian Bear",[2] "Russian King Kong",[3] "Alexander the Great" and "The Experiment", he is widely considered to be the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time.[1][4][5][6] Karelin won gold medals at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games under a different flag each time (Soviet Union, Unified Team and Russia respectively), and a silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games. His wrestling record is 887 wins and two losses, both by a single point.
Not that I mind this as a Biographics. But isn't this exactly more a Casual Criminalist? I'd like Biographics on: - Niels Bohr - Johannes Kepler - Josiah Bartlett - Hans Christian Andersen - The Brothers Grimm - John Dewey ... if you're still taking suggestions :P
Here are some suggestions for another video - all interesting people April Ellison/William Ellison Jr. (1790-1861) - a freed slave from South Carolina who became a successful slaveowner and planter himself before the civil war. Anthony Johnson (1600-1670) - a former indentured servant who became one of the first African American property owners in America and a successful tobacco farmer. Lord Mountbatten (1900-1979) - Prince Philip’s uncle and Queen Elizabeth’s second cousin once removed who was assassinated by the IRA Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) - Japanese poet, author, playwright, actor and nationalist who committed seppuku after a failed attempt to overthrow Japan’s 1947 constitution. Robert Walpole (1676-1745) - British politician who was the first prime minister of Great Britain from 1721 until 1742 under King George I and King George II. Eamon DeValera (1882-1975) - prominent political leader in 20th century Ireland who, after the Irish war of independence from 1919 to 1921, was in the public eye for over forty years from 1922 until his death were he served as head of government (Taoiseach/prime minister) and head of state (president). He was nearly executed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and was key in putting into place the new constitution on 1937. A very prominent Irish figure and one of the most important in Irish history. George Eastman (1854-1932) - American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak company. He was a pioneer of photography and a major philanthropist. He commit suicide at the age of 77 because of chronic pain from health problems. Emile Zola (1840-1902) - French novelist and journalist who is an early practitioner in the literary genre, naturalism. He was involved in the Dreyfus affair, a political scandal in France. He died in 1902 at the age of 62 from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. ryoichi sasakawa (1899-1995) - Japanese businessman, politician, sports administrator, philanthropist and was criminal who helped Norman Borlaug with his Green Revolution. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) - Irish poet, playwright and translator who won the 1995 Nobel prize for literature and wrote a poem about The Tollund Man comparing his cause of death to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) - Irish poet, dramatist and writer with an interest in the occult who helped found the Abbey Theatre and was a senator for the Irish Free State. He is one of the most important historical figures in Irish history. Prince Phillip, The Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021) - husband and consort to Queen Elizabeth who served in the navy as a young man, serving in the Second World War. He died recently so it would be a good choice. Jordan Belfort (born 1962) - former stockbroker, author, motivational speaker and convicted felon who committed fraud via stock market manipulation. His book was the inspiration behind the film The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo DiCaprio in 2013. Andrew Cunanan (1969-1997) - spree killer responsible for five murders before his suicide via gunshot. His victims include Gianna Versace and Lee Miglin. Lee Miglin (1924-1997) - American business tycoon, real estate developer and philanthropist who was spree killer, Andrew Cunanan’s third murder victim. “The Count of Saint Germain” (1691 or 1712 -died 1784) - European Adventurer who achieved prominence in high society in the 1700’s. His real name is unknown while his background is obscure. He claimed to be the son of Prince Francis II Rakoczi of Transylvania. He was arrested for suspicion of espionage during the Jacobite rebellion but was released without charge. Julia d’Aunigny (1670 or 1673 -died 1707) - 17th century French opera singer who was known for her flamboyant lifestyle. Her father was a secretary to the master of the horse to King Louis XIV. She was a keen sword fighter, cross-dressed and tried to run away with a female lover after killing a man in a duel. She died at the age of 33. Past American presidents, British prime ministers, monarchs and Roman emperors would be good as well.
How do the detectives look the parents in the face and tell them their daughter is dead and her body is still naked and outside. No one had the decency to put a blanket on her!!! Did the family know where when, and how she was found immediately?
Im kind of glad this is what youre upset about. Sweetie, every single death that a cop comes across is photographed with personal devices. They trade the images amongst each other & laugh about how worthless the lower class is. You see, I dont mean socioeconomic classes. I mean the fact that cops believe society itself is 2nd class compared to themselves. If you were to committ suicide or have a loved one commit suicide, Cops dont care. They will add more photos to their self-pleasuring eollection of dead people, they use them like pokemon cards. So just keep this in mind. If youre ever found by a cop, theyre going to be mocking you. They are going to make your loved ones see the images(yes, cops have intentionally mailed death photos of people they just happen to dislike. Cops even have their own forums that are 100% blocked from public view, and i once had access. Reading their posts has damaged me personally. Those sites need to be destroyed. They share with other officers how to get away with arresting intoxicated women & how to rape them without being caught. Its all about their little "payback" for all the hard work they claim to do
Since Brenda was the only one who had her shoes still on and that the killer had left a note with, I’m more likely to think that she wasn’t killed by the freeway phantom and that the person who did it had wanted to falsely implicate the serial killer in order to throw investigators off track. I feel like the shoes were either a trophy of sorts for the killer or could perhaps contain strong evidence that would’ve made the killer easier to track down like some very specific or uncommon type of mud or dirt that could’ve been on the shoes. Even though her shoes were found next to Danielle’s body, I’m more inclined to believe she was a victim of the freeway phantom since her shoes had still been taken off and it could’ve been that while in the process of removing her shoes the killer became spooked and needed to get away from her body quickly. Plus, I feel like if the killer would’ve written a note and left it with Brenda’s body then he would’ve continued the same pattern with Danielle since her murder came afterwards. That note and the shoes still being on her body are two big discrepancies in her case compared to the others and it feels far more likely-especially if she’d known her killer as the handwriting expert had said she hadn’t appeared under duress when writing the note-that the person who killed her had been following the case in the news and used it as a convenient distraction to avoid any suspicion being placed on them.
Hi can you make a video on Desmond T Doss the first conscientious objector to win the medal of honour and on which the movie Hacksaw Ridge by Mel Gibson is based on. Thank you.
Several of the girls seemed to have been to be running chores. There has to be a connection there. Someone had a view of the road or the area that they passed.
another great video as always from simon & the crew. my only suggestion would be that you use a different shadowy figure in the thumbnail. i think this is the third time that the image of the hooded figure with a red ? over their face has been used. i say this because when i first saw this video in my recommended, i thought it was one i had watched previously just from a glance at the thumbnail. always love your videos though!
"told their boss, who was their friend, who was a police Sargent"... So doesn't that make the people who found the body also police??? Could they not of done it themselves?
Randy Kraft was a serial killer who murdered Paul, one of my dearest friends. This was in the 70’s in Long Beach Ca. It was said that he murdered and tortured up to 67 victims. The victims were young gay men so there wasn’t a lot of concern amongst the Long Beach police department. This allowed him to kill for quite a while. In that same vein, a few years later when the AIDS virus struck the gay community, our government looked the other way, nobody cared, or as they used to say “it’s killing all the right people. I lost the rest of my friends to that killer disease, Paul, then the rest all gone because no one cared...
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Simon your beard is truly an inspiration to us all
Are you going to do a Biographics about Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend? He was a WW1 Major General who surrendered at the 1st battle of Kut and lived in luxury courtesy of the Ottoman Sultan at the time while his men died of starvation and disease as Ottoman POWs
When are we going get one on Rodney Alcala🧐🧐🧐
Thanks for making Biographics a podcast as well!! I only found out a few weeks ago and have been listening since then. 🙂
My dad was super protective when I was growing up. Until I was 10 I wasn’t allowed to go beyond the garden to play without asking permission. And he walked me to and from school till I went to high school. It was a short walk. I had a curfew until I was 16. Sure it was annoying at the time and I never understood what he was so worried about. It’s only now and seeing so many of these cases from the past and present that I realise. I’m so grateful to him now. ☺️☺️
You should have been grateful then , you brat.
@@SongokuJidai I’m a boy and I knew that there were men that may try to kidnap and hurt me. You don’t need much detail.
By the time I was 16 , I certainly understood what the “big deal” was.
@@SimonKnight1023 why are you so mad
@@filthyidol3206 I only get mad over money.
Did you live in dc?
One of the few cases that actually makes me feel truly terrible. So much negligence on the part of the police.
All of the murder cases are terrible. What is wrong with you.
@@theblackbaron4119
The person didn't say they weren't. They only said that this case makes them feel truly terrible. Nowhere did they imply that other murder cases aren't terrible.
@@Elora445 true
DC Police were notoriously incompetent and corrupt back then, it wasn't until the late 90s, after a massive increase in violence and drug dealing in the 80s and early to mid 90s, that they started to get their act together.
I missed the negligence part?
RIP to all the victims. They were just children. Youngest victim was 10. This guy was a monster.
Do you want this Monster To Suffer
10?!
Back around 2010-12 there was a slew of body parts found around Butte Montana. These murders where never solved. Would make a great video.
The words "slew of body parts" just has an inherently soul-rattling bad sound to them *shudders*
As a native Butte person (Buttian?) I've always wondered how many bodies are in the Berkeley Pit.
@@josephmichael2096 Now I'm curious. What is the Berkeley Pit? Admittedly, as a Canadian, I have no idea about anything Butte-related, but Buttian seems a reasonable term to assume 🤣 I accept it, if that vote counts at all. It's great when we need to make up our own, or mangle, words for the English language to describe our hometown affiliation. I myself haven't figured out if I'm an Allistonian, Allistonite, or Allistoner. But, I wish to know more of this Berkeley Pit. Montana is just "over the fence" from Canada and I'm intrigued. Of course 2:44 am is the right time for another rabbit hole excursion!
But this sounds like an awesome video thooooo
Gen x was like this i used to get my father cigarettes alcohol and some times drive him home from the bar at 10 yrs old and it wasn't very unusual
Parents in 70s: 'hey travel a mile and get groceries, pick up my prescription and get the oil changed. I know you're 6 but its time'
You forgot the cigarettes that mamma likes
@@tso8174 lol my older brother would pick up my mom's cigarettes when he was 10 years old. The store was across the street in probably one of the safest towns in the world but still crazy
Also, “Here’s a note. Pick up some cigs for me and beer for dad.”
When I was a kid (around 10 years old) I did goto the grocery store a couple times on my own, walked 3 km to the groccery store, spent around 200 dollars picking up pretty much the same stuff I remember my parents grabbing (and maybe adding some fruits and a candy bar I wanted) and took a taxi home with the groceries. When I got older I'd typically goto a internet cafe for a bit before doing the shopping as my father would let me have a couple bucks to pay for a couple hours at the cafe so I could download a bunch of anime and stuff (and than goto a 24 hour grocery store in the event I stayed at the cafe late)
I'd be doing it that way for years up until my father got a car I think in 2016.
I am a child survivor of the 70's. Interesting times.
The lack of interest by the police is a crime by itself if you would ask me.
Probably completely burnt out..
@@eldridgedavis or just not interested in doing their job when the victims were black girls. Can’t deny the USA was still pretty fuckin racist when it was just 7 years post-civil rights. You can’t miss a dead body when you’re given the exact location unless you just didn’t look
If it had been a white girl on January 6, 2021, they'd have caught the killer in a heartbeat, since they certainly weren't interested in protests that day -- not even violent ones.
@@eldridgedavis Sure buddy...
@@emilybarclay8831 you're right. When they finally went back to look at the case again, all of the evidence had been destroyed. They were less than interested because the girls were black
Imagine living in a community where reporting a dead body to police doesn’t get results for an entire week
Yeah, that's insane!
Perhaps they were busy
That’s the city brotha, doesn’t matter which one. Takes a while for the sheriff or officer to come out a lot of the time. Unless it’s literally “I’m being stabbed help” police ain’t gonna bother.
@@springbloom5940 Of course they were busy. Wasting taxpayer money on the war on drugs that just begun. Who's got time to bust murderers when you have people smoking the devil's lettuce?
@@GovernorRiffRaff Doesn't take a week, you can't tell me that they had something more important than trying to find a killer.
1:30 - Chapter 1 - The reign of terror begins
5:20 - Chapter 2 - The killings continues
9:25 - Chapter 3 - Final murders
13:25 - Chapter 4 - Investigation & suspects
You upload simultaneously on so many channels, I am not sure where to even start :D
Im convinced simon whistler doesnt exist and he is only a very advanced A.I.
I just call it SimonTube or BlazeTube
I personally always start from busyness blaze. I mean brain blaze.
Except for geographics!! He uploads once every blue moon it seems like there
He’s just the narrator, other people do the research, editing, etc.
Rest in peace to those that passed away. I hope the killer is caught.
Unfortunately its probably just like the zodiac case and hes deceased from old age
@@jdubskiwright2380 Or hopefully they died in prison for unrelated crimes.
With the evidence destroying I doubt this case will ever be solved.
Yeah So They can Sentence The MF To Death
3:26 that has got to be the most unfortunate name for a detective ever
Heck it's literally Moriarty he probably did it.
😜 I heard that
He's basically an Ace Attorney character! 😮
am I the only one who didn't get this joke at all?
Professor James Moriarty, master criminal and nemesis of Sherlock Holmes, described as the "Napoleon of crime". So a detective with that surname is ironic. Hope this helps.
@@BlueBirdsProductions Jim Moriarty is the main antagonist in the Sherlock Holmes world
"not among the most notorious names like zodiac or jack the ripper, yet he managed to do the same thing" That might've been because he was murdering black women in the 1970's...
I am in my late-twenties and this is the first time I have ever heard about the Freeway Phantom. I know that would not be the case if his victims were white.
Flawless logic “I didn’t hear about it therefore it wasn’t reported because muh racism”
So any crime investigation involving multiple black victims you haven’t heard of is the result of racism?
@@Autisticwanderer Oh yeah, definitely race had nothing to do with it. Since ACAB, It's standard procedure for them to not even look out their car window when investigating reports of a dead body. Chud loser.
@@waxeightoneeight so you have heard of each and every one of the literal thousands of serial killers in US history? Dummy.
Like The Wire said (in despondent hues) "You could go a long way in this country, killing black folk."
I’m curious how you choose which of these go on Biographics and which get the Casual Criminalist treatment.
know right! Surely this is a criminalist episode..
Usually the more well known end on this, like JTR, zodiac, btk, ted bundy etc
Now we are asking the real questions
It’s two different production teams. Simon doesn’t always choose them. From what I gather sometimes he suggests, but otherwise the team chooses & he reads what lands in front of him.
True crime videos on Biographics always get a lot of hits, so saying ‘only Casual Criminalist can cover people who do crime’ is a bit of a shot to the foot. Plus there are people who only watch one channel.
@@--enyo-- Yeah 100% should cover them across 2 channels, just feels like he doesn't. Haven't seen any crossover and that feels deliberate, and regrettable
I live in the D.C area it's so weird hearing where some of the bodies where dumbed and to think
"oh I know exactly where that is"
It's odd having one of these be so close to home
Hmm... Where were you at the times of these murders?
I know right. I live in right off 295 and it was spooky, I recognized every area he mentioned. I drive 295 or 50 everyday. I will be thinking of these poor girls now too. I have lived here my whole life and never heard of this case.
I thought I was the only one who felt that way. It’s bizarre knowing one of the bodies was dumped literally right around the corner of where I live currently. 😳
Serial killers: (exist)
Simon: dibs
This one gonna be another banger from the King of Narration, Simon Whistler.
7:50 170 miles? Was that a typo in your script? Because 17 miles could make sense, but 170 is ridiculous. Depending on the girl's exact neighborhood and the route taken, her DC home might have been a whole 17 miles from VA. 170 miles from DC, southbound, would put the girl somewhere around the NC border.
I was going to say the same thing. I had to replay that segment just to make sure I heard it correctly.
Definitely an error. I live in the DC area and people take cabs in and out of Virginia, Maryland and DC all the time. DC is about the size of a postage stamp (or 16 miles at it's widest). In fact, the current DC Metro Subway travels through all DC, MD and VA.
@@josephmassaro Did they say what area in Virginia?
@@SimonKnight1023 No and the victim said she believed that she might be in Virginia, but did not say where. She was picked up in the north west part of DC which buffers both Maryland (northern and eastern sides) and Virginia (western side). Her body was found in Maryland, north east of DC near the Baltimore Washington Parkway which connects to the Beltway interstate that circles DC and runs through Maryland and Virgina. He may have taken her out of DC, into Virginia and then followed the beltway north and east, taking him into Maryland where he could get off and travel east to the Baltimore area.
@@josephmassaro Ok, point is, if they didn’t say which city in virginia than it very well could have been 170 miles away.
7:49 Virginia is 170 miles away from DC? They share a border Simon. I"m in Virginia and I'm about 8 miles to Washington Monument as the crow flies.
Came here to say this. From Congress Heights, Virginia is mere minutes away. There are PARTS of Virginia that are 170 miles away, but.... eh.
@@ncarrick783 I'm going to make a guess and think he meant to say Virginia Beach.
DC and Virginia are “over 170 miles away” - Am I miss something, they are right across the Potomac from each other???!
Exactly what I was about to post.
They might have meant Virginia Beach and either accidentally left off Beach or didn't realize that Virginia Beach is a city.
Came here to say the same thing. That one made me do a double take.
Me sitting in Virginia and looking out my apartment window able to see the Washington Monument "WOW I Guess I can see 170 miles"
@@pohldriver No, she only said she was in Virginia.
Yeah I need more info cause what I found online says she either went to get groceries or went to the movies and it was in her call home that she said a man was giving her a ride back and she thinks she's in Virginia which would imply that's she's just across the river idk where the 170 miles comes from
Always nice to hear about a killer in the city I live in…..
Radical!
Right...WTF
I lived in Phoenix, when we had two serial killers at the same time.
We rarely ever have serial killers up here in Michigan. We're a state that produces people who move out of state and then become serial killers, like Aileen Wuornos and John List
In Mass there is always something going down
I've watched a couple of these serial killers and I just can't believe parents use to send their pre teen children into town to do stuff, I know it's just the way it was back then but it's just insane to think about doing that now. My parents would only let me and my siblings go down the road to the corner store if we went with someone else
Well tbf Spinks' parents didn't allow her to do that it was her sister
I find it quite creepy that he had the victim write the note to be put in her pocket after he had killed her.
The irony of getting got outside of a business called 'Safeway' would be somewhat comical if it weren't for the grim outcome of that event..
Excellent video! I'd love to see a video on the Monster Of Florence, an Italian killer with WAY too much urban legend clouding the facts.
Beltway Snipers next?
This is such a depressing episode. I live right off 295 and have lived in PG county/DC my whole life. I have never heard of this case. It is so awful how little the cops cared and how lackadaisical they were. I hope the families one day, somehow get close sure.
Detectives then had a much harder job: no cameras anywhere, no smartphone data, no DNA matching, no whatsapp neighborhood alerts etc. No even a automated fingerprint data bank.
Why do so many of the victims have “Denise” as their middle name. Very strange coincidence.
Good call! Very strange.
It does seem an odd coincidence but it's entirely possible that denise as a middle name was incredibly popular across the span of time when the victims were born and this is the extent of the connection.
It seems like one of those coincidences that seems unlikely but is in reality quite statistically likely. But without knowing how many people within the geographic boundaries the killer operated in who had denise as a middle name my guess is just a potential variable that may be baseless.
It was a very popular name in the 60s / 70s
Coincidences are strange by definition. If they weren't they wouldn't be coincidences, they'd just be... well, nothing.
Another great one! Keep it up!
Perfect always love getting these notifications
I swear to god every time a video of yours plays after another video of yours, it's louder lol
Just want to say thanks for making these available for download Simon. I watch these while going on long road trips and time flies by
I know these murders happened so long ago, it’s still so sad.
Green fibres? I wonder if there was a nearby mini golf course or such…synthetic grass type material
Most people suspected the green fibers to be from a car carpet or some sort of bathroom rug since the victims were bathed before there bodies were dumped
12:17 This kind of handwriting analysis has almost entirely been debunked, so I wouldn't trust any of these conclusions that she was relaxed and knew the killer.
I write stuff multiple times until I get it right.
If I were a killer (which I am not) who abducts people (which I do not), I'd ask the same from the victims. Let them rewrite the letter until it all looks perfect.
Boy that Safeway wasn't particularly Safe.
Have you covered the Texarkana Moonlight Murders?
Yes!!!
@Jay Ro hahah I live in Texarkana. There is a great book about it written by a longtime local reporter for the Texarkana Gazette. He wrote it some years ago. He actually has a PhD in history from the University of Texas. It’s called “The Phantom Killer,” by James Presley.
These serial killer biographics are the best ones you do! Please do more.
A young girl is kidnapped and brutally murdered and the police can only spare two officers and they are told 'To make it snappy'.
As someone who queue your videos across your multiple channels, the different volume levels from each video to the next can be very jarring.
We all know the reason this case was mishandle, leading to it remaining unsolved
I don’t know whats wrong with me but these days I like falling asleep to Simon talking about serial killers.
I've been doing that for months, TBH.
This was unsettling to watch. Interesting but unsettling.
Biographics on The D.C. Sniper!
This one was really rough and heartbreaking to hear.
“DC’s first serial killer…” I got news for you guys…
actually I very much liked this video and I mistakenly thought this was about the *DC Sniper case (*hint: Simon)
Anyone else notice that almost all of the victims had the same middle name? Likely a coincidence, but an interesting observation.
I thought the same thing
the casual criminalist is awesome while i'm at work
Biographics now comes as a podcast too.
can you do 1 on the killer known as Bible John who was another infamous killer who was never caught or ID remains unknown?
He has done on his Casual Criminalist channel.
If like this one will like his Casual Criminalist. He did Bible John
1:08 to skip ad.
Can I recommend military groups for several future biographics videos. Like the 82nd airborne, Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), Green Berets, Marine Recon and Navy Seals?
Phoenix, AZ had a phantom shooter too
Based on what I’ve heard about DC nowadays, it’s doesn’t shock me that this guy has never been caught.
Sounds like it was likely the guy working for the hospital but they didn't search his house until years after the killings had stopped
@@GoodAtSpeling A good theory.
Based on what I've heard from people who live there, the biggest thing that gets in the way is Bureaucracy. It competes with the sociopaths in terms of getting in the way of stuff getting done.
I’ve been binge watching casual criminalist ... but now it seems bizarre hearing you talk about a true crime case without making comments to Callum 😅
Good video 👍
I would love a Calum’s Cut of this!!
17 mi would be more accurate than 170mi
And isn't it spelled Capitol?
If the police would of got off their asses they may have found carol right away. This whole case is filled with negligence from the police! All that DNA from all 6 victims and the case files also were either destroyed or lost. It's sickening that 6 very young girls can be brutally murdered and they had evidence that could of closed it. Very sad
Moriarty now a Detective ?!?!
What the ... 🤨
Am I been wrong to conclude that Sherlock Holmes is a Suspect ... 🤦♂️
Jesus, this story is nerve wracking.
If only the lazy pigs would've thought to stake out the highways.
4:28 My grandfather was an officer in DC at the time, from 1970 to his death in the line of duty in ‘79. His former beat partner was one of those two officers convicted. The guys name was Simmons, had only been with the department for a handful of months, maybe about 8. Anyways, Simmons and another officer became close friends, and for whatever reason, simultaneously left the force only a few months into their career. It was only a few years later that a body of a young girl was found with a .38 special round through the back of her head along the Highway. My grandfather responded to it, not knowing it was the work of his former partner.
Damn, thats crazy! Thanks for this post.
This one cop became a serial killer. While around 40-50% of cops will simply beat their wives instead. Good on them for keeping their impulses under control AND within the family.
Doing gods work ❤️
7:55: "... that did not make a lot of sense (Brenda saying she was coming home in a cab), since Virginia was over 170 miles away." False and inaccurate statement. Virginia, via the Wilson Bridge, is less than 10 miles away from where Brenda lived.
Thank you
As someone who watches the channel known as Criminally Listed, I can confidently say that I cannot escape MagellanTV.
Thanks.
Hey Simon! Just wanted to stop by and say I loved this episode. I love the crime stuff but The Casual Criminalist can be too long form and fluffy for me. Hope this feedback gets to you 🙂
Over the past 2 years alone should give you enough material Simon for the next 20 years alone. I was really surprised you didn’t do a 20 year anniversary for “9/11/2001 this past week
It's a crying shame Simon wasn't on the case. He'd a found that SOB.
Simon - Please do one on this guy!
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Karelin (kah-RE-lin, Russian: Александр Александрович Карелин, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ kəˈrʲelʲɪn]; born 19 September 1967) is a retired Greco-Roman wrestler for the Soviet Union and Russia. Nicknamed the "Russian Bear",[2] "Russian King Kong",[3] "Alexander the Great" and "The Experiment", he is widely considered to be the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time.[1][4][5][6] Karelin won gold medals at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games under a different flag each time (Soviet Union, Unified Team and Russia respectively), and a silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games. His wrestling record is 887 wins and two losses, both by a single point.
Can you do the Kangxi Emperor soon?
Can you do a video on black dahlia
Personally I feel that the creepiest thing about these types of murders is that the murderers might be watching along with the rest of us...
Society is pretty weird
@@cameronjadewallace Oh yeah, no doubt about that.
Tell them something. Tell them to not be happy.
@@archlich4489 What's the point, they won't care.
Can you do a video on Sir Clive Sinclair? Definitely worthy of a Biographics vid.
With his squishy rubbery keyboard on the zx spectrum. Spectrum is Green!😃
he did a business blaze/brain blaze about sir clive. would be interesting to see the cocaine-less biographics approach though
@@itschasechase I did see that. Definitely hoping for something a bit more sober. :P
Not that I mind this as a Biographics. But isn't this exactly more a Casual Criminalist?
I'd like Biographics on:
- Niels Bohr
- Johannes Kepler
- Josiah Bartlett
- Hans Christian Andersen
- The Brothers Grimm
- John Dewey
... if you're still taking suggestions :P
Almost all the victims had the second name denise 🧐
Should definitely cover the DC snipers in a video
I don't know why but I just have this feeling this is connected to skull and bones
Here are some suggestions for another video - all interesting people
April Ellison/William Ellison Jr. (1790-1861) - a freed slave from South Carolina who became a successful slaveowner and planter himself before the civil war.
Anthony Johnson (1600-1670) - a former indentured servant who became one of the first African American property owners in America and a successful tobacco farmer.
Lord Mountbatten (1900-1979) - Prince Philip’s uncle and Queen Elizabeth’s second cousin once removed who was assassinated by the IRA
Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) - Japanese poet, author, playwright, actor and nationalist who committed seppuku after a failed attempt to overthrow Japan’s 1947 constitution.
Robert Walpole (1676-1745) - British politician who was the first prime minister of Great Britain from 1721 until 1742 under King George I and King George II.
Eamon DeValera (1882-1975) - prominent political leader in 20th century Ireland who, after the Irish war of independence from 1919 to 1921, was in the public eye for over forty years from 1922 until his death were he served as head of government (Taoiseach/prime minister) and head of state (president). He was nearly executed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and was key in putting into place the new constitution on 1937. A very prominent Irish figure and one of the most important in Irish history.
George Eastman (1854-1932) - American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak company. He was a pioneer of photography and a major philanthropist. He commit suicide at the age of 77 because of chronic pain from health problems.
Emile Zola (1840-1902) - French novelist and journalist who is an early practitioner in the literary genre, naturalism. He was involved in the Dreyfus affair, a political scandal in France. He died in 1902 at the age of 62 from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning.
ryoichi sasakawa (1899-1995) - Japanese businessman, politician, sports administrator, philanthropist and was criminal who helped Norman Borlaug with his Green Revolution.
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) - Irish poet, playwright and translator who won the 1995 Nobel prize for literature and wrote a poem about The Tollund Man comparing his cause of death to The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) - Irish poet, dramatist and writer with an interest in the occult who helped found the Abbey Theatre and was a senator for the Irish Free State. He is one of the most important historical figures in Irish history.
Prince Phillip, The Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021) - husband and consort to Queen Elizabeth who served in the navy as a young man, serving in the Second World War. He died recently so it would be a good choice.
Jordan Belfort (born 1962) - former stockbroker, author, motivational speaker and convicted felon who committed fraud via stock market manipulation. His book was the inspiration behind the film The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo DiCaprio in 2013.
Andrew Cunanan (1969-1997) - spree killer responsible for five murders before his suicide via gunshot. His victims include Gianna Versace and Lee Miglin.
Lee Miglin (1924-1997) - American business tycoon, real estate developer and philanthropist who was spree killer, Andrew Cunanan’s third murder victim.
“The Count of Saint Germain” (1691 or 1712 -died 1784) - European Adventurer who achieved prominence in high society in the 1700’s. His real name is unknown while his background is obscure. He claimed to be the son of Prince Francis II Rakoczi of Transylvania. He was arrested for suspicion of espionage during the Jacobite rebellion but was released without charge.
Julia d’Aunigny (1670 or 1673 -died 1707) - 17th century French opera singer who was known for her flamboyant lifestyle. Her father was a secretary to the master of the horse to King Louis XIV. She was a keen sword fighter, cross-dressed and tried to run away with a female lover after killing a man in a duel. She died at the age of 33.
Past American presidents, British prime ministers, monarchs and Roman emperors would be good as well.
How do the detectives look the parents in the face and tell them their daughter is dead and her body is still naked and outside. No one had the decency to put a blanket on her!!! Did the family know where when, and how she was found immediately?
Im kind of glad this is what youre upset about. Sweetie, every single death that a cop comes across is photographed with personal devices. They trade the images amongst each other & laugh about how worthless the lower class is. You see, I dont mean socioeconomic classes. I mean the fact that cops believe society itself is 2nd class compared to themselves. If you were to committ suicide or have a loved one commit suicide, Cops dont care. They will add more photos to their self-pleasuring eollection of dead people, they use them like pokemon cards. So just keep this in mind. If youre ever found by a cop, theyre going to be mocking you. They are going to make your loved ones see the images(yes, cops have intentionally mailed death photos of people they just happen to dislike. Cops even have their own forums that are 100% blocked from public view, and i once had access. Reading their posts has damaged me personally. Those sites need to be destroyed. They share with other officers how to get away with arresting intoxicated women & how to rape them without being caught. Its all about their little "payback" for all the hard work they claim to do
Since Brenda was the only one who had her shoes still on and that the killer had left a note with, I’m more likely to think that she wasn’t killed by the freeway phantom and that the person who did it had wanted to falsely implicate the serial killer in order to throw investigators off track. I feel like the shoes were either a trophy of sorts for the killer or could perhaps contain strong evidence that would’ve made the killer easier to track down like some very specific or uncommon type of mud or dirt that could’ve been on the shoes. Even though her shoes were found next to Danielle’s body, I’m more inclined to believe she was a victim of the freeway phantom since her shoes had still been taken off and it could’ve been that while in the process of removing her shoes the killer became spooked and needed to get away from her body quickly. Plus, I feel like if the killer would’ve written a note and left it with Brenda’s body then he would’ve continued the same pattern with Danielle since her murder came afterwards. That note and the shoes still being on her body are two big discrepancies in her case compared to the others and it feels far more likely-especially if she’d known her killer as the handwriting expert had said she hadn’t appeared under duress when writing the note-that the person who killed her had been following the case in the news and used it as a convenient distraction to avoid any suspicion being placed on them.
Hi I really enjoy watching your videos
Can you make a video about Enver Hoxha, Albania's dictator of the 20th century ? I'd love to see that
Thanks
Anything weird about the common middle name? It just struck me as strange
A guy old enough to find prostitutes in 1938 worked with computers in the ‘70s. That’s tantamount to a very interesting new Biographics.
Very murdery is the perfect catchphrase for this channel
Hi can you make a video on Desmond T Doss the first conscientious objector to win the medal of honour and on which the movie Hacksaw Ridge by Mel Gibson is based on. Thank you.
Several of the girls seemed to have been to be running chores. There has to be a connection there. Someone had a view of the road or the area that they passed.
another great video as always from simon & the crew. my only suggestion would be that you use a different shadowy figure in the thumbnail. i think this is the third time that the image of the hooded figure with a red ? over their face has been used. i say this because when i first saw this video in my recommended, i thought it was one i had watched previously just from a glance at the thumbnail. always love your videos though!
I wonder if there is any usable dna that they could test today
Virginia is walking distance from Oxon Hill and DC. I live in Rockville and I honestly have to cut into Virginia to get to work in south DC.
Has anyone ever thought that it could have been Wayne Williams?
Shouldn't this be in The Casual Criminalist? Or did Simon finally want to give Callum a break?
Just an observation, but 3-4 of the victims had the middle name "Denise". Does this have any relevance?
Do more videos about
-Presocratic philosophers
-Thales of Miletus
-Empedocles
-Parmenides
-Al Kindi
-Al Farabi
I read Capital as Capitol and immediately thought about the raid
How many of the victims had the middle name “Denise” ???
Could you make a video on Lord Mountbatten
"told their boss, who was their friend, who was a police Sargent"... So doesn't that make the people who found the body also police??? Could they not of done it themselves?
Or did I miss a bit of information haha?
Maybe they worked at the station but weren't officers? Admin or cleaners?
Randy Kraft was a serial killer who murdered Paul, one of my dearest friends. This was in the 70’s in Long Beach Ca. It was said that he murdered and tortured up to 67 victims. The victims were young gay men so there wasn’t a lot of concern amongst the Long Beach police department. This allowed him to kill for quite a while. In that same vein, a few years later when the AIDS virus struck the gay community, our government looked the other way, nobody cared, or as they used to say “it’s killing all the right people. I lost the rest of my friends to that killer disease, Paul, then the rest all gone because no one cared...