Why This Man Killed 13 People Including His 5 Kids | Killing Spree | Absolute Crime
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- In 1982 Wilkes Barre, Pennslyvania was rocked by a shocking killing spree. In a matter of hours, 40 year old ex-prison guard George Emil Banks brutally murdered 13, many of whom were his own flesh and blood.
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Evidence should never be allowed to be withheld from the jury.
on a fake spinning globe , rules are for fools
Hating people for the color of their skin is perhaps the dumbest way to waste your life and energy.
Too true!
This should go on a giant billboard
Color has nothing to do with bullying
@@TaxedtoXXXthat’s not entirely true. It’s one reason some people are bullied. There are plenty more reasons.
It is ONLY ONE of the dumbest things due to the fact that the hating of members of the LGBT+ community just because of whom they love and the fact that they feel as though they have been born into the wrong body IS EVERY BIT AS BAD!!!!!!!!!!! Julie Gill, Glasgow, Scotland.
Why are they trying to make viewers feel bad for him? Saying he was well mannered and could have jumped across the table and kill them but he didn’t? He’s a murderer.
just like your country 🤣
@@rickyelvis3215Greenland isn't a murderer you egg
I grew up in California. I was picked on and bullied for being white all the time. I’d never consider anything like this. Blaming “race” issues is a cop out. Some people are just broken. Some people are just evil.
That’s David Lohr he did the BTK book, but he works for the Huffington Post and is a huge race baiter.
You know that in this political environment that your experience would be interpreted in the opposite way if you were any other colour and blaming your experiences for some crime.
I don’t think ppl are saying it as thee reason but ppl who are mentally Ill or are evil, usually have triggering factors. When you mix a high level of instability and life factors you can get this. You may have had difficult life factors but you are probably a very stable person so you could move on.
They aren't blaming race just saying it could add to it. White people do the same when a white person commits the same type of crime as in the case Herbert Mullins. They bring up drugs/mental health as the excuse.
There isn't a crime on earth that a black person has committed that a white person hasn't done already .Whites base everything on race when to their advantage. I always read comments that let you know it's more about who (as in race) committed the crime then the crime itself.
Well said.
Coward & evil, murdering your flesh & blood & other victims. May the victims rest in peace.
I have watched the documentaries on George Banks and the cops saying his kids are still alive when he knew they were killed was pure stupid. I know it's a run-on sentence.
Did you not watch the whole video? There were 2 of the kids in the house that survived unscathed, so it wasn’t technically a lie, only a means to negotiate surrender, but yes he should have been shot on sight!
These cops were idiots.
Are you from NEPA? Because we have the worst cops and doctors so it’s no surprise
It wasn't "perceived" racial prejudice. It was overt racial prejudice.
This is local for me
How many animals do you reckon were WRONGLY TORTURED AND WRONGLY MURDERED in the research of the drugs they administered to the patients and in the drugs the murderer took for the hell of it?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!
IT IS LITERALLY ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO EVEN BEGIN TO TELL YOU JUST HOW GRATEFUL AND RELIEVED I AM that ALL creatures who were NOT human beings were NOT harmed and/or murdered during this ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC incident for the simple FACT, NOT opinion, FACT of the matter that IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LITERALLY INFINITELY WORSE than ANYTHING that had happened to the humans if they had been!!!!!!!! Julie Gill, Glasgow, Scotland.
I remember the 20th anniversary stories. I was in high school
My biological father was a prison guard at Ohio State Reformatory in the 60's. There were race riots and lots of chaos at the prison back then.
Still on death row !!! What a waste of air
Still not a perfect world 🌎
Say it with me
MULATO
Ex prison gaurd ? Maybe Charles manson hypnotised him 😂
18:30 young Einstein shut up
So he kills kids, and we are supposed to feel sorry for him.
Shit I don't feel sorry you're walking around with such a disturbed mindset, you just naturally dysfunctional 🙄
How was he even able to work as a correctional officer 😮?
I was just asking this same question 😢
I was asking the same question to
Don't show the crime scene photos...."....they would want to kill the criminal..." Oh, how BAD it would be to execute a murderer...Any murderer. What a twisted juditial sytem.
But for a felon to become a prison guard !?!....With weapons !?!
Those people are awfully sympathetic to a guy who slaughtered his whole family. Including babies. I don't understand this world.
I am a floral designer. Doing a baby or childs casket spray still make me cry even after 36 yrs. Peace and Love
Your comment is a very powerful image of sadness. These children and women were all used by one angry man.
😢Flower girl! Are YOU Cynthia, from Cynthia's fine flowers?...... I'm Aerigh's Momma.....❤
Thank you for doing what you do. It may not feel or seem like much but you’re giving those beautiful babies one last gift before all is said and done. I work for hospice and it’s a privilege to be apart of the transition but definitely not in this way! Such a sad story.
He's a selfish coward by not taking his own life but to deprive those innocent children of theirs is monsterous and evil
Usually, you hear the other way around: the killer's a coward because they killed themself and didn't give the families justice by rotting in prison.
He only got 5 years for attempted murder? That’s a miscarriage of justice. Talk about privilege.
Or a really good attorney
Oh please🙄🙄🙄🙄,he was a weak man...what was he teaching his kids by doing all this...😮..no excuse
It was the way white terrorist treated him, because of his skin coler.
Took me an hour from OCD, but here you go!
00:00 🤯 George Emil Banks embarks on a killing spree in 1982, leaving America shocked.
00:30 😢 Banks brutally murders his own family members, including his children, raising questions about his motive.
01:20 🏭 Background on Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, a city that faced economic challenges and a devastating tropical storm before the killings.
02:15 🚓 Law enforcement was unprepared for the scale of the tragedy; the killer was still at large.
03:10 💔 13 people were killed, seven of whom were children.
08:57 🌗 Banks struggled with racial identity from an early age, which affected his mental health.
10:23 🚔 Banks had a criminal history and served time before becoming a prison guard.
14:59 📉 Mental and emotional breakdown begins for Banks in September 1982 after losing his job.
19:26 👨👩👧👦 Banks committed family annihilation, believing death was better than life for his family.
20:33 🕵♂ Law enforcement had difficulty locating Banks, causing public panic.
26:50 🏠 Banks barricades himself in a vacated property for a standoff with police
27:34 🧠 George Emil Banks had mixed feelings about having killed his children; he questioned if they were still alive.
28:18 🌍 Motive behind the killing spree was to "save" his children from a perceived inevitable race war.
29:02 💀 Banks was preparing for his own death, believing he had "saved" some from this race war.
29:41 📺 Banks wore a t-shirt that said "kill them all and let God sort it out."
30:37 👮 Over 150 law enforcement officers were on the scene; Banks remained in control.
31:21 🎯 Banks was a trained sniper, posing a significant risk to law enforcement.
33:52 📻 A fake radio broadcast was used to try to convince Banks that his children were alive.
36:52 🤝 A former prison colleague of Banks, Robert Brunson, persuaded him to surrender.
37:35 ⏰ At 11:17 a.m., four hours after the standoff began, Banks was taken into custody.
38:33 ⚖ In June 1983, Banks stood trial for the murder of 13 people.
40:10 📸 Banks shocked the jury by revealing crime scene images against all advice.
41:35 🎂 On Banks's 41st birthday, he was sentenced to death for 12 first-degree murders.
42:38 🍻 Chronic behavior of alcohol and drug misuse contributed to his unpredictable rages.
43:17 🏠 The event had a lasting impact on the community; Wilkes-Barre will never forget.
Dang. This channel should employ you.
@@lesliecano4963Why would they do that? They want people to watch the videos so they earn money.
Phew! Your OCD and analytic skills are in very good shape. Have you thought of becoming a police officer? We are all traumatised by these all too frequent events and have to deal with the terrible knowledge and sadness in our own ways.
This ruins the show. Post nothing let us watch
@@myleghurts3546 why do you feel compelled to read it?
Why do they repeat the facts over and over again? It's really unnecessary
Not allowing photos as evidence, bc they would be inflammatory and used against him? Uumm.. evidence photos of his crimes can't be used against him? 🤔
Yeah, i don’t get that. There’s a case in around 2013 when that farther killed his 5 kids, drove around with them for 5 days. Then put them in garbage bags an tossed them out like garbage on the side of the road. The court wouldn’t allow those pictures for the same reasons. Jurors should see all evidence. Take care
@@jasonstaples4364 Yes they should. I mean.. THEY DID those things, not like the photos were taken to make them look bad.. they are bad for doing those things..
You're speech demonstrates you have 0 knowledge in law as human logic does not apply to law articles
@@moimoi8161 *your
If you don't want to be seen as a monster, don't do horrifying crimes.. pretty simple. You don't get to cry anymore. You did it. And this would not be accepted in courtrooms worldwide. Try this defence somewhere else and see what happens.
@@moimoi8161 moee I’m pretty sure they use photos as evidence.
Obviously you need to have a Huffington post reporter to discuss racism and defend a murderer.
A violent felon, with a high powered rifle??? & he's crazy as a loon with a chip on his shoulder.
For heaven sake, it's not a mental illness! He was high on DRUGS!!! And alcohol.
Stop shaming those who suffer of mental illness.
Do Not Do Drugs!
Thank you. I’d never heard of this before
Still on death row from 1983????
Yes, they said he is now to crazy to execute. Wasn’t he supposedly crazy at the time he committed the murders?
Another video making a million excuses for a monster!
If you ever want to read a good work of fiction, look no further then the comment section of a TH-cam video, the tall tales are limitless here.
I remember George on Death Row down at Graterford SCI. We had about twenty guys on DR at the time. George never gave me any problems but whenever I worked a shift on his block I did notice he was sorta high-strung and definitely paranoid. Seems it was 2005 2006 time frame he got this skin condition all over his torso and he accused the prison of putting something in his water that gave him the condition. It went nowhere for the simple reason that all the other DR guys used the exact same water supply. I did feel kinda bad for him because the other inmates sorta didn't like him. So beings the Muslim faith is really prominent in prison and whenever it was prayer time they would really get loud cuz George hated the noise. He sorta reminds you of Felix on the odd couple, kinda finicky. None of the guys on DR gave me any problems. I just did my job and wasn't a jackass officer. But if you were a jackass invariably when you least expected it some inmate would give you a "cocktail." That's when they take one of those flexible shampoo containers and they put urine and feces and blood in it and when you come by they spray it on you. Out of over 3,000 inmates there was only a handful who had aids but there was quite a few who had hepatitis and if you get a cocktail they're required to take you to the hospital. Good Times!!!😂
Really sick of hearing about the "difficult" upbringing of these monsters. FAR MORE significant is that he did an ARMED ROBBERY at age 19. That, right there, shows you the real problem: he was already a criminal. Was he the only biracial man in the US at the time? Rare, sure, but not the only one. Did they ALL commit crime? Did they all become mass murderers? No. Therefore, the upbringing explains nothing.
Depends a lot on where in disgusting America you are raised.
Learned early in life, via fairy tales alone, (not the sweet Disney versions,) but, as they were originally written, the lessons they imparted, acknowledged, experienced first hand. We tend to want to spare our children the grim realities our species presents, my parents did not in a multitude of ways. It took me quite some time to recognize and appreciate the ways in which they did, both within their personal and social issues and contributions. Yes, there are monsters among us, even children...much of my life the social question was... Nurture vs Nature? As we learn, knowledge acquired, tech advances...apply wisdom, that with attention, hope and love... we will at least, stop developing less monsters within our species.
And the blame game goes on and on and on 👎
This is sad, I could never understand why people take the life/s of their own flesh and blood , ..and all the other victims, it's especially sad when you don't see people, ..but see colour of someone's skin, we shouldn't judge others by the colour of their skin, we should learn to see people for who they are .... HUMANS LIKE US
It's admirable though. His willpower is astonishing.
@@azazello1784 . Are you a parent? .... if yes, ...would that still be your opinion, if someone came ...and killed your children ...
@@annemariemyburgh7252 No, not at all. But it was his children not someone elses.
@@azazello1784 , obviously we think differently about people being murdered, whether or not it is own children or not, ...families and friends of those victims were left behind , I can't imagine what must've went thru their minds, ... taking a life is never ok
maybe if my children faced all the father went through as a child. Disgusting American culture. @@annemariemyburgh7252
Interesting story…very sad all those people died by his hand…May they all RIP ❤sad day for many..
The detectives sound like they are sorry they are he was given life. I have had mixed friendships and they are not killers
He looks like Denzel Washington.
UGH!!! I'm going to lose my mind! It's Wilkes "Barr", the e is silent! 😂😂😂😂
It's not Wilkes Berry. I'm going to cry if I hear it one more time! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mr. Banks looks suspiciously like Lando Calrissian Star Wars.
That poor woman who lost her grandchildren and has to know that her son did it.
Thanks for the upload during my September 2023 birthday weekend!
Ar-15's are not assault rifles.
Love the docs uploaded on your channel . Excellent research and very interesting and informative!! Really into true crime. Great documentaries !! Thank you 👏🏻👏🏻👌👌💯💯⭐️⭐️😊😊❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦
Further evidence that a barber wields more power ove a community than warranted.
I was sick as a kid, a target. The bullies were half again as big as me. (Broken jaw, crushed ear canal, fractured knee, the works.) I wouldn't even dream of inflicting sth like that on another human being. The physical injuries never heal. The psychological injuries are exponentially worse. The priests did nothing to stop it, when they were not assaulting children themselves. Paul Shanley essentially murdered a friend of mine. All intelligent people reach the same conclusion. It is far preferable to never have been born.
Could the so called professionals stop referring to the AR as "assault rifle" ? Nothing proves ignorance more quickly than constantly referring to anything by a definition that does not represent it. Education and knowledge are power not stupidity.
Regardless of what you go through there is a point that you reach the age of reason. That point that you know right from wrong. You know that murder is wrong period. I don't care what a person went through. There is no justification for killing others.
Why not ban guns from normal American citizens!! I don’t understand how you want to crack down but still let them have the guns
Is this a joke?
@@CJ_Hall and how would that be a joke ??
Has anyone considered that this man was unstable because of society's prejudices at a time when he was an impressionable child, what colour was the store owner that he shot, as an adult he tried to make something of himself but seems to have developed a paranoia that increased over time, add alcohol and drugs to that damaged state of mind and you create a recipe for disaster. In no way misunderstand what I'm saying, I don't condone what he did, his actions were abhorrent and he needs to be kept out of the community and being caught and having time to sober up and perhaps see a therapist has brought home to him what he did, the only thing I find questionable is if his state of mind was so rattled at the time of actions, how was he able to remember explicitly the scene of his horrors so vividly so as to convince the court of his guilt, you'd expect someone in the state in which they describe to have a distorted memory from that time, the story while told very well seems to be missing something, those involved seemed overly sympathetic.
Many people go through far worse and become charitable people and productive members of society who overcame by God's grace
Perceived racial? Hmmmmm
i must admit, that George Banks must have gone through tremendous bullying about his half race throughout his whole life, that i feel sorry for him having that done to him from a child right through to adult hood. i condem him killing his kids and family, but can see how he didnt want them to go through the horrors he went through. such a sad time between black and whites
I don't understand why a convicted killer would be waiting on death row 40 years later.
Jimmy Olson - If there was a problem, why didn't you call your pal Superman? He can handle Lando Calrissian with no problem.
He was polygamist
Its an lmg ,large machine gun
I was 9 years old when this happened. I remember my parents talking about it, as we lived in northeast Pennsylvania and frequently went into Wilkes-Barre for grocery runs, shopping, to visit family, etc….
My mom and dad were so unsure how they felt about Mr. Banks getting the death sentence because they absolutely knew he was guilty and believed fully that there is no reason ever to do what he did. But….they also know how growing up with racism can effect people, especially being mixed race during the 1940’s - 1980’s. And everyone knows how awful northeast PA was back then…rife with racism. They didn’t even try to hide that crap. Mom & Dad were both from Bucks County PA & moved upstate to raise us kids in a “safer” environment. But keeping us safe physically caused us to grow up isolated and having quite a lot of poor influences in our school and community. 😢
Cry me a river, no excuse, modern day victimhood, we all have stories.
@@wishteria234 and this folks, is a typical response from a sociopath. Someone who can’t put themselves in another person’s shoes or just chooses not to because they’re the only one who’s allowed to feel victimized and wronged.
Don’t talk to me about struggles. I know struggles, but that doesn’t make me better than anyone else and I certainly don’t judge others based on how I handle what life throws at me. Not everyone is able to handle the same situations in the same way.
You need to try and have some GD sympathy for others or you’re just going to walk around miserable for your entire life.
@@melissadunton3534Uh, FYI, you're actually the sociopath. Get help now.
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I took care of a mentally challenged person who was related to George Banks . She hid in a closet when he was attacking family members. She would scream and cry randomly thinking of that day she'd experienced. It was so sad to see her reaction to the memories that play on repeat in her head. It always broke my heart seeing her relive what this man did. She couldn't really speak but the few words she did speak were always about that day.😢
This man Is crazy
No offense intended sir but the city is pronounced Wilkes - bah,
Pennsylvania
HE STILL ON DEATH ROW I NEW THIS GUY IM FROM THE AREA HE WAS A FRUIT CAKE STEPHEN IS DUFFY FROM 20 MILES AWAY IS STILL ON THE SAME DEATH I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH HIM AN WERE PAYING FOR THEM BOTH SAD BOTH CASES
Tragic
Sounds like a narcissist.
The mispronounced name of the town get me for some reason .. prouniunced wilkes bear
I am thankful 2 children hid and were spared. But I gotta ask, as he was killing 5 of his 7 kids, did he not keep count? This is sort of strange for a spree-killer right? They kill the entire family for a purpose. Seems odd. Anyway, still very glad the 2 kids are still okay.
The two kids he didn't find were not his. They were relatives of his ex wife.
My fathers family is from Wilkes Barre! These people came in the early eighties, and the very safe , peaceful city of Wilkes Barre exploded in theft, drugs and violent crime! It’s that simple!
What do you mean "these people"?
Still who did trace his mother's home address ? Ur the professional
Still u words I would not kill him that Mr Anderson Job
Thank you for pronouncing Wilkes Barre pretty close to right lol
People who live there can’t even pronounce it 😂
Wilks bar.
@@deadmanswife3625 nope. Wilks berry.
@@rmeredithm nope
It's pronounced Wilks-Bear or Wilks-Barry like in this doc.
Still he kill other not his children... criminal bottom line
Wilkes BAR, rhymes with car, far, jar, mar, par, and tar. Bury the berry, dude.
Thanks for this. I thought I was saying it wrong all this time, lol😅
It was named after Isaak Berry, not Isaak Barr.
Then why are some people who live thete are saying it is pronounced Bear?
@@lindavanocker1841 Googled this. Majority say "Wulks Berry." But hey, we have Chartres=Shart cathedral & Chartres= CHAR ters St. in New Orleans, or Burgundy, accent on 1st syl, wine, and Burgundy = Bur GUN dee St. down there.
Still he could hv GF ought for change?
Banks’s
Still HV use of a smoke bomb
Listening to the narrator saying Wilkes Barry was hilarious. It's pronounced "Wilkes Bear".
I’m glad someone said this. I was thinking he was wrong but I’m from Ohio so I thought maybe it’s me who didn’t know how to pronounce it lol
Wrong
According to my wife that lived a town next to it you are wrong. She says that he pronounced it correctly.
I’m from Wilkes~Barre and he pronounced it correctly.
As soon as you get into the story, another advert. Unwatchable.
What a BEAST
It was the white in him that did this. 😂
sure
What about Sam little then ?
His name is George Banks?! ... Why did they not call Mary Poppins? 🤔🙄
Still no race issues used against him???
Hands down, the creepiest intro music of any true crime show.
Why do they use narrators who aren’t Americans? It is really hard for me to understand!?!
because its not an American program. It is very clear to moi 😁
Why did he lose his job?
Don't bother , nothing but ADDS
I don't get them a couple at most maybe in the States?? I don't know.
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Surely this is why non-military personnel should NOT have Ar-15!
Some bread's of animals are banned and not allowed just the same as some races should be
Couldnt have happened if there were no guns!
How do you know that, what if he used a bow and arrows
Uhhhh….people bent on killing will kill regardless of guns.
The worst school massacre in US history was the Bath School Massacre in 1927. Andrew Kehoe used explosives despite it being 7 years prior to the passage of the 1934 National Firearms Act which meant he could have obtained a machine gun to use….but he didn’t.
Quit trying to blame the actions of evil people on inanimate objects.
WHY ???🇺🇲☦️🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚