THE TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE OF NIKOLE BETTERSON
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It's honestly terrifying that a child can go missing for 20 years and nobody notices.
Exactly horrific
So Tragic I saw this case on Another channel
because she wasn’t “missing” to her grandparents or anyone else she was always just supposed to be with her father. very sad
This case is so sad. Nicole's grandparents should have filed for custody on the grounds of abandonment. Her father took off for months and left Nicole with her grandparents that would have given them the right to get guardianship of her.
That's what would have happened in a just world, but a parent's rights is very strong, and they were even stronger back then. It's such a sad, sad case...
Yeah I think it takes much longer before they can file for abandonment. All he would have had to say was he was grieving and just needed a few months to do so, people would have took his side saying he had been through enough. They probably tried really hard to keep her and did what they could.
@@Kari.F. your right, especially back then. I've seen cases of them constantly giving abused kids back to the parents in the 70s and 80s, they could basically do anything and at the end of the day they were still the parents.
@@kassandrarogers4286 yea I'm not sure how long it takes for abandonment to be considered. I believe it varies state to state but they didn't mention if it had been thought of or not and I just wanted to add it. I think there's a lot of help out there for people but it's not really advertised in any way. I just wish that people were informed of any and all help out there that might apply to them.
They claimed the social security benefits for Nikole for the years she was entitled to it - ie. until she was eighteen. I figure that was reason enough for them to take her. Disgusting. 😥😥
You are 100% right they went to get her for the money.
Even without the social security checks they would of been able to get money through cash assistance, food stamps, housing assistance and at least 6 thousand a year earned income tax return for one child. Even if a parents income is only 5 thousand a year the earned income tax credit and child tax credit gives parents at least 6 thousand a year for claiming one child. Two children equal about 10 thousand a year tax return their parents get until the children either graduate highschool or until the children are 22 if they continue to stay in school and go to college
Tiffany Young, Those programs did not exist in the 70’s. The welfare programs of the 70’s and 80’s were extremely less generous.
Tiffany Young, to clarify, EIC and CTC
But why keep her away from the rest of the family unless they did something to her
I wonder if anyone else realizes that once a baby leaves the hospital…. There is no tracking or anything for at least 5 years when the kid starts school. There is no system that monitors for dr visits or well being of the child. Unless someone reports neglect or abuse or a missing child… the child is completely off the radar. How many kids are missing that no one even realizes are missing
Wow. Never thought of that. Absolutely scary.
wouldn’t doctor visits cover that?
@@adelinav123 not really. And if abusive or neglectful parents don’t take the child to a doctor, there is no one to report anything to the authorities. Even once a kid starts school, all a parent has to say is the kid is living in another state with family or is being homeschooled or is going to a private school….no one follows up with it. Social worker only get involved if there is reported neglect or abuse. It is the same with elderly people. Unless someone reports their death or a body is collected by a funeral home or authorities, someone can collect their checks or bank accounts as most are direct deposit for years and it would never be questioned. This is what happened here, the child was a minor, so an adult would be in charge of the bank account that’s why they were able to cash the checks that long. If a child is born in the hospital, now they can issue the social security number at birth, BUT only if the parent requests it. I personally did not get mine until I was 15. But it’s not used to track anything for a child except if they claimed on a tax return…but still no one actually sees the child for that to happen. And what about the 10 to 30% of births that happen outside of hospital.
It can be a terrifying thought. But what's the answer? In a free society, people can't pop up and track the movements of a family. I never thought of it because when I had my family early on, we travelled around America with my husband, as he was in the Army. We should have the ability to mandate once yearly physical exams to ensure that they're growing properly and seem to be overall healthy. That's the least we should be doing, I think.
@@GenXfrom75 my personal opinion is that children should be issued a ssn at birth regardless of the parents wishes ( as the child will need it anyway during their lifetime ). I also think that children under the age of 6 should be kept on a national database and it be legally required that the child see a dr every six months until they are school age. That database would have the child’s medical history no matter what state they are in. Also I think that if the visits aren’t fulfilled, no one can claim all the tax benefits for that child. That’s something else these people probably did was claim her as a dependent so there was also tax fraud.
I’m not completely done with the video but I had a thought….. I wish the investigator would have told Jerrad that Nicole was set to inherit a LOT of money they just needed to locate her or her nearest living relative. Money always talks !!!
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Fuck that’s a great idea I never would have thought of..
I never would've thought about that, hm.
Maybe you should of been the detective 🕵️♀️😂 oh now I can’t stop thinking about what if !
Damn that's a great idea!
great idea!
Back in those days, it was VERY easy to sell a child to someone. I think that is probably what they did. Many kids were sold to loving couples who could not afford adoption costs, so we can only hope that was the case for Nikole, and not sold into trafficking. He would have faced jail time for selling his child, so it could be he did that.
But the statute of limitations would mean that he could no longer be charged for selling her if he did. As Bella said, the only reason he would still be able to be charged and go to jail for would be murder as murder is the only exception for the statute of limitations. So since Barbara said he'd have to go to jail, that would mean he committed murder and could still be charged for it.
@@mimixmin unless they were just too dumb to know that
@@mimixmin im really not convinced they knew what statue of limitation is
I think they killed her so they could keep cashing the government checks
Cases like this are heartbreaking, imagine the life she would’ve had if she stayed with her grandparents. Grans and Pops are really out there saving lives
defiantly a cash grab kinda situation. he disappeared for months, met a woman who also did drugs, both of them thought of ways to get money for drugs, he was like ill go get my child for the social security checks, took her away, killed her, then moved away. that's how no one in the new area knew that he ever had a kid, because she never even made it there
My mum died in 2008. The love of her life and partner of 25 years (my step-father) who also said she was the one true love of his life, had another woman on the go after 5 months of my mum's passing. He hopped from relationship to relationship for the next couple of years. I used to think this meant he hadn't loved my mum as much as he professed to have done, but over time I've come to understand that some men just genuinely are not able to be alone. For my step-dad, it was better to be with *somebody* rather than be with *nobody*.
I have a friend like that she’s in and out of relationships so much
Sad 😭
That's a trait in borderline personality disorder.
@@melsmith3664 My stepdad doesn't have BPD. He just lived his whole life with either his first wife looking after him or my mother looking after him, he simply doesn't function well alone, he needs to be in a relationship. Many studies have been done on people who lose a partner to illness and most show that the person left behind usually seeks out another partner quite quickly, mostly in an attempt to subconsciously fill the void the loss of their partner has left them with.
You really shouldn't armchair diagnose people from one snapshot of their life.
Interesting 🤔
My gut feeling right from the beginning is that they sold her. Either like a “private adoption” or for more sinister reasons. SO sad! If you passed, RIP! ❤️🙏✌🏻
Yes this is exactly what I thought… sold her and moved to Vegas whilst still claiming her money 🥴😭😭
I thought that too at first... but I think the fact that they killed themselves sadly suggests something more sinister. :(
Yup that is exactly what I was thinking
No they wouldn't have got her checks.They killed her.
@@Anna-vl8qc It actually says in this video (around 7:55) that her father picked up Nikole’s SS benefits every single month, and this has also been well documented elsewhere.
It’s pretty obvious that the father wanted the money that the baby was entitled to because her mother had died. He continued to receive the money even though he wasn’t caring for her. I feel so bad for the grandparents. They lost their daughter and then their granddaughter. I wish the grandparents had tried to find her but I don’t think it would have saved Nicole. I think they killed her soon after they took her.
You should look into the case of Isabella Kalua. It happened this year on Oahu, and is still ongoing but really heartbreaking and deserves attention. Isabella was a foster child, allegedly abused by her foster parents, who went missing earlier this year. Her foster siblings say they found her dead, duct taped in a dog crate, but her body is still missing. The whole island went on a manhunt for her before all the truth of the abuse started coming out. Right around Thanksgiving her foster parents were arrested for 2nd degree murder. Obviously theres more details but definitely one that deserves attention.
Could it be a possibility that he caused the accident with intention that both the mom and baby would die? If that were the case, he would try to figure out what to do with the baby. Maybe he was already in a relationship with the new woman by then and they concocted the idea to retrieve the baby, get rid of her somehow, and still collect 18 years worth of monetary benefits for her. It's obvious that they did SOMETHING to the baby. Such a sad case.
“I would haunt the shit out of him” lol same
At first I thought they just dropped her off at a fire station or orphanage but them committing suicide makes me believe they killed Nikole
My thoughts as well!
Bella did you get a bird or what is that sound in the background? I kept thinking something was in my house lol
hahahaha omg it’s this little bird that comes and sits on my pool fence and just chirps the whole time i film 😂 i swear it only ever shows up while i’m filming too!
Merry christmas Bella . i watch Bailey Sarian and Kendalle but u are my all time fav. It makes my day when u upload. Ty ty. Merry Christmas.
Ugh indian myna birds!! I know that squick squick squick anywhere!! Lol And yes!! They totally know when to chirp up - I'm sure of it!!
Heard it also 😂
I kept pausing the video and looking around! 😂
The fact that she referred to this baby girl as a "youthful blunder" breaks my heart
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This case gives me chills. There’s something so sinister going on here.
Gut wrenching to not get any answers. my thoughts & prayers to the grandparents. rip precious 😇
Happy Holidays to all be kind & safe. Thank you Miss Bella you've did a good job w/o pics👍☺️
First time I've heard this case. Thank you for bringing it up. The idea that they took her just to get access to her money and then killed her is disgusting. Poor little girl and poor grand parents.
Am I the only one who loves the Lighting switching. Idk- I feel like it sets the mood for each part of the video that it switches..
Great video as always Bella. Thank you for doing the not so well known cases! I've never heard of this one but it is very intriguing. I'm with you on the not feeling sorry for them. Something tragic happened and it's very sad especially for the baby girl's grandparents who would have gladly kept her. Merry Christmas Bella. xo
This case is so sad. Poor little Nikole
4:55 “I will haunt the shit out of him” 🤣 me!!
Murdering someone is not making 'mistakes' in the youth. Her Suicide Letter was laughable
I am obsessed with her videos 😭 just finished all the solve cases and half way through the mystery Mondays.
happy holidays bella!!!!! beyond excited to see this case . you always do so well on ur videos . keep it up cutie!!!!
Nikole looks like one of the most sweetest beautiful we girls 😣 this case is absolutely heartbreaking ❤️🩹
I know there’s not enough man power for such things, but it burns me that the system sent the social security checks, but that they didn’t bother to confirm that the child was enrolled in school, or was otherwise being cared for:(. The care-givers should have been required to provide proof of existence prior to receiving those checks
There is nowadays, my child gets SSI disability and they check frequently to make sure she still qualifies. SS got smart, thank God.
@@kimmiegirl810 I’m not sure that your situation has much in common with this case. You said your child receives SSI because of disability, which the SSA has been periodically (usually every couple of years) confirming for recipients of all ages. But Nikole received benefits because her mother died before she turned 18, not due to disability, and since her reason for receiving benefits based on her mother’s death only needed to be verified once, I doubt the SSA would waste time checking up on Nikole herself.
I grew up in Dearborn MI and I’ve never heard of Nichole, I probably would have never heard of it if not for this video. Thank you for continuing to make great content!
Yaaay!!! Been having Bella withdrawals! Hope everyone is having a lovely holiday season if you celebrate, and a kickass week if you don’t!
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It does sound like Nicole is dead, and at her father's hands, since Barbara indicated he'd go to jail and she'd have to live without him. Such a sad case of fraud, for collecting money meant for Nicole, and death, of everyone involved.
I feel they picked her up from the grandparents to either sell her or to kill her to receive the payments . So very sad the grandparents lost their child and grandchild . They should of taken him to court to get full custody .
happy hols, Bella. thank you for the upload as I listen while I'm at work.
I wish you had updated playlists in the right order, it would increase your watch times and make it easier for people to watch you more regularly as people would throw on the playlist to catch up with your recent videos and then leave it on loop so it goes through them all again from the beginning like I do with a lot of true crime youtubers while I do other stuff. They need to be in the correct, chronological order though, the ones you have now are backwards and its nice to not have to stop what I am doing three times to skip forward, then back, then forward again so they make sense or have you talk about the "previous case" when it I've not seen it yet.
I pressed play on this video so fast! 😍 love it when you upload, I hope you have an incredible Christmas ❤️
Wow spoiling us so shortly before Xmas? Thank you, Bella!
heheh 4 more to come over the next 4 days!
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@@bellafiori YESSS I’m so glad!!! I’ve been waiting for this video because your literally the only person that has good storytelling
He wanted Nikole’s check every month which is why he came and got her . People are so disgusting. Poor baby girl
My neighbor died and his son (who was in the apartment with him) thought his dad was sleeping a lot, so day two the poor 15 year old son enters to check on his elderly father, who had been dead in the apartment for now over two full days…honestly…I STILL remember the smell. I can’t imagine weeks later finding him how bad that would be.
It’s a very sad situation and it’s sad we will never ever know what actually happened to her, but at least they have some sort of answers rather than just always wondering where she is or not looking for her because she had her own life or waiting for her to reach out to them
I’ve been watching you for years now!! So much love for you and your videos, have a lovely Christmas Bella xx
This is such a heartbreaking case. I feel so bad for the grandparents... losing their daughter then granddaughter:( so incredibly sad
Merry Xmas Bella. Happy Holidays, Everyone!! Be safe out there.
missed you bella hope you are well! i live in brissy too and know this covid shit sparkin up again is pretty anxiety filled for a lot of us this close to chrissy. I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and get to spend the day with your family!! all love
Merry Christmas Beautiful Bella. Love your channel. Thank you
I've never heard of this case. Thanks so much for sharing it!!!
Did anyone use facial recognition software to see if Nikole ended up in a different life? Maybe they abandoned her on the side of the road somewhere? I also think it’s pretty clear that the motive behind Nikole’s disappearance would have been to collect Nikole’s social security checks.
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Didn't take long at all for me to suspect that the father had killed her. There have been too many cases of children disappearing or turning up dead under similar circumstances.
i’m so glad someone is covering this case! i’ve been fascinated with it for years.
Merry Christmas Bella thankyou for the constant effort you put into making these detailed videos for so many years 💜
Him saying he needed to get into contact with Nikcole makes me think maybe they sent her somewhere and they killed themselves because they couldn’t get in contact with her for some reason or found out she was dead and thought they would be to blame for their deaths. Also they don’t sound like very smart people they might not have knowledge on the statute of limitations so they could think he would still go to jail for any number of things.
Well, murder has no statue of limitations. So, if he knew he killed her, then he knew he was fucked if he got caught. I'm only about 1/2 thru the video, but definitely sounds like she was sent somewhere or dead from the time she left her grandparents.
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you should do a video on lisa marie young:) she’s from Canada, British Columbia van island. And has been missing since 2002
Cool light effects Bella! Dig ya mate, Merry Christmas and thanks for the upload ❤
Hey cutie, I love the way you deliver your stories and love your darling personality. Im old enough to be your gramma and love your thoughts. This little girl is indeed dead. So tragic and he should have just left her alone...
Thank you for posting!!! Been thinking about it all week like when is she going to post haha ☺️
I just wanna say that I don’t think I’ve ever actually ✨watched✨ one of these videos, but I always have them playing when I’m cleaning, exercising, painting, etc… so doesn’t matter to me what you have on the screen lmao
Sadly with Nikole being under 3 years old when Jared took her out of the Klingles' custody their theory that she would come find them when she was older was always doomed to fail, whilst the brain is capable of retaining most memories for upto 7 years unfortunately most people suffer from what child physiatrists call infantile dementia. Id is the inability to remember anything that happened within the first three years of life, so unless Nikole turned 3 whilst in her grandparents care there's no way she'd remember them.
I'm not sure how it works in the U.S but here in the UK local authorities (city/town or county education department) contact parents at least a year prior to a child starting school to ask which local schools they'd like their child to go to, the fact that Peggy Bezzie (the private investigator) couldn't find Nikole in Las Vegas doesn't mean that she couldn't have been 'enrolled' somewhere else. There is around 2,008 miles between Dearborn and Las Vegas, many nice towns to settle down for awhile and then move on from. Personally I think that Jared and Barbara killed Nikole at some point prior to her 5th birthday
There is no program like this is America that I am aware of. After receiving our SSN at birth we are basically off the radar until we are registered for school. Also, America uses zipcodes to assign schools so there is no reason to reach out to survey parents on ideal schools. Children are supposed to be enrolled no later than age 7 for school but I am unsure of how this is enforced besides a family member or friend calling Child Services out of good merit.
The only way a child would be checked on prior to school age is if they had been hotlined or in the foster system. No established doctor means no calls for appointment reminders. No daycare means no attendance checks. Ect.
I don’t think Nikole would’ve needed to remember her grandparents in order to want to have some level of contact with them. I think she would have been motivated to contact them herself simply in order to learn more about her mother … and I suspect the grandparents were thinking the same thing.
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I think they picked her up because of her social security checks and quickly realized how difficult it can be caring for such a young child and killed her. They probably waited 20 years for that knock on the door.
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They needed the money so they used her after her murder because they didn’t want to deal with her. I also thought trafficking might have been involved. They would’ve gotten money that way too but I’d think there might be SOME kind of trace. Such a heartbreaking story; my heart hurts for Nikole.
Though the same thing..
I also immediately thought of trafficking. So sad.
TH-cam unsubscribed me from your channel!! I was wondering why I wasn't getting notifications! Your whispered comment about haunting the shit out of your man 100% make me chuckle out loud lolol
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Omg I literally been all your channel every day waiting for another video. Thanks Bella, missed seeing your face and case stories 🧡
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I think there are a few possibilities :c
1) At some point while Jerrad and Barbara were high in the car, they got annoyed by something that Nikole was doing in the back seat and simply dumped her off somewhere without a thought
2) They sold her
3) They kept her for a period of time for very dark, moneymaking purposes. If she did die under their care, I think it was due to something going wrong in this scenario
I don't think these people are smart enough to understand or keep track of the statute of limitations for various crimes, so I don't think they necessarily murdered her to get the reaction of a murder-suicide in the end
Happy holidays Bella!! Thank you
I was in a bad mood and came here wanting to find a murder mystery video from Bella what r the chancessss
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2:36 I had to go back and listen again to make sure I heard Dearborn mi. Wild. Not ready for this one
I believe he didn't live Nickole with her grandparents because he knew she would be getting a check because her mom had pass. Happy Holidays everyone!! I pray your holidays are filled with lots of love, laughter, and tons of hug and kisses
My theory is that Jarrett knew Nikole was getting social security checks and that was the reason he and Barbara wanted her in the first place. Maybe they never even planned on raising her.
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Poor baby girl 🥺
She never deserved any of that and justice will most likely never happen.
Omg you have my in pieces with laughter sometimes, Bella!
Anyway on a serious note this is such a tragic story but only 1/3 way through at the mo…
man, there’s just something about her voice, she’s such a good storyteller I get sucked in every time
My thought from the beginning is that they picked her up from her grandparents in order to sell her. They were probably broke and needed money to start a life in Vegas. If they did an illegal adoption, there wouldn’t be paperwork. So it would look like she just vanished! They might have thought- at the time- that it wasn’t immoral since they gave Nikole to a couple who wanted kids. It might have seemed like a win-win, especially since they got her social security checks. But maybe they felt guilty for having taken Nikole away from her real family in the end. Selling a child is illegal, so they probably thought they were in serious trouble. Also, law enforcement can bluff and make it seem like you’re in worse trouble than you are. We don’t know what they were told- but it could have scared them into taking “drastic measures.” Maybe Barbara genuinely felt guilty in the end, hence the letter.
When you said you "haunt the 💩 out of him" and "bum f'd nowhere" I died laughing! 🤣🤣
This whole case is irritating my soul. I’m so mad at that detective. Why would you make that move? They could’ve fled the country & it would be the same outcome. ??? Makes no sense
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Ah yes. Youthful blunders. That explains why they kept cashing the social security checks for… almost eighteen years of their adult lives.
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