This is one of the most horrendous and brutal crimes I’ve ever heard of. Imagine the trauma and horror of being beaten to death which causes you to give birth, and for the newborn baby to be beaten to death too. A special place in hell must surely exist and wait patiently for that monster. To me , this appears deeply personal, especially what was done to the husband 😢🙏
It wasn't personal at all. The person that killed the Dardeen Family was a serial killer named Tommy Lynn Sells a.k.a, The Coast-To-Coast Killer. He confessed to being the killer. He changed certain details of his story a couple times, but he knew details about the crime scene that only the killer would know. Tommy Lynn Sells has been dead for the past 10 and a half years.
The level of depravity and absolute rage this family endured is heartbreaking. I dont understand why this case hasn't been revisited more by cold case detectives to find out who actually murdered them. Feels like they have left the file on the shelf to gather dust. RIP Dardeen family.
I live just a few miles from Ina IL, this happened when I was 10yrs old and I know it is solvable with today's technology, I drive past the spot where this happened almost every day. Sad story to say the least.
I lived 15 minutes from that place. It was terrifying. I remember when they moved the trailer out and replaced it. People still live on that property, in a trailer to this day.
I don't think I'd want a stigmatized property for my home. I don't like the thoughts of living on property or a home where someone was murdered. I bet it was scary living in the same town and something so horrible happening
@6:24 especially because he was found in a wheat field like the whole lot is tainted. .. You are so strong I appreciate your input because 15min isn't that far
@@OrganicAlumination that isn't far away at all. Did u live near the house or where the husband was found?. Or was it close to one another? I must have missed that when my husband was talking the entire time lol. The way they tortured him and Just the whole crime period is horrible. I wish they could find who did it ! That's even scarier not knowing who actually did such an awful thing and still roaming the streets !
ya I haven't heard about this case myself an im from Illinois an Ive looked an saw as many murders I could here so it's nice to see a case I haven't encountered but not at the expense of someone being murdered don't want to sound like a complete psycho path lol.
It sounds like Keith KNEW someone was gunning for him. It also sounds like whoever killed Keith had a vendetta against him. Nobody just randomly cuts off genitals unless theyre trying to prove a point.
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The story is horrific and not uncommon. The narrator delivered this story with empathy and respect. There’s a good balance of media (podcast are just boring - jmo) and I really like the way the narrator speaks and I’m v pleased to have found this channel. Good work. ☺️
I feel so bad a family was killed and no one has provided any information it’s breaks my heart given children were involved and they appeared to be true victims. RIP
I hope that someday this will be solved. We have decades-old cases getting solved or having makeup breakthroughs so much recently. I really don't have very many theories myself but I feel like maybe the mobile home being for sale might be one of the better leads. You would think that if someone took advantage of that too harm them they would be looking to you still but they didn't do that so it's really hard to say. I'm hoping someday someone will speak up or technology will help solve this.
Thank you for these stories of unsolved murders. We must not let these people be forgotten. As with my mother back in the 70's was. With all of our new ways to solve crime, it's not unusual to hear cases from years ago being solved. Thank you very much for your research.
It is such an odd case. A lot of times children are spared, but the sheer brutality of it all reminds me of organized crime hits, but no one had ties to any of that, not in any way anyone has been able to find in so many years. But it also is so odd that the father was taken away from the home and executed the way he was and after including the castration, that's just severe overkill and again, doesn't make any sense. Things like that means it's personal, not a drifter/someone passing through. And I also find it hard to believe the mother would have let a stranger in. It's just, baffling to be honest. Thank you for sharing this case. It may have been covered many times, but this is the first time I am hearing of it. Thank you as always for all of your kindness and respect for the victims and their families.
@@Col91016 Thanks so much for this information 🙏 I always wondered how the perpetrators could be so brazen; they obviously had no fear of being caught by family or friends calling round for a visit. How could they live with themselves, knowing what they had done? So evil.
What about the the girl who came to their house to use the phone and he refused to let her in maybe that was the first attempt to get into their home and then they came back and got in anyway did the police look into that ?
Such a sad case, so sad the wife was pregnant and he couldn't even let her and the kids live not that the husband deserved to die either but it hits different when it involves kids, unborn babies or pregnant women for me RIP to the whole family
Hello , new subscriber from Boston. YT put this video in my stream . Very interested in case I never heard of before. Why do even popular true crime do the same stories . Three times today I was few minutes into a video and realized I knew the story because of watching other channels previously. I peeked at your videos and I am going to get in house under a blanket and binge watch your videos !! ❤
Hi I’m new here. Here’s my thoughts…Keith suddenly wants to move back to his hometown stating there’s more crime and he fears for the safety of his family. I think he got into something illegal and his family and also Keith, had to pay the price. I think he was trying to run away but didn’t make it in time. So sad his poor wife and kids had to go in that horrible way.
He didn’t “suddenly” want to move back home. Crime increased which caused him to become nervous and want to protect his family. You are tarnishing his legacy by making false allegations of illegal behavior without proof. Which is libel by the way. Even drug dealers don’t murder children. That’s a ridiculous conclusion.
Very sad but interesting story Ash. The fact that Keith was castrated indicates that this was personal. I think Joyce was grasping at straws, but what mother wouldn’t be questioning everything? You would think that since the police found marijuana at the scene they would have checked the parents blood. In case the drug theory played out. I think I’ve mentioned before that I hate unsolved murders…
I was thinking that same thing about the castration honestly. And I’m not sure if they did do the blood tests I’m guessing they might not have since they didn’t feel it was in anyway connected to the murders. I feel for Joeann because I can’t imagine just not knowing what happened. I hope something will change for their sake. I do too my friend :(
I agree. There has to be a motive for the castration if the person was dead or alive. But I don’t know what it would be. Sure would be interested to hear what detectives or investigators would say about that. Horrible deaths
Claiming Satanic rituals is absolutely absurd and ridiculous. There’s no proof. The mother of Keith claimed they didn’t smoke weed or her son didn’t gamble. She didn’t know Jack about her son after he moved away.
No disrespect to you , your voice is so beautiful and calming to listen to ! Your coverage of all the senseless violence to a Fellow Soul’s is just Mind Boggling ! God Bless you all my fellow Soul’s . North Bay Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
I think the husband may have been involved with something illegal. I think when he said that area they previously lived in was becoming too crime ridden, was his excuse to try and escape some shady dealings. Just my opinion. We'll never know and that's so sad.
Heartbreaking. 1987 was pretty firmly in Satanic Panic era. I doubt it was that. It really feels like Keith was the target--the perp/s killed his entire family before killing him (and possibly castrating him before death). That'd be pure torture.
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That was such a brutal case! Ive never heard of it Ash but know the Sells confessed to so many cases its hard to really know his true number. It did seem to fit his previous crimes though, he also said there were so many that details blurred and merged. I would love you to cover David McGreavy The Monster of Worcester' I know Ive asked you before so sorry for the repetition! But you did ask! 😁Take care Ash, love Jessie x
No this wasn't committed by Tommy Lynn Selles , he was a deviant and pedophile would get courage from drinking and would use the knife he carried everywhere in his murders he was motivated by robbery or sexual assault possibly both he be in do what he was after and out he didn't linger about .
I only found out about this case yesterday and I can only say that people get offended over the slightest of remarks, jokes, etc, and it's usually those closest to us the ones who try to attack, hurt or destroy us. To me this brutality was not a coincidence, nobody kills an entire family as well as an unborn/just born baby for no reason.
I wonder if they have any evidence dna or fingerprints from the crime scene. Also I think that a suspect profile could give new insight about the killer?
According to all law enforcement involved, the place was spotless, including the weapons used to kill them. I believe the person (s) that did this stayed behind and cleaned everything up. I'm still not discounting the mob connection.
it is very scary that someone as ruthless as this killer is still out there to offend again! i really hope this person or people may have gotten jailed for another crime and is at least off the streets. hope it gets solved! this one is just sick!
It was personal. To show such hatred for the rest of the family and cutting off the husbands junk shows just how personal this was. An affair on the part of the husband still fits in my opinion. This ranks No 1 in the most horrific murders I have heard about.
I feel like Keith being castrated (and his member being shoved into his own mouth - by some accounts) is very telling. Maybe someone's jealous husband (even if he just thought that Keith was having an affair with his wife) made Keith watch his own family be destroyed and then took him to that field to kill him? Also, if they have not done so, then they need to open this case back up and use modern forensic science to try to solve it. If this crime wasn't committed by someone who they knew, then it had to be committed by a psycho serial killer like Tommy Lynn Sells.
Yeah from everything I’ve read many of the investigators on the case felt he was responsible but they couldn’t prove it. And without the proof they wouldn’t charge him with it. It’s just sad that if he did do it they won’t be able to prove it especially now since he’s been executed. Thanks for watching!
Tommy Sells claimed to have murdered a woman and her little girl in the town that I live in. Investigators went and talked to him on death row in Texas and got his DNA. It didn't match the DNA found at the crime scene. I think he lied about a lot of the murders that he claimed he committed.
Under the Ash Tree: I have two observations (for whatever they're worth): 1) As retailed here, the story makes no sense. It's so completely crazy. 2) One or both of the murdered adults appear to have been living a secret life. Never a good idea. However, if you look back to Truman Capote's docu-novel, IN COLD BLOOD and the film that was made from it, MOST murders are "personal" to the murderers. There's always a "motive," generally one with revenge at its core. Personal, impersonal, when revenge is involved--even with, say, the Manson killings, it's never a "senseless, chaotic" crime. Manson was pissed off at Terry Melcher for not giving him a record deal, and mistakenly believed the producer was still living in the house on Cielo Drive with his then-girlfriend, Candice Bergen. The LaBianca murders were committed to throw police off the trail of the perpetrators. The reason I've gone to such descriptive lengths is a simple one. Unless you're in a drugged-out, drunken blackout, you generally have a motive--closer to the surface of your consciousness than you might think--for the actions you perpetrate on innocent human beings. (See the award-winning film, "Monster" about the life and killings of Aileen Wuornos. ) Thank you for the great job you did putting this video together and narrating it. Heartbreaking, infuriating. Horrific.
Oh how sad for the family I can't even begin to know the pain they suffered the more baby came in world just to die The little boy . And daddy couldn't even protect his family he to was dead how awful.
I live in Central Illinois and this happened just south of my town, so it was constantly in the papers. There was a lot of anger towards whoever did this because children had been killed. It takes a special kind of coldness to kill a pregnant woman and a toddler. My older sister was very interested in this case because she had a lot in common with Eileen---she was thirty years old and pregnant with her second child when the murders happened. She has long been haunted by the case. I pray that whoever did this, if there's no justice in this life, there will be justice in the next.
Ive heard a couple different things about this case. In one posting it was mentioned that the wife was SA with the bat which made her go into labor . Why did Keith’s father need to use a key to get into the home with the police , as careful as Keith was known to be and not answering the door , did the suspect go to the back door (as it was open) if he went out the front door , he was together enough in his mind to lock the front door behind him? Also he was organized enough to begin cleanup and not worry about getting caught but used a weapon that was the homeowners bat? Such a mystery and things that should definitely be revisited to solve this . I definitely believe this was 100% personal
Li a tese de uma pessoa acusando o pai do Russel, talvez ele tenha sido o assassino pra ficar com td o dinheiro da família, ele e a esposa seriam os herdeiros direto. 😢
I don't believe Tommy Cells killed them. I remember this case very well, and to say people were scared is an understatement. I myself was terrified. I was working in Mt. Vernon at the time and had to pass their home every day on my way home. I went through a nervous breakdown over this. I honestly wish they would find the real killer.
Sadly this is yet another case where a family did all they could to stay safe but even with all their foresight and planning was unable to stop evil. In 2000 my mom was murdered by her boyfriend I bring this up because she led a high-risk lifestyle being home insecure and unable to win her battle with rum, we knew this could happen she stayed with me for over six months but even with two jobs I could not take care of both of us sadly this meant putting her back on the streets, we knew what could happen. A beautiful family just starting their lives trying to do everything they could to not be willing victims even to the point of turning away a girl that might have needed real help but the fear of being taken was stronger than their fear of turning away a soul in need, I hope one event did not lead to the other as retaliation or maybe a second attempt with this time working. RIP, it is always much sadder when we talk about people who did not have the ability to live a full life and are taken far too young.
The father was definitely the prime target of this crime and what was done to him indicates a lot of personal rage on the part of the attacker with sexual undertones. This was someone known to at least the father and almost certainly that person wasn’t Tommy Lynn Sells.
@@Col91016but Keith died way earlier? This would make sense if he died later or roughly at the same time, but the timeline difference is 12 hours all the way way possibly 36 hours between his death and his family's
I thought I had recognized the name but has more detail than I have heard before. Good job. And, sigh, there was a time when 'cult activity' was always a go-to. Could it be some rando posing as a potential buyer of the mobile home?
Thank you for watching, I appreciate the support. And I know, cults always seem to be a possibility. I feel like a random person is as plausible as someone they knew. There just isn’t enough evidence to narrow it down sadly :(
yep I remember this case...I think this case can be solve thru DNA evidence if they have any...our technology is so far advance maybe they can find some evidence...if they kept any of it...
Ummm . . . Police are in way too much of a hurry to close a case. If he can't remember how he left her body, then he didn't do it. He knew about the watermelon set, so at some point he knew the real killer who told him that detail. He realized he was losing his audience and remembered the offhand comment and blurted it out. If he got all the other details wrong, he didn't do it, but he does know who did.
It's like somebody was against baby making and having. They murdered the mother that had 2 living and one on the way with zero mercy. Then when they murdered the husband they castrated him too. Maybe the killer was jealous of what they had and what they, the killer, did not have. I sure hope the police didn't leave a stone unturned.
Keith turning an 18 yo girl away bc Ina was so dangerous always stands out to me. The Dardeen’s were decent folks by all accounts. I’m not criticizing Keith by any means. In fact I believe Keith would have offered to make the phone call FOR the young lady. Being a young woman herself, I don’t believe Elaine would’ve been OK denying another woman help. I just can’t see decent folks telling a young woman in distress to hit the bricks. I believe the couple would have made the phone call and allowed the woman to wait outside. Maybe the “18 yo woman” was a coworker of Keith’s? A coworker who wanted to be with Keith and was rejected? I’ve known a couple men in my life who had a female stalker. Seems like Keith may have had one. If she showed up at their door Keith may have lied about what she wanted. I’m not insinuating Keith did anything wrong. He may have had someone who was obsessed with him… Could be why he was planning on moving away with his family. *edited to remove an emoji I accidentally hit.
You would hope with today's DNA testing they would get some answers. With Mr. Dardeen being castrated it sounds like it was personal. They wanted him to suffer.
Everyone saying this is personal because of the castration isn’t necessarily correct. This person was clearly a sadist. Castration can be a message. This person destroyed his family (probably in front of him) and now he’s destroying his manhood and ultimately his life. Keith being involved in drug trafficking to the point where his family and himself would be murdered doesn’t make sense. They both held jobs down, they both had good reputations, went to a Baptist church, were expecting a second child, and lived a very modest life (a trailer and one car). Someone involved in drugs to the point where they would be high enough on the totem pole to have something this horrific happen to them would most likely have more money. Also, even drug dealers hate baby killers. I think this person was a sexual sadist who is probably dead by now or in prison for a similar crime but doesn’t want to admit it because admitting to killing children in prison gets you killed. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
It's difficult to think of the horror and agony this poor family went thru that night.
It’s horrific 😞
This is one of the most horrendous and brutal crimes I’ve ever heard of. Imagine the trauma and horror of being beaten to death which causes you to give birth, and for the newborn baby to be beaten to death too. A special place in hell must surely exist and wait patiently for that monster. To me , this appears deeply personal, especially what was done to the husband 😢🙏
Exactly what I think of everytime I see this case I simply can not imagine, n the evil it would take, omg😢
I hope your right about the "reward" for the perpetrator. Simply horrible.
I know. A new low for criminal behavior. Just depraved.
It wasn't personal at all. The person that killed the Dardeen Family was a serial killer named Tommy Lynn Sells a.k.a, The Coast-To-Coast Killer. He confessed to being the killer. He changed certain details of his story a couple times, but he knew details about the crime scene that only the killer would know. Tommy Lynn Sells has been dead for the past 10 and a half years.
The level of depravity and absolute rage this family endured is heartbreaking. I dont understand why this case hasn't been revisited more by cold case detectives to find out who actually murdered them. Feels like they have left the file on the shelf to gather dust. RIP Dardeen family.
I live just a few miles from Ina IL, this happened when I was 10yrs old and I know it is solvable with today's technology, I drive past the spot where this happened almost every day. Sad story to say the least.
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Can you visit the actual location where it happened? Like is the trailer still there?
I lived 15 minutes from that place. It was terrifying. I remember when they moved the trailer out and replaced it. People still live on that property, in a trailer to this day.
Thank you for sharing- I can’t imagine the kind of fear everyone felt especially since the town is such a small place.
I just moved to Murphysboro
I don't think I'd want a stigmatized property for my home. I don't like the thoughts of living on property or a home where someone was murdered. I bet it was scary living in the same town and something so horrible happening
@6:24 especially because he was found in a wheat field like the whole lot is tainted. .. You are so strong I appreciate your input because 15min isn't that far
@@OrganicAlumination that isn't far away at all. Did u live near the house or where the husband was found?. Or was it close to one another? I must have missed that when my husband was talking the entire time lol. The way they tortured him and Just the whole crime period is horrible. I wish they could find who did it ! That's even scarier not knowing who actually did such an awful thing and still roaming the streets !
I had not heard of this case. Thank you for doing this video. What a tragedy to happen to this nice family. Very sad.
Thank you for watching I appreciate it 🖤✨
ya I haven't heard about this case myself an im from Illinois an Ive looked an saw as many murders I could here so it's nice to see a case I haven't encountered but not at the expense of someone being murdered don't want to sound like a complete psycho path lol.
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Thank you! This is my hometown and I’ve always wanted more coverage of this case-so sad and I believe solvable!
They could solve this case if they tried! I live in Nason and drive to Ina almost every day.
It sounds like Keith KNEW someone was gunning for him. It also sounds like whoever killed Keith had a vendetta against him. Nobody just randomly cuts off genitals unless theyre trying to prove a point.
It upsets me that Americas Most Wanted wouldn't cover the case!
They turned it down initially but ran a segment in 1998 but no new leads 😢
This is one of the cases that will always haunt me.
Me too.
Me too. It’s absolutely awful
Well that was a great case. I love the way you tell the story, straightforward and simple.
Thanks
Thank you so much! I appreciate the support 😊
I kept thinking- too bad this little family didn't have the chance to get away from this town a little earlier.
i leant of this case years ago. horrible, i can't understand the vile unhuman act this poor family suffered
I really like the viewers that shared their stories, I know for me it took away a little bit of the pain. Knowing that I could talk about it and then reading some of the comments about my story. I hope the other stories had nice comments on them as well and you helped me move on just a little bit more thank you
The story is horrific and not uncommon.
The narrator delivered this story with empathy and respect. There’s a good balance of media (podcast are just boring - jmo) and I really like the way the narrator speaks and I’m v pleased to have found this channel.
Good work. ☺️
I feel so bad a family was killed and no one has provided any information it’s breaks my heart given children were involved and they appeared to be true victims. RIP
You are a good person.
This is one of the ugliest cases I've ever read about.
I hope that someday this will be solved. We have decades-old cases getting solved or having makeup breakthroughs so much recently.
I really don't have very many theories myself but I feel like maybe the mobile home being for sale might be one of the better leads.
You would think that if someone took advantage of that too harm them they would be looking to you still but they didn't do that so it's really hard to say. I'm hoping someday someone will speak up or technology will help solve this.
Hello ash tree it's always a pleasure seeing your notification pop up sensational job as always keep up the sensational job my friend
Hi! Thank you so much, I appreciate you 😊✨
Thank you for these stories of unsolved murders. We must not let these people be forgotten. As with my mother back in the 70's was.
With all of our new ways to solve crime, it's not unusual to hear cases from years ago being solved.
Thank you very much for your research.
It is such an odd case. A lot of times children are spared, but the sheer brutality of it all reminds me of organized crime hits, but no one had ties to any of that, not in any way anyone has been able to find in so many years. But it also is so odd that the father was taken away from the home and executed the way he was and after including the castration, that's just severe overkill and again, doesn't make any sense. Things like that means it's personal, not a drifter/someone passing through. And I also find it hard to believe the mother would have let a stranger in. It's just, baffling to be honest. Thank you for sharing this case. It may have been covered many times, but this is the first time I am hearing of it. Thank you as always for all of your kindness and respect for the victims and their families.
@@Col91016 Thanks so much for this information 🙏 I always wondered how the perpetrators could be so brazen; they obviously had no fear of being caught by family or friends calling round for a visit. How could they live with themselves, knowing what they had done? So evil.
It hurts to learn the toodler was a victim also. Pisses me off
@AlexusWatkins-ep5lf Its horrible
I hope the torturer/murderer gets caught and punished.
If not in this life, then in after death.
May this beautiful family rest together in paradise.
What about the the girl who came to their house to use the phone and he refused to let her in maybe that was the first attempt to get into their home and then they came back and got in anyway did the police look into that ?
That’s a thought! 🤔
This is the first I heard of it. So very sad.
Very sad, I appreciate you watching the video. ✨
Such a sad case, so sad the wife was pregnant and he couldn't even let her and the kids live not that the husband deserved to die either but it hits different when it involves kids, unborn babies or pregnant women for me RIP to the whole family
this is fucking horrible. The depravity of some humans never ceases to amaze me.
Hi Ash, i like the way you talk about these crimes with dignity you have a new friend in Australia 🇦🇺 now.
One of the best crime stories told! Well done!
I lived in Mt Vernon Illinois at the time of this horrible act of violence so very sad
This was the first video I have seen on the Dardenne family. Thank you
Glad you covered this! I have never heard of this case! Great job!
Hello , new subscriber from Boston. YT put this video in my stream . Very interested in case I never heard of before. Why do even popular true crime do the same stories . Three times today I was few minutes into a video and realized I knew the story because of watching other channels previously. I peeked at your videos and I am going to get in house under a blanket and binge watch your videos !! ❤
Enjoy the videos! Greetings from the north shore :)
I love your work. It’s important to remember, and do something if the situation arises . This is so sad.😢 Just BRUTAL!😮
Hi I’m new here. Here’s my thoughts…Keith suddenly wants to move back to his hometown stating there’s more crime and he fears for the safety of his family. I think he got into something illegal and his family and also Keith, had to pay the price. I think he was trying to run away but didn’t make it in time. So sad his poor wife and kids had to go in that horrible way.
there’s a reason you’re not a detective
Lots of Skeltons in the closet! 🤔something’s not laying right!
He didn’t “suddenly” want to move back home. Crime increased which caused him to become nervous and want to protect his family. You are tarnishing his legacy by making false allegations of illegal behavior without proof. Which is libel by the way. Even drug dealers don’t murder children. That’s a ridiculous conclusion.
What a sad news, that even those babies didn't spared from the brutal death! I hope, wish and pray, their case would b solved, soon!
Very sad but interesting story Ash.
The fact that Keith was castrated indicates that this was personal. I think Joyce was grasping at straws, but what mother wouldn’t be questioning everything? You would think that since the police found marijuana at the scene they would have checked the parents blood. In case the drug theory played out.
I think I’ve mentioned before that I hate unsolved murders…
I was thinking that same thing about the castration honestly. And I’m not sure if they did do the blood tests I’m guessing they might not have since they didn’t feel it was in anyway connected to the murders. I feel for Joeann because I can’t imagine just not knowing what happened. I hope something will change for their sake. I do too my friend :(
I agree. There has to be a motive for the castration if the person was dead or alive. But I don’t know what it would be. Sure would be interested to hear what detectives or investigators would say about that. Horrible deaths
in any murder they should run all test possible to cover all basis
Unsolved crimes, especially murder of children, gives me major anxiety 😮
I hate unsolved crimes against people… my mind won’t let it go and I ruminate it over and over.
Other youtube channels never talked about this case. 2015/16 I heard about alot of unsolved murders except this one.
What a horrible story. First time I heard about it.
Thank you UTAT for bringing unknown cases to the public!
Thank you for watching friend! 😊
Thank you. This was very sad. My brother lives close to that place.
Great video. Very sad.
Claiming Satanic rituals is absolutely absurd and ridiculous. There’s no proof. The mother of Keith claimed they didn’t smoke weed or her son didn’t gamble. She didn’t know Jack about her son after he moved away.
Mas as mais sempre vão defender seus filhos, estando errados ou não.
@@demonincabare4337there were no drugs, including marijuana in either Keith or Elaine’s systems.
In Huntington West Virginia 4 teenagers-shot after they left prom and never really figured out who did it. All speculation.
Someone hated this husband and father. A lot.
And he knew it.
Because he was getting something that the perpetrator wasn’t.
Great channel, keep em coming! 👏
Thank you! ✨🖤
No disrespect to you , your voice is so beautiful and calming to listen to ! Your coverage of all the senseless violence to a Fellow Soul’s is just Mind Boggling ! God Bless you all my fellow Soul’s . North Bay Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Sad story thank you for sharing
This is so sad rip little family
I heard this story before you both did a good job. I liked your better a few more details.
Thank you so much! 😊
I think the husband may have been involved with something illegal. I think when he said that area they previously lived in was becoming too crime ridden, was his excuse to try and escape some shady dealings. Just my opinion. We'll never know and that's so sad.
I have never heard this one
The irony of wanting to move away from violent crime. It is disgusting that vile despicable dregs could do such a crime and thus far. Escaped justice.
Heartbreaking.
1987 was pretty firmly in Satanic Panic era. I doubt it was that. It really feels like Keith was the target--the perp/s killed his entire family before killing him (and possibly castrating him before death). That'd be pure torture.
Percebe-se que não foi só um assassino mas no mínimo 2 ou 3.
The castration suggests that the killer thought he was killing someone who had raped, slept with, or made advances towards one of his loved ones.
Acredito nessa tese.
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That was such a brutal case! Ive never heard of it Ash but know the Sells confessed to so many cases its hard to really know his true number. It did seem to fit his previous crimes though, he also said there were so many that details blurred and merged.
I would love you to cover David McGreavy The Monster of Worcester' I know Ive asked you before so sorry for the repetition! But you did ask! 😁Take care Ash, love Jessie x
No this wasn't committed by Tommy Lynn Selles , he was a deviant and pedophile would get courage from drinking and would use the knife he carried everywhere in his murders he was motivated by robbery or sexual assault possibly both he be in do what he was after and out he didn't linger about .
This is so sad I live in Fairfield Illinois where Ellen was from and it hits home. RIP DADEEN FAMILY 🙏
Unbelievable that this case didn’t make the national news right away- it could’ve been solved ☹️
Racism
That's not true. There's plenty of cases that have been on national news and weren't solved, for exapme, the yogurt shop murders.
@@MutedGrowl Can you explain?
@@MutedGrowlwhy racism?
I only found out about this case yesterday and I can only say that people get offended over the slightest of remarks, jokes, etc, and it's usually those closest to us the ones who try to attack, hurt or destroy us.
To me this brutality was not a coincidence, nobody kills an entire family as well as an unborn/just born baby for no reason.
Exactly, and it seems like a lot of work.
I wonder if they have any evidence dna or fingerprints from the crime scene. Also I think that a suspect profile could give new insight about the killer?
According to all law enforcement involved, the place was spotless, including the weapons used to kill them. I believe the person (s) that did this stayed behind and cleaned everything up. I'm still not discounting the mob connection.
Thanks Ash!!! Love how you always have new details! ❤😊
it is very scary that someone as ruthless as this killer is still out there to offend again! i really hope this person or people may have gotten jailed for another crime and is at least off the streets. hope it gets solved! this one is just sick!
It was personal. To show such hatred for the rest of the family and cutting off the husbands junk shows just how personal this was. An affair on the part of the husband still fits in my opinion. This ranks No 1 in the most horrific murders I have heard about.
Agreed
They didn't just cut it off, it was stuck in his mouth! This was personal and done by a local.
@@heavymetalredneck7973 That just furthers my belief that is was due to an affair. 100,% personal.
@@loudunne4404um amante, uma amante, alguma esposa de bandido, será que o senhor Keith não era um abusador sexual e seu algoz o encontrou??
@demonincabare4337 I don't know what you have written as can't translate into English.
Have been so busy,, hate I've missed some ,,but I'll catch up,,Happy Holidays to you and yours !!!! Always amazing 👏
I always had a feeling it was a weirdo loner at the church they went to. Church is where the worst people hang out.
Horrific case. Made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end
How can they explain the watermelon ceramics then??????
I feel like Keith being castrated (and his member being shoved into his own mouth - by some accounts) is very telling.
Maybe someone's jealous husband (even if he just thought that Keith was having an affair with his wife) made Keith watch his own family be destroyed and then took him to that field to kill him?
Also, if they have not done so, then they need to open this case back up and use modern forensic science to try to solve it.
If this crime wasn't committed by someone who they knew, then it had to be committed by a psycho serial killer like Tommy Lynn Sells.
Saw this thumbnail on Instagram and had to know more! Great work!
Thanks for checking out the video I appreciate it 😊✨
I have a book about Tommy Lynn Sells and it is believed that he killed the Dardeen family
Yeah from everything I’ve read many of the investigators on the case felt he was responsible but they couldn’t prove it. And without the proof they wouldn’t charge him with it. It’s just sad that if he did do it they won’t be able to prove it especially now since he’s been executed. Thanks for watching!
Tommy Sells claimed to have murdered a woman and her little girl in the town that I live in. Investigators went and talked to him on death row in Texas and got his DNA. It didn't match the DNA found at the crime scene. I think he lied about a lot of the murders that he claimed he committed.
@Under The Ash Tree
Surely they kept a sample or results of Sell's DNA ?
Under the Ash Tree: I have two observations (for whatever they're worth): 1) As retailed here, the story makes no sense. It's so completely crazy. 2) One or both of the murdered adults appear to have been living a secret life. Never a good idea. However, if you look back to Truman Capote's docu-novel, IN COLD BLOOD and the film that was made from it, MOST murders are "personal" to the murderers. There's always a "motive," generally one with revenge at its core. Personal, impersonal, when revenge is involved--even with, say, the Manson killings, it's never a "senseless, chaotic" crime. Manson was pissed off at Terry Melcher for not giving him a record deal, and mistakenly believed the producer was still living in the house on Cielo Drive with his then-girlfriend, Candice Bergen. The LaBianca murders were committed to throw police off the trail of the perpetrators.
The reason I've gone to such descriptive lengths is a simple one. Unless you're in a drugged-out, drunken blackout, you generally have a motive--closer to the surface of your consciousness than you might think--for the actions you perpetrate on innocent human beings. (See the award-winning film, "Monster" about the life and killings of Aileen Wuornos. )
Thank you for the great job you did putting this video together and narrating it. Heartbreaking, infuriating. Horrific.
Oh how sad for the family
I can't even begin to know the pain they suffered the more baby came in world just to die
The little boy . And daddy couldn't even protect his family he to was dead how awful.
I live in Central Illinois and this happened just south of my town, so it was constantly in the papers. There was a lot of anger towards whoever did this because children had been killed. It takes a special kind of coldness to kill a pregnant woman and a toddler. My older sister was very interested in this case because she had a lot in common with Eileen---she was thirty years old and pregnant with her second child when the murders happened. She has long been haunted by the case. I pray that whoever did this, if there's no justice in this life, there will be justice in the next.
This story is so sickening. RIP to the family. Its seems unreal. I was born nov 17, 1987!
I know it happens but I still can’t wrap my head around how people can kill children 😢
Ive heard a couple different things about this case. In one posting it was mentioned that the wife was SA with the bat which made her go into labor . Why did Keith’s father need to use a key to get into the home with the police , as careful as Keith was known to be and not answering the door , did the suspect go to the back door (as it was open) if he went out the front door , he was together enough in his mind to lock the front door behind him? Also he was organized enough to begin cleanup and not worry about getting caught but used a weapon that was the homeowners bat? Such a mystery and things that should definitely be revisited to solve this . I definitely believe this was 100% personal
Li a tese de uma pessoa acusando o pai do Russel, talvez ele tenha sido o assassino pra ficar com td o dinheiro da família, ele e a esposa seriam os herdeiros direto. 😢
Acredito que foi um crime pessoal, passional e bem planejado.
I don't believe Tommy Cells killed them. I remember this case very well, and to say people were scared is an understatement. I myself was terrified. I was working in Mt. Vernon at the time and had to pass their home every day on my way home. I went through a nervous breakdown over this. I honestly wish they would find the real killer.
It’s definitely tommy lee cells
Sadly this is yet another case where a family did all they could to stay safe but even with all their foresight and planning was unable to stop evil.
In 2000 my mom was murdered by her boyfriend I bring this up because she led a high-risk lifestyle being home insecure and unable to win her battle with rum, we knew this could happen she stayed with me for over six months but even with two jobs I could not take care of both of us sadly this meant putting her back on the streets, we knew what could happen.
A beautiful family just starting their lives trying to do everything they could to not be willing victims even to the point of turning away a girl that might have needed real help but the fear of being taken was stronger than their fear of turning away a soul in need, I hope one event did not lead to the other as retaliation or maybe a second attempt with this time working. RIP, it is always much sadder when we talk about people who did not have the ability to live a full life and are taken far too young.
Whoever did this especially what they did to the mother and baby have a special place in HELL
The father was definitely the prime target of this crime and what was done to him indicates a lot of personal rage on the part of the attacker with sexual undertones. This was someone known to at least the father and almost certainly that person wasn’t Tommy Lynn Sells.
Yep, same page.
If mad at the father, why hurt the kids and the pregnant woman. Just unbelievable rage against this family.
@@Col91016 unfortunately. Cruel.
@@Col91016but Keith died way earlier? This would make sense if he died later or roughly at the same time, but the timeline difference is 12 hours all the way way possibly 36 hours between his death and his family's
That was vicious!
Love your channel, and would love for you to do the story of Seath Jackson.
I thought I had recognized the name but has more detail than I have heard before. Good job. And, sigh, there was a time when 'cult activity' was always a go-to. Could it be some rando posing as a potential buyer of the mobile home?
Thank you for watching, I appreciate the support. And I know, cults always seem to be a possibility. I feel like a random person is as plausible as someone they knew. There just isn’t enough evidence to narrow it down sadly :(
How about his DNA in the house .did they find any?
Love your videos! You're awesome
yep I remember this case...I think this case can be solve thru DNA evidence if they have any...our technology is so far advance maybe they can find some evidence...if they kept any of it...
Ummm . . . Police are in way too much of a hurry to close a case. If he can't remember how he left her body, then he didn't do it. He knew about the watermelon set, so at some point he knew the real killer who told him that detail. He realized he was losing his audience and remembered the offhand comment and blurted it out. If he got all the other details wrong, he didn't do it, but he does know who did.
Yeah, lets blame the police for not having other leads
Could you make a video on Katelyn Nicole Davis A.K.A. ITZ DOLLY? It would be much appreciated if you could, thank you!
Him being castrated sends a message....very personal
It's like somebody was against baby making and having. They murdered the mother that had 2 living and one on the way with zero mercy. Then when they murdered the husband they castrated him too. Maybe the killer was jealous of what they had and what they, the killer, did not have. I sure hope the police didn't leave a stone unturned.
Justice will prevail ,deepest condolences to their fmaily and friends describe as demonic .
Keith turning an 18 yo girl away bc Ina was so dangerous always stands out to me.
The Dardeen’s were decent folks by all accounts.
I’m not criticizing Keith by any means.
In fact I believe Keith would have offered to make the phone call FOR the young lady.
Being a young woman herself, I don’t believe Elaine would’ve been OK denying another woman help.
I just can’t see decent folks telling a young woman in distress to hit the bricks.
I believe the couple would have made the phone call and allowed the woman to wait outside.
Maybe the “18 yo woman” was a coworker of Keith’s?
A coworker who wanted to be with Keith and was rejected?
I’ve known a couple men in my life who had a female stalker.
Seems like Keith may have had one.
If she showed up at their door Keith may have lied about what she wanted.
I’m not insinuating Keith did anything wrong.
He may have had someone who was obsessed with him…
Could be why he was planning on moving away with his family.
*edited to remove an emoji I accidentally hit.
Just rambling on about nothing
@@K.DeVillejust being spiteful to online strangers…
The criminal has just doomed himself to eternal damnation!!
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I thought they thought Tommy Sells Commited that murder. I thought he confessed to it.
He did confess, but recanted before he died.
Tommy confessed to alot crimes he didn't actually commit
You would hope with today's DNA testing they would get some answers. With Mr. Dardeen being castrated it sounds like it was personal. They wanted him to suffer.
You should recall the slayings in Beeson Illinois.
Evil in our World exist
Everyone saying this is personal because of the castration isn’t necessarily correct. This person was clearly a sadist. Castration can be a message. This person destroyed his family (probably in front of him) and now he’s destroying his manhood and ultimately his life. Keith being involved in drug trafficking to the point where his family and himself would be murdered doesn’t make sense. They both held jobs down, they both had good reputations, went to a Baptist church, were expecting a second child, and lived a very modest life (a trailer and one car). Someone involved in drugs to the point where they would be high enough on the totem pole to have something this horrific happen to them would most likely have more money. Also, even drug dealers hate baby killers. I think this person was a sexual sadist who is probably dead by now or in prison for a similar crime but doesn’t want to admit it because admitting to killing children in prison gets you killed. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
I wonder if Keith was involved in something that got all of them killed
Drug deal gone wrong! 🤔
Such a act of pure evil, who ever is responsible. Gaureented trip to hell for the perpetrators personally I think at least 2 people were involved.
These storie are so sad but there had to be reason why Mr Dardeen was so anxious to move something was up with that