FAMILY OF FIVE - WIPED OUT. The Jeffrey Fuchs Story, a Mystery at Montrose Cemetery in Chicago.
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The Fuchs murders of June 1974 turned the summer into one of horror for the quiet Park Ridge neighborhood in which the family of five lived. Though more than four decades have passed since the case was closed in August of that year, it remains a key moment in the town's history. Before mass murders were a common occurrence in headlines and on the nightly news, the Fuchs tragedy was an outlier.
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Your lifting the covers over the photos of Gustav and Selma Wendt makes me wonder how long it had been since someone lifted those and saw their faces? Those photos certainly are sharp and it's like you gave them a glimpse of the world for just a moment.
I like the way that you seem to think about things.. especially in regards to Ron lifting the photo covers..Nice.. thoughtful.
@@kimberlyjohnson1371 thas how I am doll it's only a way of life I shall say
They are not forgotten because of you
Not forgotten because you have remembered them.
Exactly 😊
Yes..
Profound moment when you closed out the episode with the sound of the rain. Another great episode. May that family rest in peace.❤
Everyone who watches this will remember in their mind who they are , so they will never be forgotten. And this is on the internet so generations will remember. Awesome video. Prayers Love and Peace
I googled the parents' name and the word murder and found an interesting article from the Chicago Tribune that was written in 2015, 41 years after the murder. It gave input from friends and neighbors that suggested that Jeffrey did not like his siblings and had been having issues with his parents, including his mother controlling his life, not letting him drive among other things. Although this video was well done, the article gives a bit more information about possible motive and also Jeffrey's behavior and lack of social skills.
I wasn’t even born in 1974 and I absolutely love 💗 your channel! Your narration style, compassion and humility bring these people back to life. Their stories are so fascinating. I am always amazed at how extraordinary beautiful stone heads can be. Bravo, sir!
The bodies were cremated, Montrose Cemetery. Fairlawn Section, lot 994 for all five.
Jeffery shot his father and sister 3 times each. Strangled his mother and brother.
Jeffery was a loner and often bullied.
I'm trying to understand, how he was able to make all of them sit still while he murdered each one of them. You'd think, at least one would have run away.
@@thatguyjoe007 I think they all came home at different times and probably got them as soon as they walked in to door.
I love the pictures of Gustav and Selma. They look like such friendly people.
This is one sad story. I really can’t imagine what his best friend, or anyone else that thought they were close to him, really felt. You know you’d be trying to rack your brain for any signs you may have missed. The guilt would have been tremendous!
RIP Fuchs Family 🕊
AMEN TO THAT!!
Something went very wrong behind those doors, we’ll never know what it was. Such a devastating end for them all.
I agree with you, 100%!
Maybe the best friend or his family members would have an idea of where they are buried? I'm sure he probably attended or at least knew of the funeral arrangements. Love your channel! RIP to the Fuchs family.
And the best friend might know of something the sister said that was dismissed at the time, but looking back may have been something more. Goodness, it is incredibly sad either way.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Fuchs could have nieces and nephews who might no more.
In 1974 i was 9 years old.this is so sad 😔 I have 5 sisters and 4 brothers.with my parents 11 people.This story is just like a horror movie 😔 May the family rest in peace 🙏🕯️
I had a classmate do that to his family in 1981. The guy always gave me the creeps. He’s serving life in Huntsville Prison in Texas. Killed his parents and 5 year old sister. I had talked to his mother only 2 or 3 weeks before it happened. Terribly sad.
@@Precious-zb7mh to the best of my knowledge he’s still over there. I’ve not heard that he was put to death and I would have heard on the news if he had.
I am from Texas, and had friends who worked in the jails in Huntsville. Many people in there that did unthinkable things.
@@Precious-zb7mh It is also due to his age. If he was considered a teen when he did it they have a different sentencing then a full adult.
Evening Ron, loved those photos,were still intact, obviously people in this cemetery respect their passed. Jeffrey, I'm assuming, had issues, who knows what? Who can say ,who can judge? But to have no memorial stone for this family? My heart is heavy. Is it because? People judge, his family on Jeffrey? This happens so many times! To myself I find it very disrespectful. They were the victims, they never choose their lives outcome? They should be shown respect. Saying from my ma. Whom I've lost! You can choose your friends but not your family, a wise woman she was.
On a side note, I'm absolutely impressed with the workmanship/craftsmanship of the headstone with Gustav & Selma (eg. the photos). Virtually no deterioration in nearly 75-100 years, and those pictures look as pristine, today....as they did back then!! Subjected to the wild-swinging seasons of Chicago; Freezing Cold.....Hot....Feet of snow....inches of rain,...etc. *AMAZINGLY IMPRESSIVE* !!
Very beautiful and probably in range of 6 figures x 3 nowadays. Photo in stone is easily over $1,000 in Chicago today
I hope I can afford a picture headstone like that when I kick the bucket. It's really cool!
And you wiped the dirt off the pictures. I’m sold. what you are doing is priceless my good sir. Salute !'
I love all the pictures on the headstones.
Someone must have remembered the murders in the 2015 Chicago Tribune. Article then about what happened in 1974. So sad, and hits close to home in my southeast Iowa. Shawn Bentler killed 5 members of his family in Bonaparte, Iowa. Mom, Dad and his 3 beautiful Sisters in 2006. Then in 2016, on my birthday in April, my cousin Tiffany and her Momma were murdered by Tiffany’s estranged husband. Rural Danville, Iowa. Then Tiffany’s soon to be ex killed himself. Tiffany had a restraining order against him, but we all know it’s just a piece of paper. Thugs don’t abide by a piece of paper.
So sad for the Fuchs family! Thanks for telling their story!
These are not "faces of the forgotten" these are faces of the remembered. Great work!
Also, in eastern Europe they engrave a portrait from a photograph on the tombstone. The family of my girlfriend who die in 1992 in a car crash have her smiling face engraved and I see her every time I drive by the cemetery as her family plot is near the road. They are russian and they told me it's very common there. I saw that form myself as i lived there in 2002-2003. We should do that so our faces will be remembered and forever there for the people to see. ( sorry for my English. It's not my language.)
A newspaper article says they were cremated, so they may all be together in one plot or be with the grandmother that died in 1990, Emma Roller. They could even be scattered to the wind.
What funeral home made the burial arrangements? Excellent point regarding the grandmother!!! Maybe buried under a completely different name? Someone else paid for the funeral arrangements and the plot. Then, buried under the name of the individual that held the deed?
@@misc7977 says after the memorial service they were taken to Montrose Cemetery for cremation. Article says Jeffrey died from a drug OD.
@@zzzzipy12 there should be a record for cremation (and a metal tag that placed with the cremains in the grave). If the killing of the entire family wasn't horrific enough then no memorial for his victims?! Thank you for the update regarding the article. I truly appreciate it. Where could the family be?
@@misc7977 I bet they are with the grandmother that died in 1990. She probably didn’t have a marker for them because of the stigma.
@@zzzzipy12 or because it would have already been very expensive to cremate 5 people, let alone bury them. So sad.
Very sad and We will never know why the son went off like that. May they all rest in peace it indeed was terrible. Have a great day Sir.
This is so damn sad 😞 We are a family of five ourselves. We have two daughters and a son. I couldn't ever imagine something like this. How can someone do this and especially to thier own family.
Third
You have to suspect mental health issues or abuse .
@@sarahholland2600 obviously
It's inconceivable.
@@gloworm1822 ok Vincini. 👌🏻
It's strange that neither family or friends of the parents or kids didn't know that there maybe were some serious problems with the son or if something was going on in this family. Back in the day it most likely wouldn't have been talked about. Sad
@@FRLN500 Indeed, a 14 year old girl at our church just killed herself. She seemed happy, involved in all sorts of sports, lots of friends her family loved camping....we are all at a loss.
@@chanteloconnell8919 Don't do it.
@@chanteloconnell8919 do not do that! There is help out there. How old are you? Please no!
I'm with you. And I've known of things like this happening similarly. Not to the point of murder. But like even when I was growing up in the 60's and 70's, it was with the warnings of "what happens in the home, STAYS in the home!" You weren't allowed to talk about or tell of any abuse, etc. SO sad! Something triggered that! :(
He did have obvious problems. Didn't get along with his siblings and his mother was controlling.
According to Find A Grave they are in the Fairlawn section, Lot 994.
Yes that’s where we were, that’s where we were looking. That’s where they are not.
@@FacesoftheForgotten & no Plot and (possible) row number.
Section number and generalized location.... If anyone would have found this family, it would be you. They cannot be found, then, I stand behind FOTF& Ron.
Thank you for remembering these forgotten people. Many times the families do not have enough money for that many funerals etc much less headstones etc
When a child murders their family it is so confusing. It is beyond sad.
Such a sad story. Thank you Ron for bringing this to us.
The last name Fuchs is pronounced “fewks”.
I've heard it pronounced "fox"
@@rocknromance78
As you are probably aware it is german and means fox. I'd say "fooks" is closer to correct.
It could be worse...🤭
@@MsWaggydog 😂
@@hansmuller1625i have the same last name, growing up it was too difficult for kids and even adults to know how to say it correctly. i decided one day to just spell it the english way and go by fox lol
This is such a heartbreaking story💔 you never know what's on someone's mind, or what's going on behind closed doors. Those old pictures you lifted up were so clear, It must have been years since anyone lifted them up. I love the monuments with pictures, they tell a story. When I was 12 in 1972, and living in West Jordan Utah, I had rode my bike to a cemetery and found an old monument with a picture of a middle aged woman who had died years earlier. Her name was Lilly Papas Lancaster. That picture Intrigued me so much, and she was so beautiful, I started riding my bike there often to visit her grave and take her flowers. All these years later I can see her face and remember her name. I love the stories you do, I've always loved history. I lost my husband in 2015, so at night when I'm by myself with my dog, I love looking up your videos. Thank you for all your hard work❤️
Thank you for remembering these folks and telling their stories. We have the highest respect for your tributes.
Its sad to think no one stood up and got a monument for this family.Its a tragedy upon a tragedy.Anything would be better then nothing!
The Wendt's gravestone is the most unique of those I've seen thus far. Very nice!
Try viewing the Raymond Tse grave and it’s story in NJ. Very cool and touching. The most unique I have noticed so far. Your opinion?
I found this channel a few days ago, excellent content, your compassion and how you tell the story of the dead is so wonderful, albeit some of them are awful people, but l love learning the stories of the forgotten through your channel, you have a great story telling gift and the editing is excellent too.
Thank you for remembering these people. From Donegal, Ireland 🇮🇪.
Thank you so much for sharing!! I really look forward to your posts! 🥰
Just a note in 1974 I was only 6 years old and I love your channel. I also love walking cemeteries. Thanks for all the stories.👍😀
It's such a sad, horrible story. May they all rest in peace. Take care, Ron. Stay safe, take care, God bless you. Have a nice evening.
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Hey, that's my line !! Just kidding. 😉🙏
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Thank you Ron for remembering this family..great video
That was a tough story. It’s sad for you just never know about someone. Great job Ron!
I remember when this story broke. I' ve wondered why no one talks about this story. Jeffrey makes me leery of the people around me. It scared me that a family member could do such a thing. Glad you're covering it!
One word "Gacy"
Such a tragedy, may they all rest in peace!
I love this channel, and I was born 1 year 2 months later..💜💜
I lived in Arlington Heights, graduated from Mt. Prospect in 1974. I don't remember this as we were moving to Charlotte, NC. What a tragic massacre.
Yrs ago we used to search for old cemeteries just find the headstones with the photos, they were and are beautifull and sad at the same time.
Thank you for you taking the time to bring us such great content/info on happenings we otherwise may have not found out about.
Thank you for being here, susanlbk!
@@twylajohnson4708 Thank you as well 🙂
Bless you Ron, I pray you are able to get them a marker, for they certainly deserve to be remembered and respected....💜🙏🏻💜
I wasn't quite 10yrs old when that horrible event occured. Breaks your heart! 💔😥
I can't imagine the grief of that grandmother. The heartbreak.
Excellent, but very sad story. Thank you for keeping the family's memory alive. Where was the grandmother buried? That might be a place to start.
grandmother pass away 29 May 1990 (aged 92)
Denver County, Colorado, BURIAL
Montrose Cemetery
Chicago, Cook County, raymond brother pass away 15 Jun 1973 (aged 54)was ww2 vet, and family pass away
17 Jun 1974 BURIAL
Montrose Cemetery
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
PLOT
Fairlawn Section, Lot 994
In 1974 I was 6 years away from existing. You've got a lot of younger viewers and fans of your channel as well my friend. And thanks for all the videos ....
Ron, keep us posted on the whereabouts of this family please? This family deserves a marker. They were victims. I'm sure some of your followers will help to find their exact location. With this story, now they will be remembered not forgotten.
Thanks Ron for bringing us this sad story. It would be great to locate this family so a marker could eventually be placed there. This kid apparently kept it all inside and took it to his grave. I wonder if the grandmother was charged with burying this family. Just overwhelming !
In 1974 I graduated kindergarten. Great video of a tragic story.
I was in 2nd grade.
Such a sad story. Good luck on future research of this! Great video, as usual 💜
They're not forgotten, you're there, bringing us there with you.
With people like u more people will never be forgotten...God Bless
What a wonderful idea to cover the pictures so they don't get get destroyed overtime.
You never know what a person is capable of ..
True, some people let their dark impulses take over, sad.
This is heartbreaking. Wonderful job as usual. It's just very disturbing that there isn't a marker for this family.
I like it when you show the gravestones and names!
My Lord how does one kill their whole family, this is so sad.
Exactly, but, it does happened. In my tri- state area, a cluster of small towns it happens quite often. But, right now there’s a hearing going on in our area where a whole family plotted to murdered this young lady and, tempted to go after several of her family.
@@sonyafox3271 wow that's something movies are made of.
What you are doing is amazing. I am happy i stumbled upon this channel.
I always watch your videos before work. Something calming about them!
What a horrific story! What must have been in that young man's mind to make him do something like that?? I'm surprised the cemetery doesn't have a record, especially with so many. I hope this mystery can be solved! Thanks Ron! Stay safe and take care!
I was born in the 70s and I watch this channel.
Awesome video Ron once again !! Ron you are the man !! Keep doing your doing !!
Great video, Ron. Thank you!
I was born in 1972, guess i am young then 🙃🙃🙃. Love the respect you display in your vlogs. Thank God its close to impossible to own guns out here in The Netherlands.
I love the sound of that rain. They will not be forgotten because of you.your the best and so thoughtful and kind! Love your Chanel
Hi Ron I buy alot of Visa cards and there's always money left on them anywhere between 2.00 to 10.00 and I never knew what to do with the left over now I know I'll give it to the channel....take care friend...Mary from Canada 🇨🇦
Incredibly sad story!!! Thank you for sharing.
Wow! I would never have known about this family if it weren't for you, Ron. I was 3 when this happened.
I feel sorry for the family and friends left behind to wonder, feel guilty, etc. for not knowing that he was in need of help. I can only imagine what his best friend felt.
Whether they are buried or cremated and gone they do deserve a marker. I know if I was a family member he murdered I wouldn't want my murderer's name next to mine family or not. (I only say this because I was almost murdered at the age of 25, and the monsters who tried to kill me better never be near me again in life or death.)
I love seeing the memorials with pictures. I love when you can put a face to a name. Those old pictures make all of them look like Hollywood stars. They are all beautiful.
Thank you again Ron for remembering those that would otherwise be forgotten. You have the best channel. Others tell stories too, but none can tell them like you do.
Rest in Peace Fuchs family.
Godspeed Ron
He can be forgotten about but not his mother father and siblings
I’ve never been so early to catch a video!
Great video as always Ron
Great story. I really hope you make your way to the Mansfield Memorial Cemetery in Mansfield OH, someday. It is such a treasure chest of semi famous and famous people from the time, some amazing old graves, even a whole family of graves shaped like trees & tree stumps with animals, stone & real crawling all about. I feel guilty keeping such an unbelievable place a secret so if you do come just prepare to fall in love with a city and have a few days because the place is gigantic as far as Ohio cemeteries go.
What a sad story. This family had to have had some really deep and bad issues going on. Back in those days families didn't air their dirty laundry. Too bad there wasn't anyone who could of found out and prevented this tragedy. May they all rest in peace.😌
Yes, deep dark secrets. That type of thinking actually goes back quite farther than one tends to actually know.
There were psychologists back then as well.
This is such a sad story!! But, I am happy you told us their story, so they are not forgotten!!
What a sad story Ron. As you mentioned who knows what was going I. Behind closed doors. Hope there is a way to discover the actual burial site. May they all rest in peace
This is about the age, professionals say, people can start having mental health problems and break downs 😔😔
@7 Haunted Days "The new age crap" is that abuse is a universal cause of everything that happens in life. Everybody nowadays is entitled to feel "abused".
Sad story, but now we know and they won't be forgotten anymore!!!!
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻👋🏻
I was 3 when this happened! I love your channel! I love exploring cemeteries as well. I love you attention to detail in the telling of the tragic stories. Also I find you yourself interesting. You are a very good artist btw!
Heartbreaking story 😭😭thanks for sharing Ron .May they test in peace .
Ron, thank you for sharing this sad story and may they all Rest In Peace. Take care and have a great day.
So sad for this family may they Rest In Peace
Such horrific deaths, so sad that there not even remembered. RIP never forgotten by us. 💐💐💐💐💐
This reminds me so much of the Grochmal case in Chicopee, Massachusetts.
A fairly wealthy family with a very nice house.
I was friends with the daughter Denise.
Her father got it into his head that he had some fatal disease and that the family would not be able to survive with him.
He killed his mother and family dog in the basement.
He ended up killing his wife, their son and both daughters before killing himself.
This was in about 1981.
Such a horrible tragedy.
im diggin in this case with ya sir.....Anthony at montrose is a cool dude ive worked with him in the past. he was very helpful....lot of Fuchs familys in des plaines/park ridge area still to this day but this was almost 50 years and the entire bloodline was indeed killed so we gotta find in laws or cousins......hopefully we can find some developments
What about the grand mother when did she pass(the lady that called the fire department) she should know something
@@elizabethallen8569 well after a weeks worth of digging i found out the fate of the grandma mrs Emma Foller....sadly she died in 1990...she was the mother of Ruth,both of raymonds parents Joseph and Theresa were already deceased as well as ruths father Charles Foller when the murders occurred in74......yound Lynda had a best friend she had spent that fateful day with who I am trying to track down as a source of inquiry,also have narrowed down a fuchs and foller cousin who is in his 70s now and may or may not be alive still.but thats it as far as next of kin ....also the news from back then states they were all cremated but the contraditing evidence and the fact the family plot Ron has discovered here at montrose does INDEED have bodies in the ground leads me to agree with this effort to memorialize them and im committed to helping as much as i can
new subscriber going through a lot of your video's this one is epic . hope you do more like this !
I found your channel and am very impressed with your research and enthusiasm...u have many videos with many wonderful stories...it is difficult to navigate all the videos though , may I suggest to perhaps group them into playlists( famous, murder, accident, families, disaster, or perhaps by geographical location)...keep up the great work!
Hi Chris welcome to FoTF 😊
Wow it brought tears to my eyes
The funeral home got paid should have a record. The obituary? So sad.
What’s going on in a child’s mind do to something like this.
You do great with these videos, you also remind me of an Officer I worked with some years ago.
I love your videos! We don’t ever forget them now! ❤
1974 I was 8 years old when this happened. Very sad & tragic what happened to the family 😢😢 May they Rest In Peace ✝️😢🙏
I was in 2nd grade.
Sad story...It does make you wonder if it was just a mental brake or if he was pushed that far.....We will never know.
Thank you for another mystery. Take care Ron. You've got a great channel,
I enjoy your format and you definitely
have a way with words!
Thank you again,keep up the good work.
Yeah, I certainly don't want to blame anyone who is no longer alive to defend themselves, but I have to wonder what was going on in that house that this kid just snapped with no prior warning or outward issues.
Have you ever been to Jamestown NY the home of Lucille Ball? She is buried here at Lakeview cemetery, we also have another legend in that cemetery called “the glass lady” if your ever near this area it just may be a great adventure. Also we have a legendary cemetery in the area called Gurnsey Hollow Graveyard in Frewsburg NY.
I remember that story, first time ever heard of children killing family . Living in N. W. Indiana we got the newspaper with the story. Everyone at worked talked about . Thank You Ron for caring so much .
So sad😔 May all r.i.p. thanks Ron for this interesting video. Stay safe out there 🙏
Such a sad story, may they Rest In Peace
The ending with the rain, wow! Seems like a peaceful way to end the story