Scott Michaels: MY TRUE CRIME STORIES - Murders I know
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- My DETROIT True Crime stories - Friends who have been murdered, accidents I've had
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Q: "So Scott, tell us how you became obsessed with death."
A: "Well, I grew up in Detroit . . ."
Q: "Got it."
Ha Ha!!!!😳🤪
I'm in Flint and been to Detroit MANY times and wonder how I made it home to Flint😮 Great Stuff👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
LOL😂
Scott- "mom we're bored" ... mom -"I just cleaned the window go watch some car accidents"...
When you went to your reunion I was really taken back by how many of your former classmates were passed away.
Scott, I've been reading your website for about 20+ years. I took one of your tours and visited your museum way way back, maybe 12 years ago? Gosh. Anyways, in a way, you feel like a "friend", so this tour of your life was really cool, especially seeing the beginning of your interest in true crime. I really appreciate you taking the time to film and share this. You are a great storyteller, and I love that this is all part of your legacy.
Thanks, Scott! I hope you are well!
Wow - thank YOU for watching.
I grew up in Seattle. In middle school, I used to have walk by what left of a house that a man killed his wife and then lit the house on fire and then killed himself. I was working downtown when I was in my early 20's and someone left an Ann Rule book about lesser known serial killers. I started reading it and it was about killers all around where I grew up, I mean where we used to dive for golf balls they recovered a body, one block over from one of my buddy's house was where a killer lived. On and on. About a month later I was talking to my brother who was 15 years older than me. He just casually mentioned that he had met Ted Bundy while he was going to the UW, he had a short conversations with him a couple of times. It just seemed it like murder was everywhere. I have lived a number of parts of the country since and it never seem as crazy as Seattle of that era.
The 70s and early 80s were nuts in terms of murderers. Sometimes I don't like how much surveillance there is these days with cameras literally everywhere but if there's one positive it's that it probably deters a TON of would be killers and other criminals.
@@loganstroganoff1284 I just left Portland and the surveillance cameras throughout the craziness were often times not recording or working.
I was a student at St Matthew when when the lady was found behind the Golden Buddha. It was frightening to say the least. Wrigley's, Bruno's appliance, Mr C's all bring back childhood memories. I lived in the area of Morang and Cadieux and remember 4 of the 5 stories.
That was a very moving tribute to your family, city, and friends. So sorry your young friends were murdered.
That photo of you with your mum, rolling your eyes is priceless.
I was born and raised in Detroit in the Charles projects till I was 10 then moved over by Pershing and I'm still here I'll be 60 this month people say Detroit is a bad city dealing with crime but it's like that everywhere California,,New York,,Chicago. It could be worst. Violence is a part of life no matter where you come from it's worse in some places then others but I've been here all my life and wouldn't change a thing in my life..I'm proud to be from Detroit...thank you Scott this was interesting and brings back memories
God Bless You, Scott, for honoring the Dearly Departed 🙏🏾
this is why we're here.
You are a very good storyteller. You have a gift.
“A couple of years when I was a senior in high school.”
Makes me go “Hmmmmmmm.”
We lived by a freeway and onetime while I was watching TV in the living room a truck tire crashed into my brother’s bedroom and the mesh fencing that they put inside the walls at the time stretched all the way out preventing the tire from hitting me in the living room. The truck driver ran down to our house, saw the damage and they fixed everything within a couple of days and painted the room blue for my brother. Talk about close calls. This also happened in Los Angeles California in a relatively “leave it to Beaver” neighborhood. The property is still there but now they put a wall on the side of the freeway so it wouldn’t happen again. Very tragic that all of those friends of yours passed away from your class. Glad you were able to make it out of there and make vlogs like these in memory of many victims that sometimes are long forgotten but not by their families. ❤️🌹🙏🏻
Wow, I grew up where Richard Speck killed 8 student nurses in Chicago. That really had a major effect on me. I can't imagine what you went through.
Richard Speck was a monster. How creepy to know he lived by you. Glad he's dead anyway.
That’s terrible
wow
My sister dated his nephew for a long time, he looked eerily similar to Richard in his younger years and they had the same exact dumbo ears, when Nick would do hard drugs he would turn into a major sexual deviant just like his uncle but not as extreme… I hope.
I just finished a biography on Speck. What a psychopath.
i remember as a child, going to salvage yards, just to view bloody death cars! People thought that was strange!
As a kid I remember my aunt telling us a story about a semi truck who was on a city street and tipped over and crushed a car with 4 women in in to death. My aunt took me and my brother to the tow yard where the car was and there was blood all over the car and their high heel shoes were still on the floor of the car! I actually was just remembering this today as I drove by the tow yard and the road where it happened unintentionally. To this day I still get nervous when I’m along a semi. I live 2 hours north of Detroit where Scott grew up.
This was fantastic. You tell one hell of a story. I've always wondered how Detroit went from beautiful neighborhoods to what it is now. It looks so depressing... glad you got out
Not fantastic - the tales were horrific, yes interesting !!!!
@@IanP1963 I'm saying the video was fantastic not the murders. Just settle down
@@chickapey It's not a story either it's reality dude !!!!
@@chickapey Well make yourself clear then dude !!!!
@@IanP1963 I did
Leave it to Scott to turn a walk down memory lane into a tour of the macabre...And I absolutely LOVED every second of it!
Thank you for posting this. It was fun and insightful and really felt like we were just hanging out with our fun (and maybe just a little strange, but in a good way) friend Scott, while he shared a bunch of interesting stories. Great work Sir! Thank you! 🙂
P.S. Please stop breaking limbs! 😉
You have such a knack for bringing stories to life. Such an interesting life Scott!
I've finally discover the origins of "wanna see their mailbox?" Thanks, Scott.
Also from Detroit area here. Grew up roughly the same time graduated in 85 from a high school Downriver. Anyhow very much enjoyed this particular episode on your channel, though my wife and I also enjoy all of your California, Los Angeles, Hollywood etc history material as well. Work for several years for the Wayne County Medical Examiner as well as a funeral home. Thought we were the only weirdos LOL who did celebrity grave tours until a few years ago. We live in San Diego area now. Anyhow just wanted to say thanks for your work and express appreciation. Cheers.
Thanks fellow Detroiter!
He keeps the victims memory alive
Hey Scott I grew up in Grossed Pointe and know this area well. That stucco house!! My grandfather lived on Outer Drive and Somerset.
As I'm watching your video I can really relate. We grew up in Los Angeles, my older sister who was a teenager at the time of the Manson murders was afraid to walk to school, she was going to Venice High at the time, many years later my sister finds out that her father-in-law was a Beverly hills police officer at the scene of Sharon Tate's house Manson murders. We lived near a corner that was called "Happy Corner," which was on Culver boulevard and Centinela in Los Angeles, to this day, there is still a liquor store there called happy corner. There were a lot of accidents at that corner, especially on Fridays. I remember as a kid hearing the accidents and walking 100 ft to the corner to see it. My father has always been freaked out about driving on Fridays because of it. Around 1976 there was actually a plane crash that happened right there also. Two small planes collided, one was from Hughes aircraft down the street and I'm not sure where the other one came from, but they collided and landed right there in that intersection. It was actually quite horrible. I was about 11 years old at the time and I had no idea what happens to bodies when they're in a crash like that. There were body parts everywhere, and plane parts everywhere, for blocks. I even backed up into what look like a bloody torso that landed on the railroad tracks there 😳 I remember after they cleaned up everything, I would walk on those railroad tracks to get to my friend's house and they left things behind, meaning human tissue remains 🥺Years ago there used to be a sanitarium at that corner with the patients escaping sometimes in a straight jacket. One night it burned down. There is now a Los Angeles police station in it's place.
I live here in Modesto CA. Many true crimes happened here or victims were at our hospital. From Laci Peterson to Steven Stayner ( Merced). Mary Vincent still living was kidnapped by Larry Singleton ( her arms hacked off).
Out off highway 132 one of the Zodiac Killers victims survived. A woman with a child.
There is many more victim of high profiled crimes here and are Googleable to read up on.
Dang!!!!! I’m originally from Southern California. I grew up in Orange County and Los Angeles and I was born in 1965 and during the 70s I remember my mom being so scared living alone with me and my sister during the Manson crap. And when I was in middle school in Huntington Beach there were so many serial killers during that time. And one of my friends David Mcvicker is the only survivor of the freeway killer William Bonin and I also knew two of his murder victims. One was a guy I went to middle school with named Glenn Barker, and the other one was my paper boy who was killed by him. I think his name was Jeremy, or something like that. It started with a J… I would have to look it up. and I used to have a friend name Cindy and she was best friends with Robin Christine Samsoe who was killed by Rodney Alcala the dating game killer. Before Cindy and I became neighbors she lived downtown Huntington Beach in another apartment complex and Robin was her neighbor and they were best friends and do you remember the show chips? Remember the black cop on chips he went by the name Fritz? Well, he and his girlfriend at the time were next-door neighbors to Robin and her mom and her siblings. And he was so devastated by her murder, He was actually one of the pallbearers at her funeral. I still have the newspaper clipping. And when I was living in Perris, California back in the 90s, there was a serial killer named William Suff, and at the time I was going to church with this girl and her boyfriends sister Tina De León was murdered by William Suff. And that scumbag killer even killed his baby when she was eight months old. I feel like God must’ve had angels around me during my lifetime protecting me because my friends and I we would hitchhike down to the beach. We were crazy back in the day. 🤦🏼♀️
@@texasgina What is it about America and serial killers - a serious question by the way ?
I lived out there too during the Manson killings. I lived in the valley below. My dad took us on Sunday drives up there.
After Manson, we started locking doors and some got dogs and security systems.
I was out there during the Watts Riots too. Yes I'm old lol. We lived 5 minutes away in a nicer area.
@@IanP1963 I think it’s because the contiguous 48 states is so large with highways traversing the entire country. That makes it easy for serial killers to move around, and hide in plain sight.
It wasn’t that long ago that there were no national crime databases, and police departments really didn’t have a way to communicate with each other regarding similarities in crimes. It’s unfortunate that sometimes they still don’t unless the FBI becomes involved.
You remember on their behalf. The same as geneologists, and cemetery recorders, and battlefield historians, etc. It's a beautiful thing. Thank you.
I know it makes you sad to see all the places that are gone. We are nostalgic right? I graduated in 1979. I'm right there with you. We keep losing class members weekly it seems.
Detroit looks tired sadly !!!!
Wow! I never knew that all this scary shit was happening in our neighborhood! I lived only 3 blocks from the Golden Buddha!😱
Great story Scott from your home town I was born in Wyandotte in 1959’ but raised in Monroe Mi. Later in 1967 moved to Indians been here ever since
Sad video, hurt my heart to see how many classmates had passed at the reunion. At my class reunions there is nothing of those who have died. Everyone always says at the time "We will never forget" and "we'll always love you" Actually, yes people do forget and it's sad. I don't even know how many of my class have moved on.
Well this was a great trip down memory lane! I should do that in the neigbourhood where I grew up. My old school mates are starting to drop now that we're all 65-66 years, and it's hard. My sister just died October 27th, 2023, and these things never give you a warning. Time to start documenting these things for my own daughter. Thank you for all of the work you do.
This made my day, fascinating visiting your hometown and these interesting stories, rest in peace to all❤🕊
Wow Scott, I really enjoyed those stories, and yes, speaking their names, remembering them. They should not be forgotten x
My in-laws lived on Algonquin! Seeing the places that you are going to brings back a lot of memories
God Bless you Scott. You are a national treasure! Merry Christmas. Stay safe man, we need you! 🙏🏻
Yes I hated going to that dentist
Scott! Grew up 21 mile and Van Dyke summers and during school time lived with my mom Caseville/Bad Axe MI area!
Wow, Scott, what an incredible video! I think it’s your best so far. I was moved to tears a couple of times. I love personal memory lane trips like this, but combined with you sharing these very sad murders was very touching. It also reminded me of a few murders of people I’ve known too. I never thought about them as a group before in this way. I love that you kept Susan‘s address! What an interesting childhood you had. Thanks for taking this very personal trip down memory lane and for keeping their memories alive. 😢💙
I grew up at and worked for a skydiving center in nj..Lost 7 people there in accidents. The first one was a 21 year old woman who died on her first jump in 1968. 9 years later her ghost walked thru the area where we packed the parachutes.This happened on a weekend when people were camped out,asleep on the packing tables at 2 A.M.
I live just outside of Nashville, TN and in 1973 there was a fella named Stringbean who was on Hee Haw and played at the Grand Ole Opry who was murdered along with his wife during a robbery of their home. I was 6 years old at the time and really had no concept of how far away the murders happened and I remember being terrified the man who killed them was going to break into our house and do the same thing to my family. It’s “funny” how things like that can shape us when we are exposed to them at such a young age. I cannot imagine how terrible it had to have been to witness those terrible car wrecks just outside your living room window. Back in those days cars were huge and solid like tanks but since seatbelts weren’t really a thing I’m sure the damage done to those in the wrecks was substantial.
I saw that horrible story and couldn't believe one of the killers had been recently released!
@@CupcakeCartel1 I did not know that! It has to be hard for family members of theirs to know the person who took their loved ones lives is able to walk around free. ☹️
@@Sibrena001 Yes! Terrible killed him and his wife! They only got 250.00 Investigators would later find thousands of dollars in cash on the couple's bodies that the killers had missed, sewn into special pockets inside their clothing.
Hi Scott I'm really enjoying your walk back in time.
Hey Scott, great video. I use to live behind the Outer drive hospital on Monte st. in Lincoln pk around the early eighties. I would never cross Outerdrive into Detroit unless I had to. Especially at night.
I remember being a twenty something in the 90s being intrigued by your online celebrations of those who have gone before us.... So wonderful to think how enduring your work is in keeping their names alive, for decades now. Bless you and thank you, Scott.
I can completely understand how you got led to your profession... Especially after watching this video...Thanks for sharing!!!!
Rewashing garbage to reuse at the Dairy Queen. 😂 She’d get a medal today for her handy recycling regimen.
Your Detroit was known as the Murder Capital. I grew up in Windsor , where almost zero murders happened. The difference was night & day.
I get so engrossed in your stories like they're my OWN lifeline narrative!
Interesting. That part of Detroit looks pretty good still.
I also like how you're giving airtime for non-public figures like Kim Grimm. Sad story but everyone has a story.
Hello Scott. I had Susan's brother Rob Asaro in a creative writing class around 1983 (East Detroit High School) He wrote a story about the tragedy and read it in class. 😢 It was titled "Winter Kills Spring" I never forgot that
Thanks for taking us back to reminisce with you. Nice to see where you grew up. Troy’s next??
Thank you for your trip down memory lane in Detroit. It was enjoyable to see were you lived as a kid. I lived in Minnesota growing up but would spend summers in Grosse Point Park with my cousins. Miss those days.
Thank you for giving us a glimpse into your past Scott. I’ve been a fan for over 12 years. Love your stories. I’m not sure why I got fascinated with death. I was never exposed as you were as a child but there was an elderly lady in our neighborhood that died when her house caught on fire and I remember being so fascinated by it, that i kept riding my bike back and forth in front of her house. Me and a group of kids from the neighborhood finally went into the house to see where she had died. I can still remember the smell of that burnt out house. I was about 6 years old. I guess that’s where my fascination with death began.
Scott, you could read an instructions manual into interesting. You make it, I’ll watch it or buy it or support it or or or etc., you get the point.
I LOVE ❤️ listening 👂🏻 to Scott!!! He has some AMAZING 😄😁, Stories!!!
I listen 👂🏻 to him, all the time!!! ❤️❤️❤️👍🏻🙂🙃😉👌🏻
Thanks, Scott!!!! 👍🏻
When I was in the 7th grade there was a couple who worked in a convenience store and a girl who worked in a donut shop down the street that came up missing within a few days of each other. Their bodies were found days later, and it turns out that it was a family of nomads who kidnapped and murdered them. It was shocking that such a crime would happen in our sleepy little (at the time little, now it's part of the urban sprawl of Dallas) community. This was around the same time as the Manson trials and it was also the time that everybody in our neighborhood started locking their doors at night!
Some people are born perverted and the death penalty is the only sentence !!!!
I graduated in 1980 also Scott. ✌️❤️🙂 Alot are gone from my class as well.
I thoroughly enjoyed this one. 😉
Very interesting and sad video.
Just watching this (11-30-23). You’re from Detroit?!! I grew up in Bloomfield Hills, my Grandma lived around Outer Drive and Warren..I remember walking to the Cunningham’s Drug store?? And Sanders?? Was the movie theater, The Vogue?? (Or the Alger??). I’m talking 60 years ago!!! Now, I’m even More intrigued with your content!!! Thank you!! ✌🏼❤️
Thanks for sharing, Scott. Great stories!
YOU ARE A GREAT STORY TELLER!
I graduated in 1980 too. Parker Co. TX USA. Sadly one of my classmates was killed by a serial killer
Hi Scott, Sorry for your loss. Very nice respectful tribute to them all. Never been to Detroit, Michigan. Very good storyteller indeed. Safe travels on your journey.
Been a fan of yours for forever… and can listen to you all day. I grew up in New York, and when I was a little girl saw a dead body in a trunk near a bar hangout near my house. My Mom and I were taking a walk and boom we saw it. That’s what definitely started my fascination with death.
May I ask where this happened? The reason I ask is that I grew up in a town where something like happened.
Loved this! I grew up there as well and attended the same school. I always thought that white house on the corner was the coolest. Your tour down E Warren brought back a lot of memories. I saw M&M pet shop on at the end. I used to walk up there all the time to play Centipede in the early 80s 😁
That old man and his parrot (@ M&M) used to scare the shit outta me!
Wow, thanks for sharing these stories
Love your stories Scott.
I know you have given me hours of entertainment through your find a death directory and your videos.
Scott, love the picture of you with your mom!
Scott is such a natural story teller! Love it!!
Thankyou great video! Going back in time can be bittersweet sometimes.
Great video Scott. I forgot about that Egyptian saying until you mentioned it. That's probably the reason I talk so much about dead people! Keeps their memory alive for sure. I got stuck in Detroit once when flying home to TX and spent the day in Hamtramck with a friend. Best food I've ever had!
I really enjoyed this Scott. I especially liked the school pictures with the candles burning of your former school alunni who are gone. Great storytelling. I can see you working in Dateline.
Thanks for sharing your story!
Master narrator, I was glued to video for all your stories
Scott. Very sad but interesting. My youngest son too was hit by a car 30 years ago. He went flying in the air but did not break any bones. He got a ride to the hospital in an ambulance as well. He came out on crutches with only deep contusions and lacerations.
Great stories .
I don’t think I would have wanted to grow up in your neighborhood. I lived in paradise as a kid in Upstate New York. It’s good to remember our departed friends, they live on in our hearts.
Same here upstate NY paradise!
Scott great narrative of your hometown and sharing some of your experiences growing up in Detroit; thats alot of friends to have lost to tragedies when they were so young still 🙏
🥀RIP🥀To all so very very sad 😔
I knew when I drove by the Alger Theater on August 16, 2022 (and took photographs of the marquee) that the message had something to do with you Scott!
Mom watched the soap opera "The Doctors" in the late 60's and early 70's. Dark Shadows was on at the same time on another channel. So Mom and I worked out a deal. She watched the Doctors one day, and I got to watch Dark Shadows the next, lol.
Wow. Thanks for sharing this. Happy Holidays to you and Troy.
The great white Ford bronco chase was so weird to watch. It felt like slow motion and you're seeing it, thinking what am I watching exactly and who's OJ?? That's several hours of my life I can't get back?!! Geez.....
🙄🙄🙄
Hi. I found my way here from Scott On Tape. That was a great video. I heard the saying a out speaking a name for the last time from Macklemore’s ‘Glorious’ lyrics:”
“ I heard you die twice, once when they bury you in the grave
And the second time is the last time that somebody mentions your name”
It was interesting to know the background. Thanks for the tour of Detroit 😊(from Australia 🇦🇺)
So cool to see your old stomping grounds! I'm currently in Ann Arbor w my mom at U of M. I plan to take a drive over to Wayne / Westland area to see my old stomping grounds too 😘
I really enjoyed hearing about your childhood and Detroit.....GREAT video Scott. Thank you.
You mentioned Saint Johns hospital...I worked there in the seventies. Rode my bike to work everyday, or took the bus from Gratiot and Six Mile. I enjoyed sharing your memory lane.
I'm always intrigued by what you share with us, all the time. I can't thank you enough for letting us tag along with you. It's much appreciated.
I’m so glad you elaborated on your mom’s awesome art!
This was so good. You bring the memory of these people to life.
Thanks, Scott • People are very interested in the tragic and even the macabre - it is part of Life 😁
My friend Ted Kolasa was shot in 1999 pulling out of Gold Coast Detroit we were behind him waiting for our car from valet. Still not solved. RIP
Amazing - I aim to do the same in areas I live in here in England !!!!!
For such a square that I am, I have known several ppl who have been murdered and sometimes the murderer, sometimes both.
I always go back to my friend from high school and college. Her's is the one that is unsolved. I found out by getting on the internet at work and checking my hometown news. The 16th anniversary just passed. Even though I have moved back home, I think I would see it in the news, but I still check to see if there is anything new or it was solved.
Just checked, still unsolved, RIP Alissa. You are remembered.
I was born in Royal Oak but we moved when I was 2. But later moved to Farmington Hills for a short while. That intersection is an accident waiting to happen. This was a very nice trip you took us on.
It was awesome watching this I'm also from Detroit moved away 40 years ago. Seeing the streets & alleys brought back lots of memories. Seeing your story where the women was murdered. I saw close to Wayburn I lived there. Great video Thanks😃😃😃
Out of all the vids on this channel, I've enjoyed this one the most. Going back to my childhood neighbourhood stirred up so many memories, some great, some not so much...going to my parents house was the saddest time, wishing they were still here x
Always enjoy your videos Scott! Thank you and please keep them coming.
Fantastic vlog, loved the backstories and location sites and the showing of the old news papers coverage of the deaths at the time and photos used. Keep the videos coming guys.
That has got to be one of the most dangerous intersections in America!
i remember walking to work and wanted to take a short cut along the canal unfortunatly a woman jumped into the canal and it was closed
Scott, I love your stories. I will forever be a follower.
The neighborhood still looks great! I was at greiner and Hoover. A mess
Man I love that Tshirt you are wearing.