I feel like she should be able to sue the police department for failure to investigate a serious crime, and I would absolutely NEVER speak to the mother again!
If I had a dollar for every one of these stories I've heard of a woman who escapes and the police don't believe her story and the criminal gets let to kill for more years before caught I'd be In a whole different tax bracket. It's beyond infuriating
There is a woman who escaped a serial killer and when she went to the police they did not believe her for some reason she failed a polygraph. She skipped town. Although they went to the serial killers home and everything was exactly like the woman described serial killer was not arrested because he had an alibi. His neighbor lied and said he was with him. Anyhow long story short I’m with you. There are so many women who have been assaulted and the police could care less. And back the blue people don’t understand why some people are against police
The chilling part to me, was during his confession, where he says he "didn't know if someone else had picked Jennifer up and finished what he started." ... He actually believes this behavior was normal, and that ALL men share these deranged thoughts and impulses. He didn't even stop to consider that two good men in a truck would ever HELP a woman in distress. He thought they'd just 'finish the job'. Wonder how many other violent men think like this...
You are looking at this logically. Like a sane person. What he did isn’t sane or logical, and what he was stating is that he knows there’s other sickos like him out there. Predators.
@@redlemur9074 ............No, he thought like that because he knows what many men think or wish they could do. There are lots of sick men out there and trust when I say " I Know! "
@@kat24wr they're police officers, they should've still investigated it. I hate her mother though. I'd cut relationship with that woman if I was her haha
@@devinreis5811 no they wouldn't have had any disciplinary action. Parents and adults are almost always believed over children. I know she was not really a child but it being her mother claiming she lies all the time, is all anyone needed to hear. Sometimes the one person you need to be there to support you has a axe to grind for no reason. Not all mothers care for their kids. Some will go out of their way to discredit their own children. Even lie to have them punished for things they didn't do.
Her horrible mother is culpable in all of those murders after 1992. She caused the police to not properly investigate by providing false character witness _against her own daughter._
Jennifer Asbenson is living proof that no matter what the world throws at you, there is a power inside you waiting to be unleashed. Incredible testimony
That is so horrifying... the way she woke up with him biting her neck and screaming like an animal... chasing her with a machete... just can't imagine what the other women went through
"There were several cars nearby and I don't know if they and finished what I started" - see how he assumes that others think the same way he does. This is key to exposing and identifying them. Never even occurred to him that their overriding emotion would be to help.
I noticed that too, how sick and pathetic that he thinks he's just a normal guy and all people are the same as him. Not quite sure if he would be characterized as a sociopath...or pyschopath.
This is horrifying. Can anyone discuss this with me: around 2010 there were a bunch of movies that featured men assaulting women. I’m talking I couldn’t rent a new movie without being triggered unless it was a kids’ movie or a comedy. Action and horror were especially terrible genres. These assaults were sometimes so bad, the attackers were so numerous, it became assumed that any man (sorry to the men reading this comment), given the opportunity, would do horrible things to a woman without a second thought. This was terrifying to me at ages 18-24, but I did believe that it wasn’t true - I knew lots of good men. Can the media betray the thinking of the creator? In movies/shows where most men think the same way, could it be that the writer has violent thoughts, too? Can’t be a “one size fits all” thing. Many movies just follow trends and American media went through a shock factor phase. But, for some movies… just gotta wonder wtf.
@@cupcakefox5026 hi lovely, here to discuss & listen with you. Firstly let me say I’m holding space for all your feelings & experiences here. Whatever you feel isn’t wrong. It isn’t right. It just is. They’re feelings. Like the waves in the ocean. We don’t judge them for breaking too early, for being too high or low. They’re just waves, Mother Nature. I’ve made a conscious effort to make my comment such that you can read it & not be exposed further- I’ve done my best but it’s unique to each person so still please use discernment. I use words, (trigger ones censored because the algorithm) but don’t describe acts. Our society has an obsessive fascination with two things. Sex. And death. Particularly when either is violent or somehow degrading. We’ve long seen the progression of violence in cinema & TV. What was considered shocking 80 years ago, is different to 50 years ago, is different to 5 years ago. Sex has been treated the same. Once it was completely radical that a woman was seen sitting in bed with a man, dressed in a nightie, on screen. No sex. No kissing. Just sitting together flirting. from mid 2000’s through the 2010s were absolutely awful & I sincerely believe internet culture influenced that astronomically. That was the Wild West of the internet time. Now, UA-cam will remove my comment if I don’t use asterisks in certain words. Videos educating victim survivors is removed because they say the R word. Facebook has enormous 24/7 teams working through post/photo reports. But not during that Wild West phase. I just saw a video of a huge creator interviewing another celeb & it was about being traumatised by things online during that period. The comment section was shattering (don’t read it). All of us who grew up during that time, the things burned into our brains, the things which keep us awake at night. All because we were a kid on the internet who clicked on the wrong link or video. The very worst of humanity in all of its forms flooded the online space, totally unmitigated. Todah you can find all of that, but you have to really go lookkng for it. Not back then. It was a cyber Russian roulette. Didn’t want to see that person d*e? Sorry, looks like we were just shit out of luck. This was also the time where online por* exploded, again completely unfettered, with unlimited access. Boys & girls have grown into men & women whose brain structure & function has actually changed due to their unlimited exposure to that content during critical stages of development. And it was of course in the movies, the tv shows, every sort of online article. It was before we were ‘woke’, before we had pulled our collective heads back in & re-ignited some honour for life & person. There’s so much more which can be said on the topic but I don’t want to wade into triggering territory. I would highly recommend two things. One is this article I found “Golden age perspectives on film sex & violen*e”. It’s absolutely brilliant & to try & summarise it would do it a great disservice (& the specific article is very trigger safe in my opinion, it’s very mild) . It’s on a blog called “another old movie blog”. Secondly I would really recommend what the article itself discusses- perhaps golden age cinema would be a good choice for you? I actually started falling in love with it after getting sucked into a few too many daytime reruns of golden films. You get a much more stimulating storyline than if you’re watching Ice Age 2. There’s minimal gratuitous violence. Everyone is terribly beautiful. Their voices are like honey. It’s funny, culturally relevant, & has real emotional depth. And you don’t need to worry about it showing any of the things you mentioned. Also- IMDB has a list (a disturbingly long one) titled “movies with disturbing sexual ab**e/Ra** scenes” which you can use to check if the movie is possibly comfortable for you to watch. But I would actually recommend a site/post at the site “letterboxd” which has a list of almost 1000 movies with such triggers. They’re doing it both to show the scope of the problem, & to assist as a content notice for victim survivors. Continue to be gentle with yourself & hold yourself in love, & I hope the site recommendations help you, & maybe you’ll even discover a love for golden cinema! Healing vibes
i met jennifer when she came to speak to my psychology class during my senior year of high school in 2019. she’s an amazing, kind woman. such an inspiration and so unbelievably strong.
Yo this is so scary. WTF. The way you told the story and let Jennifer continue/finish the sentences was beyond amazing….that takes talent and it’s SO ENGAGING!!! Jeez. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 job overly well done 👍🏾
Unfortunately, her mom was jealous of the fire she had inside of her. You’d think a mom would be proud of that in their children but some people don’t deserve to be parents!
Sadly, I have that same kind of Mother. She’s mostly tried to assassinate my character my entire life due to her own undiagnosed/untreated mental illness. I’m 63 and she’s 83 and she’s probably still doing it to anyone who will listen. Don’t know and don’t care bc for my own sanity I finally had to sever all ties. Some people aren’t meant to be mothers.
How dare the police not believe he. Not to mention, even IF it was here boyfriend that did that to her, why would they think those actions are ok? Bite marks, clothes torn off, etc. They should've investigated regardless of they believed he or not. Ive never been kidnapped, but as someone who was drugged and raped by 3 men,, this disgusts me.
Thank you for covering stories of survivors... Being a survivor myself who just went home after being assaulted and went to bed for months gives people like me hope to fight for themselves. I'm so proud of these people who chose to fight and not be a part of the statistics. Putting them behind bars. Facing them head on and making sure these monsters never get out! I'm so proud!!
Sorry, you have nobody to tell your story? Someone who you can trust? You just went to bed after assault and didn’t try anything? What is the reason? That nobody gonna believe you?
What hurts most in this story is the mother and the police behavior after she told them what had happened to her...She had to live in fear for five years....That is madness.....
I heard about her story - except for what her mother did... Hearing of that felt way more crushing!! Wish her all the best, I'd say that's a way higher level than strength, not just balls, but medicinical balls!
If any of those murders happened after Jennifer, her mom could be partially responsible to be honest. Had they believed her and immediately started looking for and caught him, those women would still be alive.
No killing between 1988 and the 1992 incident with Jenniffer? I don't believe that he was on holidays for 4 years and a couple of years after that. There could be many more victims.
Jennifer was on a show on UA-cam, I think it's called "I Survived", where people tell their survival stories directly to the camera, with some reenactment footage. She tells about the experience in detail & it is RIVITING. She's an incredibly brave woman. EDIT: That one doesn't cover after the attack, so much, or Mika.
Poor little Christopher. I'm glad Mika was able to start up this program to help others. And also rest in peace to all of the others that this monster here took. Still watching though.
I've seen two videos from this channel now and already, I just love so much how the focus is on the victims/survivors. I think too often true crime makes the killer the "main character" and weirdly a protagonist in that sense, their life and crimes romanticized/dramatized. I wish we'd be doing more like this channel is doing in remembering the names of victims/survivors, because a lot of people can easily name killers but can't think of any victims n it shouldn't be like that.
It's so sad that she had such a heartless and uncaring mother that she did. Shame on her mother. It's people like her that gives me inspiration. My step-father-in-law tried to take my life in my own home because I stood up to him in defense that I'd see to it he'd have no say in the custody of mine and my first husband's daughter's because he had no blood ties to them. I told him "all you are is someone who adopted my husband when he was 10 years old and technically nothing more to him than a step-father." He didn't like that so in his rage, grabbed me by the throat and I could feel myself staring to pass out. I managed to kick him off of me and ran to my neighbor's house and she seen the hand print bruises he'd left on my neck. My life was further threatened by him that if I called the authorities he'd shoot me next time because he had money and could pay a lot of people off to cover my death up. That was in 1996. I lived my life looking over my shoulder until my second husband moved us and our 2 daughters to Washington State in 2007. I lived in fear not only for my life but my new family. Since my 1st husband had full custody of our 2 daughters and moved to where he couldn't be found, he protected our daughters from that man. It wasn't fun living that many years in fear living in the same town as this man. Fearing that one day I know that I'd run into him. Thank goodness I never did. He's still behind bars for the severe beating he did to my 1st husband's mother. It was my 1st husband's being there and his 911 call that got this abusive man in prison. My 2 oldest daughters don't have to live in further fear of him either nor does my only grandson.
Her attacker is an absolute evil but wow her mom is a different kind of evil. How can you do that to your daughter? Also if the police and that mom made the investigation that time, they would have saved lives. They should be held responsible for those deaths.
I used to give out my wrong phone number all the time when I was younger. My mom would always get pissed at me when I told her that and told me just don't give them any number at all. Thank God I never ended up dealing with anything like this as a result of that.
@@2degucitas If you read and comprehended my comment, you would know what she wanted me to do. She wasn't being unsupportive. She knew better than I did and was in fact just trying to keep me safe.
I follow several true crime channels and watch these stories daily, but I can’t believe I haven’t heard this story before. Job well done again on highlighting the survivor instead of the POS attacker. She not only went through physical trauma, but also endured emotional trauma when no one, not even her own mother believed her. That would have wrecked me. Glad she was vindicated and got the justice she deserved.
Bravo to the Mom in taking her pain and loss and opening Christopher's Clubhouse. Christopher's sacrifice and his Mom's dedication to him, will help prevent countless children from ever suffering the same fate.
Heads up for Mika! What a terrific avenue you took your grief to. Now so many will feel stronger in themselves and hopefully safer in there communities💜
Okay, I just found your channel today but I LOVE how much you focus on survivors. So much true crime content focuses on the monsters and criminals, but kind of ignore the victims. By doing cases with living survivors we get first hand accounts from some of the most amazing people. I find the survivors to be so admirable and interesting and really love that you give them centre stage.
the amount of murderers that got to keep going because police did not believe the victims is insane, reminds me of the pig house (cant remember the actual name) murders where one brother would murder prostitutes in a trailer and no one did anything for years
How can police accuse someone of lying. Poor girl I would’ve sued the whole police department because you have to remember that her saying what happened to her could’ve saved lives
When a person can escape his future murder and get him to jail… It’s not only life changing but it also save future lives which could’ve been taken by this same guy.
Wow, what an amazing story. Well done to that lady for being so Felis and brave in saving her own life. I wish her all the love and happiness in the world.💛💛💛
It takes a special type of coward to see a woman being chased by a man with a machete, and their response is to lock the door, drive away and not report it.
You are amazing Jennifer!!! You’re 100% right, you are a SURVIVOR not a victim! God bless you and thank you for sharing your story and having the courage to face that monster in court!
I feel badly for Mika and Christopher. They both lost so much. I'm proud of Jennifer and her resiliency. I hope Christopher and Mika have found peace and some small measure.
I admire Jennifer's strength and determination to overcome her trauma despite no help from police or her mother. She is an extremely strong victor! I hope that she will continue to live a happy life in peace.
Well done! You've done an extraordinarily good job of covering Jennifer's story, as well as including the mother who lost her son, all in less than 15 minutes! You'll get there.😉
This is why no matter how nice strangers can be you still don't fully trust them till you get to know them I'm glad Jennifer Asbenson got to share her story for the world to hear
It makes me so angry her own mom would make her out to be a liar about it and the fact he said “I haven’t heard about her since , i thought someone might have finished what I started with her” makes it so much worse. I wish the best for her and I’m glad she got some form of justice )):
@Unseen Thank you for telling Jennifer’s story of survival and beyond. I’ve seen her story many times but I have to say this was an incredibly well done and concise telling of her journey, courage and bravery even in the face of being disbelieved. She’s a phenomenal woman!!!
I just wanted to let you know that I saw this upload and waited until I finished my test to watch it so I could enjoy it, I love when you upload. I'm so happy she got away but ot takes so much to come ouy of a situation like that. I never can grasp how survivors are so brave to try and escape, its truly amazing and im so happy to see survivor stories. Thank you for this channel, I will always waiy for uploads and watch
Jennifer is an AMAZING,BRAVE and BEAUTIFUL WOMAN,She escapes twice and frees herself from her Attacker👍🏾💯BRAVO.Thestory of the little boy made me cry,His Mum is a HERO to all the children and people she is helping to learn self defence.Am soo Proud of Her.Jennifer’s Mum is not even worth words😡Thankyou Unsen for sharing these wonderful stories.
Wow. The mother saying that is disgusting. I’m so happy she was finally able to get justice and enjoy life the best she can now. I’m so so happy she had the courage to run and not give up. Also thankful for those people who stopped for her. Wild story.
Thank you for such great content, the videos are very well put together! I’ve seen Jennifer’s case on an episode of I survived and never heard or seen of it anywhere else, thanks for giving me so much more information on that case! She is such a beautiful soul I’m so glad she’s doing well now!
It's such a pain when you tell the complete truth to the police (including random people in life) but they're not willing to believe. Hurts a lot, tons of us can experience this.
This channel is so underated . Every episode is so good especially on how he tells it. Good job narrator for building tension on how you tell the story. Good shit !
every one of these videos gives me chills. they all have a moment of divine intervention when its clear to me an angel intervened. its truly inspiring. it fuels my faith and stokes that survivors spirit in me that i have too often allowed to be extinguished by my victim mentality. when being a victim isnt a choice, but being a survivor is, its hard to make that choice after trauma leaves you powerless. taking your power back has felt like too big a burden to bear, while the shame of being victimized is heavier & yet it’s comfortable after being conditioned into carrying it as who you are. a choice made for you long ago. the idea of choices terrify me. i dont trust my own judgement. judging myself worthy of being more that a victim and choosing to be a survivor instead feels silly, cliche, & undeserved. its hard to believe your more than worthless when thats how others have chosen to treat you. choosing to be more than worthless requires selfworth & im caught in a cycle of victimhood thats difficult to eacape. but these videos inspire me to try. they did it so maybe so can i. i just know my family will mock me for saying so or seeing myself in that way. so i must try to be strong in private. survive in my mind alone & pray no one find me weak enough to remind me of my worthlessness. because ill cave all over again. sometimes its hard to keep getting back up
I'm heartbroken for anyone who has to endure these kinds of cases. It makes me happy to hear from survivors and the circumstances that lead to their safety.
She must have had so many cuts and bruises on her. It's incredible that the cops wouldn't even investigate why she was in that condition. Even if she had a fight with her boyfriend shouldn't they be concerned about the condition she was in??? F the cops.
She prayed! Also, I wish she had continued to seek help. Hope deferred makes the heart sick. But whatever the devil intends for evil God will work out for good. Glad she met the other gal. She was empowered, that is so commendable. We comfort others with the same comfort we have received. May her legacy be a testimony for others to pray, fight, never give up, and encourage and help others. God bless her!
That's the problem with the police. The assume that the parents know their children, but if you don't really know what is going on then you can't say shit or take sides.
Extraordinary story & astonishing woman! ❤ Great way of narration, only aspect I would‘ve preferred being different was the fact that alrdy in advance u revealed how this woman got contacted by police after her perpetrator was alrdy in custody! So this kinda lowered the tension when u reported about her anxiety for 5 yrs fearing for him showing up at her address (which I personally imagine to have been so terrifying)!
I listened to this story on I survived. I've never felt more heartbroken and sad listening to Jennifer's story. It makes me absolutely SICK that the police didn't believe her! And it's probably largely due to that witch of a mother of hers! I really hope that Jennifer is happy now, and with a good, loving man.
The cops dismissing her claim is unbelievably negligent! EDIT: Thank God she was still around five years later to help them out, when they needed her. SECOND EDIT: What a vindictive mother; no wonder the cops didn't believe her!
I’m 32 and even though I always knew it was dangerous I would still accept rides from strangers when I was a teenager. I have terrible time management so I was usually running late and when you’re young and beautiful there’s almost always a guy that will offer you a ride if they see you waiting for a bus. It’s interesting that Jennifer noted that the guy didn’t look tough and that’s what ultimately helped her to decide to take the ride because I would do the same thing. I’d stare at them for a second and think “yeah I probably could take this guy if I needed too” Which is BS like I’m not tough. It was truly just luck that nothing horrible happened.
This is one of my worst nightmares. How horrible is what this poor girl went through and nobody believed her not even her mom !! She just lived with it, dealt with it on her own without help for years. Oh my God ..
So why did police listen to her mother when this woman had several wounds all over her body and had to be taken to the hospital? How are those wounds made up? What is wrong with her mother?
I feel like she should be able to sue the police department for failure to investigate a serious crime, and I would absolutely NEVER speak to the mother again!
I was hoping she sued them too. And her mother... What a piece of work. I'd sue her too because I'm vengeful like that.
Agreed. So should the families of the subsequent victims.
You are same face as her wtf
Absolutely and ABSULUTLY
The Supreme Court decided back in 1981 (Warren v. DC) that cops do not owe a specific duty to provide police services to specific citizens.
If I had a dollar for every one of these stories I've heard of a woman who escapes and the police don't believe her story and the criminal gets let to kill for more years before caught I'd be In a whole different tax bracket. It's beyond infuriating
Yeah, I think he killed like 4 more women after she escaped.
There is a woman who escaped a serial killer and when she went to the police they did not believe her for some reason she failed a polygraph. She skipped town.
Although they went to the serial killers home and everything was exactly like the woman described serial killer was not arrested because he had an alibi. His neighbor lied and said he was with him.
Anyhow long story short I’m with you. There are so many women who have been assaulted and the police could care less.
And back the blue people don’t understand why some people are against police
@@AlexAndra-iy5zu polygraph test aren't reliable anyway. I know for a fact I would fail any polygraph test even if I was telling the truth.
They didn’t believe her because of her mother saying she likes to make up stuff.
That’s my story.
The chilling part to me, was during his confession, where he says he "didn't know if someone else had picked Jennifer up and finished what he started." ... He actually believes this behavior was normal, and that ALL men share these deranged thoughts and impulses. He didn't even stop to consider that two good men in a truck would ever HELP a woman in distress. He thought they'd just 'finish the job'. Wonder how many other violent men think like this...
This was exactly my thinking too. What a wild disgusting scum of the earth mf
sad truth, maybe we have no idea what enormous amount of deranged men actually are out there.
It was the only thing he could tell himself rather than to face the fact that she defeated him.
You are looking at this logically. Like a sane person.
What he did isn’t sane or logical, and what he was stating is that he knows there’s other sickos like him out there. Predators.
@@redlemur9074 ............No, he thought like that because he knows what many men think or wish they could do. There are lots of sick men out there and trust when I say " I Know! "
I can’t believe the cops didn’t believe her - some of those other women might still be alive if they had. Speechless.
Her 'mother' convinced the police she "likes to make up stories."
@@kat24wr they're police officers, they should've still investigated it. I hate her mother though. I'd cut relationship with that woman if I was her haha
Those officers were probably fired.
@@devinreis5811 no they wouldn't have had any disciplinary action. Parents and adults are almost always believed over children. I know she was not really a child but it being her mother claiming she lies all the time, is all anyone needed to hear. Sometimes the one person you need to be there to support you has a axe to grind for no reason. Not all mothers care for their kids. Some will go out of their way to discredit their own children. Even lie to have them punished for things they didn't do.
I hope they get nightmares
Her horrible mother is culpable in all of those murders after 1992. She caused the police to not properly investigate by providing false character witness _against her own daughter._
exactly
“Not the best relationship with her mother” is understatement of the decade
Agreed
the police have all those womens blood on their hands
Her mother should be prosecuted for providing false witness testimony, if at all a legal possibility. Insanity
Jennifer Asbenson is living proof that no matter what the world throws at you, there is a power inside you waiting to be unleashed. Incredible testimony
That is so horrifying... the way she woke up with him biting her neck and screaming like an animal... chasing her with a machete... just can't imagine what the other women went through
I just can't believe humans like her mom exist... even animals protect their children, damn.
I can believe it because it sounds like something my mother would do. I've also grown up with other kids who had bad parents (surprise surprise)
They exists.
Mine was just like that.
And some animals eat their children if they have any problems or are too stressed. Not the best analogy lol, her mom was just a bitch, you can say it😂
@@darkylinky288 Yeah, my mother would do the same as Jennifer's
"There were several cars nearby and I don't know if they and finished what I started" - see how he assumes that others think the same way he does. This is key to exposing and identifying them. Never even occurred to him that their overriding emotion would be to help.
Yeah. He assumes other men are just like him.
@@2degucitas statistically over 50% of men would rape if they could (it was legal etc) so 🤷🏽♀️
I noticed that too, how sick and pathetic that he thinks he's just a normal guy and all people are the same as him. Not quite sure if he would be characterized as a sociopath...or pyschopath.
This is horrifying. Can anyone discuss this with me:
around 2010 there were a bunch of movies that featured men assaulting women. I’m talking I couldn’t rent a new movie without being triggered unless it was a kids’ movie or a comedy. Action and horror were especially terrible genres.
These assaults were sometimes so bad, the attackers were so numerous, it became assumed that any man (sorry to the men reading this comment), given the opportunity, would do horrible things to a woman without a second thought.
This was terrifying to me at ages 18-24, but I did believe that it wasn’t true - I knew lots of good men.
Can the media betray the thinking of the creator? In movies/shows where most men think the same way, could it be that the writer has violent thoughts, too?
Can’t be a “one size fits all” thing. Many movies just follow trends and American media went through a shock factor phase. But, for some movies… just gotta wonder wtf.
@@cupcakefox5026 hi lovely, here to discuss & listen with you. Firstly let me say I’m holding space for all your feelings & experiences here. Whatever you feel isn’t wrong. It isn’t right. It just is. They’re feelings. Like the waves in the ocean. We don’t judge them for breaking too early, for being too high or low. They’re just waves, Mother Nature.
I’ve made a conscious effort to make my comment such that you can read it & not be exposed further- I’ve done my best but it’s unique to each person so still please use discernment. I use words, (trigger ones censored because the algorithm) but don’t describe acts.
Our society has an obsessive fascination with two things. Sex. And death. Particularly when either is violent or somehow degrading.
We’ve long seen the progression of violence in cinema & TV. What was considered shocking 80 years ago, is different to 50 years ago, is different to 5 years ago.
Sex has been treated the same. Once it was completely radical that a woman was seen sitting in bed with a man, dressed in a nightie, on screen. No sex. No kissing. Just sitting together flirting.
from mid 2000’s through the 2010s were absolutely awful & I sincerely believe internet culture influenced that astronomically.
That was the Wild West of the internet time. Now, UA-cam will remove my comment if I don’t use asterisks in certain words. Videos educating victim survivors is removed because they say the R word. Facebook has enormous 24/7 teams working through post/photo reports.
But not during that Wild West phase. I just saw a video of a huge creator interviewing another celeb & it was about being traumatised by things online during that period.
The comment section was shattering (don’t read it). All of us who grew up during that time, the things burned into our brains, the things which keep us awake at night. All because we were a kid on the internet who clicked on the wrong link or video. The very worst of humanity in all of its forms flooded the online space, totally unmitigated. Todah you can find all of that, but you have to really go lookkng for it.
Not back then. It was a cyber Russian roulette. Didn’t want to see that person d*e? Sorry, looks like we were just shit out of luck.
This was also the time where
online por* exploded, again completely unfettered, with unlimited access.
Boys & girls have grown into men & women whose brain structure & function has actually changed due to their unlimited exposure to that content during critical stages of development.
And it was of course in the movies, the tv shows, every sort of online article. It was before we were ‘woke’, before we had pulled our collective heads back in & re-ignited some honour for life & person.
There’s so much more which can be said on the topic but I don’t want to wade into triggering territory.
I would highly recommend two things. One is this article I found “Golden age perspectives on film sex & violen*e”. It’s absolutely brilliant & to try & summarise it would do it a great disservice (& the specific article is very trigger safe in my opinion, it’s very mild) . It’s on a blog called “another old movie blog”.
Secondly I would really recommend what the article itself discusses- perhaps golden age cinema would be a good choice for you?
I actually started falling in love with it after getting sucked into a few too many daytime reruns of golden films.
You get a much more stimulating storyline than if you’re watching Ice Age 2. There’s minimal gratuitous violence. Everyone is terribly beautiful. Their voices are like honey. It’s funny, culturally relevant, & has real emotional depth. And you don’t need to worry about it showing any of the things you mentioned.
Also- IMDB has a list (a disturbingly long one) titled “movies with disturbing sexual ab**e/Ra** scenes” which you can use to check if the movie is possibly comfortable for you to watch.
But I would actually recommend a site/post at the site “letterboxd” which has a list of almost 1000 movies with such triggers. They’re doing it both to show the scope of the problem, & to assist as a content notice for victim survivors.
Continue to be gentle with yourself & hold yourself in love, & I hope the site recommendations help you, & maybe you’ll even discover a love for golden cinema!
Healing vibes
i met jennifer when she came to speak to my psychology class during my senior year of high school in 2019. she’s an amazing, kind woman. such an inspiration and so unbelievably strong.
Yo this is so scary. WTF. The way you told the story and let Jennifer continue/finish the sentences was beyond amazing….that takes talent and it’s SO ENGAGING!!! Jeez. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 job overly well done 👍🏾
Thanks for watching! :)
Unfortunately, her mom was jealous of the fire she had inside of her. You’d think a mom would be proud of that in their children but some people don’t deserve to be parents!
Sadly, I have that same kind of Mother. She’s mostly tried to assassinate my character my entire life due to her own undiagnosed/untreated mental illness. I’m 63 and she’s 83 and she’s probably still doing it to anyone who will listen. Don’t know and don’t care bc for my own sanity I finally had to sever all ties. Some people aren’t meant to be mothers.
It's people like that egg donor that make me believe that you should have a license in order to have children.
Every child diserves a parent, but not every parent diserves a child.
The fact that her own MOTHER didn't believe her is astonishing to me.
Some women should never have children!!
Narcissist
She should’ve been prosecuted for obstructing justice.
Biological* mother. She aint no mother in any other regard.
She's not a mother. She's a bio parent.
How dare the police not believe he. Not to mention, even IF it was here boyfriend that did that to her, why would they think those actions are ok? Bite marks, clothes torn off, etc. They should've investigated regardless of they believed he or not. Ive never been kidnapped, but as someone who was drugged and raped by 3 men,, this disgusts me.
Honestly !😡
Like it's ok 4a boyfriend 2bite & beat up his girlfriend🤷♀️ .....
I'm so sorry ❤
Thank you for covering stories of survivors... Being a survivor myself who just went home after being assaulted and went to bed for months gives people like me hope to fight for themselves. I'm so proud of these people who chose to fight and not be a part of the statistics. Putting them behind bars. Facing them head on and making sure these monsters never get out!
I'm so proud!!
Sorry, you have nobody to tell your story? Someone who you can trust? You just went to bed after assault and didn’t try anything? What is the reason? That nobody gonna believe you?
Hey, It's not our fault that we can't get pussy.
I can relate. Godspeed to healing one day.
Same! ❤
Godbless you ❤
What hurts most in this story is the mother and the police behavior after she told them what had happened to her...She had to live in fear for five years....That is madness.....
I heard about her story - except for what her mother did... Hearing of that felt way more crushing!! Wish her all the best, I'd say that's a way higher level than strength, not just balls, but medicinical balls!
Oh, the mom part didn't surprise me. Moms who responds that way are narcissists.
@@Sacredloveoracle7 yeah, you're right. and I guess with moms like that you are way more likely to end up in situations like this... :/
If any of those murders happened after Jennifer, her mom could be partially responsible to be honest. Had they believed her and immediately started looking for and caught him, those women would still be alive.
@@Sacredloveoracle7 Yup, most likely did it because she was upset of the “attention” Jennifer was recieving and wanted the focus to shift to her.
@@siobhanmorrison3561 Yes, her mom probably dismissed her a lot growing up.
No killing between 1988 and the 1992 incident with Jenniffer?
I don't believe that he was on holidays for 4 years and a couple of years after that.
There could be many more victims.
I noticed that, and wondered the same....or if he was in prison for something else.
You could be right but it's not un heard of for serial killers to stop for years and start again btk is one example
OMG what was wrong with her mother? Jennifer is a hero and survivor. God bless you.
So rare I see stories I've never heard before. Thank you! I'm glad she made it out and helped bring him to justice.
He’s such a psycho! He assumed the people who saved her from him would “finish the job” he started?? No dude that’s just you
Jennifer was on a show on UA-cam, I think it's called "I Survived", where people tell their survival stories directly to the camera, with some reenactment footage. She tells about the experience in detail & it is RIVITING. She's an incredibly brave woman. EDIT: That one doesn't cover after the attack, so much, or Mika.
I Survived is on A&E. Another good series that's kinda like I Survived is Monster In My Family, and it's on A&E also.
Poor little Christopher. I'm glad Mika was able to start up this program to help others. And also rest in peace to all of the others that this monster here took. Still watching though.
I've seen two videos from this channel now and already, I just love so much how the focus is on the victims/survivors. I think too often true crime makes the killer the "main character" and weirdly a protagonist in that sense, their life and crimes romanticized/dramatized. I wish we'd be doing more like this channel is doing in remembering the names of victims/survivors, because a lot of people can easily name killers but can't think of any victims n it shouldn't be like that.
What an incredible woman! And SHAME on the cops who did not believe her and her own mum who betrayed her by making her a liar!!!
It's so sad that she had such a heartless and uncaring mother that she did. Shame on her mother. It's people like her that gives me inspiration. My step-father-in-law tried to take my life in my own home because I stood up to him in defense that I'd see to it he'd have no say in the custody of mine and my first husband's daughter's because he had no blood ties to them. I told him "all you are is someone who adopted my husband when he was 10 years old and technically nothing more to him than a step-father." He didn't like that so in his rage, grabbed me by the throat and I could feel myself staring to pass out. I managed to kick him off of me and ran to my neighbor's house and she seen the hand print bruises he'd left on my neck. My life was further threatened by him that if I called the authorities he'd shoot me next time because he had money and could pay a lot of people off to cover my death up. That was in 1996. I lived my life looking over my shoulder until my second husband moved us and our 2 daughters to Washington State in 2007. I lived in fear not only for my life but my new family. Since my 1st husband had full custody of our 2 daughters and moved to where he couldn't be found, he protected our daughters from that man. It wasn't fun living that many years in fear living in the same town as this man. Fearing that one day I know that I'd run into him. Thank goodness I never did. He's still behind bars for the severe beating he did to my 1st husband's mother. It was my 1st husband's being there and his 911 call that got this abusive man in prison. My 2 oldest daughters don't have to live in further fear of him either nor does my only grandson.
You're a brave survivor.
Her attacker is an absolute evil but wow her mom is a different kind of evil. How can you do that to your daughter? Also if the police and that mom made the investigation that time, they would have saved lives. They should be held responsible for those deaths.
So proud of this women for not becoming a victim and taking back her power! But most of all...her joy!
I cannot imagine the feeling of not being believed after this kind of experience. JUST HOW
I'd be like, "See Mom?! Who lied? YOU DID you horrible person"
...as well as four women that wouldn't have died if her mother wasn't a self-absorbed narcissist.
@@YecaYace2 , so many birth givers don't deserve that title. hell, sometimes i dont feel worthy.
I used to give out my wrong phone number all the time when I was younger. My mom would always get pissed at me when I told her that and told me just don't give them any number at all. Thank God I never ended up dealing with anything like this as a result of that.
I think the wrong number gets their hopes up and then the let down makes them even more salty than if you'd just said no.
@@Opal5674 but some creeps just won't stop bothering you, in some cases if giving false phone number lets you go away then so be it
What did she expect you to do? What an unsupportive mom!
@@2degucitas If you read and comprehended my comment, you would know what she wanted me to do. She wasn't being unsupportive. She knew better than I did and was in fact just trying to keep me safe.
@@ms.chievouz789 True. It can buy you a minute to get away.
I’ve seen this story on a few tv shows, but never get tired of it. She’s a real hero
I follow several true crime channels and watch these stories daily, but I can’t believe I haven’t heard this story before. Job well done again on highlighting the survivor instead of the POS attacker. She not only went through physical trauma, but also endured emotional trauma when no one, not even her own mother believed her. That would have wrecked me. Glad she was vindicated and got the justice she deserved.
Bravo to the Mom in taking her pain and loss and opening Christopher's Clubhouse.
Christopher's sacrifice and his Mom's dedication to him, will help prevent countless children from ever suffering the same fate.
The fact he thinks someone would finish his job when she got picked up … yeah cuz that’s so normal bud
I wish you would cover how he was caught and more information on the other victims. They go nameless in the video.
Heads up for Mika! What a terrific avenue you took your grief to. Now so many will feel stronger in themselves and hopefully safer in there communities💜
Not being believed after having gone through a horrendous ordeal like that must be one of the worst experiences ever.
Okay, I just found your channel today but I LOVE how much you focus on survivors. So much true crime content focuses on the monsters and criminals, but kind of ignore the victims. By doing cases with living survivors we get first hand accounts from some of the most amazing people. I find the survivors to be so admirable and interesting and really love that you give them centre stage.
the amount of murderers that got to keep going because police did not believe the victims is insane, reminds me of the pig house (cant remember the actual name) murders where one brother would murder prostitutes in a trailer and no one did anything for years
Ur talking about, Robert Pickton in Port Qualicum British Columbia Canada. He mostly killed sex workers that were from Vancouver
How appalling what the police did to her
How can police accuse someone of lying. Poor girl I would’ve sued the whole police department because you have to remember that her saying what happened to her could’ve saved lives
Accuse someone of lying when they’re literally the biggest liars & are “allowed” to lie. It’s sickening.
When a person can escape his future murder and get him to jail… It’s not only life changing but it also save future lives which could’ve been taken by this same guy.
Wow, what an amazing story. Well done to that lady for being so Felis and brave in saving her own life. I wish her all the love and happiness in the world.💛💛💛
It takes a special type of coward to see a woman being chased by a man with a machete, and their response is to lock the door, drive away and not report it.
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The police who dismissed her claims should have gone to prison for aiding and abetting a murderer
You are amazing Jennifer!!! You’re 100% right, you are a SURVIVOR not a victim! God bless you and thank you for sharing your story and having the courage to face that monster in court!
I feel badly for Mika and Christopher. They both lost so much. I'm proud of Jennifer and her resiliency. I hope Christopher and Mika have found peace and some small measure.
You did it again.
Great story. Never heard of this case before!!
I admire Jennifer's strength and determination to overcome her trauma despite no help from police or her mother. She is an extremely strong victor! I hope that she will continue to live a happy life in peace.
Well done! You've done an extraordinarily good job of covering Jennifer's story, as well as including the mother who lost her son, all in less than 15 minutes! You'll get there.😉
It's a relief she found a mother figure in Mica ❤️ She empowered Jennifer despite the lacking support from her own mother
There aren’t words powerful enough to describe Jennifer.
Several come to mind for her “mother”…
This is why no matter how nice strangers can be you still don't fully trust them till you get to know them
I'm glad Jennifer Asbenson got to share her story for the world to hear
It makes me so angry her own mom would make her out to be a liar about it and the fact he said “I haven’t heard about her since , i thought someone might have finished what I started with her” makes it so much worse. I wish the best for her and I’m glad she got some form of justice )):
Well, he's about to be finished now that he's in jail
@Unseen Thank you for telling Jennifer’s story of survival and beyond. I’ve seen her story many times but I have to say this was an incredibly well done and concise telling of her journey, courage and bravery even in the face of being disbelieved. She’s a phenomenal woman!!!
I just wanted to let you know that I saw this upload and waited until I finished my test to watch it so I could enjoy it, I love when you upload. I'm so happy she got away but ot takes so much to come ouy of a situation like that. I never can grasp how survivors are so brave to try and escape, its truly amazing and im so happy to see survivor stories. Thank you for this channel, I will always waiy for uploads and watch
Thanks for watching!😇
The ones that look harmless are usually THE MOST DANGEROUS ONES!
Ahh, a breath of fresh air.
Hot, hard, long day in the sun, time to chill.
*Keep up the intriguing work, Unseen.*
THE WAY I HEARD PALM SPRINGS MY JAW DROPPED?? IM 5 MINS AWAY…
Jennifer is an AMAZING,BRAVE and BEAUTIFUL WOMAN,She escapes twice and frees herself from her Attacker👍🏾💯BRAVO.Thestory of the little boy made me cry,His Mum is a HERO to all the children and people she is helping to learn self defence.Am soo Proud of Her.Jennifer’s Mum is not even worth words😡Thankyou Unsen for sharing these wonderful stories.
How many lives could've been saved if they believed her?!
Her story is one of the greatest. She is so brave. And she is a living inspiration. She still has a mission in this earth
She really is a survivor what she went through is unimaginable.
*Don’t ignore your instinct!*
Wow. The mother saying that is disgusting. I’m so happy she was finally able to get justice and enjoy life the best she can now. I’m so so happy she had the courage to run and not give up. Also thankful for those people who stopped for her. Wild story.
Thank you for such great content, the videos are very well put together!
I’ve seen Jennifer’s case on an episode of I survived and never heard or seen of it anywhere else, thanks for giving me so much more information on that case! She is such a beautiful soul I’m so glad she’s doing well now!
This is truly an incredibly strong individual. Very inspirational and powerful!
It's such a pain when you tell the complete truth to the police (including random people in life) but they're not willing to believe.
Hurts a lot, tons of us can experience this.
People like this are so Inspirational.
This channel is so underated . Every episode is so good especially on how he tells it. Good job narrator for building tension on how you tell the story. Good shit !
Man, your videos are made so well that they always tug at my heart strings, so I'm celebrating and crying at the same time. lol
every one of these videos gives me chills. they all have a moment of divine intervention when its clear to me an angel intervened. its truly inspiring. it fuels my faith and stokes that survivors spirit in me that i have too often allowed to be extinguished by my victim mentality.
when being a victim isnt a choice, but being a survivor is, its hard to make that choice after trauma leaves you powerless. taking your power back has felt like too big a burden to bear, while the shame of being victimized is heavier & yet it’s comfortable after being conditioned into carrying it as who you are. a choice made for you long ago. the idea of choices terrify me. i dont trust my own judgement. judging myself worthy of being more that a victim and choosing to be a survivor instead feels silly, cliche, & undeserved. its hard to believe your more than worthless when thats how others have chosen to treat you.
choosing to be more than worthless requires selfworth & im caught in a cycle of victimhood thats difficult to eacape.
but these videos inspire me to try. they did it so maybe so can i. i just know my family will mock me for saying so or seeing myself in that way. so i must try to be strong in private. survive in my mind alone & pray no one find me weak enough to remind me of my worthlessness. because ill cave all over again. sometimes its hard to keep getting back up
I'm heartbroken for anyone who has to endure these kinds of cases. It makes me happy to hear from survivors and the circumstances that lead to their safety.
What a horrible mother.
She must have had so many cuts and bruises on her. It's incredible that the cops wouldn't even investigate why she was in that condition. Even if she had a fight with her boyfriend shouldn't they be concerned about the condition she was in??? F the cops.
She prayed! Also, I wish she had continued to seek help. Hope deferred makes the heart sick. But whatever the devil intends for evil God will work out for good. Glad she met the other gal. She was empowered, that is so commendable. We comfort others with the same comfort we have received. May her legacy be a testimony for others to pray, fight, never give up, and encourage and help others. God bless her!
i’ve been watching you since the first video i know you are going to hit many milestones i’m just glad to be here now
As a trauma survivor myself, I have NOTHING but respect for Jennifer Asbenson's courage in exposing the evil that she experienced!
There just isn’t a reasonable enough excuse for what her mother did. Terrible
what on earth would make the cops not believe her story!!! absolutley disgusting
Her mom.
Women have less value to the police then men.
Jennifer praying out loud 🙏, that makes all the difference. God bless her .
I really enjoy your uploads. Keep the good work up
I saw this on Forensic Files. ❤️ Love these, Bless this woman’s heart.
That's the problem with the police. The assume that the parents know their children, but if you don't really know what is going on then you can't say shit or take sides.
That's the third one I've heard on this channel where the cops didn't believe the victim. It's almost unbelievable
Extraordinary story & astonishing woman! ❤
Great way of narration, only aspect I would‘ve preferred being different was the fact that alrdy in advance u revealed how this woman got contacted by police after her perpetrator was alrdy in custody!
So this kinda lowered the tension when u reported about her anxiety for 5 yrs fearing for him showing up at her address (which I personally imagine to have been so terrifying)!
That's unbearably soul destroying, not being believed
No matter how many stories I hear like this my heart breaks everytime how do you hurts innocent little angels 😢
I listened to this story on I survived. I've never felt more heartbroken and sad listening to Jennifer's story. It makes me absolutely SICK that the police didn't believe her! And it's probably largely due to that witch of a mother of hers! I really hope that Jennifer is happy now, and with a good, loving man.
Remarkable triumph over evil. God Bless the Girl.
The cops dismissing her claim is unbelievably negligent!
EDIT: Thank God she was still around five years later to help them out, when they needed her.
SECOND EDIT: What a vindictive mother; no wonder the cops didn't believe her!
I’m 32 and even though I always knew it was dangerous I would still accept rides from strangers when I was a teenager.
I have terrible time management so I was usually running late and when you’re young and beautiful there’s almost always a guy that will offer you a ride if they see you waiting for a bus.
It’s interesting that Jennifer noted that the guy didn’t look tough and that’s what ultimately helped her to decide to take the ride because I would do the same thing. I’d stare at them for a second and think “yeah I probably could take this guy if I needed too”
Which is BS like I’m not tough.
It was truly just luck that nothing horrible happened.
4 people could have potentially been saved if her mom didn’t do that…
At that point you disown your Mom for real 8:40 WTF Mom!?
Thank you for telling this story is so terribly sad why mothers do that to their children I never understand
I can't believe her mom did that to her I'm so happy she's better now
This is one of my worst nightmares. How horrible is what this poor girl went through and nobody believed her not even her mom !! She just lived with it, dealt with it on her own without help for years. Oh my God ..
So why did police listen to her mother when this woman had several wounds all over her body and had to be taken to the hospital? How are those wounds made up? What is wrong with her mother?
I love love love how you end these videos. So wonderful.