solved after 51 years in 2023: debbie lynn randall
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- debbie lynn randall loved dolls, baseball, and her family. she was tragically taken from them in 1972, and both of her parents died without learning who was responsible for her murder. her beloved brother melvin was still alive to finally see his sister's case solved more than five decades later, in 2023.
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The rape of a child by an adult is horrific. The physical trauma caused is basically a ripping apart of her body. I unfortunately listened to a child rape case that revealed the physical trauma caused. Made me sick. Child rape should be punished with the death penalty because of the level of cruelty is causes physically not to mention mentally if the child survives.
You are absolutely right. Little girls are ripped apart and grown women are torn and heavily bruised. That's violence! A nurse I used to know told me that a man had raped a six-year-old little girl. When found, she was rushed to the hospital into surgery. Poor baby's insides were coming out due to the brutality of the rape. Several doctors and nurses worked on her but were unable to save her life. The nurse said that all of the doctors and nurses were crying. This act upon that child was beyond evil. I will never understand why any man thinks it's a good idea to use his body as a weapon (or deadly weapon, in this case) against a female of any age. That's evil; that's hatred and is worthy of the death penalty.
I agree! Death penalty.
But why leave a 9 year old alone in a laundromat even if it was early 70’s?😭
Agree😢
@@patriciathomas1252that's so incredibly sad.
And remember it's little boys too. They suffer horribly in their bodies as well when they've been violated.
thank goodness the detectives preserved the evidence so well. This seems rare, in most cold cases evidence is lost or damaged after so many years.
A big thanks also goes to Kintelligence, a new technology in forensics which allows the creation of viable DNA profiles where it used to not be possible.
So sad for the parents who did not live to see their daughters case solved.
So sad for the parents? I feel for the brother and his guilt of not going with his sister. I feel sorry for the trauma, death and horror that poor girl experienced! But I am not sad for the parents. They deserve their sorrow, for they neglected to watch over and keep their daughter safe! Any pain or quilt they may have felt was well deserved!
@@annepearson4357 Okay, the Mom wouldn't have won Mother of the Year, but it wasn't Debbie's father who left a 9 year old at the laundromat, it was her STEP father. Her biological father was at work at the Ford Plant. Maybe you need to watch this video again. I'm very sorry for her Father. And the brother, and yes, even for the Mom.
I knew it to be step father, but omitted the step, assuming anyone who had watched video already knew that. And still, when he came home alone, mother didn't seem to care, did she?@@coldblue9mm
Oh, and by the way... I did say stepfather. Reread my post from over a month ago. I guess it is you not paying attention. Duh!@@coldblue9mm
Aside from outright genocide, killing a child is the worst crime a person can commit, and it should always be met with the most horrible punishments that mankind can imagine.
I can think of a couple worse things, usually in addition to killing the child.
But in reality, killing yourself is the absolute worst.
@@alphaomega8373 That's a very selfish opinion.
@@ChadwickTheChad Just what history has displayed, hence reality.
@@alphaomega8373 No, actually, you couldn't possibly be more wrong. The choice of someone to take their own life is nowhere close to the crime of genocide or killing a child who didn't have a choice. Learn how to speak English.
That was heartbreaking. I'm glad that brother finally has peace
Melvin, wow, what a guy. Glad he found some resolution.
P.s. love how your scripts are written. Removing cliches and flowery prose, and just focusing on information, it ends up helping you identify with the victim more. It lets their personality show through.
May he rot in hell. Wish he could have faced justice but there's a certain satisfaction knowing he was tormented and uninstalled life.
He may have escaped justice in this life. In the next however...
"uninstalled"?
@@rayoung74 There is no next. Unless you can prove otherwise.
@@sandgrownun66and you can't prove there isn't
@@sandgrownun66 For those who believe no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe no proof is possible.
Terrible crime, poor little girl. I absolutely hate the fact that there are people out there who are capable of doing things like this, they need putting down.
I suppose at least the perpetrator died a couple of years after the murder so he didn't live for decades as a free man which would have been a much bigger injustice
Plus it means he wasn't out there doing this to other girls.
I would like to amend the engraving on his headstone to add child rapist and murderer to “devoted husband, father, son, and brother”.
@@LillibitOfHereThe headstone was the most sickening part of this case as far as images go. It means his subhuman DNA still exists out there somewhere 🤢🤢
It's great Debbie's case is solved but it's sad that her parents died before finding out who was responsible for her murder
I am same age as Debbie and grew up in same county. So glad this was finally solved. 🙏
This one actually brought tears to my eyes- that poor little girl. The terror she must have gone through :(
Monsters can be everywhere😢
I don't even want to think about it. Terrible. Just horrible.
There's actually a certain Beauty in the fact that he took his own life do you think maybe she haunted him every day for two years and finally he couldn't take him any longer that's what I want to believe happened
Thank you so much for covering this case! I grew up in Marietta and vividly remember when this happened. Our pastor helped search for her. It was such a horrible time. It's the case that got me interested in true crime. I always believed it would be solved. I wish her father had lived long enough to see the end of the case. May she R.I.P.
Not living to see a case solved in my opinion doesn't stop them from getting answers. I believe they receive those answers from beyond the grave. I am happy her brother was able to move past that guilt he felt; nobody could have predicted this.
Oh I so hope her father and mother got to see her in eternity…so very sad.
Parent should not have sent a CHILD to do family’s laundry. Period.
@@marilynbio.mincer6520 I wasn't gonna say it but I'm glad you did. In those days people gave unreasonable adult responsibilities to children and people were way too comfortable sending their kids off alone, especially if the location was close by. Having an adult around would've prevented this.
@@marilynbio.mincer65201972 was a whole different time then it is now. Kids use to be able to get a pack of cigarettes at the store for their parents on credit. So, don't blame the parents.
How would that work? Do you have any evidence for this wishful, yet irrational belief?
I know it seems like a short amount of time - in these stories - because we're just listening and hearing 50 years - but that is longer then I've been on this earth. I could not even begin to imagine what her family went through, both before and after finding out what happened to her. I'm so happy to know about cases like this that are not tossed away as "unsolvable" but shelved and re-examined time and time again. Most don't get solved, I know - but it does my heart good to know that some do. Here, we have no statute of limitations on murder, and murderers should be looking over their shoulders their entire lives.
Thank you for telling the story without the clip art or stock images. Just clear and to the point. I find other channels with so much of that clip art or stock images is distracting and unnecessary.
totally agree with you
You're lucky to be so young.
This is so sad
Wow, thank you for sharing this with me.
That statement from Melvin was absolutely incredible wasn’t it.
I love it when the trash takes itself out
Yeah but not before he left descendants 🤢
I'm one year older than Debbie and never had to do adult jobs like the laundry, but all of our neighborhood children ran freely all over! We left at daybreak and returned at dark. No one feared for their kids safety, except to warn us to watch the traffic on the streets or crossing highways. By the time my son was born in early 80's, whole different scene! He was never allowed that freedom as a child. The innocence (or ignorance) of the 60's and 70's had disappeared. I am so sorry that Debbie suffered and was not allowed to grow up and live a full life.
these new DNA labs are a complete game changer
At least he’s roasting in hell and hasn’t been preying on other innocent children all these years. RIP sweet Debbie Lynn.
Yes always leave your child doing the families laundry alone with no adult. What parents would do that
That's what made me upset. Who would do that!
You do a very good job. Your voice is soothing. Thank you
I take some small comfort in knowing that Debbie's killer
didn't live long after murdering her,
there's a special place in hell for child rapists/murderers.
RIP Debbie you do not deserved to
have your life cut short so brutally.🙏
Thanks so much for coming back, I've been missing you.
I live in Atlanta and I still live in Alpharetta Georgia. I remember this case. I was only 11 years old and became interested in this case. I watched the news every night just to see if anything new was found out about Debra. I remember days and days went by and they still had not found her. One day I was watching the news again and they had found Debra and she was dead. I couldnt believe it. I was so sad that this beautiful little girl was actually no longer alive. Only just about a year ago I was on my cell phone and for some odd reason I started thinking about this again and wondered what had happened with the case. I am so glad they finally solved this case. Beautiful little Debra Lynn Randell will finally be able to Rest In Peace now. Justice will not be served because he took his life but Debra can rest now. God Bless you little Debbie! Your in Heaven and you are safe. You are so missed. William Barnard.
There are two cases (cold) in/near Richmond, VA. I remember them from my childhood. 1) in 1967,68, 69 (I can't remember), a girl of about 5 was taken from her home in Sandston, VA. Her raped and sodomized body was found with sticks and twigs in orifi. She was found nude and in a ditch on the grounds of the Richmond Airport. I do not believe they ever found the killer. I would like to know for sure. I was about the same age and where I had been free to bike and play with friends, my parents forebade me to go outside without them after this event. The other case 2) is a girl named Christine Wright of Dinwiddie, VA. She was taken out of her home when the perpetrator got into her home through the locked sliding glass door, in the middle of the night, from her bed, while her parents slept nearby. Her body was found months later in a swamp. This was around 1972 and again, the neighborhood was horrified and scared to death that the perpetrator was still at large. Is there any way you can find out about these cases?
Just google their names,information should be there.
@@janetsides901 not there
@@wendykirby631 yes I looked too. I found Christine Wright.
@@janetsides901 what about the other? I don’t know her name.
@@wendykirby631 me either.
He killed himself 2 years later. And I hope those last 2 years of his life was mental torture. As it most likely was since he took his own life. Just worried about himself going to jail, not one ounce of remorse for the little girl or her family. I am glad her family learned the truth, and glad his family learned probably the reason their family member took his life. Bittersweet for both families.
Why would you leave a small child by herself?????
I know it sounds cliche but times were different. People commonly left their children alone and sent them on errands. It's no fault of the parents. It's easy to say in hindsight that they should've been more attentive but back then, it was common. Laundry was an errand she did often so it was just as normal as allowing your kid to take the trash out or check the mail.
Them not living to see justice hurts.
Chilling. I LIVED in Marietta in 1972 going to J.J. Daniel jr. high, before Sprayberry (Brand new) in 1973. Thanks for covering this.
Oh the picture of Debbie's father crying Inconsolably shattered my heart into pieces😞😞😞 How terrible it has to be for her family to have gone through this ordeal. Her poor parents deserved to have found some closure before their death! I am glad the case is finally solved and the monster who took her life is revealed, nevertheless it bothers me so much what her family had to endure all these years following her brutal murder. Hope that man is burning in ****.
Usual quality and empathetic presentation,look forward to each new presentation. ❤
I almost can't watch your reports. They are excellent and sad.
I remember your first upload! You've gotten so good at this HC
he would have spent so many years on death row eating drinking and joking with other inmates. he made it much smoother.
Saved a few quid as well.
This is why I never left my children alone in public areas. I never cared how sick I was, I never sent my children to do my chores or errands for fear of kidnapping. That poor baby.
I’m so tired of sick, evil people.
My mom raise 6 children, dad was always at work, my mom was adamant that us kids didn’t take on adult responsibilities, she always said she didn’t believe in punishing us knowing kids for being born.
Years later she told me she had a female cousin who was dumped on with way too many responsibilities raising her siblings, her mom was also abusive to her. That said, as a young adult she had a nervous breakdown, committed suicide.
It also was a different time... I remember being under 10 and going to the convenience store to pick up tobacco for my mother. I walked to the store, often alone. On the way home I'd often stop at the playground for a bit before heading home. This kind of situation can happen anywhere - at any time. Blaming parents, or even the young man that went with her that day - puts more burden on them then they already have. Unless they are truly neglectful parents - they don't need us to dump on them for what happened... They will have a lifetime to reflect on it. It never goes away.
This was back in 70s. It was a different time and people were more trusting and unsuspecting around that time. Even back in 90s kids were seen playing outside unsupervised and kids running errands all by themselves was super common. It wasn't her parents or brother's fault. The blame should be on the man who took her life.
It's all about you is it
@@humayrafaizah1428I agree, we were given a lot of free reign at that time and it on,y made me more independent. My parents warned us and gave us situational awareness skills. I remember seeing creepy guys and knew to steer clear of them. I also believe I was protected.
Thanks
At the very least Melvin has some closure to fully start the healing process.
A sad case, but a very well made video.
This story is fucking horrifying. Gonna give my little girl a good big hug in the morning.
Always horrible to loose a child, Glad she was found so she could get her a proper burial. The little girl should never have had to go do laundry by herself. Its a shame that most didn't know that back then that monsters where everywhere.
Love the care you put into this case.
I wonder if he killed himself because he was that afraid of getting caught, or if he actually felt some sort of remorse for what he had done. Seems like he only cared about himself and was very mentally unstable. And this lovely little thing was snared by him. How freaking horrifying. 😢
As the Lead Genealogist on this case, I just wanted to note a few things. DNA Labs International had been involved in the case before 2023 and we were the lab which created the genealogy profile for comparison (autosomal SNP DNA). More importantly, this genealogy profile was created using the newest technology available called Kintelligence. It is because of this new technology that a viable profile could be created for comparison in the available genealogy databases. It's just a matter of time before everyone starts to hear more and more about Kintelligence as it is going to allow more viable DNA profiles to be created where typical SNP array testing and WGS testing fail due to low amounts of DNA and high degradation.
This is my favorite true crime voice.
Everyone has that one missing child, from their childhood, in their area that they remember for the rest of their lives. Whether they knew the child or not. Debbie Randall was mine growing up in Atlanta. This was all over the news and I still remember that photo of her ( I was 8 years old in 1972). I always remembered her name. I’m glad it finally has closure. RIP
Thank you. From Ireland ☘️
So terribly sad but fantastic results
I hope whatever he did to kill himself hurt a lot. Thanks, HC.
I heard he stuffed the car muffler and went to sleep.
I love, when an old case is finally solved. I absolutely HATE, when the perpetrators got to live their lives and never face any consequences!
Thanks for sharing
I dont understand why the stepfather left her alone. I know laundromats suck, but she was left to try and protect herself. Mama never left us even though she was chronically ill and daily struggled. Breaks my gesrt.
I had missed this part and was wondering what happened to the stepfather. How could he leave a child of her age alone in a laundromat or anywhere for that matter?
People were far more naive back then re child safety. When I was a child back then, people left their babies in prams outside the store while they shopped. Small children did errands for parents alone.
I think because there were teen girls working there. It said in the video that they said Debbie said good-bye to them around 7:15. I don't understand why she left the building rather than waiting inside and calling for a ride.
@@KatieBellinoThere were no cell phones back then and they likely did not have a public phone in the laundromat. The best she probably could have done would have been a payphone or phone booth likely located outside.
@@manfredconnor3194 I know there weren't cell phones (I'm older). Most businesses still had a phone or payphone.
At least he didn't die recently and gave himself the death penalty.
Thank you HC. RIP little angel🙏💔🕊️
Thank god he died within a few short years after this murder. Had he lived, he no doubt would have done it again. Rape and murder of a child is not something a person just happens to do. There has to be some inner demon that compels them to do so, which doesn’t stop until they’re caught or dead. Debbie’s brother Melvin sounds like a wise and compassionate person. I am glad that at least he lived to learn who did this to his family. May Debbie and her parents now be resting in peace. 💙🙏
Thank god for what?
@@sandgrownun66please re-read the first sentence of her comment.
@@Sacred-Heart-of-Jesus829 I doubt your imaginary god had much to do with it.
@@Sacred-Heart-of-Jesus829It was just as stupid a statement the second and 3rd time around. Where was this hide-and-seek, allegedly omniscient, almighty, BENEVOLENT and perfect god when she was kiddnapped? Why did god knowingly make this monster and not correct his mistake or intervene? This god if yours does not exist. We are aline here with each other and we need to get along with each other. There is no hell that will punish bastards like this. WE have to take action and stop them. No amount of prayer will ever help anyone!
This god you speak of, the one who is allegedly omniscient, almighty, benevolent and perfect in every way, likely does not exist, else he would have prevented this monster from having been born, or would have intervened to correct hus major damagevir would have prevented thevlittle girl from being kidnapped to begin with. If he had wanted to teach a lesson, he could have brought the little girl back to life and erased what was done to her.
This entity of which you speak, certainly does not exist.
Wow they just found her killer last year. Thank God they found out who did it be so so sad for her parents. They lived hell in earth.
I hate parents who treat their children so harshly that you can't tell if it's kidnapping or not. I've seen many people rip screaming and kicking children away from something or push them into cars so violently that I genuinely didn't know if I should call the police or not. I always write down the license plates and try taking a picture whenever I witness something like that just in case. I often want to ask these people if they know that they treat their own children the way a kidnapper would treat them. I don’t blame that little girl who witnessed the abduction for not calling the police immediately, she's probably been treated the exact same was by her parents so she didn't think it was wrong.
Melvin sounds like a big-hearted man
Sad a girl child left to do laundry for her family… the brother gets to watch his favorite television show .. sad..
Well the father left her there😢
@@49luckystepfather
Her mother and brother were both sick and her father left for work after starting it. It sounds like it was an unusual situation for the family, not child servitude. People in small towns alway feels safer than they actually are. If they had known there was a child rapist on the streets they probably would have made do with hand washing some things.
I need to learn not to watch these at 2:30 am, since I wound up sobbing despite having no connection to this at all. If I lived in GA, I'd egg Rose's grave.
Thankful this case was resolved. The killer couldn’t stand the consequences so took his life.
Thank you for reporting on this case so respectfully.
I'm just wondering about Frank the step-dad though. Why did he leave Debbie at the laundromat alone? Did he feel guilty? Melvin had no reason to feel guilty.
Of course the only one really to blame is Rose for the vile thing he did.
Holy crap that seemingly lame sketch was SPOT ON. Compare 3:19 to 10:55
Yes without the wrinkles
She is buried near my grandparents on my dad’s side.
I was the same age as her when this happened and lived off of Powers Ferry Rd, I remember this very well, we drove by the laundry mat after this happened, you could still see the soap powder on the asphalt, I just wish he had been caught before he took his life
so sad, yet glad they know
He shouldn't be able to keep this nice gravestone saying devoted husband son and brother. Replace it with his name and charges.
He was also a father.
Not trying to nit-pick, because I love your videos but, @ 1:40, it wasn't "getting dark" in Marietta GA on January 13 at 7:30 pm, it had Been dark for nearly an hour... Just sayin'...
That little girl would be a few years younger than me. So horrible what happened to her. When I look at her school photo there, she could easily have been one of the neighbor kids where and when I was growing up... RIP Debbie.
How can any parent (stepfather) leave a 9 year old girl, alone in public at laundromat by herself for hours; & then not worry about her until it was getting dark? When husband came home, how could mother just knowingly think it ok to leave daughter alone in a major urban area? How sad. Hope William Rose is in hell being tormented!
0 tolerance for Chomos! It made me feel good that a fellow Vietnam vet found her. My 3 tours were with the 173rd Airborne Brigade/74th Infantry Detachment/LRRP '66 - '69. My 3rd tour was ended by a terrible ambush in the A Shau valley in 10/69.
Thank you for your sacrifice, in what was a "bad war". My uncle was in the ASA, did two tours. He was assigned to the units sweeping the Ashah valley and was later with the men who were overrun at Phu Bai. That, at least is what he told us.
You guys and the Korean vets got a raw deal. If I was there, I'd buy you a beer or a burger or do something nice for you within reason and my means, of course.
Victims and Family and Friends ❤❤❤
I grew up around the same time there were 7 of us girls and my parents NEVER left us alone we barely got to spend the night at friends houses. This is so sad and tragic and it is the parents fault .
Do you feel that your development suffered, because you were not allowed any freedom and autonomy? Just curious.
Oh, she was my age! Poor girl
Well, if the mother wondered why it wasn't her, it was because she and her husband left a 9 year old in a laundromat. That laundry couldn't have waited until the next day? Can't believe the carelessness with children.
I can't even fathom the survivor's guilt her brother suffered through. May he rot in Hell.
The family got worried when Debbie didnt show up to get someone to help her carry the laundry. How about going to help her when you know laundry is done. Or...or...or I have an idea how about staying with your young daughter while the laundry is being washed and dried.
Horrible
Terrible and so sad
RiP.
I’m surprised that that little girl that saw the guy grab Debbie, didn’t go to a business right there and tell them what happened. I guess she was a little girl but that really got me.
She was left at 10yrs old in a launderette and not picked up.
That makes zero sense to me step Dad just leaves her there damn well knowing he will have to go back to get the clothes what a bag of 💩
I have so wanted the Oakland County Child Killer case solved. With today’s DNA testing those cases could have been solved.
They can't do it now? I am not familiar with those cases.
Can't wait to watch!! Hey everyone!! And God bless!!🩷🔥🤎
He did the world a favor by ending his life.
Weird tone
Do these get you off? Pity your god did nothing to stop this crime.
@@MVK123Yeah, and what does a brown heart like that mean?
3:13 Dude looks like Matt Dillon meets Thomas Haden Church
9 years old?
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Who leaves their child at a laundry mat. Just saying.
What a horribly sad case this is! Why on earth did her step father leave her all alone at the mat!? In today's society, you won't see that happen at all! Kids being left alone! Too many bad things have happened to children to make it this way nowadays!😢😢
If the government mandated that DNA SHOULD be taken upon birth, we would be able to identify and solve way too many cases.
Is there a threshold beyond which investigators will no longer pursue a matter?
I assume that there remain, for example, unsolved murders from the 1920s and 1930s, but all parties (perpetrator, witnesses) would be long deceased, so solving the case would now be a purely academic exercise and a waste of scarce police resources.
Yeah, if you are black, for example, it used to be that your case would not even be investigated a lot of places. Nowadays idk. It does unfortunately depend on class & social status.
The stepfather should’ve never left her alone and should have been charged with child neglect. She was only 9. So sad!!!
Obviously you didn't grow up back then. Nothing unusual about children doing things independently. And for all the helicopter parenting now days, I think more children are victims of violence today.
@@dmreddragon6 I definitely grew up back then. I did not have helicopter parents, but at age 9 my parents would never have left me alone at a laundromat. My mother’s parents were super strict, so she did not want to be that strict, but thankfully she had common sense.
@@dmreddragon6 I think that the nature of the violence against children has changed. I think that there was a LOT of physical and sexual abuse against children from past decades that didn't get reported. Children being taught about safety and feeling empowered to speak up for themselves makes it harder for predators. However, the gun violence thing is pretty crazy in the US.
@@JoRiver11I totally agree
Oh that poor father and mother 😢😢😢 I’m so sorry they didn’t live to see that the POS was long dead! POS devil. Hope he’s being SA’d by Beelzebub daily.
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What a sweet girl and a horrible way to die. Some people would think that he got away with it but I believe his feet are to the fire with the rest of him.
12:54 if the killer came to jesus at the end..... he's in heaven too. Bliss!
I know people feel bad for the parents but who leaves a little kid alone at a laundry mat?
It was a different time back then. Kids had more freedom, because people were more trusting and naive. I was a kid in the 70s and even though my parents were overprotective, they let me go trick or treating in the neighborhood with only my sisters and some friends when I was in grammar school. They also let us ride around and walk around the neighborhood and miles further, to stores with no helmets or adult supervision. It’s how it was.
"Laundry mat"???
@@godfreypigott a place outside the home where you go to do laundry.
@@Purplenpinkk It's a LAUNDROMAT.
"Laundry mat" ... LOL.
Two people without an education - must be Americans.
@@Purplenpinkk
It's 'laundromat'.
May-retta.
Why did her parents let her go to laundry mat alone? That was a fatal mistake.
Sad the investigation took so long even when DNA testing became advanced enough years ago they could have been solved this. How did he not leave semen?? Lazy detective work imo
A condom perhaps? But idk how exactly collecting evidence like that works. Maybe the swabs had degraded to far to be usable over the decades.
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I can’t believe the step father just left her at the laundromat to bring all the clothes back !