unsolved babysitter mysteries
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- we trust babysitters to keep those most dear to us safe, but what happens when it turns out they are not safe themselves?
[00:07] margaret fox
[05:35] olive walker
[08:02] evelyn hartley
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In the 80's, I babysat for a few seriously sketchy people. Looking back I realize how dangerous babysitting could be. People trust less now so I think babysitters are safer then in decades past. Parents would be more hesitant to let their kids babysit for strangers whereas mine were like "see you whenever".
I. Baby. Sat. For. My. Local. Moms. But. Then. Woeked A. Daycare. Babysat. As. A. Side. Gig. For. Parents. Of. The. Daycare. So. I. Made. 330. An. Hour. At. Daycare. But. My. Side. Gig. 350. The. Weekend. Overnight. The. Kids. Were. Good. Easy. Cash.
@@joycebruhn3672 sweet baby Jesus, I can't even read it.
My mom never allowed me to babysit and now I understand why. Having minors watch stranger's small children alone in their house is a bad idea for so many reasons
Intelligent mom.
Most babysitters know the families well. It's unusual to babysit for a family that you've never met.
Yes I agree.
I was allowed to starting from when I was 12. Perhaps not the best idea, but I came out okay.
Night Phlox me too. But I never babysat for strangers.
So one phone call conversation allows a child to go out of town and babysit someone no one has ever seen or met. I’m glad the majority of people have realized this isn’t a good idea anymore. Who cares about the time period that makes no sense to do...smh I hope Margaret’s family found some kind of relief after what happened.
Stephanie Logan none of those historical events correlate with what I said. Idk would you send your kids out our town to a house you’ve never been to or met the parents? No you wouldn’t.That’s what I was talking about. Someone murdered a child because of a failure on the parents part, Pearl Harbor etc has nothing to do with that, yes it was a disruption to our innocence as a nation but not in the way I meant.
Just remember that job was a job back then. Parents instilled a work ethic that isn't instilled now for these video reasons.
@Stephanie Logan Uhhhh none of those events matter in this context
@@MJ-bv8jo Right! my grandma is 80 and said she would have never been this naive.
It's easy to judge when you're outside looking in, however yu don't kno the full conversation.. And the times have to play a factor ( not only the time, but also the town, city, area etc)... All of these things helped make the decision at the time... 🙄
My co-workers are screwed if they need me to remember that they were at work. They do so little it's hard to prove they were even here.
Nobody Matters this 😩😂👏👏
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6 months later & it still doesn't matter.
Priceless!
Such a sad evil world....
I always feel so sorry for the families who never get any answers.
Great upload 👍
Me, too! So sad 😢!
Sadly it can happen to any of us
It is such a beautiful world yet so much evil exists everywhere! 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
Things like this has been going on for ages. In the modern day, with news, social media, etc., you hear about it more often than you would have back then.
Thank you so much for featuring Margaret Fox’s story. I have lived in the area all of my life and had never heard of her case.
As a child I never imagined that monsters would be real, as a teenager growing up in post Ted Bundy Seattle, I learned they are... and they are human.
As. A child. I. Was. Scared. Of. Monsters. Then. I. Was. Once. Or. Twice. Spooked. By. Men. Trying. To. Ask. Me. Directions. Um. A. Voice. Inside. My. Head. Said. Hold. On. Stop. Run. Thank. The. Lord. For. That. Voice. Then. My. Best. Friend. Steven. Wood. Killed. By. Freeway. Killers. Then. Ted. Bundy. Manson. Etc. The. World. Is. Not. Safe.
Grew up just north of Seattle. We have grown some of the most notorious serial killers in this area. Love how silence of the lambs did a hint of Bundy with the killer feigning injury to get the victim to help load the couch. Hey I was even freaking out about big foot as a kid. It was torture growing here!
Once I was babysitting this really horrid 7 year old brat. He came out of his parents' bedroom waving a $100 dollar bill. He told me he was going to flush it down the toilet and tell his parents that I stole it. I had to chase him around the house but I finally got it from him. He was a real turd!
If I ever babysat a brat and he did that to me this channel would have a story dedicated to him. Hope you didn't babysit that kid again.
WonderWhatHappened: Haa haa! Yup, that was the last time I babysat him. Once in a while I think about him - he's probably in prison somewhere.
DIVISION: I sure did. That was only one of several things he did but that was the icing on the cake.
I'd be tempted to flush him down the toilet. Lol atleast give him a swirly. Soak his head in the toilet like a school bully. That'd shut him up.
Kris Quigley omg I would be in Jail because I would sparked him
I was familiar with the Evelyn Hartley case but not the other two so thank you again for putting them out. It’s heartbreaking though that the parents went through the agony of not knowing what happened to their daughters. Such evil in this world.
So sad. All of these so sad. When I was a teenage (I shan't say how long ago that was.) it was a simpler and more trusting time; even though though, as these cases show, there were monsters. I was only allowed to babysit for families known to my parents, or friends of those families who vouched for them. But nothing can protect one from home invaders or a false friend with a gun, or being helpless from an unexpected attack. Even more seems to go on now because our society practically guarantees mobility and anonymity.
LodiTX I love the word “shan’t made me chuckle. I was thinking the same thing about evil happening even back than. Evil is evil.
LodiTX Well said, I agree 100%.
Did these things exist in the 40s and 50s in the United States? Yes, but occurrences were much fewer and further between. This country’s culture changed immensely during the 1960s “free love”, feminism and the women’s empowerment movement, degradation of the traditional family structure, the rise in popularity of the hippie movement, and after the Vietnam War. Selfishness and hedonism has been on the rise ever since, and I believe that there is a connection to these things. That is my observation only.
I live in NZ and remember the Olive Walker case. Poor Olive had learning disabilities and was a very naive innocent girl. She loved her family and her friends. There was a suspect who came to light many years later and he worked at a nearby factory, but police could never get enough evidence.
I've never heard of Olive Walker but when I saw her picture, I thought she looked like a New Zealander & it felt too close to home. The poor girl 😕
I live in Christchurch,NZ & i wonder why i've never even heard of this case before,i must google it,cheers.
Christchurch girl here. I don't remember Olivias case which is odd because I follow the nz cold cases and true crime here. I remember her case was on the investigator on TV1 back in 2010/11 I think it was or maybe 2009...?? Poor Olive being raped and then hit over the head, left to bleed to death. Olives Dad had every right to be strict about the company she kept. Its so horrific and sad she and the family trusted the person asking for a babysitter.
This was a poorly delivered story on Olive in this video that’s for sure.
Peter T there was an episode of Sensing Murder on her case, it’s very good
Sounds like the Evelyn Hart case might be a good one for the cold case unit to use with today's DNA technology.
I agree. I'm from lLa Crosse and this case haunted people. My boss at my first job was Evelyn's best friend and locker mate. It tore her up everytime it was brought up
I think it was easy in the early fifties to not expect people to watch you. He was a professor at the University, so anyone would expect him to go to the game. And a baby sitter to be there. This was over sixty years ago, and at that time, there were very few murders or violent crimes. They have never found a body, and my parents always said she was probably buried under the highway that runs through town. It was being worked on and cement laid at this time, so it would have been easy to place here body there. But no one knows.
@@DIVISIONINCISION well there is a major theory that thd killer was Ed gein and possibly his brother, before Ed killed his brother. The pools of blood were apparently the serial killer Geins Motus Operandi or MO
Ed gein was also staying with family a block away from Evelyn's babysitting job. Either that or Viggo Rasmussen knew something....
Ed Gein targeted old women. I don't think he would have looked at a teenaged girl. He was cleared of this crime.
These cases are so heartbreaking. 😥
Glad to see youre including Evelyn Hartley. It goes mostly unnoticed on UA-cam.
A polygraph is not only "not conclusive evidence," it's not evidence at all.
@@MyKali2009 they use them to scare people into saying what they want to hear. "It says here you're lying"
Glad to see you brought back the background music!
I recently found your channel and i gotta say I been bingeing it all week. Thanks for the new upload.
So glad to hear you once again and I so enjoy your narrations about these most important cases. Keep up the good work thank you
The poor parents of missing Margaret. Sad and very disturbing to think about what her fate must have been.
So many cold cases are being solved with familial dna databases such as Ancestry, 23 and Me, etc. Thank God for these databases. And the best part is no court order’s are needed.
Cops can't use those services to search for missing people without a warrant. They can only use gedmatch, and people have to opt in to law enforcement searches
Well researched content and I find the level of detail and time spent on each case great as a viewer. Watching this reminds me of when my dad warned me about someone I did a mowing job for as a teen back in the 70's. At the time I thought he was being overprotective, now I realize how right he was to be careful...
@@DIVISIONINCISION At the time I thought he was being overprotective, but now after seeing all these stories, it's better to be cautious...
When someone needs to hire a babysitter from a different town ?
I don't think the person had any children, just used that as a lure to attract a young girl. Why anyone would allow their child to go to meet a stranger without at the very least going to their house and talking to them several times and checking them over is totally effed up to me.
Also saying there was a death in the family? Yes, Margaret thd babysitters...
I wonder if in the last story, the original babysitter knew anything because she didn’t want to babysit that night. If not, then I bet she was really freaked out because it could have easily been her.
Maybe the the father or mother was being abusive and that was why she didn't want to go?
theblackkittie13 I didn’t think of that! Whatever the reason, I’m suspicious of it. I just remember babysitting when I was a kid and I always knew more about the family than I wanted, and usually (I grew up in a small town) I knew something about them that the community would have thought was interesting. I’m not the kind of person to spread others business but I remember telling my mom about a few people and not thinking too much about it, other than it was strange, and she would stop me from going back. My grandma was a detective for children involved in sexual abuse so I think my mom was just saving me from something I didn’t understand yet. I have asked her about it and she doesn’t remember what her specific reason was because it happened to a couple people I worked for, but I will say this, the women in my family (except me!) have a crazy intuition about people and I don’t ever disobey now as an adult. I cant say anything that happened back then because I don’t really remember but those witches have proven to me that they have a sixth sense about that kind of thing so I’m fully confident my mom saved me from horrendous experiences by not allowing me to work for those people. Or maybe she stopped something like this, who knows. But people are creepy more than us normal people ever wanna know. So I would bet that first babysitter knew something.
Evelyn sounds like a possible sexual assault, or burglary gone wrong. Seeing as how 2 men seem to be responsible for it. I believe (though, I'm not positive, that other houses had been attempted to be broken in that night too) It could also have been a stalker or enemy of the other sitter and Evelyn was attacked instead. One theory is that it was Ed Gein, since he lived near Lacrosse at the time. I don't know about that, as his victims were typically older women. However, some of the bodies he had desecrated in his home, were of teen girls so it could have been him...
Plainfield is quite a ways from Lacrosse & the claim that Gein was visiting relatives in town that night are false. It wss written in the book about Gein that was wrote by the judge. He made many false claims in it. Ed never had anything to do with his relatives after they moved from Lacrosse when he was still a young kid. His mother never allowed him & his brother to leave the house except for school. Not to mention it doesn't fit his MO at all. Ed never broke into anyone's house & Forcefully took them. There is really nothing that connects him to this at all other than he was a psycho & people just want to pin anything on him.
At least two of the girls were abducted close to home, which means the creeps might have been close neighbors, watching and waiting for the chance to grab them. So scary to know dangerous creeps could be so close to your own homes.
Evelyn Hartley's case is just baffling in that she was kidnapped from somebody else's house. The fact that she was kidnapped suggests she was targeted but how did the kidnappers know where she was?
My thoughts also....wondering if it was someone who knew one or the other (or both), families and knew she would be babysitting an infant. A relative, or colleague perhaps.
Or maybe the kidnapper didn’t know that Evelyn was there. Maybe their target was the original babysitter for whom Evelyn was covering?
@@Andrea-mg9py That is certainly possible.
@@Andrea-mg9py my thoughts also
Opportunistic peeping Tom?
i worked alone (in a lonely building) in a small law office for ten years. i learned you never know what a person will do when they realize they have power over you (meaning you are alone with them). there were several times when i saw the person change in front of my eyes and i knew i was in danger. just luck i was able to run out of the office and get to the corner store next door.
thank God!
Egads. You were very lucky. I realize I did some dumb things working late when I was in my 20s.
Those unsolved cold cases are quite sad!!
These are just gut wrenching! Thank you for your dedication and attention to these cases!
Wow. The last case of the professor that asked his friend for their daughter, Evelyn, to babysit just that night because their usual one wanted to go to the local game also...must be racked with guilt, even tho he didn't know anyone would break into his home. That awful thing happened in his house and wouldn't have happened to the girl if he hadn't asked her to babysit, plus it's a young daughter of a friend of his brutally murdered. When my kids were small, the few times we had a babysitter, either it would be the babysitter herself who would be the problem or who they let in the door when I wasn't there (one adult babysitter let another adult she didn't know in the door who attacked my baby daughter...just slapped her, but still...). After the last "slap" incident, I lied to everyone and became "too busy" to go to even the few club meetings I was involved in and just stayed home lonely, unless I could take my kids with me. Just not worth it.
I've researched this case alot cause I'm from the area. Rasmussen lived the rest of his life in paranoia. They moved out of that house within months & their new house had bars on the basement windows. His daughters were pretty much not allowed to do anything & whenever he wasn't home his wife & kids had to check in frequently. It haunted him.
I absolutely can not get over how soothing the narrator''s voice is..
I know! The first one I listened to, I fell asleep! Had to start it over again! Lol.
I don't like when she loses her voice in the middle of a video.
Oh these poor young girls!! Even with protective and careful parents, monsters found them. Very sad, especially when the parents have died not knowing where their children were. 😥
You are incredibly talented...keep up the EXCELLENT investigative work. Prayers for you, the victims and those left behind. FYI: I love the music and the last music you used too...it really applied well with the topics for me....again, keep it up!!
I found your channel from your comment on Danelle Hallan's channel on her Lee Cutler video. I'm now a new subscriber :) I relate to your comment about Lee on point, he was about my age and I've visited where he disappeared too, as I'm not far at all from Baraboo. I felt like he would've understood me. Keep up your work, I love your voice and your videos!!
Very interesting video, as someone whose had babysitters, and babysat for people, this kinda stuff is always a fear
That's why I didn't babysit.
That and I don't like kids....
all preteen and teen girls used to babysit for spending money; nowadays teens are so entitled and mean they simply can't be left alone with a child;and so many wicked people out there just waiting to do something evil smh how the world has changed
Crystal Richeson I kinda agree with that, I haven’t heard of a teen babysitting in the longest time!!! But the world hasn’t really changed, horrible people have always been in the shadows.
The police wouldnt accept a missing persons report the same day Margaret went missing. This is how so many people remain missing or murdered. Those first 24hrs are vital to finding a person endangered missing. ☹️😡😠 Horrific thing to happen to all of these girls. Babysitting has never been safe if you don't know who you're going to be looking after and where. Then again it can happen at a friend's place aswell. Olives case wasnt very highly publicised in New Zealand but in Rotorua its still a sad/horrific unsolved rape and murder. 😥🙁😥
Evelyn's case has always bothered me and kept me awake. It's so horrific and unexpected. It's strange too. The Rasmussen family may have been the targets but the baby was fine though. There's a theory the Rasmussens had planned a robbery for insurance as they had instructed Evelyn to cover the baby with her blanket at 7:10pm. Was this a sign for the burglars???? Janice wasn't harmed so it's a theory to beleive I guess. Evelyn faught back and was knocked out by one of the two men seen with a girl in the Buick later.
I find it strange that in the first case, the father and mother let their 14 yr old meet a guy by herself- someone they did not know- and then the father spent many hours later that day searching for her. I don't u nderstand why he didn't meet the man first and check that he was a good guy. It's so odd.
Great job as always but I cant help but be pissed off really hope Karma met these POS cowards.Please girls learn how to protect yourselfs and I do mean by any means possible.
Poor girls, and poor families. That Margaret case was perhaps the creepiest as it was apparently a predator's scheme, and who knows how many times, in what variations, it may have been repeated. I hope the beast is burning in hell.
What gives me a pause, though, is what happened to Evelyn. This is not just a girl at a wrong time and place, this seems targeted at her specifically. Can't really imagine what a diligent student of fifteen might have gotten herself into, unless she became a chance witness to something, which makes me wonder if this wasn't some kind of sick revenge e.g. at her father. If so, this is yet another level above mere "normal" evil.
For Evelyn, have they used DNA recently on the inside of the sneaker ?
Good question!!
If it's still in evidence. Chances of a sneaker stored under typical 1950's conditions being viable today are slim. Totally worth trying.
They. Should. Use. Dna. On. These. Old. Cases. I. Will. Donate. Cash. To. Help. Solve. One. Case. Who. Else. Willl
The DNA in the sneakers should still be good. Scientists can often pull full DNA profiles decades later from objects kept in evidence. My feeling here is that the cops are covering for one of their own or a member of the cop's family. After all, their lousy CODIS system is so faulty it should be either disregarded altogether or used only after a modern DNA match is obtained. I'll bet they threw away all of the evidence.
They can't find the shoes or jacket.
All the 3 cases are sad but Evelyn’s case particularly is heartbreaking 😢😢😣😣
I love all your videos please keep them coming please love your beautiful voice to❤️
i just found your channel and i adore it
She's great, along try Criminally listed, Vintage Files, Amber Loves Mystery and Mr. Davis
I think if I'd been the father of this first missing girl I would've driven her to this man's house first, to check the house and the supposed client, before I let her just go off on the bus by herself. This would be particularly true since he lived pretty far away and they didn't know him.
indeed
You have the perfect voice to present these cases.
Yasss my Sunday jam!! Thanks lovely for another top vid 👌❤️
I know things were safer back then but im still shocked that one of the parents didnt drive Margaret to that strangers house that first day. To meet him in person, enter the house, make sure Margaret feels comfortable. Even just to make sure their daughter and the child she was baby sitting would be safe on their own if something went wrong(that there are neighbours, a phone, bus, etc close by).
caught this early :) time to nap while I listen before work tonight ty for the upload
why would parents let their child take a job that was out of town and with someone they’ve never met before. honestly that’s so dumb.
Wow! It's so sad when people are just trying to live and get killed. I've heard of the last case, but not the other two.
I’m a small woman with size 10 feet. You can have big feet and still be slight. Unless they thought the perp had fat feet?
Yeh. My mum is short with big feet
I’m 5”5 with size 10 also.
Whoa!!!! 🤭 I've never heard of a small woman with big feet... I'm 5'5.5 and I wear a 7.5 in shoe size... Nothing wrong with being diff... ✨🤍
Thank you so much for another brilliantly done video! Love your channel it’s one of my favs 💕
Ooh thank you. Happy Sunday!
Happy to have found your channel, excellent job!
"I'm really over protective of my daughter, but sure she can baby sit for you, total stranger who I've never met!" Yikes! I babysat a lot as a young teen, but it was always for people my parents knew!
I only babysat for neighbors whose priory was adjacent to ours - and my much younger cousins.
Im oh so happy that you brought back the original musical piece, its just not the same without it. I hope you would consider downloading more often bc you are an original in this sea of copycat sites.
M B
Agreed
100% agree...she is SO original!!! I keep thinking she'd be one of those movie directors for public TV bringing an awesome perspective like Ken Burns....love heavy case files.
Excellent as always. Keep up the great work!
*What's interesting is that the SLA was operating just across the river in New York City during this period. Also about 75 miles to the West, in Pennsylvania.*
I’m trying to figure out why Margaret’s parents didn’t make her get an address from the so-called John Marshall?? As soon as they would’ve wanted an address I think it would’ve deterred the kidnapper
Cases like these must be parents' worst nightmare.
As a baby sitter from my youth until now, this just breaks my heart!💔😭
How do u get jobs as a babysitter? Do u live in the US?
Just found your site, love it, subscribed
Excellent research keep it going!
unsolved cases make me sooooooo sad
Another entertaining video. Thanks for the hard work. Happy Mother’s Day to all and happy Sunday. 🖤💚🖤💚
Another great video! Awesome work.
Have only heard of the last one. Good job.
Thankyou HC. Very tragic for those fams who never know what happened to their loved ones.💔🕴
How was it that Olive's sister wasn't notified by her family of her death...and had to find out from the news? RIP Olive. 🙏💜🙏
Great video I love your channel keep up the great work and thank you for sharing
I wonder if in the Fox case someone who worked at the grocery store with John Marshall did it. Could’ve used the name Marshall and called from the pay phone near there.
I can appreciate the fact that yu handle all cases.... Like it doesn't knock anyone out...👍🏾
Sad sad sad
Interesting. Thanks for your work.
3 strange cases and it a bit of viraty here and keep up the awesome work
SMH at Bob in Olive's case. Clearly there was some police involvement, whether the cop did it or knows who did it. Firing a detective and essentially blackballing him for not wanting to pin a murder on an innocent man is a major red flag!
Evelyn, is still an Angel.
Cool a new video. I love watching your videos.
There was a girl in Alberta Kelly Cook, very similar story to Margaret Fox. Makes me so sad, evil people out there!
Awesome and haunting.
Thank you so much☺☺☺☺
Awesome! Its gonna be a good night!
Another great Mother's Day gift, a Heavy Casefiles vid! 😻🥰💕 Thank you for the care you put into each video, I'd only heard of Evelyn's case of these three. May their families have peace 🖤
Awwwww......💔😞😢
The content of your channel is totally morbid but your friendly, innocent.tone of voice and way of speaking makes. these stories so interesting, I binge-listen to your channel nowadays!
Great video
Just joined your site hope to watch more videos, i love mysteries
The parents who told the 1st girl she couldn't babysit were smart
0:15 - wouldn't like to walk past her in a dark alley.
Compelling, but so very sad.
💐🙏 may those poor girls RIP and may God grant their families some peace of mind. 🕊️
That was Heavy!
Yet1moreUtuber yup, one heavy-casefile....
I'm from New Zealand and I've never heard of Olives story. FYI well done on the pronunciation of Rotorua most people from other countries butcher it
Ok....hold up....Margaret's parents didn't find out where home oy lived before sending their young daughter????
Such a different world now days! Today it is very hard to get away with any crime!
Very sad..
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Good job