The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: skl.sh/top5s06211 ***IMPORTANT UPDATE FROM AUGUST 2021: Septic tank Sam's identity has been confirmed as Gordon Edwin Sanderson of Edmonton, born in Manitoba in October of 1950. As a child in the 1960s, he was placed into foster care during what was called the "60s Scoop" when Aboriginal children were taken from their parents and put into the child welfare system. He was reported missing by his sister in the 1980s and had spent his life in trouble with the law and dealing with addiction. The last time anyone heard from him, he planned to visit his younger brother in Calgary, but never made it. His murder is still unsolved.
Maternity/Paternity test back then: "Is this your daughter?" - She has the same color hair....same color eyes....she's a girl....um, yes. "Take her then. Here you go. She's now yours."
That first case is so bizarre. How could you know your own child so little that you don't recognize whether the child you've been reunited with is yours or not?
and i like it that way! btw, a voice change is only noticable when a kid hits puberty. after puberty the voice stays mostly the same the entire adult lifetime. in a decade he may sound slightly different, or when he is old, he may have more of an old man voice. but that changes in many decades. you won't notice a big difference in a couple years 🤣
It really hasn't! Absolutely iconic in a good way, and I like most of this channels vids, but... I just wish his occasional weird mispronunciations would change, unlike his voice lol. I'm not talking about British vs American English differences, or his particular accent, but just the way he nonsensically butchers things sometimes. That and alsobwhen his phrasing for a sentence is completely wrong, like he doesn't group the words together correctly while reading it aloud. That last part *has* improved over the years I've been watching top5s though! Overall his voice is iconic, and I obviously keep coming back!
@@clairefossey2010 u do realize that sponsors and ads is what keeps the Channel alive. Do you expect that those people just put all their time and effort into making Videos and not getting anything in return? Hmm
@@akanekisa1743 Yes. That exactly what they expect, in fact most people on internet just expect to be feed top-notch content non-stop free of charge. These people deserves nothing of the content they're enjoying. Nothing of it what so ever.
I believe the amount of pedophiles and murderers were as big then as it is nowadays. The only difference is that we find them now. Or at least some of them. Imagine how many children got abused and killed back in the days….without anyone held responsible. 🥺😞
Come on. Who wouldn’t recognize their own child? I had a Burmese python get away and I found it about a year later and I knew it was my python and that’s a snake.
@@sharp9846 One of the reasons was because "she wasn't as talkative"... If she had been kidnapped, she would've had mental issues.. Issues which, at the time, would have had family pretending to not know you & putting you in a "hospital".
You’re talking about parents in the beginning of the century. Parents from back then were notoriously absent minded of their children. Child mortality rates were high because kids were virtually unsupervised 100% of the time. Parents may have loved their children, but they did not give a fuck about their kids. Not compared to people today. Hell, even people from 50 years ago think kids today are cared for too much, because they grew up with pretty mild neglect and That was after a few decades of social progress Improved parent/child relationships. One of the funny yet sad statistics is that there are not more child abduction/child predators today than there ever was at any other point in history. Parents just actually give a shit and pay attention now. People 100 years ago used to just let their kids get raped all the damn time and didn’t care or didn’t believe when their kids said something. Today, someone even looks at your kid a little weird and they can get labeled as a sex offender. It’s a different world entirely.
I live in Adelaide , South Australia and really believe that you could make a full video concerning all the creepy murders and disappearances that have occurred over the last 60 years!!
I can't believe the police sent a child into a home through a window when they had no idea what was going on or if a murderer was inside. Whose kid did they put thru the window? Insane.
I can't believe after scrolling through the comments that you're the only person aside from myself that noticed that detail. That jumped out at me like a Bigfoot jumping out in front of my car on a dark road! What the hell were they thinking?!
Why not? Its smart thinking actually as you didnt have to waste time breaking down the door. You think the guy or a boogeyman was just sutting inside the locked house just chillin, standing still as a statue? Its called hearing. It was obvious there was no one inside. I mean, how often would a murderer just sit there in his victims locked home doing nothing? Ever heard of that cuz i havent. You are ruled by fear of the potential to the point that it makes me wonder how the hell your getting through life without locking yourself in a room and never leaving. Unless you are.
The little girl mystery is similar to a case of a little boy that want missing and his parents went through the same process. The Changeling movie is based on it.
Same thing but she wasn't able to just give the kid back. The LAPD tried to make it as she couldnt accept her son was found n then thrown into a psychiatric Ward until a famous radio host if I'm right got her out.
Number 2 is simple. He was shot just outside his door (perhaps a mugging gone wrong), he ran inside, locked his door behind himself then the fell down dead shortly after.
@@eviemcnally955 The bullet could have caused internal damage and bleeding that killed him while the blood which came out of the wound was absorbed by his clothes; leaving no initial blood trail. It is also not outside the realm of possibility that there was actually a blood trail but that the trail was disturbed by the kid as he crawled in.
Wrong the bullet wound actually exploded out and covered the room with the spray of where it would Of happened. No blood trail out side or near door and with the wound seeing it left a 2-3 inch hole in his chest blood trail would of be seen and shown. Thus why his body had a blood pool and a spray pattern that faced toward the door… this perfect murder
He was already inside with his door closed and locked, according to Top5s. A neighbour heard sounds of a struggle and notified police. A transom window was discovered open with a broken hinge that only a child could slip through- or someone slender and agile. The interior was neat and orderly. No weapon or spent cartridges were discovered, there was no sign of a struggle and nothing of value missing. No finger prints but the victims were present, the wounds indicate his hand was shot at close range- likely a defensive action at the sight of the gun as the next shots were in his chest, which proved fatal. I looked around at some other discussions of this case and there is a lot of conflicting information. Obsolete Oddity (UA-camr) states information that Isidor's apartment was above the laundry, Top5s says next to it and Morbidology (website) says he used his apartment for his laundry business. Morbidology also states this: "Shortly after Fink returned home at around 10PM, Mrs. Locklan Smith, who lived in the apartment next to his, ran to the Harlem police station to report hearing some loud quick shots - from a gun, she was sure - followed by a hard thud. "The first officer on the scene was patrolman, Albert Kattenborn, who discovered that the door was locked from the inside. He decided to attempt to enter via the small window which was on top of the front door but found that it been nailed shut from the inside. Kattenborn smashed the small window. However, it was much too small for any average-sized adult to fit through, and thus he sent a small boy who was in the crowd that had now congregated outside the apartment to crawl through the window and unlock the door." Both Morbidology and the NY Times provide information not discussed on YT, namely that the neighbour ran for help and that a patrolman arrived on the scene sometime afterward. The distance from Fink's shop to the 26th Precinct, the closest police station to Fink's apartment/business is 1.2 miles. Unless Jesse Owens was the one who made the dash to the cop shop, it would have taken at least 3 minutes for the woman to have run there, possibly as much as 5 minutes. It would have then taken at least 3 minutes before any patrol officer would be dispatched. Then there is a return trip back. So, overall, it likely took at minimum 10 minutes to bring police back. So far, the only source stating that the transom was nailed shut is Morbidology. No other source mentions a nailed shut transom but all the rest, including the NY Times, state there was a broken hinge on the transom. No other source has a broken window and only 2 sources have an open transom window. What also isn't mentioned _except_ in the NY Times source is that Fink's "only friend" had been in the shop earlier that night, that he later reported to police that a Black couple were in Fink's "seeing if they could buy unclaimed underwear". Considering this was Harlem at the dawning of the Great Depression and the rampant racism present in the US (and pretty much everywhere the majority of the population was white), associating crime with Black folks was as common as day and night. The only plausible explanation is that Fink and his "friend" argued and Fink attempted to wrest the gun from the other man's hand, alerting his neighbour who went for help over a mile away. The other man shot Fink through the left hand as Fink was either gripping the barrel to get it away from his "friend" or, as I mentioned, as a result of a reflexive defensive gesture. It is not4ed that Fink was shot in the left side of his chest twice, but not where in the left side of his chest. If no artery or the heart itself was hit, Fink could easily have bolted the door after his killer left, staggered to the back room and collapsed. It's likely that one of the shots to the left chest is from the bullet that went through Fink's left hand and the other happened before or after that. We also have no information normally found in crime scene investigations: blood spatter/droplets, direction of said blood evidence, amount of blood pooled around the body, etc. There were no shell casings because, at the time, revolvers were common and easily obtained, most of which were anything from .22 caliber to .45 caliber. We also don't know what the weather was like (I can't find anything for that location prior to 1930) so we don't know what Fink was wearing for clothing outside- he _had_ just returned from delivering laundry. We have basically just the act itself as seen by the results of said act. We don't have any concrete evidence on who actually committed the murder or what their motive was. Yes, you answered it all far more succinctly but I thought I'd throw in a little more.
Interesting, they found out who septic tank sam was, a indigenous man called Gordon Edwin Sanderson, and the investigation concluded this on june 29th, 2021
Wow, this was a great video, usually 2 or 3 of these kind of Top 5 videos really unnerve or disturb me, but all 5 had those elements and all had different mysterious circumstances and stories, truly a great video for watching at night to get your adrenaline flowing.
I've heard of these horrid and scary disappearances before but your voice makes it even more eerie and interesting. Poor Pauline. Also to think another girl was murdered and the head was of a fully grown Man? Seems like a creepy coverup 😔😔😰 The little girl who was taken in by the family was clearly not little Pauline.
It’s been awesome watching you expand over the years. The production value of Top5s and the network of channels is some of the best on UA-cam in the genre
@@michaelhowell2326 just curious, who? Spooks, Chills, Nukes, Slapped Ham, etc. have all turned to extremely fake videos. I’d be happy to check any recommendations you’ve got :)
The last one, it’s crazy how close the sketch is to the picture at the funeral! At first when I saw the sketch I wondered if the features were exaggerated or off because the guy was “under hypnosis” because of how unique it looks. But then the picture of the guy at the funeral is so close to the sketch.
In other videos on the boat (Sara Jo) found on the previously surveyed island, commenters who said they worked in the survey industry claimed it wasn’t that surprising the boat wasn’t noted by the surveyors. They said that there are some (not all, just a few) who take shortcuts on survey work by basically just looking at a few aerial photos and guessing the rest. It is called a “bar stool survey” and apparently happens, especially for work in remote areas that isn’t really critical.
@@tinybed maybe don't be a jerk to people who do what they can to support a channel but want to make them aware of the increasing narration breaks in their well-produced videos
The corpse in the field was likely that of Pauline, and she and the male whose head was found at the scene were likely murdered by the same perp (possibly a serial killer). The killer was undoubtedly an organized one, since the clothes were neatly folded and placed nearby. This suggests he was likely intelligent and not at all psychotic. As for the girl from Cherbourg, she obviously wasn't Pauline. Her parents and siblings would have readily recognized her if she had been.
Your child Is missing you're frantic a child is found looks similar and in desperation the parent claims the child There was no scientific way to check.
@@flossyphp You know if it's your child or not, your child will have a mole, dimple, freckle, spot, scar, birth mark etc that makes them who they are, no way you wouldn't be able to recognise your own child unless the child was like a new born then it's harder, but a walking/talking toddler i don't believe them one bit.
Septic Tank Sam was fortunately identified as Gordon Edwin Sanderson, an indigenous man from Manitoba. He was murdered but it’s likely his killer is no longer alive. There’s speculation that his death was a result of being unfaithful or committed by his former associates since he had some run-ins with the police.
Lucky I wasn't eating, when hearing the "septic tank Sam" case.. poor guy must have pissed off someone, badly.. 😬 Lake Bodom is a very famous case here in Finland.. I'm still suspicious towards the survivor.. Thank You Guys! 🖤
People have theoriesed that Septic Sam was either an unfaithful lover or was a chomo, given how he was treated before and after death it's not too far of a stretch. But again, it's only a theory.
Here in Sweden we also have an unsolved tent murder, a couple from the Netherlands were found stabbed to death in their tent up in Appojaure (Swedish Lapland) in 1984. First the murder was pinned on Sture Bergwall (then named Thomas Quick), a mental patient who confessed to lots of murders but who has later been acquitted. The murders are still unsolved.
Because the key was in the lock inside the room. So even if the killer had a key to the place they would have pushed the interior key out when they locked it from the outside.
oh god the lake bodom`s case. as a finn that case is awful, im pretty sure that the locals know who did it but people start to be quite old and elderly finns dont talk
That first story about the missing girl sounds like a perfect match for a missing 411 case. Body shows up in an area that was searched several times. Storm the night she goes missing...I'd bet you it's the same situation as the missing 411 cases .
i can’t believe people are complaining about the skillshare ad + ads within the video. rather than being happy to support the person who’s content they are consuming! sheesh 🙄 and don’t forget, if you dont want to listen to a sponsership, you can always scroll past it. it’s not hard
I remember the Isadore Fink segment (original locked room mystery) Septic Tank Sam , and Pauline Picard (sounded like the Changeling Case, which was a year later and in the US). Great stories.
This is something that not even many finnish people know, but almost excatly one year before lake Bodom murders (1960) there was another similar tent murder in Tulilahti ("Tulilahden kaksoismurhat" in finnish, 1959). In a small country like Finland (only 4 million inhabitants at the time) these kind of things are very uncommon. + a fun fact, death metal band Children of Bodom got its name from the Bodom murders
I remember a classmate of mine from highschool telling me about the origin story of the band name Children of Bodom and I thought it was kind of weird and I pictured it then a bit differently....Also that suspect sketch is creepy af
The septic tank Sam facial reconstruction is so creepy, very uncanny valley. One theory floating around is that he was sex offender, maybe a child molester, and that's the reason why he was sexually mutilated before being killed.
A possible solution for Isidor Fink, On his way back from delivering laundry to his customers, someone tried to mug him, he fought back, was shot, the first shot hit his hand where he tried to grab the gun, then shot twice more, before the mugger left, managed to get home where he collapsed and died.
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***IMPORTANT UPDATE FROM AUGUST 2021: Septic tank Sam's identity has been confirmed as Gordon Edwin Sanderson of Edmonton, born in Manitoba in October of 1950. As a child in the 1960s, he was placed into foster care during what was called the "60s Scoop" when Aboriginal children were taken from their parents and put into the child welfare system. He was reported missing by his sister in the 1980s and had spent his life in trouble with the law and dealing with addiction. The last time anyone heard from him, he planned to visit his younger brother in Calgary, but never made it. His murder is still unsolved.
The link sent me to honey
i really enjoy these longer videos!
Please make one about Australian cases / mysteries 🙏
Video starts at 2:36
Can you do one about the Stargate in Bagdad?
its not working for me tho.... ? broken link bud #toxic #troll
Maternity/Paternity test back then:
"Is this your daughter?"
- She has the same color hair....same color eyes....she's a girl....um, yes.
"Take her then. Here you go. She's now yours."
Madness how on a whim you can take a child like that 👍
Too bad DNA wasn’t available then
lol
Warrenty was valid only for 14 days , it can be refunded if she weren’t yours .
Picards : same blue eyes , same hair but doesnt understand english
Reminds me of the Christine Collins case the poor mother told that a boy who wasn't her son was hers
Whenever I hear 1977 I'm like oh that's 30 years ago. Then I realise its 2021.. Damn I'm old
Yeah I just had a small existential crisis reading this comment.
I'm with you man I was 11 years old in 1977!!!!
Right!? Where did the time go? Our elders were correct, life passes by fast so enjoy your youth.
@@jimmygrant424 I was 7 😧
@@AimeeAimee444 I keep saying this to my boys! 😧
the septic sam pictures/reconstructions are quite unsettling
Real nightmare fuel
So scary !
Uncanny valley shit!
Yeah!
You have subscribed many channels similar to this
Very I think it's scarier than the entire video :l
They found out who Septic Tank Sam is 4 days AGO! - Gordon Edwin Sanderson
Now they need to find out who killed him.
Oh wow, I hope his family claimed him so he can be buried at home
@@takohamoolsen2432 and why
Oh wow really!! I've remembered this case since I first read about it years ago! Thanks for letting me know btw, from Ireland 🍀
WOW!!! I'm so glad I happened to click on this video to find that out. I NEVER thought that case would be (at least partially, so far) solved.
That first case is so bizarre. How could you know your own child so little that you don't recognize whether the child you've been reunited with is yours or not?
Grief
His voice hasn’t changed all these years
and i like it that way!
btw, a voice change is only noticable when a kid hits puberty.
after puberty the voice stays mostly the same the entire adult lifetime.
in a decade he may sound slightly different, or when he is old, he may have more of an old man voice.
but that changes in many decades. you won't notice a big difference in a couple years 🤣
is it weird I find it kinda sexy? lol not the stories though 🤦♀️
It really hasn't! Absolutely iconic in a good way, and I like most of this channels vids, but...
I just wish his occasional weird mispronunciations would change, unlike his voice lol. I'm not talking about British vs American English differences, or his particular accent, but just the way he nonsensically butchers things sometimes. That and alsobwhen his phrasing for a sentence is completely wrong, like he doesn't group the words together correctly while reading it aloud. That last part *has* improved over the years I've been watching top5s though!
Overall his voice is iconic, and I obviously keep coming back!
“This is your daughter sir?”
“Yes!! She has the same blonde hair and blue eyes!!”
“Our apologies sir, you may leave with this child.”
Who doesn’t recognize their own child?
2:41 is where the video actually begins.
Thanks king 🙌👏
I'm fed up with the sponsored vid and am watching this channel less and less.
@@clairefossey2010 u do realize that sponsors and ads is what keeps the Channel alive. Do you expect that those people just put all their time and effort into making Videos and not getting anything in return? Hmm
@@akanekisa1743 yeah wish more people would realize that
@@akanekisa1743 Yes. That exactly what they expect, in fact most people on internet just expect to be feed top-notch content non-stop free of charge. These people deserves nothing of the content they're enjoying. Nothing of it what so ever.
I believe the amount of pedophiles and murderers were as big then as it is nowadays. The only difference is that we find them now. Or at least some of them. Imagine how many children got abused and killed back in the days….without anyone held responsible. 🥺😞
Absolutely.. The world has always been full of pdos. So disgusting
A lot of them are in positions of power. Shit look at Biden and how he acts around kids...
But only in some priliveged parts of the world.
You're trying to be profound and deep by writing ambiguous blabber
septic tank sam could have been a child abuser and maybe he was caught by the childs father and tortured... usually sexual mutilation is the red flag
Always a good day when Top5's uploads
Come on. Who wouldn’t recognize their own child? I had a Burmese python get away and I found it about a year later and I knew it was my python and that’s a snake.
Yeah, but how many pythons do you just find hanging out around where you live lol?
There is really no mystery to the first because the parents found there child unknownly gave her up for adoption WTF
@@Forsoothious But he said her siblings didn't recognise her.
@@sharp9846 One of the reasons was because "she wasn't as talkative"... If she had been kidnapped, she would've had mental issues.. Issues which, at the time, would have had family pretending to not know you & putting you in a "hospital".
You’re talking about parents in the beginning of the century. Parents from back then were notoriously absent minded of their children. Child mortality rates were high because kids were virtually unsupervised 100% of the time.
Parents may have loved their children, but they did not give a fuck about their kids. Not compared to people today. Hell, even people from 50 years ago think kids today are cared for too much, because they grew up with pretty mild neglect and That was after a few decades of social progress Improved parent/child relationships.
One of the funny yet sad statistics is that there are not more child abduction/child predators today than there ever was at any other point in history. Parents just actually give a shit and pay attention now. People 100 years ago used to just let their kids get raped all the damn time and didn’t care or didn’t believe when their kids said something. Today, someone even looks at your kid a little weird and they can get labeled as a sex offender. It’s a different world entirely.
I live in Adelaide
, South Australia and really believe that you could make a full video concerning all the creepy murders and disappearances that have occurred over the last 60 years!!
Second this
Fuck, imagine raising a child all that time thinking it's yours. So strange.
I wouldn't be able to give up on that child, despite not being mine biologically.
Hmmm. Might explain a lot 🤔
@@saraa1741 I agree, the child would stay and be kept safe. How they felt okay sending her off to god knows what fate horrifies me
I can't believe the police sent a child into a home through a window when they had no idea what was going on or if a murderer was inside. Whose kid did they put thru the window? Insane.
I can't believe after scrolling through the comments that you're the only person aside from myself that noticed that detail. That jumped out at me like a Bigfoot jumping out in front of my car on a dark road! What the hell were they thinking?!
@@zq9m3xh8 Times were different...
Why not? Its smart thinking actually as you didnt have to waste time breaking down the door.
You think the guy or a boogeyman was just sutting inside the locked house just chillin, standing still as a statue? Its called hearing. It was obvious there was no one inside. I mean, how often would a murderer just sit there in his victims locked home doing nothing? Ever heard of that cuz i havent.
You are ruled by fear of the potential to the point that it makes me wonder how the hell your getting through life without locking yourself in a room and never leaving. Unless you are.
'29 was a good year. remember it well.
@@zq9m3xh8 Right!! What parent thinks... I'm gonna put my kid thru a possible murder scene window, it's gonna be good! WTH
I really enjoy this guys smooth voice.
I do too, unfortunately i can barely hear him if at all 😖
Shut up
@@Darknessevolves ew.
He's got a Welsh accent, it's very nice 👍
@@lisadavenport476 try headphones 🎧🤣
that dude being murdered despite the doors being locked is the most mysterious thing i've ever heard
@Stephanie S it was locked from the inside
@Stephanie S then explain how it was confirmed it was locked from the inside
@Stephanie S ah I get you, my door locks like that too. I wonder what the locks were like on his door
@Stephanie S that's exactly what I thought .
@Stephanie S Someone would surely have heard those shots then...
Very weird circumstances non the less
I am going to sit on my fat ass and watch this with snacks , happy Friday
Ahhh gluttony.... my favourite sin
What's your snacks of choice?
😂😂 do a workout after 💪 one workout a day and in a month you’d be suprised
Can I sit by you? Let's have snack and watch. Lol
@@saraa1741 come sit by me instead 👋👋
Imagine dying a horrific death and you're remembered as "septic tank sam" feelsbadman
The little girl mystery is similar to a case of a little boy that want missing and his parents went through the same process. The Changeling movie is based on it.
The little girl story at the beginning sounds so much like the Missing 411 cases with David Paulides
Kid's name is Bobby Dunbar ..
And yep, that's exactly what I thought
@@TheRickydamen A great youtuber called MrBallen references Paulides a lot.
Yeah but the boy was a single parent child. Just a mother
Same thing but she wasn't able to just give the kid back. The LAPD tried to make it as she couldnt accept her son was found n then thrown into a psychiatric Ward until a famous radio host if I'm right got her out.
Maybe Chinese sailors found Scott dead in the boat and took him to the nearest island to bury him in a respectful manner?
I was just about to type that. It's the simplest explanation.
Theres a good chance
Great Scott!
A fisherman came forward years later and said he buried him. He just didn't tell anybody because he was fishing illegally in the area.
@@vict4451 That makes a lot of sense.
Maybe the first girl had amnesia from a head injury and couldn’t remember who she was
She could have also had some kind of psychological trauma
But why all the uncertainty of recognition??
I believe it was her...
@@spencerfrankclayton4348 parents knew.. the children undeveloped minds who knowd
unfortunately, violence on native americans was horrible in the 70s. especially in a place like canada. i hope sam finds peace where he is now. ❤️
Thank you for all the research. We do appreciate all the hard work
Time to sit back and enjoy the spooks.
You can’t say spooks it’s a racist term for black folk
That’s his UA-cam name
Did you hit those lights?
@@fopal-gang7108 Depends how you use it. Spooks are ghosts.
Lmfao 🤣 time to sit back and enjoy the moon crickets
Number 2 is simple. He was shot just outside his door (perhaps a mugging gone wrong), he ran inside, locked his door behind himself then the fell down dead shortly after.
@Joseph Fuller surely there would have been a trail of blood in that case?
@@eviemcnally955 The bullet could have caused internal damage and bleeding that killed him while the blood which came out of the wound was absorbed by his clothes; leaving no initial blood trail. It is also not outside the realm of possibility that there was actually a blood trail but that the trail was disturbed by the kid as he crawled in.
Wrong the bullet wound actually exploded out and covered the room with the spray of where it would
Of happened. No blood trail out side or near door and with the wound seeing it left a 2-3 inch hole in his chest blood trail would of be seen and shown. Thus why his body had a blood pool and a spray pattern that faced toward the door… this perfect murder
Possible.Or maybe a small person or very slim person entered the small opening,killed him,then exited through the same opening again?
He was already inside with his door closed and locked, according to Top5s. A neighbour heard sounds of a struggle and notified police. A transom window was discovered open with a broken hinge that only a child could slip through- or someone slender and agile. The interior was neat and orderly. No weapon or spent cartridges were discovered, there was no sign of a struggle and nothing of value missing. No finger prints but the victims were present, the wounds indicate his hand was shot at close range- likely a defensive action at the sight of the gun as the next shots were in his chest, which proved fatal.
I looked around at some other discussions of this case and there is a lot of conflicting information. Obsolete Oddity (UA-camr) states information that Isidor's apartment was above the laundry, Top5s says next to it and Morbidology (website) says he used his apartment for his laundry business. Morbidology also states this:
"Shortly after Fink returned home at around 10PM, Mrs. Locklan Smith, who lived in the apartment next to his, ran to the Harlem police station to report hearing some loud quick shots - from a gun, she was sure - followed by a hard thud.
"The first officer on the scene was patrolman, Albert Kattenborn, who discovered that the door was locked from the inside. He decided to attempt to enter via the small window which was on top of the front door but found that it been nailed shut from the inside. Kattenborn smashed the small window. However, it was much too small for any average-sized adult to fit through, and thus he sent a small boy who was in the crowd that had now congregated outside the apartment to crawl through the window and unlock the door."
Both Morbidology and the NY Times provide information not discussed on YT, namely that the neighbour ran for help and that a patrolman arrived on the scene sometime afterward. The distance from Fink's shop to the 26th Precinct, the closest police station to Fink's apartment/business is 1.2 miles. Unless Jesse Owens was the one who made the dash to the cop shop, it would have taken at least 3 minutes for the woman to have run there, possibly as much as 5 minutes. It would have then taken at least 3 minutes before any patrol officer would be dispatched. Then there is a return trip back. So, overall, it likely took at minimum 10 minutes to bring police back.
So far, the only source stating that the transom was nailed shut is Morbidology. No other source mentions a nailed shut transom but all the rest, including the NY Times, state there was a broken hinge on the transom. No other source has a broken window and only 2 sources have an open transom window. What also isn't mentioned _except_ in the NY Times source is that Fink's "only friend" had been in the shop earlier that night, that he later reported to police that a Black couple were in Fink's "seeing if they could buy unclaimed underwear". Considering this was Harlem at the dawning of the Great Depression and the rampant racism present in the US (and pretty much everywhere the majority of the population was white), associating crime with Black folks was as common as day and night.
The only plausible explanation is that Fink and his "friend" argued and Fink attempted to wrest the gun from the other man's hand, alerting his neighbour who went for help over a mile away. The other man shot Fink through the left hand as Fink was either gripping the barrel to get it away from his "friend" or, as I mentioned, as a result of a reflexive defensive gesture. It is not4ed that Fink was shot in the left side of his chest twice, but not where in the left side of his chest. If no artery or the heart itself was hit, Fink could easily have bolted the door after his killer left, staggered to the back room and collapsed. It's likely that one of the shots to the left chest is from the bullet that went through Fink's left hand and the other happened before or after that. We also have no information normally found in crime scene investigations: blood spatter/droplets, direction of said blood evidence, amount of blood pooled around the body, etc. There were no shell casings because, at the time, revolvers were common and easily obtained, most of which were anything from .22 caliber to .45 caliber. We also don't know what the weather was like (I can't find anything for that location prior to 1930) so we don't know what Fink was wearing for clothing outside- he _had_ just returned from delivering laundry. We have basically just the act itself as seen by the results of said act. We don't have any concrete evidence on who actually committed the murder or what their motive was. Yes, you answered it all far more succinctly but I thought I'd throw in a little more.
Lights off, volume up -- bring on the 5 disturbingly unsolved mysteries of this clearly crazy reality we live in.
Haven’t you noticed that right when after a person murders someone, their eyes are so large and wide open?
I've noticed that a murderer denying they killed somebody has their eyebrows raised and their forehead is pushed upwards with horizontal lines on it
Yes, I think this is why Richard Ramirezs original sketch was so off his actual face, because he probably knows different when he's crazed.
I haven't noticed, I'll bring a mirror next time so I can check it out
Interesting, they found out who septic tank sam was, a indigenous man called Gordon Edwin Sanderson, and the investigation concluded this on june 29th, 2021
Wow, this was a great video, usually 2 or 3 of these kind of Top 5 videos really unnerve or disturb me, but all 5 had those elements and all had different mysterious circumstances and stories, truly a great video for watching at night to get your adrenaline flowing.
I always like watching these videos during the early hours of the morning it gives them that extra chilling feeling i feel.
I usually just shove ice cubes and cinnamon in my butthole for that sensation.
Cool video I appreciate how u put time stamps in the video's description! Keep up the good work!
I've heard of these horrid and scary disappearances before but your voice makes it even more eerie and interesting. Poor Pauline. Also to think another girl was murdered and the head was of a fully grown Man? Seems like a creepy coverup 😔😔😰 The little girl who was taken in by the family was clearly not little Pauline.
It’s been awesome watching you expand over the years. The production value of Top5s and the network of channels is some of the best on UA-cam in the genre
If you look for just a minute or two you'll find some much better channels. Top5s gave up a long time ago.
@@michaelhowell2326 just curious, who? Spooks, Chills, Nukes, Slapped Ham, etc. have all turned to extremely fake videos. I’d be happy to check any recommendations you’ve got :)
@@clayleone9111 checkout MrBallen. His channel makes everyone else look like it was made on blackberry.
Will do, thanks!
@@clayleone9111 I vouch Mr.Ballen he’s a good story teller and theyre all true stories
The last one, it’s crazy how close the sketch is to the picture at the funeral! At first when I saw the sketch I wondered if the features were exaggerated or off because the guy was “under hypnosis” because of how unique it looks. But then the picture of the guy at the funeral is so close to the sketch.
The last story is where the metal band children of bodom got their name. Rip alexi laiho *edit to fix bodem to bodom*
*Bodom
Is that so?
Bodom🤣 ffs I can’t spell
I started wondering this when I heard him call the case "the children of bodom". I never knew that!
The video starts @ 2:41
Cheers
This guys voice is perfect😍
His grammar could be better.
His voice Is the best on UA-cam
I second that emotion
@@kevinmeserole7345 let's Hear yours Kevin!
Too bad he's gay
Cop: Sir, we found a decomposing leg in a septic tank.
Decetive: So?
Cop:...it was attached to a gray sock!
In other videos on the boat (Sara Jo) found on the previously surveyed island, commenters who said they worked in the survey industry claimed it wasn’t that surprising the boat wasn’t noted by the surveyors. They said that there are some (not all, just a few) who take shortcuts on survey work by basically just looking at a few aerial photos and guessing the rest. It is called a “bar stool survey” and apparently happens, especially for work in remote areas that isn’t really critical.
Haven’t really watched this channel in over a year so ima binge rn
I was just checking in to see if there was a new one! Awesome!
I adore Top5s but the number of mid-roll ads make watching it absolutely maddening. There's nearly 7 per video now🙃
Ad after each case, it's annoying.
if you like him then you would be happy he’s able to make money from youtube videos. it’s barely an inconvenience. maybe don’t be a baby
@@tinybed maybe don't be a jerk to people who do what they can to support a channel but want to make them aware of the increasing narration breaks in their well-produced videos
,,,I only got one?
@@neighbourhoodwitch18 I didn't get any. I don't know why
The corpse in the field was likely that of Pauline, and she and the male whose head was found at the scene were likely murdered by the same perp (possibly a serial killer). The killer was undoubtedly an organized one, since the clothes were neatly folded and placed nearby. This suggests he was likely intelligent and not at all psychotic.
As for the girl from Cherbourg, she obviously wasn't Pauline. Her parents and siblings would have readily recognized her if she had been.
Its too bad we don't know who she was
Absolutely amazing how you do your research and narrate it so well. Along with CoAgs music which sets the eerie scene for all the unsolved mystery's.
His..................... his name was Assman?
No
The first story sounds a lot like Missing 411 cases…
The "MrBallen" UA-cam channel has a bunch of videos on different 411 stories if you're interested
@@lrrr9734 yeah! He’s awesome! One of my favorite UA-camrs!
Her body but another head folded clothes it's nuts man how she die of natural causes
so number 1 creepy how much the guy at the funeral looks just like the drawing
I feel that Septic Tank Sam was a Hate Crime.
Ahhhh, always right on time. 🖤
beat me to it.
Excatly 😀👍
I call bull sh!*t on the first story. How the hell do you not recognize your own child? That family's behavior was fishy.....
I know right
Your child Is missing you're frantic a child is found looks similar and in desperation the parent claims the child There was no scientific way to check.
@@flossyphp You know if it's your child or not, your child will have a mole, dimple, freckle, spot, scar, birth mark etc that makes them who they are, no way you wouldn't be able to recognise your own child unless the child was like a new born then it's harder, but a walking/talking toddler i don't believe them one bit.
Madeline mcann of 1922 lol
Who the fuck just let’s a 2 year old play outside alone? Lol
I had only heard of one of these stories before, good job! I always love your videos, thank you for the work you put in to keep us all entertained!
Septic Tank Sam really pissed somebody off. OUCH!!!!
Could of just been innocent victim !! Of some sick rapist
New subscriber to this channel absolutely love these vids 💯 keep up the great content been watching your videos all day 😁😁
Just on time. Now i can eat my chicken fajitas for dinner and watch Top5s while i eat.
Don't forget to snap a pic for Instagram!
@@Tam0de ...
I'm about to sleep and I still watch this alone in dark cold room.
Nice! Perfect timing
*Eating 3 cheeseburgers while watching as well*
Septic Tank Sam was fortunately identified as Gordon Edwin Sanderson, an indigenous man from Manitoba. He was murdered but it’s likely his killer is no longer alive. There’s speculation that his death was a result of being unfaithful or committed by his former associates since he had some run-ins with the police.
Lucky I wasn't eating, when hearing the "septic tank Sam" case.. poor guy must have pissed off someone, badly.. 😬 Lake Bodom is a very famous case here in Finland.. I'm still suspicious towards the survivor..
Thank You Guys! 🖤
The septic tank sam murder sounds like a mafia hit
@@baz1388 Almost, but instead of cement boots and sleeping with the fish, You are mutilated and thrown in to a septic tank.. 😬
People have theoriesed that Septic Sam was either an unfaithful lover or was a chomo, given how he was treated before and after death it's not too far of a stretch. But again, it's only a theory.
Here in Sweden we also have an unsolved tent murder, a couple from the Netherlands were found stabbed to death in their tent up in Appojaure (Swedish Lapland) in 1984. First the murder was pinned on Sture Bergwall (then named Thomas Quick), a mental patient who confessed to lots of murders but who has later been acquitted. The murders are still unsolved.
Yay time to relax and watch these videos. This is going to be a great weekend.
I absolutely love your videos!!!
Why is it so hard to think Fink’s killer just locked the door behind him when he left? Lol
Because the key was in the lock inside the room. So even if the killer had a key to the place they would have pushed the interior key out when they locked it from the outside.
@@heatherfaulkner2485 Can you lock a door from the inside with the key in it and walk out?
@@raymondwise that is a really good question.
oh god the lake bodom`s case. as a finn that case is awful, im pretty sure that the locals know who did it but people start to be quite old and elderly finns dont talk
Moikka! ✌🏻😊
Children of Bodom?
@Vlad the Inhaler Yes, that's exactly where they got the name from
@@einienj3281 Ahem...Torille!
@@uuuniiin No joo, vaikka! Mä tuon boolia ja aurinkorasvan! 😉🤘🏻
bless this channel for the content it uploads.
Jahbless
In Jesus Name
The septic tank sam was actually terrifying. I could literally imagine a corpse rotting inside the tank for a year.
Well, you can't figuratively imagine something.
@@SpicyTexan64 its been 7 months. I don't even remember what I imagined 😂🤷
That first story about the missing girl sounds like a perfect match for a missing 411 case. Body shows up in an area that was searched several times. Storm the night she goes missing...I'd bet you it's the same situation as the missing 411 cases .
I've gone down that rabbit hole too! 🤯
Man.. that advert of skillshare was so annoying it actually deterred me from skillshare.
maybe just fast forward through it next time?
Use Sponsorblock next time.
One of your best ever. Five excellent summaries of five classic mysteries.
👍🏻! Very interesting. I’m going down the rabbit holes about Lake Bodom and Isidore Fink.
septic tank sam was really horrifying...
i can’t believe people are complaining about the skillshare ad + ads within the video. rather than being happy to support the person who’s content they are consuming! sheesh 🙄 and don’t forget, if you dont want to listen to a sponsership, you can always scroll past it. it’s not hard
Yea right? Imagine being the person complaining about their FREE content wasn't good enough. Begging Choosers' bs.
That funeral photo guy in the last one looks so ghastly it's almost like a Photoshop horror picture. Jesus.
Great video as always
Unsolved cases are always so intriguing. Many reasons why cases become unsolved.
Hopefully one day cases become solved. It is sad.
Thank you!
I remember hearing about the second case on Unsolved Mysteries, back in the day.
Make one on madeline Mcann
I remember the Isadore Fink segment (original locked room mystery) Septic Tank Sam , and Pauline Picard (sounded like the Changeling Case, which was a year later and in the US). Great stories.
Always good uploads from Top5.s 👍🏻🇬🇧
This is something that not even many finnish people know, but almost excatly one year before lake Bodom murders (1960) there was another similar tent murder in Tulilahti ("Tulilahden kaksoismurhat" in finnish, 1959). In a small country like Finland (only 4 million inhabitants at the time) these kind of things are very uncommon.
+ a fun fact, death metal band Children of Bodom got its name from the Bodom murders
Right On! 🤘
Children of Bodom kick ass🙋
I hit the lights, I sat back, and I enjoyed.
Great video. Great stories
Pauline...
R.I.P Sweet Angel.... 😢😢🥺🥺
Get excited every time I see a new Top5s video come out!
Hi pal I've been subscribed for a few years now and I keep wondering if you've ever done something on Alistair Crowley I might have missed
Top 5s is the top 3 of best tops out of all the tops
Excellent video!
Lake Bodom murders was supposedly the inspiration for the original Friday The 13th movie.
I remember a classmate of mine from highschool telling me about the origin story of the band name Children of Bodom and I thought it was kind of weird and I pictured it then a bit differently....Also that suspect sketch is creepy af
Thank you from the lake district.,
Good video
Yay Thanks for sharing😊
They ID'd septic tank sam as Gordie Sanderson
My favourite type of Top 5 .. cheers
The septic tank Sam facial reconstruction is so creepy, very uncanny valley. One theory floating around is that he was sex offender, maybe a child molester, and that's the reason why he was sexually mutilated before being killed.
Why do I understand "He's a dolphin" when you first say the name Isidor Fink?
LOL right as i read ur comment i hear hes a dolphin in the background 🤣🤣
I don't hear what you're talking about at all, maybe it's my earbuds?
Do you have a timestamp?
I haven't seen a video of yours in a long time. I'm glad to see you again although your voice sounds different. Greetings
A possible solution for Isidor Fink, On his way back from delivering laundry to his customers, someone tried to mug him, he fought back, was shot, the first shot hit his hand where he tried to grab the gun, then shot twice more, before the mugger left, managed to get home where he collapsed and died.
The man who was shot in the hand and chest….I do think that it might have been the neighbor
Yeah ♥️ still loving your voice - shout out to Skill Share! ...and...Tops5♥️☀️✌️
Septic Tank Sam...so scary!