The sad part is the lady in the last case sent letters to so many families and no-one responded. I know she said to disregard the letter but for me personally it would touch me and I'd write back wishing her luck-just my own feelings. It's bittersweet when people are found years later.
Dear Ethereal Echoes: Is it really worth the time and the effort to find people who don't even want to be found in the first place ??? I've always believed that it's better to look to the future than to live in he past,
MY FAVORITE CASES ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE FOUND ALIVE!! Not only because there isn't any terrible crime, but the stories they must have lived to get to that point, without thinking about their love ones, creates such a mystery around them.... thank you guys. Keep em coming!!!
I love how they’re found alive, but it’s also scary to think that someone close to me can do that. I wonder how many cases of disappearance are about people running away and how many people died without knowing what happened to their loved ones. Such bittersweet stories.
Sometimes you gotta go, sometimes the people your saying loved them are actually evil. Or abusive. I'll bail outa any situation if people around me are off the rails, you only live once.
I actually had a best friend do something very similar to Rick Hazelton. We were next door neighbors growing up and had been very close for over 8 years, having sleep-overs, riding bikes around the hood, hiking in the woods, celebrating birthdays, camping with the respective families, taking trips together to amusement parks, hanging with friends in the alley, learning to ride motorcycles, and then to drive cars.- all the usual things best friends do while growing up together. When his widowed mother moved he and his sister across town after 5 or 6 years, we kept in constant contact by telephone, (this was before cell phones, home computers, and the internet), visited each other often, and went to parties, the movies, etc. Then, one summer day, I dropped by their house just like I had done a hundred times before, and found it to be empty, with a "For Rent" sign in the yard... and I never saw him again! I had just been there a week before, and there had been no hint they would soon be moving. For decades I asked everyone I saw if they knew what had happened to them, to no avail. It was as if this entire family had simply fallen off the face of the Earth. 30 years went by before I happened to run into his sister in a local mall. Come to find out, there had indeed been a sudden, unexpected move to a smaller city 50 miles away, where he had immediately fallen in with a bad crowd and started having some serious "issues". He had done several lengthy stints in jail and prison for drug offenses and the likes, and had only recently committed suicide while living on the streets. She also told me through teary eyes, that I had actually been fortunate to have been isolated from the decades of pain and heartache he had lavished onto those who loved and cared about him. I guess sometimes you just don't know someone as well as you thought you did. These days I just try to remember him as the great, reliable friend he was as we grew into early manhood together, and I wonder if I could have had a positive impact in his life had he kept in touch. Unfortunately I will never know. RIP, Buddy. I will catch you in the next life.
Wow, imagine simply not thinking anyone would miss you or be looking for you for all those years :( ... While I'm really sad that Rick thought that way and that he left his family and friends wondering for so long I don't blame him as I'm sure there was something in his mind that made him think the way he did. The fact that he met his old childhood friends on the kickball field really warmed my heart...total proof that people remembered him for many, many years!
May be he felt shame because he left the town to become a star musician but it didn't happen so he decided to cut all the contacts with them to hide his "failure"
Glens falls is a tiny town like 15 mins north of Saratoga springs NY. It doesn't have a lot going for it now and it didn't have a lot going for it back when he moved away. I can understand why he went to the City though.
Sorry but even at 23 yo you have to have a sense that disappearing like that would bring immense pain to the point of the family and friends waiting years to declare him dead. He should have at least drop by or wrote a postcard to see the family and friends response. Caused everyone immense pain. Even if he did so after having kids he could have wrote a letter.
@@bulletsfordinner8307 I think you completely missed the point here because he somehow DIDN'T think anyone would miss him or that it would matter, he was genuinely surprised anyone gave a shit. Maybe it doesn't make sense to you or I but not everyone is the same, thinks the same way, or has the same life experiences. Be grateful that you know that people would be in immense pain if you randomly disappeared and never came back. I don't see why this would have anything to do with age, by the way.
It’s so weird to hear the tiny rural towns you grew up in discussed on a random interesting UA-cam video. I’m from Rick’s town. I understand wanting to run away from there but dang.
I've watched quite a few documentaries about missing people in my country, and the vast majority are like Rick. They just run away without telling family, with no aparent reason. This makes everyone believe they're dead or kidnapped, while the person just forgets about them and moves on. Pretty sad, really.
How can someone tell everyone they've ever known they're going to go follow their dreams, receive their well wishes and I love yous, then never make contact again-- for more than THIRTY YEARS-- and be SURPRISED that someone missed you, had looked for you and was still thinking about you, wondering what had happened after all those years? I mean, my mom and I don't really speak. The only time we have been in communication in the last almost ten years was when I was hit by a car and in the hospital with two broken legs a couple of years ago. BUT there was some animosity, you know, actual reasons for that lack of communication. This guy's case is like me telling my partner of 23 years that I was going to visit Italy for a while, never coming back and never contacting him again, then being surprised 33 years later when I learn that he had ever wondered what happened. It just doesn't make sense to most rational people and seems very... strange. There was surely something else going on there.
Before I got married to my current husband, I could have easily disappeared and no one would have noticed. I would have probably crossed a few peoples minds but no one would have come looking.
@L Cam I was kidnapped, when I was a teenager, nobody knew I was missing. During that time, I was being beaten, raped, sodomized and tortured, by a stranger. I was 100% convinced I was going to die that night. I spent the next year wishing, and continue to frequently wish, I would have. Because of the lack of concern from my “loved ones” I never got justice, and I never will. I’m now, in my 40’s and I will never recover and live a “normal” life. It’s been since 2001 when I was kidnapped off the street, in my small town, while I was just trying to walk home. The cops didn’t believe me because my parents didn’t care. Fortunately, the detective did. The monster was arrested a week after he took me. Everything I claimed happened was verified by the evidence collected, however, nothing was more powerful than the doubt from the people who were supposed to protect and love me. My narcissistic parents caused an evil man to be released from prison and their only daughter to be subjected to a life of fear, anxiety, and feelings of unworthiness. So, yes, I do know. I know very well what would happen if I went missing.
@@mariavi33 personally believe it's family because of how quick they were to declare him dead for estate purposes but to leave his friends behind that was definitely selfish 🤷🏻♀️
Thank you so much. I love found alive and well stories. It just makes me wonder why they never tried to call home. I can't imagine that a person could procrastinate that much.
An unstable family life is probably the main reason why someone may choose to up and leave and cut off all contact the fact is that not all families are close to each other some even openly detest each other and the environment is very toxic.
I agree. It is interesting how people are committed to telling dishonest stories about the status of their families. I know plenty of terrible families that always try to act as if they are attentive and caring, which is just a lie.
Also there's been a few cases of women Vanishing because of domestic abuse and they don't want the husband or the boyfriend to track them down because they are that afraid and they prefer let people think maybe they were abducted
Beautiful! With all these terrible and depressing cases it's really refreshing and uplifting to hear about some cases with happy endings. Especially the one about Rick, dunno why. But how his friends and family were still looking for him even though he didn't think he'd be missed is quite bitter sweet (and makes you realize that you are loved, too. Even if it doesn't look like it some times...). Thanks for the rather uplifting start into the week :)
Actually kinda makes me mad that first girl rlly let her husband go through all of that, not to mention her family who thought she was KILLED. Absolutely disgusting.
Plus on top of the fact that she got away with embezzling what may have been as much as a $100,000 dollars ... not sure why they dropped the case ... if it was statute of limitations or what but she actually admitted to the crime ... incredible . The whole story ? can you imagine ?
Obviously I don't know the full story but I wish that more people would do what Rick did instead of killing themselves. I have no idea if Rick thought about killing himself. But so many people see killing themselves as the only way out instead of just starting a new life somewhere. Their familes would rather they be alive somewhere else than dead.
I think of the reasons for this would be from lack of money or other resources to feel like you're able to move away permanently. If the house is toxic, abuse etc. it might also feel a lot more overwhelming to try to even leave some people believe they deserve it as well so there's that.
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While it’s true that Denise Bolser’s husband was never suspected of anything in his wife’s disappearance by the police (they always believed she was alive) he was absolutely suspected in his community. It was a terrible thing she did to that poor man. I don’t believe for a second she didn’t know she was wanted for embezzling either. The company literally told her they knew she was embezzling. She thought they’d call her a naughty girl, not to do it again and then let her go free? Bull. Shit. She also told the police that her boss had in fact forced her to embezzle the money from his wife’s company, then threatened to kill her afterward. Very convenient for her as the man was long dead when she told her story. So basically she was a thief and a liar who stole from her employer, abandoned her family, left her husband to live with the suspicions of assholes in their community, then shed negative suspicions on a dead and likely very innocent man. This woman deserves prison as much as anyone I’ve ever seen.
@Richard Homan meanwhile people like Casey Anthony, O.J. Simpson, and countless others walk free among us, you’re worried about a woman faking her disappearance and the implications of it, when no body was ever physically harmed by her 🤨 my advice, get over it
A few years ago, 2 of my daughter's close friends' mother disappeared. Her husband was at work and her girls were in school. The mom took nothing with her, including her van, and the front door was wide open. There were no clues and for months her husband was suspected since they'd nearly divorced a few years before her disappearance. The case went cold until less than a year later her skeleton was found on top of a small mountain at a lookout point. Other than finding her skeleton the case was never solved.
😢 OMGOSH, THAT IS SO SAD. HEARTBREAKING FOR YOUR DAUGHTER'S LITTLE FRIEND'S. I PRAY THAT THEY HAVE SOME PEACE FROM FINDING HER REMAINS. TRULY TRAGIC. PRAYERS FOR YOUR FAMILY, STAY BLESSED 🤗🙏💜💜💜
If I was Brian, I'd give Rick a big hug and say: Glad I found you, I can rest now...then punch him in the stomach and then say....now don't ever do that again!
One of my uncles was a hard-core alcoholic, though he was usually able to hold a job. For roughly a decade nobody in the family knew where he was (not that anyone much cared, either). One day my aunt received a call from the Medical Examiner in another Province asking if she was related to my uncle. He was returned home and buried next to his parents, but nobody knows where/how he had spent the previous decade.
I think many of those who drop off the radar forget how hurtful that might be to those who were close to them. Friends may be able to 'move on', but that's not necessarily the case with parents and siblings.
@@ennuiblue4295 What a coincidence. I just finished that when this one popped up. I'm grateful for the uploads as it's pouring with rain here, so I'm stuck at home.
@@hunterw1846 I haven't received a Mr Ballen video for a long time. I wonder what's happened to him.I do miss the strange, dark and mysterious episodes.
Selfish, and I would add very cruel. Along with her parents (and other close relatives) her husband was put through an awful hell as well - with some people believing the worst about him in terms of his wife's disappearance/possible murder. @@ashleyhansen7146
I'm sure if he at least attempted to make contact with his sister and other family members he could have done so it sounds like he wasnt overally bothered either way.
Hopefully there's a bit of a takeaway here for people who have considered taking their own lives, thinking that no one would miss them. It is possible that you don't see the whole picture. Hold on to that possibility.
@@jr7845 Yeah, you work for a mental health organization, but you're here trying to dunk on a random stranger who was just trying to say something supportive. Get wrecked.
I had a Great Aunt that went missing...the family thought her husband murdered her because he was abusive! 56 yrs later...she returned! She was in California. She won't talk about what happened 2 her or why she disconnected. But glad that she's alive!!!
There’s gotta be more to the second case. People don’t just leave their friends and family and not talk to them ever again. He likely didn’t want to be found.
I wanted to see if someone else was thinking what I was thinking! I wrote There has to be more to Rick Hazelton leaving especially with him seeming vague about it..seemed sketch so I looked around at what happened in the area that year and what if he had something to do with the disappearance of Tammie McCormick or Erica Jayne Franolich who disappeared just miles from where he lived in 1986..the year he left?
@@hkazu63 im so used to websleuths that’s all people do in there and random speculations have led to new answers for cold cases. It might not be best suited for UA-cam though I’ll give you that lol
I personally think he was valid to feel that way because when he left his family pretty quickly declared him dead just because they wanted estate matters declared. I do agree that he should've stayed more in contact with friends since they did seem to genuinely care.
Poor Rick! I think his family saying “ oh your back from the dead” tells why he left! He said he didn’t think anyone would care and his family had him pronounced dead!! Nice family... not!!
I think there’s more to it than ‘neglect’ that those two men lost contact. I feel they most likely have some sort of personality disorder or something which made them feel disconnected from their families who clearly loved them. I think it’s a screw loose in the missing men, not the fault of the families. As for that woman, she knew full well she was charged with embezzlement, hence starting the new life.
My disgusting family say my 27yo son has that elusive loosened screw. Plus, I'm a drug dealer since I bought grandson a $100 scooter. We are BANNED from my grandson. The real truth is my mom punishes us all by not allowing visits since we're all the boy cares about. We can come back when he's a good boy. It's day 77. My mom's on city council, sis is a CEO & appear to not be demons. But yeah, the men probably have a screw loose & faked death to avoid a happy, healthy, & loving family... 🤔
Y’all took this comment WAYYY too personally. The families of these people clearly loved them because they spent YEARS looking for them after they disappeared. They showed how much they cared by putting in effort to find them and never give up on them. Just like not every situation involves a loving family, not every situation involves and unloving family. In my opinion these families’s love for their missing relatives shows very clearly.
@@lauren3173 This person accused someone of having a screw loose or a personality disorder. I take that personally as a human being who hates when mental illness is thrown around casually and as an insult. This man believed no one would give a damn about him. That's not a personality disorder or loss of sanity.
You can't tell, young guy's like that are alot of times because of their youth are kinda floating around directionless trying to find their place in life and the families without meaning to kinda make them feel like their just in the way, or on purpose trying to motivate them. Anyway thats how it was for me when I was just outta school.
That one guy that just took off never to be see again; when the said - 'I really didn't think that anyone cared' - that really kind of broke my heart. I just wonder, how important is it to know that there are people who love you and really do care ? I wonder if he really and truthfully believed that ? How very sad that is. I wonder.
Rick's chum is family moreso than his rude kinfolk! Idk, perhaps his life turned out for the best. Leaving a toxic situation takes courage & a mindset for success. ROCK ON, RICK!!
Things can take unexpected nasty turns when there's an inheritance involved. Maybe things got ugly & he just decided no inheritance is worth this, I dont want any part of it, keep it you nasty people & bounced.
Glad Robert was found but he has caused terrible pain to his family . All those years gone the family missing him at Christmas, holidays, barbeques and looking for him for years. Selfish really.
The last two cases make me feel really sad. I get going off and losing touch because you're doing your thing... but how do you not reach out at the Holidays? The contact info excuse is BS. There's always an aunt or cousin or grandparent somewhere who stayed put. These men just walked away from their families on purpose. There is definitely more to those stories than they are telling.
It's so selfish to put your family through the heartache. It's better to say I'm, cutting ties, I'm leaving atleast they won't have to worry about you.
Let your mother, (and your family and friends) think you are dead, and let her suffer the worst of misfortunes with the excuse "procrastination is my middle name"... Something that all these cases have in common is the great selfishness, indifference, insensitivity of the "disappeared" persons, allegedly kidnapped or murdered. A mother who does all that trying to find you is not a bad mother, she may have been wrong since she is human, and maybe her work as a mother has not been perfect, which it never is because there is no perfect education. But leaving her like that, believing that you are dead, that you suffered, that you were kidnapped, murdered, tortured ... you have no excuses....
@@bernadette_ri5270 💜 WELL SAID! RIGHT! IT'S LIKE, HOW CRUEL, SADISTIC CAN THEY BE TO NOT EVEN MAKE ONE PHONE CALL IN ALL THOSE YEARS? TO SAY, "I'M ALIVE, I'M OKAY. THIS IS WHERE I'M AT" SIMPLE. BUT I THINK THEY'RE VERY SELFISH TO DO THIS TO THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM. ALMOST AS IF THEY ARE A SOCIOPATH 😑
@@katymcginn4644 Right, I mean anyone with two brain cells knows that if he disappears like that, people will think he's dead or worse, that he died suffering in a robbery or kidnapping.
It's so selfish some people vanish yet don't bother to let friends and family know they are ok and leave them to worry not knowing what happened all those year's...discusting really!
These people only care about themselves! Never spent a moment thinking of the emotions and pain of their loved ones. Suppose the love for their family wasnt as deep as their selflove? As long as they feel good .... I would never trust them again!!!
I have a lot of questions. Do these people get new social security cards? Or are they using their original ones? How are they found? Through tax records? Were they using new names? If they were using their own names, how come they werent found sooner? etc,etc.
OK Rick was probably depressed and his family probably hadn't been supportive at all. But the last guy was just lousy. "Neglect"? "Procrastination"? And your neglect and procrastination caused so much heartache in your family FOR DECADES!!!!!! This should be a crime. How shitty can someone be?
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😒 RIGHT! IT WAS OVER $100,000. NO WONDER SHE RAN AWAY! HER BOSS KNEW & HAD THREATENED HER WITH CHARGES. SHE WOULD'VE SERVED AWHILE IN PRISON. NOT LIKE NOW, A SLAP ON THE WRIST BULLSHIT. SHE STAYED HIDDEN LONG ENOUGH FOR HER OLD BOSS TO HAVE DIED 🙁 PLUS HER EX HUSBAND HAD TO PUT UP WITH ALL THE SCRUTINY & SHAME EVERYONE THINKING HE DID SOMETHING TO HER. POOR GUY. HE'S DEAD TOO 😢 SHE'S EVIL & A THIEF 😠
Theresa man on unsolved mystery show frome our neighborhood. his name was fred gardener and he became missing from Wyoming michigan he left behind two young children n a wife in around 1970 and was later discovered in california with a different identity n a whole new family
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Because no one can dislike what they did with the update
@@THEBOGGEMAN12345 dude that was the joke..
@@THEBOGGEMAN12345 also technically this video still has dislikes, you just can't see them unless you install an extension
I know it’s dumb
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The fact that Ricks family’s response to him being found was, ‘oh you’re back from the dead’ says everything about the reason he left!
The sad part is the lady in the last case sent letters to so many families and no-one responded. I know she said to disregard the letter but for me personally it would touch me and I'd write back wishing her luck-just my own feelings. It's bittersweet when people are found years later.
It is bitter sweet,
Dear Ethereal Echoes: Is it really worth the time and the effort to find people who don't even want to be found in the first place ??? I've always believed that it's better to look to the future than to live in he past,
I think I'd respond back too just out of curtisey..... I probably spelled that wrong
@@williamsherman1089 I agree with you. I'd respond out of courtesy as well.
@@JosephKulik2016 yes, it is worth it. For peace of mind if nothing else.
I love how their father can still see his son alive, he survive that cancer to meet his son
Must have been ment to be x
Thanks for the spoiler
@@davidsalas6874 Haha, I never read the comments before watching the clip. 🙂
@@HowlinWilf13 lol I always read the comments and always regret it 🤦🏻♀️🤣
MY FAVORITE CASES ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE FOUND ALIVE!! Not only because there isn't any terrible crime, but the stories they must have lived to get to that point, without thinking about their love ones, creates such a mystery around them.... thank you guys. Keep em coming!!!
Thank you for watching!! We love cases with a good ending too!!
Dang, Brian Pincheon is a good friend, he searched for Rick for 2 friggin decades...
Yeah, Good for Brian, but F&%$# Rick. Nobody cares. Boo Hoo.
@@Wa3ypx right how shitty it must've felt when he found out that his "missing" friend just didn't care.
@@tumblindice5412 Seriously, thats gratitude!
I’m from Rick’s hometown and haven’t heard of this until listening to this video. Unreal!
Kind of a cold blooded guy. Maybe he was better left lost.
I love how they’re found alive, but it’s also scary to think that someone close to me can do that. I wonder how many cases of disappearance are about people running away and how many people died without knowing what happened to their loved ones. Such bittersweet stories.
Sometimes you gotta go, sometimes the people your saying loved them are actually evil. Or abusive. I'll bail outa any situation if people around me are off the rails, you only live once.
I actually had a best friend do something very similar to Rick Hazelton. We were next door neighbors growing up and had been very close for over 8 years, having sleep-overs, riding bikes around the hood, hiking in the woods, celebrating birthdays, camping with the respective families, taking trips together to amusement parks, hanging with friends in the alley, learning to ride motorcycles, and then to drive cars.- all the usual things best friends do while growing up together. When his widowed mother moved he and his sister across town after 5 or 6 years, we kept in constant contact by telephone, (this was before cell phones, home computers, and the internet), visited each other often, and went to parties, the movies, etc. Then, one summer day, I dropped by their house just like I had done a hundred times before, and found it to be empty, with a "For Rent" sign in the yard... and I never saw him again! I had just been there a week before, and there had been no hint they would soon be moving. For decades I asked everyone I saw if they knew what had happened to them, to no avail. It was as if this entire family had simply fallen off the face of the Earth. 30 years went by before I happened to run into his sister in a local mall. Come to find out, there had indeed been a sudden, unexpected move to a smaller city 50 miles away, where he had immediately fallen in with a bad crowd and started having some serious "issues". He had done several lengthy stints in jail and prison for drug offenses and the likes, and had only recently committed suicide while living on the streets. She also told me through teary eyes, that I had actually been fortunate to have been isolated from the decades of pain and heartache he had lavished onto those who loved and cared about him. I guess sometimes you just don't know someone as well as you thought you did. These days I just try to remember him as the great, reliable friend he was as we grew into early manhood together, and I wonder if I could have had a positive impact in his life had he kept in touch. Unfortunately I will never know. RIP, Buddy. I will catch you in the next life.
Wow, imagine simply not thinking anyone would miss you or be looking for you for all those years :( ... While I'm really sad that Rick thought that way and that he left his family and friends wondering for so long I don't blame him as I'm sure there was something in his mind that made him think the way he did. The fact that he met his old childhood friends on the kickball field really warmed my heart...total proof that people remembered him for many, many years!
May be he felt shame because he left the town to become a star musician but it didn't happen so he decided to cut all the contacts with them to hide his "failure"
Glens falls is a tiny town like 15 mins north of Saratoga springs NY. It doesn't have a lot going for it now and it didn't have a lot going for it back when he moved away. I can understand why he went to the City though.
Sorry but even at 23 yo you have to have a sense that disappearing like that would bring immense pain to the point of the family and friends waiting years to declare him dead. He should have at least drop by or wrote a postcard to see the family and friends response. Caused everyone immense pain. Even if he did so after having kids he could have wrote a letter.
@@bulletsfordinner8307 I think you completely missed the point here because he somehow DIDN'T think anyone would miss him or that it would matter, he was genuinely surprised anyone gave a shit. Maybe it doesn't make sense to you or I but not everyone is the same, thinks the same way, or has the same life experiences. Be grateful that you know that people would be in immense pain if you randomly disappeared and never came back. I don't see why this would have anything to do with age, by the way.
I think you cant be anymore selfish....whatever the reasons
It’s so weird to hear the tiny rural towns you grew up in discussed on a random interesting UA-cam video. I’m from Rick’s town. I understand wanting to run away from there but dang.
I've watched quite a few documentaries about missing people in my country, and the vast majority are like Rick. They just run away without telling family, with no aparent reason. This makes everyone believe they're dead or kidnapped, while the person just forgets about them and moves on. Pretty sad, really.
What country r u from?
@@matt_1983 Brazil
@@juroBeba ohh, Nice. Hopefully soon I can go to Brazil! 🇧🇷
I’m from Germany!! 🇩🇪
@@matt_1983 ohhh germany :)
Some people might just want to disappear and start over. Why? Only they know and their answers never answers the questions
Case #1 taught me it's okay to steal as long as you run & hide for a very long time. It all sorts itself out eventually!
lol That's what I thought. She committed the perfect crime.
How can someone tell everyone they've ever known they're going to go follow their dreams, receive their well wishes and I love yous, then never make contact again-- for more than THIRTY YEARS-- and be SURPRISED that someone missed you, had looked for you and was still thinking about you, wondering what had happened after all those years?
I mean, my mom and I don't really speak. The only time we have been in communication in the last almost ten years was when I was hit by a car and in the hospital with two broken legs a couple of years ago. BUT there was some animosity, you know, actual reasons for that lack of communication. This guy's case is like me telling my partner of 23 years that I was going to visit Italy for a while, never coming back and never contacting him again, then being surprised 33 years later when I learn that he had ever wondered what happened. It just doesn't make sense to most rational people and seems very... strange. There was surely something else going on there.
Something had to be going on with either him, his family, or both.
Before I got married to my current husband, I could have easily disappeared and no one would have noticed. I would have probably crossed a few peoples minds but no one would have come looking.
probably mentally ill thoughts, depression,,,,
@L Cam I was kidnapped, when I was a teenager, nobody knew I was missing. During that time, I was being beaten, raped, sodomized and tortured, by a stranger. I was 100% convinced I was going to die that night. I spent the next year wishing, and continue to frequently wish, I would have. Because of the lack of concern from my “loved ones” I never got justice, and I never will. I’m now, in my 40’s and I will never recover and live a “normal” life. It’s been since 2001 when I was kidnapped off the street, in my small town, while I was just trying to walk home. The cops didn’t believe me because my parents didn’t care. Fortunately, the detective did. The monster was arrested a week after he took me. Everything I claimed happened was verified by the evidence collected, however, nothing was more powerful than the doubt from the people who were supposed to protect and love me. My narcissistic parents caused an evil man to be released from prison and their only daughter to be subjected to a life of fear, anxiety, and feelings of unworthiness. So, yes, I do know. I know very well what would happen if I went missing.
@@mariavi33 personally believe it's family because of how quick they were to declare him dead for estate purposes but to leave his friends behind that was definitely selfish 🤷🏻♀️
What assholes to not even have the decency to let their family know what happened and give them a little closure.
Thank you so much. I love found alive and well stories. It just makes me wonder why they never tried to call home. I can't imagine that a person could procrastinate that much.
There are many reasons why people dissappear
An unstable family life is probably the main reason why someone may choose to up and leave and cut off all contact the fact is that not all families are close to each other some even openly detest each other and the environment is very toxic.
The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.
I agree.
It is interesting how people are committed to telling dishonest stories about the status of their families.
I know plenty of terrible families that always try to act as if they are attentive and caring, which is just a lie.
Also there's been a few cases of women Vanishing because of domestic abuse and they don't want the husband or the boyfriend to track them down because they are that afraid and they prefer let people think maybe they were abducted
Maybe he killed someone
Rightfully so.
Hope Rick and Brian are still friends and I'm glad the last case turned out the way it did but it's sad his mom never knew what happened to him.
Can't believe the last guy was just like..."yeah we just lost touch, I didn't have her phone number" 😁
y’all should do video on the people who’s bodies were found during the gabby petito and brian laundry case.
I know right???that was so crazy
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Your voice is so beautiful and soothing. I have insomnia and plan to listen to you again.
Awwww thank you so much!! I have insomnia too but for some reason talking to myself doesn’t help.
Beautiful! With all these terrible and depressing cases it's really refreshing and uplifting to hear about some cases with happy endings. Especially the one about Rick, dunno why. But how his friends and family were still looking for him even though he didn't think he'd be missed is quite bitter sweet (and makes you realize that you are loved, too. Even if it doesn't look like it some times...). Thanks for the rather uplifting start into the week :)
Actually kinda makes me mad that first girl rlly let her husband go through all of that, not to mention her family who thought she was KILLED. Absolutely disgusting.
😒 YES, SHAME ON HER. JUST BECAUSE SHE WAS A THIEF 😑
Pretty thoughtless that's for sure.
Plus on top of the fact that she got away with embezzling what may have been as much as a $100,000 dollars ... not sure why they dropped the case ... if it was statute of limitations or what but she actually admitted to the crime ... incredible .
The whole story ? can you imagine ?
I’m low key jealous of her if anything
Same with the seocnd guy that ended up in Oregon.
Obviously I don't know the full story but I wish that more people would do what Rick did instead of killing themselves. I have no idea if Rick thought about killing himself. But so many people see killing themselves as the only way out instead of just starting a new life somewhere. Their familes would rather they be alive somewhere else than dead.
Everyone he knew mourned him as if he were dead, so what's the difference?
@@KhanaHatake The difference is that a life wasn't ended. He went on to touch many other lives.
I think of the reasons for this would be from lack of money or other resources to feel like you're able to move away permanently. If the house is toxic, abuse etc. it might also feel a lot more overwhelming to try to even leave some people believe they deserve it as well so there's that.
In this era it’s not as simple to disappear to a new life.
If only moving solved enough problems! Most of the time, they follow you.
Omg I wasn't expecting the Denise one to end like that! Great video, as always!
How could Denise say she didn't know authorities were looking for her? Isn't that the whole reason she ran and disappeared to begin with??
I think it was her attempt to save face. Luckily for her, she wasn't charged but she was still guilty.
@@meowmachine9147 Sad and sorry attempt
Obviously she was no longer in love with her husband and stealing enough money to have earned a hefty prison term was a good reason not to go back.
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While it’s true that Denise Bolser’s husband was never suspected of anything in his wife’s disappearance by the police (they always believed she was alive) he was absolutely suspected in his community. It was a terrible thing she did to that poor man. I don’t believe for a second she didn’t know she was wanted for embezzling either. The company literally told her they knew she was embezzling. She thought they’d call her a naughty girl, not to do it again and then let her go free? Bull. Shit.
She also told the police that her boss had in fact forced her to embezzle the money from his wife’s company, then threatened to kill her afterward. Very convenient for her as the man was long dead when she told her story. So basically she was a thief and a liar who stole from her employer, abandoned her family, left her husband to live with the suspicions of assholes in their community, then shed negative suspicions on a dead and likely very innocent man. This woman deserves prison as much as anyone I’ve ever seen.
😒 YES, TRULY AN EVIL, LYING THIEF. REAL PIECE OF 💩 SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN PRISON 😑
Girl calm down. There’s a long list of people who deserved jail time more than her and never got it.
@Richard Homan meanwhile people like Casey Anthony, O.J. Simpson, and countless others walk free among us, you’re worried about a woman faking her disappearance and the implications of it, when no body was ever physically harmed by her 🤨 my advice, get over it
As much as anyone you have ever seen? Exaggerate much? Lmao
A few years ago, 2 of my daughter's close friends' mother disappeared. Her husband was at work and her girls were in school. The mom took nothing with her, including her van, and the front door was wide open. There were no clues and for months her husband was suspected since they'd nearly divorced a few years before her disappearance. The case went cold until less than a year later her skeleton was found on top of a small mountain at a lookout point. Other than finding her skeleton the case was never solved.
😢 OMGOSH, THAT IS SO SAD.
HEARTBREAKING FOR YOUR DAUGHTER'S LITTLE FRIEND'S.
I PRAY THAT THEY HAVE SOME PEACE FROM FINDING HER REMAINS. TRULY TRAGIC. PRAYERS FOR YOUR FAMILY, STAY BLESSED 🤗🙏💜💜💜
So sad,maybe she took her own life,either that or was abducted
@@tracey8698 the consensus by the authorities was that she was abducted
@@multicolor8476 oh I see,yes I could understand that
If I was Brian, I'd give Rick a big hug and say: Glad I found you, I can rest now...then punch him in the stomach and then say....now don't ever do that again!
😂😂😂
At Rick's age it's a good thing you aren't Brian!
This was a nice subject to cover for a change. It's much appreciated. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing these stories, in these hard times, it’s nice to see such positive outcomes.
Thanks for the upload, Merc Docs 😎 👍 👍
Mom waited all these years for her son breaks my heart.
Yes! I’ve been waiting for you new video. I absolutely love this channel. Thanks for the upload 🖤💚🖤
One of my uncles was a hard-core alcoholic, though he was usually able to hold a job. For roughly a decade nobody in the family knew where he was (not that anyone much cared, either). One day my aunt received a call from the Medical Examiner in another Province asking if she was related to my uncle. He was returned home and buried next to his parents, but nobody knows where/how he had spent the previous decade.
I think many of those who drop off the radar forget how hurtful that might be to those who were close to them. Friends may be able to 'move on', but that's not necessarily the case with parents and siblings.
No closure can drive a person crazy
love your content. top work
Perfect timing, was running out of material to watch.....Edit: Great content as always. Many thanks indeed.
Mysterious WV had a new video also 🤗
You should check out MrBallen on UA-cam if you haven’t already!!
@@ennuiblue4295 What a coincidence. I just finished that when this one popped up. I'm grateful for the uploads as it's pouring with rain here, so I'm stuck at home.
@@hunterw1846 I haven't received a Mr Ballen video for a long time. I wonder what's happened to him.I do miss the strange, dark and mysterious episodes.
@@malcolmcook6268 he still puts out videos twice a week!! If you subscribe his videos will come up :)
I was born, raised & still live in Washington County NY, I've met Brian Pincheon but somehow never heard of Rick Hazelton.
It amazes me how selfish some people can be…. Referring to the first case😑
Who knows what really goes on in people's lives. Things might to seem "selfish" to others.
@@d3l3tes00n I understand that… but embezzling 100k from the company you work for…Letting your parents believe you’re dead…. Selfish.
Selfish, and I would add very cruel. Along with her parents (and other close relatives) her husband was put through an awful hell as well - with some people believing the worst about him in terms of his wife's disappearance/possible murder. @@ashleyhansen7146
Nothing hits like that Merc theme!
I'm sure if he at least attempted to make contact with his sister and other family members he could have done so it sounds like he wasnt overally bothered either way.
Hopefully there's a bit of a takeaway here for people who have considered taking their own lives, thinking that no one would miss them. It is possible that you don't see the whole picture. Hold on to that possibility.
It doesn't work that way, mental illness is complex
@@jr7845 And so are people. For some, it might be helpful to hold that thought. Don't assume that you speak for me or people in general.
@@JoRiver11 I fundraise for a mental health charity and have met many people with complex mental health issues, dnt assume you know me.
@@jr7845 Yeah, you work for a mental health organization, but you're here trying to dunk on a random stranger who was just trying to say something supportive. Get wrecked.
I had a friend walk to the 7-11 in Houston and disappear. 26 yr laters just shows up at his parents house. Just wanted to get away from everyone
Damn… I’m glad his family got to see him again
Great video!!
This was an amazing video ❤️ I live in NH so that was interesting, and what feel good stories the other two were!
How can u just vanish and drop out and start a whole new life is beyond me 💀
Right?
I'd love to know how people do it.
I had a Great Aunt that went missing...the family thought her husband murdered her because he was abusive! 56 yrs later...she returned! She was in California. She won't talk about what happened 2 her or why she disconnected. But glad that she's alive!!!
that’s so sad that rick felt that way :(
My older sister is a drifter, I know I won’t ever see her again. It’s sad
Merc I love your videos. I’m truly your biggest fan. Don’t know what I’d do if you ever stopped making them!
I love these kinds of wholesome stories, especially that second one!
There’s gotta be more to the second case. People don’t just leave their friends and family and not talk to them ever again. He likely didn’t want to be found.
Actually, they often do. Just wanting to disappear is actually one of the most common reasons for these cases, they just don’t often go on that long.
I wanted to see if someone else was thinking what I was thinking! I wrote There has to be more to Rick Hazelton leaving especially with him seeming vague about it..seemed sketch so I looked around at what happened in the area that year and what if he had something to do with the disappearance of Tammie McCormick or Erica Jayne Franolich who disappeared just miles from where he lived in 1986..the year he left?
@@Skurwysyna that’s extremely dangerous speculation and should not be made. Period.
@@hkazu63 im so used to websleuths that’s all people do in there and random speculations have led to new answers for cold cases. It might not be best suited for UA-cam though I’ll give you that lol
I personally think he was valid to feel that way because when he left his family pretty quickly declared him dead just because they wanted estate matters declared. I do agree that he should've stayed more in contact with friends since they did seem to genuinely care.
So excited!
Poor Rick! I think his family saying “ oh your back from the dead” tells why he left! He said he didn’t think anyone would care and his family had him pronounced dead!! Nice family... not!!
I think there’s more to it than ‘neglect’ that those two men lost contact. I feel they most likely have some sort of personality disorder or something which made them feel disconnected from their families who clearly loved them. I think it’s a screw loose in the missing men, not the fault of the families. As for that woman, she knew full well she was charged with embezzlement, hence starting the new life.
You really can't know how their families were. Plenty of families look like they "love" each other. Family really isn't everything.
My disgusting family say my 27yo son has that elusive loosened screw. Plus, I'm a drug dealer since I bought grandson a $100 scooter. We are BANNED from my grandson. The real truth is my mom punishes us all by not allowing visits since we're all the boy cares about. We can come back when he's a good boy. It's day 77. My mom's on city council, sis is a CEO & appear to not be demons. But yeah, the men probably have a screw loose & faked death to avoid a happy, healthy, & loving family... 🤔
Y’all took this comment WAYYY too personally. The families of these people clearly loved them because they spent YEARS looking for them after they disappeared. They showed how much they cared by putting in effort to find them and never give up on them.
Just like not every situation involves a loving family, not every situation involves and unloving family. In my opinion these families’s love for their missing relatives shows very clearly.
@@lauren3173 This person accused someone of having a screw loose or a personality disorder. I take that personally as a human being who hates when mental illness is thrown around casually and as an insult. This man believed no one would give a damn about him. That's not a personality disorder or loss of sanity.
You can't tell, young guy's like that are alot of times because of their youth are kinda floating around directionless trying to find their place in life and the families without meaning to kinda make them feel like their just in the way, or on purpose trying to motivate them. Anyway thats how it was for me when I was just outta school.
I enjoyed this. Nice to hear good news. The woman abandoning job and husband was bizaere
Thank you for watching and commenting!! I also like good news and hope to cover more soon!!
The Guy in the 2nd case made it to Oregon, La-La Land ... where no one exists outside their own little bubbles...
That one guy that just took off never to be see again;
when the said - 'I really didn't think that anyone cared' - that really kind of broke my heart.
I just wonder, how important is it to know that there are people who love you and really do care ?
I wonder if he really and truthfully believed that ?
How very sad that is.
I wonder.
Wow 😳 prayers for all having difficulty
Thank you for the video.
Well this is Sad and Happy.
I’ll never understand people who just don’t care.
Rick's chum is family moreso than his rude kinfolk! Idk, perhaps his life turned out for the best. Leaving a toxic situation takes courage & a mindset for success. ROCK ON, RICK!!
Yeah.
Things can take unexpected nasty turns when there's an inheritance involved. Maybe things got ugly & he just decided no inheritance is worth this, I dont want any part of it, keep it you nasty people & bounced.
Love the content!
Glad Robert was found but he has caused terrible pain to his family . All those years gone the family missing him at Christmas, holidays, barbeques and looking for him for years.
Selfish really.
The last two cases make me feel really sad. I get going off and losing touch because you're doing your thing... but how do you not reach out at the Holidays? The contact info excuse is BS. There's always an aunt or cousin or grandparent somewhere who stayed put. These men just walked away from their families on purpose. There is definitely more to those stories than they are telling.
your voice makes me fall asleep i could not sty focused on the story lol
Thanks!
Love your content..
So I can just go out and get lost away from my toxic family...*taking notes*
That was excellent!
It's so selfish to put your family through the heartache. It's better to say I'm, cutting ties, I'm leaving atleast they won't have to worry about you.
Thank-you 😊
It's so refreshing to finally see some happy-ends🥰👏
Let your mother, (and your family and friends) think you are dead, and let her suffer the worst of misfortunes with the excuse "procrastination is my middle name"...
Something that all these cases have in common is the great selfishness, indifference, insensitivity of the "disappeared" persons, allegedly kidnapped or murdered. A mother who does all that trying to find you is not a bad mother, she may have been wrong since she is human, and maybe her work as a mother has not been perfect, which it never is because there is no perfect education. But leaving her like that, believing that you are dead, that you suffered, that you were kidnapped, murdered, tortured ... you have no excuses....
This comment is bullshit. Sympathy for the parent, but not the child.
@@Aster_Risk 🤣👏🏻
@@bernadette_ri5270 💜 WELL SAID!
RIGHT! IT'S LIKE, HOW CRUEL, SADISTIC CAN THEY BE TO NOT EVEN MAKE ONE PHONE CALL IN ALL THOSE YEARS? TO SAY, "I'M ALIVE, I'M OKAY. THIS IS WHERE I'M AT" SIMPLE. BUT I THINK THEY'RE VERY SELFISH TO DO THIS TO THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM. ALMOST AS IF THEY ARE A SOCIOPATH 😑
@@katymcginn4644 Right, I mean anyone with two brain cells knows that if he disappears like that, people will think he's dead or worse, that he died suffering in a robbery or kidnapping.
You have no idea what the circumstances were. If they were young, they may have been escaping abuse.
I like these ones with a happy ending. 😍👏👏👏
It's so selfish some people vanish yet don't bother to let friends and family know they are ok and leave them to worry not knowing what happened all those year's...discusting really!
These people only care about themselves! Never spent a moment thinking of the emotions and pain of their loved ones. Suppose the love for their family wasnt as deep as their selflove? As long as they feel good ....
I would never trust them again!!!
I have a friend who’s brother has been missing since we were 12. I’m 57 now. He’s never been found 😢
I have a lot of questions. Do these people get new social security cards? Or are they using their original ones? How are they found? Through tax records? Were they using new names? If they were using their own names, how come they werent found sooner? etc,etc.
I loved the video but 2 of these cases you already covered
do you remember the video title(s) from the other two? this is the second comment i’ve seen say they covered these already
OK Rick was probably depressed and his family probably hadn't been supportive at all.
But the last guy was just lousy. "Neglect"? "Procrastination"? And your neglect and procrastination caused so much heartache in your family FOR DECADES!!!!!! This should be a crime. How shitty can someone be?
There must be more to the story .
Hi everyone!! Sorry for the delay in getting the video out- that’s on me dawg…my freshman had their essays due and I was busy grading the fuuuuuu*k outta them. Anyway, enjoy this video full of GOOD news for once lol!!
It's weird that those people got away with not paying taxes or giving their social security number for all those years.
Sorry but that guy in the middle is straight up selfish. Just leaving his family and friends for no reason
Last one was really heart breaking
For record keeping they’re not very exact about the amount Denise embezzled.
Right, I thought that that was a huge range to be considering
😒 RIGHT! IT WAS OVER $100,000.
NO WONDER SHE RAN AWAY! HER BOSS KNEW & HAD THREATENED HER WITH CHARGES. SHE WOULD'VE SERVED AWHILE IN PRISON.
NOT LIKE NOW, A SLAP ON THE WRIST BULLSHIT. SHE STAYED HIDDEN LONG ENOUGH FOR HER OLD BOSS TO HAVE DIED 🙁
PLUS HER EX HUSBAND HAD TO PUT UP WITH ALL THE SCRUTINY & SHAME EVERYONE THINKING HE DID SOMETHING TO HER. POOR GUY. HE'S DEAD TOO 😢
SHE'S EVIL & A THIEF 😠
Theresa man on unsolved mystery show frome our neighborhood. his name was fred gardener and he became missing from Wyoming michigan he left behind two young children n a wife in around 1970 and was later discovered in california with a different identity n a whole new family
Denise’s boss accused her of embezzling between $12,000 and $100,000. That’s a huge gap! Sounds like the boss was not a great bookkeeper.
SOME PEOPLE JUST DON'T WANT TO BE FOUND
Crazy stories!
Rick Hazleton’s story has got to be the most wholesome shit ever
Sad part of all this is some many don't come up found after they are never heard from again
This channel has covered these stories already
Yay, pretty early for this one. 💕
Can you please feature some unsolved cases from India
Denise got off lightly...
That's so mean of people to just dissapear, and leave the family wondering what happened to them.