The DISTURBING Disappearance of Cheryl Gene Grimmer...

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  • čas přidán 28. 03. 2023
  • Cheryl Gene Grimmer was last seen at the shower block on Fairy Meadow Beach, New South Wales, on January 1st, 1970. She was just 3-years-old at the time of her disappearance and was 3ft tall with blonde hair and blue eyes. One distinguishing physical characteristic of Cheryl is that she has a navel which protrudes one centimetre due to a medical condition. She was last seen wearing a royal blue swimming suit with net panelling and carrying a white towel. There is currently a one million dollar reward available in her case. If you have any information about her disappearance, you can call Crimestoppers on 1800-333-000.
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Komentáře • 279

  • @sheffieldamanda
    @sheffieldamanda Před rokem +116

    Poor Ricky, no 7 year old should be given sole responsibility over a 3 year old 😢

    • @m.y.o.b.724
      @m.y.o.b.724 Před rokem +9

      That's what I was thinking, too, but things were different back then. I'm sure the mom wished she had gone with her kids. So very sad.😢

    • @rivermoon6190
      @rivermoon6190 Před rokem +4

      I could never have done that with my own children but as the oldest out of a family of 8, I was looking after my siblings, albeit mainly in the home, at 3/4 years old!
      That was the way it was in the 1960s/70s and before so it wasn’t unusual.
      There was always some punishment if my siblings cried (as all babies do!) so to look after 2/3 crying sibling at 4 years old was a hard task.
      Even today the sound of a baby crying brings back the dread and fear I felt then.
      But yes poor Ricky to have to live with that all his life.

    • @lindc1070
      @lindc1070 Před rokem +5

      Agreed. This happened after the Beaumont kids in 1966 so am a bit taken aback.

    • @Mandaxx25
      @Mandaxx25 Před rokem +1

      ​@@m.y.o.b.724 absolute nonsense. It wasn't different back then. That's what people love to say on all the videos of the murders of children back then. Their murders prove it absolutely wasn't different. Parents were lazy and neglectful. Yet they love to criticise parents now.

    • @m.y.o.b.724
      @m.y.o.b.724 Před rokem +3

      Kids weren't coddled as much back then, and most parents weren't hovering over their children 24/7. Of course, a lot of bad stuff happened to kids too. People may've been more trusting and, without social media, not as aware. I spent most of my childhood and part of my teenage years in the 70s and it was a lot different from how my own kids grew up.

  • @SouthernMimi2
    @SouthernMimi2 Před rokem +125

    This is so sad. I feel for the brother. Even though it’s not his fault I’m sure it weighs heavy on him. 😢

  • @kara8186
    @kara8186 Před rokem +70

    I hope that her brothers are able to find some answers. My heart goes out to them.

    • @susivarga7303
      @susivarga7303 Před rokem

      Well one of them is searching for answers in prison. A paedo...

  • @sophieandwayne
    @sophieandwayne Před rokem +122

    So sad and definitely NOT the brother’s fault at all.

    • @sebastianelytron8450
      @sebastianelytron8450 Před rokem

      Assuming this is sarcasm, I agree. What a moron.

    • @MarioGoatse
      @MarioGoatse Před rokem +7

      @SugarShane It’s not his fault at all. His actions partially attributed to it happening, but the fault lies in one person only. He was a child in the 70s in Australia which is an overwhelmingly safe country, and also extremely hot. So kids would go to the beach by themselves. They’d play outside all day climbing trees. They play footy in the park. Kids were outside more than they were inside. He couldn’t ever have predicted that his sister would be abducted in 2 minutes at a public beach. The 70s in every country was an entirely different atmosphere to today’s constant 24/7 news cycle spreading fear and creating helicopter parents and mass surveillance. Even in the 80s me and my friends would travel to different suburbs on our own. We’d have 60 cents for the bus down to Bondi beach, and $1 for a pie, and we’d spend all day there alone with just us kids swimming and catching waves. Sure, crime still happened back then, but attitudes about safety were much more lax than today. You learned how to look after yourself. We actually did have this pedo try to say some really sick stuff to us once, but we chased him down and jumped him ourselves. 5 kids all under 13 bashing a grown man in the street lol. Police came and arrested him after an older guy held him down when we told him why we did it. It was a different world back then.

    • @trishliving9942
      @trishliving9942 Před rokem +11

      @SugarShane what makes you think a 7 year old has the capacity to be responsible for his 3 other siblings 😅 I’m curious…

    • @andrewward2010
      @andrewward2010 Před rokem +1

      Wonder where the other 2 brothers were at the time? Didn't they hear their sister scream?

    • @trishliving9942
      @trishliving9942 Před rokem +5

      @SugarShane hell yes, I hated my sister

  • @FallenAngel9979
    @FallenAngel9979 Před rokem +129

    How utterly ridiculous to keep his name secret just because he was a teen when he abducted and killed Cheryl. I don’t care how old he was. He’s evil and we should know who he is.

    • @billsloan
      @billsloan Před rokem +3

      He was evil at the time yes however as time passes the evil that once was could feel both remorse & repentant.

    • @johnsonjohnson4725
      @johnsonjohnson4725 Před rokem +9

      Most predators go on to commit other crimes, often becoming more violent. They must be reported to be stopped.
      Even if the offender is sorry, they should be stopped from further crimes.

    • @kikihowe4799
      @kikihowe4799 Před rokem +7

      @@billsloan No they remain Evil 🤬🤬

    • @lindc1070
      @lindc1070 Před rokem +10

      ​@@billsloan very unlikely. There is a line once crossed by a human being, especially one so young from which there is no way back. But even if there is a chance such a person could be rehabilitated , society should not take the risk. Someone who takes an innocent life, whatever their age, forfeits their rights to be given the same consideration as other human beings. Our focus should be on protecting the innocent . Do what is best for society at large, not for one sick individual who might have reformed.

    • @31Alden
      @31Alden Před rokem +8

      @@billsloan Oh do get a grip. He was evil then. He’s evil now.

  • @zoundstreetop
    @zoundstreetop Před rokem +168

    Confusing a seven year old for an adult man is simply impossible. A toddler asking for water repeatedly from a fountain is a scenario every parent has experienced.

    • @troumer
      @troumer Před rokem +17

      Not really--it would be something they weren't really paying attention to. Think of it as something you see out of the corner of your eye when you're doing all the usual stuff at a beach when the weather suddenly turns. Your focus is on your family and your belongings. Also, people are very susceptible to suggestion when they want to help in a panicked situation. If an officer innocently says, 'What did the man look like?,' many people's mind will fill in the gaps with an adult male. It's one of several reasons why eyewitness testimony based on brief encounters is increasingly seen as unreliable.

    • @Ragdollcatlover
      @Ragdollcatlover Před rokem +3

      People imagine all kinds of things, especially when you wouldn’t have understood the significance of the time.

    • @jeangemmel7895
      @jeangemmel7895 Před rokem +1

      Totally agree with you Zounds Treetop, absolutely no way xx Jean from Scotland.

    • @daynasafranek7807
      @daynasafranek7807 Před rokem

      Maybe thought it was an LP

    • @lizzaangelis3308
      @lizzaangelis3308 Před rokem +2

      It is not impossible. Jim Morrison lead singer of the doors was attested as many eye witnesses swore they saw him take his pants off on stage. When they examined a video of the event, it was discovered that he had only unbuttoned his pants and never removed them. And while it is highly likely that the audience was under the influence of drugs, this is also true for other cases too. Memories are not as iron clad as we would like to believe

  • @DinoCism
    @DinoCism Před rokem +105

    Why keep the killer's name out of the media when he's 60 years old? Aussie law is so stupid, as are their cops who can't catch a murderer even when he comes right out to them and confesses.

    • @iaminpainauchocolat9300
      @iaminpainauchocolat9300 Před rokem +5

      They're family don't deserve that level of hate

    • @margkropf5541
      @margkropf5541 Před rokem +23

      I wonder if these judges would change their judgments if it was THEIR children who were murdered. Ridiculous and tragic.

    • @REIDAE
      @REIDAE Před rokem +11

      Because he was a minor at the time of the crime. Laws apply to the person's age when the crime was committed, not how old they are now. By your logic, if a person committed a crime when they were 13, then the prosecution waited until they were 18, they would be tried as an adult for the crime they did when they were a minor.

    • @lotuspocus76312
      @lotuspocus76312 Před rokem +8

      I live in Europe. Listening to how "the law" works in other countries makes me truly wonder. Obvious or logical evidence gets often dismissed when there is no confession of the suspect or worse - no body is found. For me the problem is "the jury". I dont understand how people with no education in forensics or psychology are allowed to "declair someone innocent or guilty" of a crime. I thought thats the job of the judge? In Europe a judge - who studied hard for years - is the only one who is allowed to look at evidence during court session and gives the "thumbs up" or "thumbs down". I also feel like obvious (evidence or) logic is enough in Europe to convict someone for murder, and thats a good thing in my eyes.

    • @MarioGoatse
      @MarioGoatse Před rokem +6

      @@lotuspocus76312 We kind of use “European” law. Australia’s law uses commonwealth law, which is based off British law. It’s extremely similar in many ways, but not all.

  • @seandelap8587
    @seandelap8587 Před rokem +63

    So basically they caught the perpetrator but then let him slip through their fingers how grossly incompetent is that

    • @eddy7346
      @eddy7346 Před rokem +7

      I'm sure this happens more often than not, unfortunately

    • @eucliduschaumeau8813
      @eucliduschaumeau8813 Před rokem

      Misguided liberals will almost always prostrate themselves to free murderers, while kicking the victims and survivors in the teeth, due to misguided sensibilities.

    • @sheffieldamanda
      @sheffieldamanda Před rokem +4

      Twice!

    • @meredithisme3752
      @meredithisme3752 Před rokem

      No surprise Australian police are grossly incompetent

  • @Purplenpinkk
    @Purplenpinkk Před rokem +78

    After watching this video, I would recommend watching the 60 Minutes Australia piece about this case. It includes interviews with Cheryl's brothers, and it's heartbreaking what they have endured all these years - the oldest brother in particular. It wasn't your fault!

    • @cyankirkpatrick5194
      @cyankirkpatrick5194 Před rokem +2

      I would subscribe to the 60 minutes Australia but you can't comment they turned off the section and so does a huge number of channels here.

    • @Aethuviel
      @Aethuviel Před rokem +3

      He said he shouldn't have left her. But did she speak to him, when she, as he said, "refused to leave", or was she already gone by then?
      I have never heard of this case before, so I have no idea. But if she didn't hear her voice and he just thought she refused to leave, but in reality she was already gone, then him leaving made no difference.
      Either way, it's horrible to have to beat yourself up your entire life over something you did as a seven year old, losing your baby sister, and it really wasn't his fault.

    • @Purplenpinkk
      @Purplenpinkk Před rokem +4

      @@cyankirkpatrick5194 Yeah, but you can still watch. I find Australia's 60 Minutes channel to be very good. I really appreciated their story on this and the interviews with the family.

    • @sangeet9100
      @sangeet9100 Před rokem

      @@Aethuviel The mother should have been in the shower space with the toddler; guys can't be in and she's too young to be on her own

    • @susivarga7303
      @susivarga7303 Před rokem

      Stephen is in prison now. His 14y old victim endured a lot too...

  • @seandelap8587
    @seandelap8587 Před rokem +26

    Was Ricky very big for his age or something because I fail to see how he could be mistaken for a grown man

  • @Zadahita
    @Zadahita Před rokem +30

    Feel the moms pain. It is even to an adult is difficult to take care and watch 3 small kids age 3,4,5 and put that responibility to a 7 year old. You must admit that till a certain age, you just can not leave ur kids alone.

    • @lindc1070
      @lindc1070 Před rokem +1

      Dont bring 3 kids to the beach if you cant cope. This happened after the Beaumont kids. I am taken aback this kid was still left alone like that

    • @issakariet558
      @issakariet558 Před rokem

      @@lindc1070 That is so easy to say!! Even a mom of 2 kids, going out can 't possibly keep her eyes on the kids every second! It sometimes only takes a very short time and the right circumstances for something unexpected to happen!!

    • @lindc1070
      @lindc1070 Před rokem +1

      @@issakariet558 exactly but some circumstances are riskier than others

  • @rovaun182
    @rovaun182 Před rokem +34

    The Balgownie link, for me, stands out. I was 16 at the time, and remember what a huge story this was. RIP,Cheryl,and hope that your siblings find peace in their hearts.

  • @G-Star-Raw
    @G-Star-Raw Před rokem +10

    How it ruined a whole family's life, its so sad, what a huge mess, sad.

  • @lois2997
    @lois2997 Před rokem +20

    I saw an update on this, the father blamed the oldest brother for the disappearance. Very sad. All of the brothers still feel guilty

  • @sunflower_1990
    @sunflower_1990 Před rokem +42

    I live in Australia and even tho I wasn't born at the time this happened it has haunted Australia forever.. Cheryls parents broke up shortly after she disappeared but both parents always blamed the oldest brother for her disappearance and the break down of the family and the problems that ensued...😞😞😞 The oldest brother even to this day always carries that burden and pain..😞😞😞

    • @sonjawilliams989
      @sonjawilliams989 Před rokem +1

      Whatever. That's NOT what happened. Get your facts straight.

    • @sunflower_1990
      @sunflower_1990 Před rokem +5

      @@sonjawilliams989 Saw it on a documentary of the case and this is what the oldest brother stated to the camera crew.. So whatever get your facts checked..💯🤙🤙

    • @sunflower_1990
      @sunflower_1990 Před rokem +8

      @@sonjawilliams989 Cheryl's brother Ricki Nash said "he feels he let the family down and that he should have not left his sister alone"
      "I didn't know what abduction was or anything about taking a child," he told 60 Minutes through tears in a preview set to air on Sunday. So whatever...🙄🙄

    • @lois2997
      @lois2997 Před rokem +4

      @@sonjawilliams989 bs. It was on a documentary maybe you should get your facts straight

    • @breeirish5743
      @breeirish5743 Před rokem

      I don’t think the parent split. The dad did give them a hard time, that is on camera in the interview with the brothers.

  • @godzilla5599
    @godzilla5599 Před rokem +51

    In a case like this you have to wonder how many more bodies whoever did this has on their record.

    • @always_b_natural703
      @always_b_natural703 Před rokem +15

      That was my thought as well. Sexually motivated criminals don't usually stop at one.

    • @Dr.Gunsmith
      @Dr.Gunsmith Před rokem +8

      Absolutely.

  • @cinnydrew
    @cinnydrew Před rokem +13

    This is why you don't leave kids that young unattend

    • @billsloan
      @billsloan Před rokem +2

      She wasn't left unattended...She was left with her siblings.

    • @Juliet7245
      @Juliet7245 Před rokem +9

      A small child should not have to take care of or watch smaller children.

    • @billsloan
      @billsloan Před rokem

      @@Juliet7245 Which he wasn't...He was a bigger than & Bigger kid's are more than big enough to watch their younger siblings especially while a Parent is nearby.

  • @Dr.Gunsmith
    @Dr.Gunsmith Před rokem +13

    Sick monsters really do exist.

  • @Loser_Lisa
    @Loser_Lisa Před rokem +11

    Why can't I stop paying attention to the whistle/swing in the background sound?

    • @mainemermaid6596
      @mainemermaid6596 Před rokem +2

      I think it's hypnotizing us. 😵‍💫

    • @tillybug_pug4180
      @tillybug_pug4180 Před rokem +1

      It started giving me headache and I had to stop watching like 11 minutes in 😂

  • @ktkat1949
    @ktkat1949 Před rokem +94

    This is so tragic. It is obvious the police had the right man until the judge threw out their case. The police bungled it to start with by disregarding the confession. My heart goes out to her brothers. I hope her parents and she now RIP.

    • @MarioGoatse
      @MarioGoatse Před rokem

      I don’t think it’s obvious at all TBH. He had previously made another false confession about killing a guard, and there’s not a shred of proof that his story is true. There’s also no body where he said he left it. You can very easily describe somewhere if you’ve been there before, so him knowing what the place looked like isn’t proof of anything. People make false confessions all the time. Some cases have dozens of false confessions. I don’t think there was enough evidence to find him guilty. He was a mentally ill man with a low intellect. Sure, he could have done it, but you also can’t prove it in any way.

    • @ArtCurator2020
      @ArtCurator2020 Před rokem

      Just over one million people die worldwide each week.
      Why are their deaths any less "tragic" than that of this little girl ?
      Perhaps because some BOZO with a YT channel says it is ?
      "There's a Sucker born every minute." - social psychologist, PT Barnum.

    • @troumer
      @troumer Před rokem +18

      An unpopular opinion: For me, it's 50:50 on whether or not he did it. He has borderline intelligence and a history of other false murder confessions. Even if they had allowed the confession at trial, it would have been easily discredited by the mountain of mainstream research about how easily a teenager like him would be talked into a false confession EVEN IF the cops were doing their best to be "fair' as it was understood at the time. I'm not usually the biggest reasonable doubt guy, but this case just reeks of it.
      I feel so awful for the oldest son. To me, the underappreciated villain in the story is the farm owner (or his son if it turns out the son was wrong about how the farm looked at the time). The whole case is just a sh**show.

    • @mrsTraveller64
      @mrsTraveller64 Před rokem +2

      @@troumer I've always believed that if you are so stupid,crazy, that you confess to a crime you didn't do; then by all means be treated as if you HAD done it!!!! It serves you right and stands as a warning to other lunatics.

    • @jenniferbailey5914
      @jenniferbailey5914 Před rokem +2

      Need I point out it wasn’t necessary, at the time, for a parent, guardian or a lawyer to be present when police interred the suspect. The police acted with the law. Next time listen and learn.

  • @seandelap8587
    @seandelap8587 Před rokem +27

    I don't understand why his identity is still a secret i mean he may have been a minor when he commited the crime but he's an adult now so why hasn't his identity been uncovered it makes no sense to me I mean even those who were children when they murdered their victims later had their names identified so why not this guy what's different about his case

    • @MarioGoatse
      @MarioGoatse Před rokem +2

      If you commit a crime as a juvenile, then privacy laws forbid your name being public. The large majority of cases, the law is a good thing. You don’t want to publicly humiliate a child who might not even be guilty. It’s extremely rare for a juvenile offender to commit such a heinous act and not be arrested until he’s 70, so you’d have to amend the law if you wanted to change it, but it would never get used anyway. It also wouldn’t apply to him anyway, as you can’t just invent or amend laws to retroactively enforce them. That’s a power you don’t want your government having. People need to be held under the laws that exist at the time, or the government will just make laws up to lock people up whenever they deem necessary.

    • @mynameisworld
      @mynameisworld Před rokem +2

      You'll understand when you're a grown-up and have had some life experience.

    • @seandelap8587
      @seandelap8587 Před rokem +4

      Why are the killers of James Bulger known then and they were younger when they commited the murder than this guy was

    • @MarioGoatse
      @MarioGoatse Před rokem +2

      @@seandelap8587 They’re from Britain, not Australia.

    • @seandelap8587
      @seandelap8587 Před rokem +1

      @Azzajay Brah oh I see it's just in Australia where this law exists thanks anyway

  • @andrewward2010
    @andrewward2010 Před rokem +7

    Definitely is that guy who was 17 at the time. Ridiculous they cannot use his statement given at the time.

  • @richardybanez9052
    @richardybanez9052 Před rokem +6

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  • @christinecabana4169
    @christinecabana4169 Před rokem +5

    Such a sad case..that poor child and her brother suffering all these yrs. RIP Little One. Hopefully that guy will get what's he's got coming due! Canada

  • @butterfly3676
    @butterfly3676 Před rokem +6

    Oh this is heartbreaking 😢 It’s actually one of my worst nightmares, to have one of my kids taken away like this.

  • @lynn5050
    @lynn5050 Před rokem +9

    Tragic. I do hope the family gets answers. I can't imagine their grief.

    • @susivarga7303
      @susivarga7303 Před rokem

      Stephen is grieving in prison now. A paedo.

  • @elliebellie7816
    @elliebellie7816 Před rokem +2

    There sure are a lot of beach incidents in "Straya". The Somerton Man, the Beaumont children, the Wanda Beach murders, and now this one. And who knows how many more.

  • @thoupandthalad
    @thoupandthalad Před rokem +3

    Why is it that cops from the 70s always end up fucking up a case by going full ham on the wrong dude or looking the killer in the eyes and telling them to have a nice day? Frickin nuts.

  • @geoffjoffy
    @geoffjoffy Před rokem +6

    Horrific what this little girl went through. Looks like that guy who said he did it, did do it. Bungling cops and that crazyJudge are to blame for him not facing justice.

  • @jacquelinedeigan776
    @jacquelinedeigan776 Před rokem +6

    So heartbreaking..
    Poor little girl..
    I feel for the poor family too..I hope this family and their friends find peace.
    Definitely not anyone's fault except the vile person that took this precious little girl from her family.

  • @sparklypoet1454
    @sparklypoet1454 Před rokem +7

    RIP baby Cheryl. May your brothers find some peace. x

  • @sandraintexas6959
    @sandraintexas6959 Před rokem +5

    And how many others has he killed in the last 60 years?

    • @keonie
      @keonie Před rokem +3

      Yes! Exactly!!

  • @shannonparks3941
    @shannonparks3941 Před rokem

    I SO LOVE YOUR CHANNEL.... 🎉❤

  • @backnineblues
    @backnineblues Před rokem +4

    If the 63-year-old man knew details that only the murderer would know, his conviction seems like a slam-dunk. But, the technicalities…………#@%£€¥

  • @Morgan_Layfay
    @Morgan_Layfay Před rokem +7

    What is super alarming to me is while someone actually committed a crime like this, others claimed they did for attention.. Not the first time as we all know, but if someone finds any type of humor or interest in pretending or taking pride in acting like they could/would participate in something like this, lock them up, it's only a matter of time 🧐

  • @maryrichardson6029
    @maryrichardson6029 Před rokem

    Thank you

  • @zero_bs_tolerance8646

    Thank you.

  • @TrueBrit1
    @TrueBrit1 Před rokem +8

    You can understand how and why that poor brother has spent his life feeling guilty for what happened. His feelings are completely understandable. I have an enormous regret in my life, admittedly nothing as serious or devastating as this case, but nevertheless something I have spent the last 20 years regretting, wishing I could turn back the clock, wishing I'd made a completely different decision. Quite simply, it's like calling heads when everything was telling me to call tails. I know I probably shouldn't blame myself, but I do. And I'm right to do so. But that aside, I feel for the whole family, her parents and of course poor little Cheryl.

    • @AwfulDog1
      @AwfulDog1 Před rokem +2

      Sometimes you just have to accept what has happened. Hopefully you can reassure yourself your decision at the time was made with good intentions. If so, you should forgive yourself and not hold it as a grudge against yourself. If you made a decision with dishonourable intentions learn from it and the consequences and try to make it right over the years, or make up for it by being the best form of yourself you can be.

    • @TrueBrit1
      @TrueBrit1 Před rokem +1

      @@AwfulDog1 Yeah all that you say makes sense, but of course in reality it's hard not to blame yourself if you've screwed up - it's human nature. It was nothing illegal, nobody got hurt or anything like that, just something that had an enduring, significant and detrimental affect on our lives. It certainly did seem like the right thing to do at the time, but it is in hindsight that it was obviously NOT the right thing to do! But thanks for your sentiments and kind words. :)

    • @AwfulDog1
      @AwfulDog1 Před rokem +1

      All the best, I hope you find some peace and solace knowing you have a lot of support, I am sure, from others around the world.

    • @TrueBrit1
      @TrueBrit1 Před rokem +1

      @@AwfulDog1 Cheers.

  • @sharonmotteshead6490
    @sharonmotteshead6490 Před rokem +5

    So sad evil everywhere poor baby girl

  • @dodiatkins4515
    @dodiatkins4515 Před rokem +2

    Justice for Cheryl. Prayers for her family and friends.😢

  • @karenk3458
    @karenk3458 Před rokem +3

    Poor Cheryl 😢😮.

  • @BurnItUpp2009
    @BurnItUpp2009 Před rokem +14

    Why didn't the police believe the 17 year old when he first confessed?! Bless her eldest brother, it is absolutely not his fault. He has obviously held that for such a long time which is so sad. RIP baby Cheryl ❤️

    • @Aethuviel
      @Aethuviel Před rokem +4

      Because the landowner said none of the story added up, and they were building on the site so they couldn't just start digging to see if they could find a body. Awful situation either way, and these older cases are often full of shoddy handling.

    • @billsloan
      @billsloan Před rokem +2

      Because even with the confession there was no direct evidence that he was at the actual location.

  • @gionee7035
    @gionee7035 Před rokem +2

    Don’t ever ignore yr sense - if some one confess with specific details watch him carefully

  • @Tr4c13
    @Tr4c13 Před rokem +5

    I remember this you don't realise back in the 70s that such evil exists i feel so bad for this family prayers go out to this family ❤

    • @billsloan
      @billsloan Před rokem +1

      Such evil existed even back then.

  • @wandahall4435
    @wandahall4435 Před rokem +5

    Victims and Family and Friends Love 💘❤ 💕♥ 💗 💖

  • @sharonmotteshead6490
    @sharonmotteshead6490 Před rokem +5

    What a monster

  • @jamesb.9155
    @jamesb.9155 Před rokem +11

    On 60 Minutes Australia, there is a high budget documentary of this case, (Cheryl Gene Grimmer) including interviews with the brothers and their father who was so distraught after the fact that he couldn't forgive his family for losing his daughter. There is a clearly confessed killer who has been walked for technicality only. It's such a horrible crime now 53+ years on. R.I.P Cheryl Gene.

    • @lois2997
      @lois2997 Před rokem +2

      I saw that, the father blamed the oldest brother especially

    • @jamesb.9155
      @jamesb.9155 Před 2 měsíci

      @@lois2997 We all know that her mother should have attended to her little daughter herself rather than instructing her little boys to look after her at the shower block.

  • @Bella.Parabellum
    @Bella.Parabellum Před rokem +34

    I am certain that the property owner who denied the confessor's details about the property did it on purpose, so as not to reduce his property's 'value' due to an active disappearance/homicide investigation. 😡

    • @MarioGoatse
      @MarioGoatse Před rokem +2

      That’s absurd. You would have to be American with such a weird opinion. Only an American would assume that other people value property value more than life. Property values back then were extremely low. It would have been a cheap fibro building. And nobody is going to lie about the death of a child just to maintain 20% more value of your small farm. The most likely answer is that the father did know exactly what was on his property because he built it himself. He knows his land. The kid couldn’t possibly know more accurate information about when a fence was put up than his father who built it, and many decades later at that. My bet is that he and the police just wanted it to be true so he told them what they both wanted to be true so they could close the case. People make false confessions all the time. Some famous cases have had dozens of false confessions. There’s not a single shred of evidence that he did it, apart from his confession getting some details correct, but we haven’t heard a recording so we don’t even know if he was lead or coerced. It’s extremely suspicious, but remember he had actually falsely confessed to another crime before that too, and was mentally ill with a low intellect. No evidence, let alone a body was even found on his property either.

    • @Bella.Parabellum
      @Bella.Parabellum Před rokem +7

      @@MarioGoatse Yes, because assuming his adult son would just make that stuff up "because he wanted it to be true" is not absurd at all 🙄 That makes _much_ more sense than the father simply not wanting his property to be in the middle of a murder investigation...

    • @MarioGoatse
      @MarioGoatse Před rokem

      @@Bella.Parabellum I think it’s much more likely for a person to want to help the investigation, than someone else purposely lying about it to throw off the investigation simply because of property values that barely existed in the 70s. A house in Sydney was 15,000 at that time. A house in Illawarra was like 10,000. Americans are insane. You actually think that it’s normal for a person to worry about the value of their property when a child has gone missing? This is why your country is falling apart. You hold the most extreme views and have no trust in anybody else because you think they think like you. That’s not a normal thought to have.

    • @Akasha6915
      @Akasha6915 Před rokem +7

      Yeah, with the property in the middle of development, the cost that an investigation would cause and the loss in value of the property and delays for development would be reason enough to lie.

    • @billsloan
      @billsloan Před rokem

      There's literally no way the second could have.

  • @noraann6372
    @noraann6372 Před rokem +1

    January 12th is my birthday but I was born in 1982.
    Sooo sad about that little girl. 😢

  • @chrissy2844
    @chrissy2844 Před rokem +3

    Ah, the good ol days when children could play unsupervised. Oh wait.

  • @jeangemmel7895
    @jeangemmel7895 Před rokem +2

    Father please bring whatever is in the dark into the light regarding this little one.......no matter what it is Father, in Jesus' name I ask You please father..............amen.

  • @PolarisCastillo
    @PolarisCastillo Před rokem +3

    I'd love to see you guys cover the strange case of Chuck Morgan!

  • @susanburns276
    @susanburns276 Před rokem +1

    My parents and I immigrated to 🇦🇺 in 1969, I was 6, and to this day murderer's are rarely given long sentences let alone they seem to Keep them anonymous 😡. We only lived in NSW a yr then Adelaide where I was victim of attempted abduction. Our UK relative's couldn't believe the crime rates already here.
    I truly can't recall this story?
    I'm safe as Mum drummed stranger danger into me which obviously allowed me to have my wit's about me and get free, running away screaming at the top of my lungs!
    And I was a helicopter Mum but now a still worried grandparent as the world gets more frightening every day 😢
    Great channel 👍🇦🇺

    • @AwfulDog1
      @AwfulDog1 Před rokem

      Yes, the 60s and 70s were dangerous in Australia for young kids, I agree. I too was almost abducted by an experienced criminal who I am sure would have killed me. Lucky I was already reading true crime at age 7 (!! I don’t why my parents let me but it saved my life). As a result I was aware of these paedophiles and did not go with him.

  • @sidneygreenglass106
    @sidneygreenglass106 Před rokem +1

    The property owner lied to the police because he didn't want them to halt his development whilst they looked for the little girls body. The police messed up by not corroborating the info the property owner gave them. The police
    had their man and let him walk. The Judge let him walk. What a complete cockup by every one in charge of solving this case.

  • @riggs20
    @riggs20 Před rokem +4

    This is a tough one. I’m not 100% convinced it is that guy. Crazy people give false confessions all the time. I’m not sure he is innocent, but I’m not as convinced of his guilt as some of these other commenters.
    It’s heartbreaking that they have not been able to find any forensic or trace evidence at all. I fear this one won’t ever be solved unless the killer, be it this guy or someone else, confesses and leads cops to the body or some piece of evidence like the girl’s clothes.
    It’s terrible to think of what she went through and the way it tore this family apart.

  • @jackieblue1267
    @jackieblue1267 Před rokem +1

    You mentioned NSW Police Minister Mike Gallacher surname is pronounced the same as Gallagher. They are of the same origin.

  • @lauramau2530
    @lauramau2530 Před rokem

    My heart aches for Ricky.

  • @KhanaHatake
    @KhanaHatake Před rokem +24

    No sane teenager would turn themselves in to the police, confess to a murder, and give a full account of said murder. That alone should have made detectives *extremely* suspicious.

  • @dianethreadgold328
    @dianethreadgold328 Před rokem +1

    That man murdered a little girl he should be named and shamed I can't believe he is free it's disgusting 😠

  • @cyankirkpatrick5194
    @cyankirkpatrick5194 Před rokem +2

    In American football when you fumble your pretty much hated until you redeem yourself during the game, however the police in this case are and will be disgraced this goes for a list of things they've fumbled a lot and still keep losing the ball

  • @mephistofleece
    @mephistofleece Před rokem

    So sad for the little girl's family 😢

  • @denisewatson5295
    @denisewatson5295 Před rokem +2

    RIP 😢 😔 🙏 🕊 ☮ Cheryl 😢

  • @gionee7035
    @gionee7035 Před rokem +1

    Her brothers😔

  • @lindc1070
    @lindc1070 Před rokem +1

    This happened 4 years after the Beaumont kids disappeared from Glenelg. It seems not all parents in Australia were guarded enough even after this. I think the mum couldnt cope keeping an eye on all the kids

  • @Sappy10
    @Sappy10 Před rokem +1

    No treating the disapearance of a child like a crime... you don't know that... you have to think about every Avenue...she was a toddler... i know at the time it was different... but come on... poor family.... and so sad about her brother's guilt... he was a young child too.. he couldn't know... sad case... every crime/disapearance cases are sad and tragic...

  • @Creashone
    @Creashone Před 8 měsíci

    I hope her brother forgives himself. My two sons were not great babysitters. They just would rather have ridden their scooters instead of watching their younger relatives. We were lucky - and you were just normal. I am so sorry this happened to you.

  • @UnknownUser-fe5zu
    @UnknownUser-fe5zu Před rokem

    This one has been covered soooooo many times

  • @jamesb.9155
    @jamesb.9155 Před 2 měsíci

    A horrible story and a bit like that of the little British girl that was abducted in Spain while her parents dined 'nearby' with friends, the Madeleine McCann mystery.

  • @Georgi_Slavov
    @Georgi_Slavov Před rokem

    Great

  • @jenniferbrown8314
    @jenniferbrown8314 Před rokem +2

    Ruled out due to unfairness 🤬🤬 seriously

  • @latoyawinston1007
    @latoyawinston1007 Před rokem

    What was The name of the beach they went to

  • @jamesb.9155
    @jamesb.9155 Před 2 měsíci

    At the back, center of the photo appears to be Cheryl's father, Vince Grimmer, at the time of the investigation.

  • @calistafalcontail
    @calistafalcontail Před rokem +1

    The property owner didnt wanted his property to lose value because a crime happened there...thats why he lied I guess.

    • @jamesb.9155
      @jamesb.9155 Před 2 měsíci

      (8:26) Interesting supposition! What a creep if he did lie about it and if he were still alive he ought to have been charged with obstructing justice at the girl's expense.

  • @Cheryltwin2012
    @Cheryltwin2012 Před rokem

    Cheryl used to be a very popular name back in the day. I have a very strong affinity for anyone who shares my name. I feel so bad for Ricky though.

  • @eucliduschaumeau8813
    @eucliduschaumeau8813 Před rokem +15

    Shame on the prosecutors and solicitors who let the guilty party free. They had their man twice and bungled it both times. It seems that U.K. and Australian legal systems care more about the criminals than the victims. Shameful.

  • @sandrahayes6196
    @sandrahayes6196 Před rokem

    RIP sweetheart the brothers can make a self of her memories to morn at as I do with a guy u I was with his family took all my visits and can't go were he is layed to rest

  • @dianawatton7570
    @dianawatton7570 Před rokem

    The judge should be recused for ignorance by applying new laws to the case that did not exist in 1971.

  • @karenkowalski3046
    @karenkowalski3046 Před rokem

    How terrible for the entire family. May she rest in peace.

  • @imogen818
    @imogen818 Před rokem

    Of course he was living in Frankston...

  • @MarioGoatse
    @MarioGoatse Před rokem +10

    Some of the pronunciations are a bit off. Wollongong is pronounced wool-on-Gong and Bulli is pronounced Bull-eye. You could have googled them very easily.

    • @ash-dl8ff
      @ash-dl8ff Před rokem +12

      It’s not that serious dude.

    • @mynameisworld
      @mynameisworld Před rokem +3

      I think he must be pronouncing some numbers wrong, too. Every video he makes, he gives a phone number that is number-number-trouble-number-number-trouble-number-number-trouble... I don't remember what numbers he's saying, but the phone numbers always have "trouble" in them, and I can't figure out what number could be mispronounced as "trouble", unless maybe the phone numbers have the word trouble spelled out in them several times? But then that would be just plain annoying to have to dial all those letters.

    • @voodle48
      @voodle48 Před rokem +4

      @World is treble meaning triple. Triple 3

    • @MarioGoatse
      @MarioGoatse Před rokem +3

      @@ash-dl8ff Literally nobody but you said it was serious, but it is distracting to hear it mispronounced so many times. Regardless, it’s a comment section, so you’re going to see comments of all types. Welcome to the Internet.

    • @ash-dl8ff
      @ash-dl8ff Před rokem +1

      @@MarioGoatse you sound more upset about my comment than anything else right now. People can comment on other people’s comments. Welcome to the internet.

  • @31Alden
    @31Alden Před rokem

    How utterly tragic for this family. The parents never knew what happened to their little daughter. The brothers still searching for answers. Ricky, it is not your fault. Please don’t punish yourself one minute longer. Utter disbelief over the perpetrator having been let go and gotten off scott free. R.I.P. Cheryl. Darling Little Girl. R.I.P. Mr/Mrs Grimmer.

  • @Macho_Fantastico
    @Macho_Fantastico Před rokem

    Poor Ricky, can't imagine living with that your whole life. He was only a kid himself. It sounds like the courts care more for the suspect than they do trying to find the truth.

  • @gionee7035
    @gionee7035 Před rokem

    Never cover the monster who harm child never

  • @adsromek
    @adsromek Před rokem

    I’ve never seen a phone number with 3 digits, not 4 in the last section. 🤯 16:16

  • @minelliradney9132
    @minelliradney9132 Před rokem

    I think she is in the Sea

  • @rosemaryangela1825
    @rosemaryangela1825 Před rokem

    Hope this monster gets prison justice

  • @noriwilliams4637
    @noriwilliams4637 Před rokem

    so the beast got off

  • @jlongino51823
    @jlongino51823 Před 3 měsíci

    If a minor commits adult style crimes they should NEVER be protected. Ever.

  • @delilah-zb5xt
    @delilah-zb5xt Před měsícem

    Mum was young and it is not her fault but lesson never leave small children unattended there is evil in the world, this is another police fail.

  • @-JA-
    @-JA- Před rokem

    🫢

  • @mainemermaid6596
    @mainemermaid6596 Před rokem +10

    Dear Lord, Please guide someone to baby Cheryl's remains, and heal her brother's broken heart and feelings of guilt. Thank you father. ❤

  • @wazzazone
    @wazzazone Před rokem

    He done it! Bulli= Bull-eye.

  • @AwfulDog1
    @AwfulDog1 Před rokem

    I am disappointed to see that this transcript you read out for the video is copied almost verbatim from Wikipedia. That’s plagiarism.

  • @lotuspocus76312
    @lotuspocus76312 Před rokem +1

    1:30
    This keeps haunting me. Why does the 7 year old says "She refuses to leave the shower blocks ?" This one sentence drives me nuts.
    Maybe she wasnt in there....these kids were so young. I would love to speak to the mother again.

  • @sandrahayes6196
    @sandrahayes6196 Před rokem

    Not the brothers fault prayers .The crime happened in 1970 he should be charged as the age he was then .This bull crap the guy getting away with mudder were is the victumes rights .She didn't get to live her life out .

  • @sirussid3671
    @sirussid3671 Před rokem +3

    Glad another sloppy police work early in investigation keep counting...😠

  • @sunflowerz54
    @sunflowerz54 Před rokem +1

    Ok , how do you mistake a young brother for a grown man And how did police not get mental help for this teen who obviously had illness to confess to a crime??

    • @billsloan
      @billsloan Před rokem

      Just beause you confessed to a crime that does not at all mean your mentally ill.

  • @thegatesofdawn...1386
    @thegatesofdawn...1386 Před rokem +1

    Where was the mother?

  • @pmg5550
    @pmg5550 Před rokem

    The mother is to blame….plain as.

  • @winstonbattle
    @winstonbattle Před rokem

    theory 2: brother did it "accidentally" family covered it up.