A child killer taunts girls with threatening letters
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- čas přidán 3. 05. 2024
- Case 282: April Tinsley
** Content warnings: Child victim, sexual assault **
In 2004, several young girls around Fort Wayne, Indiana, received handwritten letters threatening that they would be the next victim of a child killer.
Authorities were immediately concerned. DNA from the letters matched samples they had stored from an unsolved crime that was committed more than a decade earlier - the murder of eight-year-old April Tinsley.
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Why would a mother read a letter like that and take it as a joke?? WTF??!!!!????
I was thinking THE SAME
Because she is a terrible mother
and especially with a used condom most definitely wtf?
That's what I came to say.
Some people just shouldn’t be parents
i'm sorry how the absolute fuck does a used condom, bomb threat and murderer identification come off as a joke, omfg!
Correction, SICK JOKE. it was a sick joke to a t.
Someone with a veeeeery low opinion of their son's friends?
Exactly
Yeees...wow!!!! 🤢😵
@@FrogsForBreakfast 🎯 Right...an under the basement level opinion!
This murderer lived too long without being caught.
Yes very much so
Heartbreaking. As a parent, I don't know of anything that could be worse than this. The narrators voice is extremely soothing, despite the horrendous content. Very clear and easy to understand.
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I’ve fallen asleep to him because of how soothing his voice is despite the content. And i agree, having a 7 year old daughter and son this is my worst fear.
@@jodikennedy2141 I have often, much to my chagrin, fallen asleep to his voice.
It’s the Australian accent ❤ I’m from Australia
Okay okay look, I get thinking something like that note might be a prank, but if you think it’s one of your older sons friends, you might want to follow up on that, because that would be a pretty deranged “prank”
Very deranged! That's waaaay to close to home since those friends have most likely been in the house AND interacted with the her daughter.
@@msvmac9361 exactly!
Agreed. I was thinking the same.. you'd definitely want to know who had that mind set, thinking it was funny.. around your family.
RIP April Tinsley.
That poor little girl.
As a Fort Wayne native born in 82 I’ve heard so much about all of these stories. Crazy stuff
Some rando tried to kidnap me from Southtown Mall in the late 80s. Thankfully my mom was paying close attention that day. I often wonder if it was the same guy.
@@cheekyrabbit holy crap!!!!
Great to see your subscription numbers slowly rising. One of the best true crime podcasts out there. Thanks.
Those midstream ads are exploitative. Too long and inauthentic. Hard pass.
@@BrenMurphy1He’s not been doing those on recent episodes, probably due to the constant bellyaching from people like you, and I worry that the Casefile team will continue to deny themselves even this meager ad revenue and barely be compensated at all for all the time/effort/care they put into researching/writing/producing these podcasts. Assuming this is their full-time career, hard to see how that new model (catering to lazy critics who don’t understand how to use youtube’s fast forward function) would be sustainable for long.
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@@BrenMurphy1 calm down boy.
i can’t imagine being the son who thought it was his dad and reported him only for it NOT to be him… what would that relationship be like at that point 😬
Why would he his dad was a sicko either way
I'm addicted to this channel ❣️ The quality of the story format is definitely one of the best. Really this is my favorite true crime channel.
I'm beginning to really dig this channel also.
Excellent documentary. God rest little April and I’m thinking of her family.
This is a very disturbing crime, praying for the victims families and friends. Also, praying for the victims, may their souls rest in peace.
This is one of the first cases that genealogical DNA was used.
If someone says to me..."I have something to tell you, I'll tell you later" Ah, No! tell me now. So I can not even begin to fathom what families go through when their child disappears or is found murdered & 30 years later you get your answer. And so many have been missing year after year after year with absolutely no answer, family members pass away without ever knowing what happened. Just heartbreaking what not only the victim goes through, but then the legacy of heartbreak to the surviving family members.
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This is rough. At least it was solved, which is something, but damn, this is rough.
If this is the case I think it is I have been trying to find it since I remember hearing about it as a kid
Is it?
@Habanero_Chi yes!
Did law enforcement pat themselves on the back for solving this, like they always do when it was actually someone else so solved this?
Edit: as soon as i finished typing that, yep, they did. Gave themselves awards and everything. But it was the genealogists who solved it, not law enforcement. But they love taking credit for nothing other than doing their jobs, even when they didn't actually solve it.
My heart breaks for Sarah who was terrified of this happening to her, just for her nightmare to be realized. At only 7 years old, she must've been petrified beyond belief. RIP to both those innocent children who had their lives ripped away. 🕊️
Why the hell would the mother not immediately report that letter anyway? Damn…..some parents just really are airheads
Emily’s mother Crystal seemed incredibly naive, even if she hadn’t heard of April Tinsley. Some “sick joke”.
Creepy note? Sure, that alone might be a cruel prank. But a note and a USED CONDOM???? Excuse me, ma'am, but wtf? I would be flipping out.
Yes, ma'am, we would all touch it, hold it, then discuss it with friends....Unbelievable.
She and her kid were kind of off. 8 in the 3rd grade says a lot.
8-9 is the norm for 3rd grade. Most kids start 1st grade when they are 6 yrs old. 2nd grade is 7-8 years old so 3rd grade would be 8-9 years old. I was 8 in the 3rd grade.
@@learobinson4450yeah I was confused about that comment too. 8 is the age for 3rd grade.
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BEST CHANNEL EVER!!
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I wonder if April was the only one.Somehow i dont think so
Agreed 💯
Thank you for sharing this story ❤.
Brilliant storytelling. Best true crime podcast, for sure
I listen to these ones during daytime to get the story and again at night to put me right to sleep. Soothing voice. Thank you Casefiles ❤️
Pretty sure it’s AI.
@@daytonasayswhat9333 ? Al who?? ... Jk..😁
@@daytonasayswhat9333This narrator is 1000% certainly not AI. Listen to some older episodes in which he does jovial ad reads and talks about the Casefile team’s experiences researching/conducting interviews for some of their Spotify-exclusive podcasts. He does have a slightly stylized (slower, unerringly clear) way in which he reads these Casefile scripts, one which he’s refined over the years, but I can’t even imagine mistaking it for AI. I can tell that you haven’t listened to many older episodes of this podcast, and I’m envious of that tbh. Wish I weren’t all caught up on these, especially since no other true crime podcast I’ve found even begins to measure up to this one.
@@EllenLeah-pv2yw OK, fair enough. But he’s definitely using some type of autotune or voice modulator voice modification thing.
Not sure I could fall asleep to a story this horrific….just saying
Excellent presentation!
Thanks Matey 👍
Rest in paradise april ❤️ sorry this cruel deprived person done such horrible things to you 😢
When you work Walmart overnight shift, listening to this 😮
Sorry Mate , when in Bali on holiday and listening to CF 👍😉
What about it?
@@Maligroot weak . I'm out in SF holiday eryday
I think just working at Walmart is scary, from what I’ve seen online shorts, then you listen to this as well 😮😮
@@robyn7287 overnights are pretty tame, at least at my store anyway
This happened in my home town
It's crazy that mother thought her daughter getting a used condom and a letter telling her he gonna kidnap and kill her as something not serious terrible mother
Wow! I watch lots of this kind of stuff, and this was very well done! Thanks!
I lived there during this. I remember.
Good to see the subs have grown over the past week..
Since when is Memorial Day in March?
It took a community member to tell the mother to take this to the police!!
I’m just at the start and that blew me away!
I think that's a ridiculous bill.
That's crazy! I didn't know Sears sold such things.
That's really the comment your gonna leave 😮
I like these your cases for sleeping. But when I’m awake it’s a piss off I don’t get to see his face or what she looked liked, or what Sarah looked like.
Memorial Day is in May, not March (in America anyway). Just wanted to say that (the very beginning of the video incorrectly says March).
Stories like this are so awful, scary, and heartbreaking. How anyone can harm a child is beyond me.
Memorial Day weekend in March in Indiana…. Pretty interesting.
love this channel. Best crime content
So many cases mention a missing shoe…
And a pink bike.
@@hilarywallace3007 and a victim
They fly off when the child is picked up or if the child kicks etc
Many shoes are knocked off during a car accident fyi
Why didn't Crystal take the evidence from her daughter's bike to the police?
Because she didn’t know it was evidence at that time and even if she did it wouldn’t have resolved anything.
@@annegiorgio5602 Still . . . That's what you do!
@@jamesb.9155 still, that’s what happened, what are you going to do about it now, after so many years. It took years to find him, stop trying to blame people.
@@annegiorgio5602you don't know that
@@alysononoahu8702 neither do you, testing of the semen did not result in anything until years later when they got a familial match
Oh nooo....I feel so bad for Sarah. She was so scared of being killed by the person who killed April and that's exactly what happened to her. Ugh.
My girlfriend lived in Grabill, IN at the time. Not a likely place for such a tragedy, the town was at least half-Amish. The 7-11 had hitching posts for the horses and buggies out front! 😅. Not making this up.
It's still very much an Amish town.
To think… if he lives until he is 100 years old he will get out… very very unlikely but not impossible. Why couldnt they have just given him life in prison?
The killer lived within walking distance or a short drive from the barn.
The killer wrote that way so the police would understand it.
Sorry but I can’t take this case seriously with the narration. It’s so deadpan and robotic and I’m pretty sure I’m listening to AI.
Definitely not AI
Yeah it sounded like AI to me too…?
I remember April Tinsley, but who is Sarah Barka? Grew up and still live where this happened never heard of a Sarah Barka being another child victim.
I never thought Moose did it.
Morning world have a sunny day this sunday 😎😎🙏🙏👊👍✌🇬🇧
I cannot reconcile events like this with the concept of a benevolent god. The loss that poor family must feel is unimaginable.
This has nothing to do with God. God's will was never for things like this to occur. However, original sin and free will was the introduction of evil into the world, of which Satan is the prince. At no point ever did The Lord promise anyone an easy life free of grief and pain. This sort of thing is NOT God's will, and dismissing the concept of the existence of The Lord simply because life isn't Candy Land is about as Reddit as it gets.
Ain’t no, “god,” Broski. Just try to push on through and leave that chilly thought behind.
@@daytonasayswhat9333 there's most definitely a God.
@@doesitmatter9085 and he is a sadistic asshole
I have to stop listening to these cases. 😔
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Best AI Narrator on CZcams.
Is this AI?
@@WouldntULikeToKnow.No, absolutely and extremely obviously not
Sounds like a real Australian man, so it probably is. Hate AI.
It isn't AI. This podcast stems from a time even before AI narration was decent.
@@jamesb.9155not AI
Well told. Beware of recluses.
Heeeeeeeey!!!!!
i'm reclusive - thanks for avoiding me!
Hey I resemble that.
If anything, hearing about the prevalence of evil in the world is an encouragement for people to become reclusive themselves. As people get increasingly selfish, greedy, lustful and violence prone, I don't blame anyone for keeping a healthy distance from others.
@@doesitmatter9085 exactly so. i've realised that the 'system' is protecting or turning a blind eye to so many criminals that it's just not worth the hassle of meeting o.k. people and then finding out they are otherwise.
First! Wow!
I tried to be first❤❤❤❤
Ooops I got 2nd 😂😂😂😂Thought I'd be first❤❤❤❤
What a stupid thing to be concerned about
@@RuminatingWizard he is a sissy
grow tf up..
Really your comment shows your none existing compassion and sorrow for this poor little girl and her family 😞
Holy shit this was scary well done😮