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it’s so sad how one of the fathers died out of agony without knowing anything as to where his son could possibly be only a year prior to finding the children’s bodies :(
The fact their fathers did everything they could to find out what happened to their children, how devoted . Quitting all their jobs to spend their time trying to get justice 😭 heart broken for them..
@@nooneinparticular8383 I should have been more specific about what geographic area I meant. Asia is huge and not every Asian country is the same. Parts of Asia, where I lived for example it is like that.
She always finds cases that other true crime CZcamsrs don't mention, and is willing to put in the extra work to cover more international cases. Love it.
I feel so bad for the dad that had his house excavated on TV. How humiliating, & for nothing because they found NOTHING. Like imagine your son is missing, you're DEVASTATED, then suddenly accused of murdering your own son & his friends, your house is destroyed on television in a search for the supposed bodies, nothing is found, everyone that showed up is just like "oh...whoops🤷♀️," & they all get to go home afterwards while you no longer have a home. All that on top of your son being missing. This poor man. So sad that he passed 😞
Honestly, it makes me so angry they would check the house because it was a possibility yet ignore checking with the military????? which was also??? a???? possibility??? even after getting bullets METERS away from their SHOOTING RANGE.
I feel like someone in the military shot one of the boys on accident and the other ones screamed for help for their friend who had just been shot. Then whoever shot the boy heard them, went after them and took them inside the base saying that they would help, but the military thought that they could get a lot of backlash if this came out to the public that a little boy was shot like that, so they decided to kill all of the boys in order to clear their name and pretend like they had nothing to do with it.
Yeah, especially since it was such a historical day that day with the election, they couldn't let the news come out that the Korean military killed one of their own, an innocent child on the first day their country had it's first elections in 30 years. Imagine the public scandal that would've caused.
Maybe after one of them screamed whoever killed the first one beat up the one who screamed and (that would explain the trauma to the skull.) then they killed the reaming boys.
Oh my god 😭 i was actually the translator who worked on this documentary series last year in London hehe it’s so surreal to see some of the lines i wrote down while helping make the clip used here! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Yeah i was involved for over three months and it was really amazing how the production crews were into the subject 😊 as a person who watched all the clips coming together in a dark dingy room with editors and playing back each seconds of clips numerous times, i’m honestly thankful to Bella to make this story get more attention it deserves!
Claire Yu Wow that’s amazing! So can you tell us, was there any sketchy information found out about a possible suspect, that didn’t make the final cut of the documentary?! So many things don’t make sense, it just doesn’t add up at all!
Bren Harris sadly there weren’t any new info we’ve discovered since this case happened such a long time ago (even before i was born) and like we’ve seen so far, all the crucial evidence was damaged or lost, so no actual on-going investigation is held currently(as far as we know). This case is in fact one of the top three unsolved murder cases in Korea, but recently one case among those three got solved, so we can still hope!
typical police behaviour tbh it’s really rare where they actually put alot of effort into finding someone/solving a case and even then it’s mostly just singular officers who care and not the police force
Well......., south korea was still a developing country back than, and scientific ways of investigating wasn't large in s.k but it was wrong of them to accuse the father.
this case is just hectic. Like it makes no sense.... why did the military say they could transfer superpowers...and the psychologist running away? This is wack
The guy said that the bodies were probably already buried though. By the time the case died down, the bodies would have already been decomposing. I believe they buried them right away.
Exactly and it's a parents job to parent regardless... So a good parent is going to call the police if their child is missing or ran away... Like wtf is wrong with the police
@@LaLaBlahBlahh i'm pretty certain that one of the boys was accidentally shot by a soldier, who panicked, and to cover it up he had to kill the other boys. the police phuqd up the investigation
fr they're literally 9-13 years old. its a recipe for disaster letting young kids run away like that. i feel like they brushed it off as "boys being boys" which is really unfortunate.
@@kimberlyarrington5721 Fr. Like when I was 9 and said I was going to “run away” I ran down my street and then decided to come home. Or I sat at the end of my driveway until I got bored... what nine year old would legitimately plan to run far away and go through with it? Especially if there’s more than one of them... you’d think one boy would eventually say it was a bad idea or they’d split up.
this case literally devastates me. the police didn’t just brush these boys off, but were almost actively against their families! my heart aches for these parents 😔
@@esthershaw7537 i- i know that's why i am subscribed to her channel??? and watch her videos????? i just made a comment about her setup and hair which are new???? i-
This is a very very sad case, but can we just appreciate how sweet the dad’s were they quit their jobs and searched for three years just for there kids they seem like truly amazing people
I highly recommend the documentary about this case by CNA Insider, it’s also on CZcams. They have a lot of interview footage of the fathers, and it’s heartbreaking and warming at the same time. They truly seem like amazing but understandably broken people, life really isn’t fair. I hope somebody feels or felt the guilt of being responsible with every breath they took/take.
Can you do a video of Raudha athif a.k.a “ the girl with the blue eyes” that passed away 2017 in Bangladesh. She was found dead in her college dorm room, her death was ruled a suicide, but her father says evidence suggests that she was murdered, apparently it’s a cmon thing for police in Bangladesh to rule murders as suicide. Please cover her story! She was just breath taking & beautiful! Im surprised her story isn’t as famous, her father has been pushing for justice for her! Since the police didn’t investigate her death, raudha’s father has paid for attorneys out of his own pocket! He strongly believe Raudhas own BESTFRIEND murdered her out of jealousy! It’s such a devastating case it almost doesn’t sound real..If you can get in touch with her family you should offer to make a goodfundme for him, so we can bring Raudha’s death justice! 🙏🏻
taz bibi im sorry but i see this abbrieviation everywhere what does it mean? is it to do with defunding the police or something about ruining the police bc im all for that
fizz faizah acab means all cops are bad/bastards but from my pov i doesn’t really mean every cop is bad it means the system is screwed up n we need to defund it. 1312 is also an abbreviation, it’s just acab but it uses the letters numerical value in the alphabet so a=1 c=3 n so on. i hope that made sense
ana OHHH THATS MAKES A LOT OF SENSEEE and yh i also agree with you on how not ALL cops are bad and how it is specifically the system! there are a few gems out there but idk im not american. also i didnt know about the numerical form of that abbrieviation. thank you very much
Hi Bella:) I could not resist writing this comment. I am from South Korea, and I was really surprised and impressed how you did your research in such depth. The names must have been really difficult for you to pronounce, but I could feel that you did your best. Also I was glad that you pronounced the names in the right order in Korean, which is last name- first name. (We don’t have middle names.) And I really agree with you and feel the same way about the case and how the military was never properly investigated. As you mentioned, Ro Taewoo regime was a strict military regime. My country was just democratized then, so I’m sure you’ll understand how poorly the situation was handled. Anyways, thank you Bella I really enjoy watching your videos! You are such a devoted and passionate person!💛
the hypothermia theory makes no sense, why would their shirts be tied together with bullets inside if they died of hypothermia?? tying your shirt sleeves together doesn’t make you warmer or anything. And they literally couldve walked home, and during the day, they were already missing and im sure they wouldn’t have died of hypothermia during the day when they could’ve just walked home. plus the bullets and the way the bodies were placed definitely make me think the military shooting base had something to do with it. I think the commissioned military officer who fired his gun to get rid of the extra bullets might have accidentally shot one or two of the boys, and since he didn’t want to get arrested, he shot the rest of the boys before they could run away and get help, then tied up the bullets into their shirts after they were dead, then buried them. I also think maybe the police had something to do with it, like maybe a personal tie with the commissioned military officer or something, so they didn’t investigate him or the military shooting base. plus, superpowers?? What??? Idk why they would have a reason to make the parents believe they could give them superpowers, unless they were trying to make the parents believe they were on their side in some twisted way. Or, maybe the military officers kidnapped the boys and did experiments on them to see if they could give them superpowers, because that’s not too far fetched if you’ve heard about some other cases of government facilities experimenting with telepathy and esp and stuff like that. maybe they either had an accident with one or more of the boys while experimenting, and since they couldn’t let the others go home and tell everyone about the most likely illegal experiments/ psychedelic drugs used in those types of things, they killed the rest of the boys and buried them on the mountain. Some people also said they were looking for bullet casings so that would explain why they were in the children’s clothes, but I’m still confused as to why their shirts were tied together.
are u ready kids maybe they was blood in it and they grabbed the shirts, put it into the pond and tied it to get it out or maybe they didn’t have rope so they grabed the shirts together and then maybe the boys were sitting down and maybe they tied their hands with the tied up shirt then murderd them. It makes sense, really.
I teared up when she said the fathers were looking for their children for 3 years! And did everything to find their children. I pray that this doesn’t happen to anyone ever. 🙏:(
honestly i could never watch these before bed because i struggle with nightmares and you never know how bad these cases will be so i watch them morning-6pm so they’re not what i’m thinking about before i sleep but you’re brave.
wow i remember being a little boy in Seoul when this first happened and every mom in my apartment complex were crying glued to the news for updates... poor boys :(
Just looked it up because of your comment. Absolutely heartbreaking but thank you for spreading the word. It’s so important for people to know. My heart breaks for her bc it’s so brutal... but I’m glad that the criminals got death penalty
The second you mentioned there was a military base on the mountain I immediately thought they had something to do with it. It’s sus that the police weren’t doing anything at all.
I knew about this case beforehand. It was surprising to hear that the fathers thought the animals posed the greater risk (as she said there was an animal enclosure on the other side of the path). And sad, they didn’t expect something like this. That somebody could be so cruel.
My husband is Korean military and he has said that each soldier is responsible for all of their bullets/casings. They inventory all of the ammunition each soldier is assigned, so they would know if there were a bunch of bullets "missing."
This case reminded me of the Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson case where these two high school girls went missing after they went to a party to later be found years & years later in a pond/lake in their car, guess they drove right into the lake/pond. BUT one of the fathers of one of the girls waited years & years to know what happened to her & he died a few days before her car was found! I always thought it was the father helping her body be discovered...kinda like this case that the father helped find their son even after their death to finally be together :) This case is really sad, I feel that there may have been more than one person because there were 5 kids that could have easily ran off or maybe one person with a gun, really sad. Glad they were found tho :)
we love police incompetence. its baffling and alarming the lack of seriousness when it comes to investigations, especially involving children / teenagers.
I absolutely share your frustrations, Bella. Just super sketchy and heart-breaking. My heart aches for these boys. May they rest in peace. So terribly sad. Condolences to the families.
This is so messed up. I’m honestly devastated about this and poor Taeyong he literally lost all of his friends. They handled this situation so poorly and tbh I believe that they did try to cover up because they did it. The military. RIP to the boys and the dad that died.
I think the logic behind the “superpowers” bit could be that IF one of the parents had killed the children and the guilty parent was so exhausted with the search, they may be willing to let themselves -seem- as if they had superpowers so they could lead the others to the bodies and finally have some closure. The military could then say the “powers” were fake all along and that the person claiming to have powers knew where the bodies were the whole time, shifting any eyes off the military (the true guilty party imo). Only reason I can come up with for why they would become involved the like that.
I think possibly the military shot one or more of them thinking that they were trespassing and on realising their mistake and knowing the uproar it would cause shot the remaining kids and disposed of their bodies
You guys should watch the 2 part documentary on this case, told by the dad's. It is absolutely heartwrenching but it's so worth it to hear the story from their own hearts.
You know what I was thinking? I was thinking that meanwhile the Military lured the parents to their base or something, one of the Military officials could have sneaked into Jong-Sik's father's house & planted the shoes. Idk it may be a stretch but think about it. They're fast, equipped, & sneaky. Idk man. The fact that police wouldn't even investigate them has me uneasy.
Thanks so much for covering this, Bella!! This case drives me insane because it just doesn’t add up. I believe that one person in the military possibly shot/hurt one of the boys, then promised the other boys he’d get help but then murdered them to keep them from reporting the crime. I’m curious if the boy who went home was able to tell police if they’d ever encountered someone suspicious when they were looking for eggs, or were able to give them any info about what they did up there when playing. So, so sad
I've never heard of his case. Thank you for covering it. I haven't reached the end of the video yet, but you can see the pain the their fathers' faces. Hope they got/can get closure.
Have you thought about starting a podcast? I love listening to your cases, I just prefer podcasts so I can do things while I listen. Nonetheless I appreciate your hard work on researching all these cases
please please please do the missing case of Theo Hayez!! happened a year ago in Byron Bay and is still unsolved and needs more attention :))) thank you x
This is horrific! Even IF the kids were runaways, they’re literally kids !! They’re still in danger and need to be found ! Edit: finished the video, horrific and so sad :(
This seems very convenient. Like a cover up from the get go. I think it’s more likely that someone from the police department likely got caught doing either something wrong by the boys or was purposely in the woods to hurt people but attempted to wrap the bullet casings to make the crime seem more likely that is the militaries fault, without ever having to investigate it. That’s why the never bothered to investigate. That’s why they didn’t find it during the big search effort. That’s why smudged the crime scene when it was found to purposely point to a convenient, easy answer and likely only leaving behind evidence that would suggest military.
I wonder we’re the 6th friend is at and how he’s doing today. It must’ve been hard for him to find out his friends were killed & that would be the last time he saw them. 😢
So…… -shitty cops -shitty pranks -shitty military -shitty investigation blaming a dad !??!😡 This case is so sad 😞 I feel for the family and more importantly the boys love and prayers for the family ❣️ RIP BOYS ❣️
This makes me sooo angry like they literally said they would give them superpowers, like whattt. Their kids are missing and they play a “practical joke” on them???
being shot or stabbed somewhere fleshy like the stomach wouldnt leave any evidence on bones so i still think the shooting theory is definately possible
The fact that the intelligence services were following them around and the military was off limits to be investigated tells me everything I need to know about this case. Those boys saw something they weren't supposed to see I think going on with the military and they killed them for it.
Thanks for sharing this story! younger generations of South Korea don’t really know this story and I feel like it needs to be shared. I love how you dig up these rare stories. Kudos!
The boys shirts (jackets?) being tied together has to b a big clue. It’s just so strange. And why would the military use blunt force trauma, wouldn’t it b easier and faster to use a gun, especially when there were multiple victims.
Guns are illegal in South Korea, no one owns them except for military and police officers. If a citizen owns a gun, it's kept at the police stations, not allowed to have them in their homes. During a holiday, they wouldn't have been able to have them. The police/military can't just pin it on anyone if they shot all of them.
I honestly think they were killed by guns and the only reason the military had to acknowledge that the bullets founds in the crime scene was theirs was cause the civilians present at the crime scene had already seen it so there wasn't a way for them to cover it up BUT the civilians couldn't have known if the boys were killed by bullet by looking at their bones so the military had the police say that there were no bullet wounds on the bones. This would magically cut the military's involvement even though empty and full bullets were found tied up in the tshirts -__-
@@mw8646 but the boys were missing for a while so why didn't they clean up the bullet casings right away? They had plenty of time to go back and do it.
My Theory Is Someone From The Military Probably Shot One Of The Boys By Accident & Then He Killed The Others So He Wouldn’t Be Caught And Put Them There And The Police Probably Was Just Protecting The Military
I appreciate all the work you put into your cases and the fact you cover cases other youtubers don’t, also I need to say I absolutely LOVE your hair! The bangs, the colour, 70’s vibes
Please look into the kidnapping and highly probable murder (he confessed) of a 15 year old romanian girl called Alexandra Măceșanu in 2019 , she called the police 3 times and stated the exact location but no one showed up for 19 hours!!! And the public outrage was so big that the interior minister of romania was fired and there were sooo many protests. they went to leaders of the local Mafia to get her location instead of using police methods they had. the Mafia led them to 3 wrong locations to frame rival clan leaders. they could've found her in minutes as EU mobile phone operators have to give police the location of the caller immediately. so there also was a lawsuit from the EU itself to the Romanian police.
Would there be evidence of being shot so many year later of the bullets didn’t hit bone? Once child could have been accidentally shot and they killed all of them to stop them from telling.
You should do the massacre of the royal family of Nepal! The crown prince was blamed for killing his family but there are so many theories and conspiracies!!
The soldier fatally shot 2 boys, went to investigate the situation, but found out there were 5 of them. The only way to cover his awful mistake was to silence them all His soldier friends knew this from the beginning, but decided to go along with the cover up. The soldier now is between 55 - 65 yo, he's at least a high official in South Korean government.
What’s confusing me is the fact that they got a call to come to a location- money ready, but no one showed up. So whose the person that called &’ did they kill the boys or were they just playing. Also I think this 100% had something to do with the military. I think that whilst one of the commissioners were shooting he accidentally shot one of them &’ after the screams he panicked and maybe aimed for the rest of them? Then again why was everyone treating this case as a sick joke? That’s literally disgusting. That place is DISGUSTING.
I still think someone in the military could’ve shot and killed them, just because their skeletons didn’t show bullet wounds doesn’t mean they weren’t shot in their essential organs and bled out. Maybe the ones that didn’t die instantly from the gunshots were the ones with the blunt force trauma to knock them out until they bled out.
What amazing fathers... I can't imagine what their families went through. Completely devastating. Thank you for covering this case, I think I never would have heard of it.
The police in the U.S. have learned their lesson about missing children. They know that the first four hours are the most crucial and they don't wait 24 hours anymore.
I watched the Korean detective drama Signal a couple of months ago and one of the guys on the cold case unit kept suggesting they should look into the Frog Boys murders. I looked it up but there's only a short wikipedia page on it. Nothing else I could find in English. So thanks for covering it in such detail.
it’s so sad how one of the fathers died out of agony without knowing anything as to where his son could possibly be only a year prior to finding the children’s bodies :(
I feel like losing his kid was the death of him
I feel like that was his angel, helping lead them in the right direction a year later!
Hopefully he found his son in heaven along with the other boys
I definitely think he died of a broken heart, all that stress and sadness.
He is lucky, he is the first to hold his son again ❤️
The fact their fathers did everything they could to find out what happened to their children, how devoted . Quitting all their jobs to spend their time trying to get justice 😭 heart broken for them..
Especially in Asia, you only have 1 child and they all want sons. For them losing thier only son is even more heartbreaking.
@@emmamclaughlin1896 it sill means more to have a son in almost all Asian countries especially your first born son.
@@rosieblythompson4255 im an asian and thats not true lol.
@@nooneinparticular8383 I should have been more specific about what geographic area I meant. Asia is huge and not every Asian country is the same. Parts of Asia, where I lived for example it is like that.
and the worst part is that they were near the houses !! if just the police did their job seriously....
She always finds cases that other true crime CZcamsrs don't mention, and is willing to put in the extra work to cover more international cases. Love it.
That’s why she’s my fave, I’m tired of hearing of the same cases over and over. They all deserve coverage! Not just bc it’ll get them views.
People have covered this case! Although I feel like Bella went more into depth.
This is so true and she seems so genuine like she loves what she does
yh this is a great youtube channel
hey, check out the documentary of the frog boys from CNA insider, I personally think they did a good job covering this case.
It’s so heartbreaking that the boys were only found after one of the dads died, he never found out what happened to them:(
Completely heartbreaking..
maybe he did and maybe he's with his son now
Im sure he found him in heaven!!
He found them in heaven so it’s okay, now he knows
@@ilovefrowning-9696 I jus said tht miss
I feel so bad for the dad that had his house excavated on TV. How humiliating, & for nothing because they found NOTHING. Like imagine your son is missing, you're DEVASTATED, then suddenly accused of murdering your own son & his friends, your house is destroyed on television in a search for the supposed bodies, nothing is found, everyone that showed up is just like "oh...whoops🤷♀️," & they all get to go home afterwards while you no longer have a home. All that on top of your son being missing. This poor man. So sad that he passed 😞
Honestly, it makes me so angry they would check the house because it was a possibility yet ignore checking with the military????? which was also??? a???? possibility??? even after getting bullets METERS away from their SHOOTING RANGE.
So sad that he died before finding his son :(
He most likely died of a broken heart,all that stress.
Look at the dad's helpless and hopeless expression. It totally broke my heart😭
especially since he never got to see his son before his death, it's heartbreaking
I feel like someone in the military shot one of the boys on accident and the other ones screamed for help for their friend who had just been shot. Then whoever shot the boy heard them, went after them and took them inside the base saying that they would help, but the military thought that they could get a lot of backlash if this came out to the public that a little boy was shot like that, so they decided to kill all of the boys in order to clear their name and pretend like they had nothing to do with it.
SAME !!!
I thought the same
Yeah, especially since it was such a historical day that day with the election, they couldn't let the news come out that the Korean military killed one of their own, an innocent child on the first day their country had it's first elections in 30 years. Imagine the public scandal that would've caused.
definitely. explains why intellegence agency were faking being reporters
Maybe after one of them screamed whoever killed the first one beat up the one who screamed and (that would explain the trauma to the skull.) then they killed the reaming boys.
Oh my god 😭 i was actually the translator who worked on this documentary series last year in London hehe it’s so surreal to see some of the lines i wrote down while helping make the clip used here! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Claire Yu thats crazy!!
Yeah i was involved for over three months and it was really amazing how the production crews were into the subject 😊 as a person who watched all the clips coming together in a dark dingy room with editors and playing back each seconds of clips numerous times, i’m honestly thankful to Bella to make this story get more attention it deserves!
Claire Yu wow! That’s insane!
Claire Yu Wow that’s amazing! So can you tell us, was there any sketchy information found out about a possible suspect, that didn’t make the final cut of the documentary?! So many things don’t make sense, it just doesn’t add up at all!
Bren Harris sadly there weren’t any new info we’ve discovered since this case happened such a long time ago (even before i was born) and like we’ve seen so far, all the crucial evidence was damaged or lost, so no actual on-going investigation is held currently(as far as we know). This case is in fact one of the top three unsolved murder cases in Korea, but recently one case among those three got solved, so we can still hope!
Can you imagine how grateful that one mother who told her son not to go to far is.
But he ends up going too, no?
Weren't they all 5 together even the boy who was suppose to go home? Because I'm confused
@@notyourbabygirl4317 he went back because he didn't get to eat breakfast
@@notyourbabygirl4317 he went with them then went back home cause his mom was strict
This💛
This was the most annoying case to hear. The police were so so so dumb.
Kilibubble Cata lol no
A recurring theme in these videos
typical police behaviour tbh it’s really rare where they actually put alot of effort into finding someone/solving a case and even then it’s mostly just singular officers who care and not the police force
Well......., south korea was still a developing country back than, and scientific ways of investigating wasn't large in s.k but it was wrong of them to accuse the father.
Maybe they weeeere bribed?
this case is just hectic. Like it makes no sense.... why did the military say they could transfer superpowers...and the psychologist running away? This is wack
Ikr
I mean they eat dogs and murder babies if theyre girls so are we really going to understand insanity
J Mac oh no don’t be racist tf wrong with you
J Mac why you being racist now
@@JMac-27 don't be a racist piece of shit, yuck
I feel like the kids were shot and then the military waited for the media to divert from the case and then buried the bodies
The guy said that the bodies were probably already buried though. By the time the case died down, the bodies would have already been decomposing. I believe they buried them right away.
gaaraxnaru maybe kept frozen?
That doesn't explain the blunt-force trauma
@@llux Hm, I'm not going to deny the possibility, but why go through all that trouble when they could just incinerate them?
i have the same theory
Even if a child "runs away" it's still a child... Out in the dangerous world. That's not right!
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Exactly!!!
Exactly and it's a parents job to parent regardless... So a good parent is going to call the police if their child is missing or ran away... Like wtf is wrong with the police
@trustnoman omg I'm so sorry you had to go through that
I find these sick pranks disgusting
I mean literally the parents are sleepless that their kid is missing
And you wanna PRANK THEM????
there r soooo many in unsolved cases especially to parents, its so unsettling the world is so fukked
@@yandehjagne5059 exactly
It's truly heartbreaking
right?? what kind of sad and disgusting human does that
Yep it takes a certain kind of person to do something like that
@@LaLaBlahBlahh i'm pretty certain that one of the boys was accidentally shot by a soldier, who panicked, and to cover it up he had to kill the other boys. the police phuqd up the investigation
But imagine how Taeryeong must have felt.. like he literally lost 5 of his "brothers" that he just hung out with the morning they went missing :'(
That’s what I’ve been thinking about this whole video. Damn.
He also dodged a bullet
@@clarissaalarcon1192 very true. His mom probably was super grateful she was a little bit more strict with her son
even when children run away, theyre *children*. they could get hurt. do ur job and find them
fr they're literally 9-13 years old. its a recipe for disaster letting young kids run away like that. i feel like they brushed it off as "boys being boys" which is really unfortunate.
i love this
Yes and I really doubt nines year olds would run away
@@kimberlyarrington5721 Fr. Like when I was 9 and said I was going to “run away” I ran down my street and then decided to come home. Or I sat at the end of my driveway until I got bored... what nine year old would legitimately plan to run far away and go through with it? Especially if there’s more than one of them... you’d think one boy would eventually say it was a bad idea or they’d split up.
This case is so horribly sad the way everything was done was so careless and hectic:(
The military did it & buried them later. The police tried their hardest not to solve this case.
Agreed~
um yeah of course he had children’s shoes in his house...because he had a child?? that’s normal bro usually if you have a child, they have shoes.
this case literally devastates me. the police didn’t just brush these boys off, but were almost actively against their families! my heart aches for these parents 😔
EXACTLY
i cant imagine having to be a parent in this type of situation, let alone being blamed for it. so, so sad.
this setup? this hair? honey, we're soooo here for it 🥰 also love how you are so straight forward and start with the case right away
Yes!! Exactly what I was going to comment!!
@@Melina-hq3rj same!
@@esthershaw7537 i- i know that's why i am subscribed to her channel??? and watch her videos????? i just made a comment about her setup and hair which are new???? i-
if they died of hypothermia how would their clothes have ended up in knots it just doesn’t make sense
when I first watched a documentary about this case, I cried. it’s truly so heartbreaking.
Do you have a link ?
Yeah I would be instrested to
Domi Simi theres a 2 part documentary on it that four of the parents contributed in and I highly recommend watching the whole thing
Can’t believe the police literally pilled all the bones into one pile smh.
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aalijah No❤️✨
Because they wanted to make it hard for the ferensic
The dads quit their jobs to search for them 🥺 poor families
And then people still tried to accuse them, I literally started crying
rightt it's so tragic, this made me cry so much, i wouldn't even know what to do in the family's position.
I feel so horrible for these children and their parents.
The fact they can excavate this man's house but they they couldn't search the mountain they disappeared on I-
This is a very very sad case, but can we just appreciate how sweet the dad’s were they quit their jobs and searched for three years just for there kids they seem like truly amazing people
I highly recommend the documentary about this case by CNA Insider, it’s also on CZcams. They have a lot of interview footage of the fathers, and it’s heartbreaking and warming at the same time. They truly seem like amazing but understandably broken people, life really isn’t fair. I hope somebody feels or felt the guilt of being responsible with every breath they took/take.
Can you do a video of Raudha athif a.k.a “ the girl with the blue eyes” that passed away 2017 in Bangladesh. She was found dead in her college dorm room, her death was ruled a suicide, but her father says evidence suggests that she was murdered, apparently it’s a cmon thing for police in Bangladesh to rule murders as suicide. Please cover her story! She was just breath taking & beautiful! Im surprised her story isn’t as famous, her father has been pushing for justice for her! Since the police didn’t investigate her death, raudha’s father has paid for attorneys out of his own pocket! He strongly believe Raudhas own BESTFRIEND murdered her out of jealousy! It’s such a devastating case it almost doesn’t sound real..If you can get in touch with her family you should offer to make a goodfundme for him, so we can bring Raudha’s death justice! 🙏🏻
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Wow. A “Sick prank”?More like a mental harassment.
Just an AWFUL thing to do to someone. 😭😭😭
I hope karma gives the police officers at the time a visit. Imagine had it been one of their kids, smh.
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taz bibi im sorry but i see this abbrieviation everywhere what does it mean? is it to do with defunding the police or something about ruining the police bc im all for that
fizz faizah acab means all cops are bad/bastards but from my pov i doesn’t really mean every cop is bad it means the system is screwed up n we need to defund it. 1312 is also an abbreviation, it’s just acab but it uses the letters numerical value in the alphabet so a=1 c=3 n so on. i hope that made sense
ana OHHH THATS MAKES A LOT OF SENSEEE and yh i also agree with you on how not ALL cops are bad and how it is specifically the system! there are a few gems out there but idk im not american. also i didnt know about the numerical form of that abbrieviation.
thank you very much
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This is one of the most frustrating cases I’ve ever heard of.
Hi Bella:) I could not resist writing this comment. I am from South Korea, and I was really surprised and impressed how you did your research in such depth. The names must have been really difficult for you to pronounce, but I could feel that you did your best. Also I was glad that you pronounced the names in the right order in Korean, which is last name- first name. (We don’t have middle names.) And I really agree with you and feel the same way about the case and how the military was never properly investigated. As you mentioned, Ro Taewoo regime was a strict military regime. My country was just democratized then, so I’m sure you’ll understand how poorly the situation was handled. Anyways, thank you Bella I really enjoy watching your videos! You are such a devoted and passionate person!💛
the hypothermia theory makes no sense, why would their shirts be tied together with bullets inside if they died of hypothermia?? tying your shirt sleeves together doesn’t make you warmer or anything. And they literally couldve walked home, and during the day, they were already missing and im sure they wouldn’t have died of hypothermia during the day when they could’ve just walked home. plus the bullets and the way the bodies were placed definitely make me think the military shooting base had something to do with it. I think the commissioned military officer who fired his gun to get rid of the extra bullets might have accidentally shot one or two of the boys, and since he didn’t want to get arrested, he shot the rest of the boys before they could run away and get help, then tied up the bullets into their shirts after they were dead, then buried them. I also think maybe the police had something to do with it, like maybe a personal tie with the commissioned military officer or something, so they didn’t investigate him or the military shooting base. plus, superpowers?? What??? Idk why they would have a reason to make the parents believe they could give them superpowers, unless they were trying to make the parents believe they were on their side in some twisted way. Or, maybe the military officers kidnapped the boys and did experiments on them to see if they could give them superpowers, because that’s not too far fetched if you’ve heard about some other cases of government facilities experimenting with telepathy and esp and stuff like that. maybe they either had an accident with one or more of the boys while experimenting, and since they couldn’t let the others go home and tell everyone about the most likely illegal experiments/ psychedelic drugs used in those types of things, they killed the rest of the boys and buried them on the mountain. Some people also said they were looking for bullet casings so that would explain why they were in the children’s clothes, but I’m still confused as to why their shirts were tied together.
are u ready kids maybe they was blood in it and they grabbed the shirts, put it into the pond and tied it to get it out or maybe they didn’t have rope so they grabed the shirts together and then maybe the boys were sitting down and maybe they tied their hands with the tied up shirt then murderd them. It makes sense, really.
I teared up when she said the fathers were looking for their children for 3 years! And did everything to find their children. I pray that this doesn’t happen to anyone ever. 🙏:(
Absolutely heart-breaking. The police clearly covered up for the military.
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fuck 12.♥️
Poor boys and families, those parents where amazing 🤍
Imagine being the friend that didnt go and went back home, knowing what your fate could of been.
the police completely failed on this case. it seems like they didn’t even try.
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@@ayybibi YES
The covered for the military
Me : I'm about to go to bed
Bella : *posts video*
Me : Sleep can wait.
I listen to her videos to help myself with sleeping 😉😂
Naya Miro snores in true crime
Me rn
honestly i could never watch these before bed because i struggle with nightmares and you never know how bad these cases will be so i watch them morning-6pm so they’re not what i’m thinking about before i sleep but you’re brave.
wow i remember being a little boy in Seoul when this first happened and every mom in my apartment complex were crying glued to the news for updates... poor boys :(
You should do the Nirbhaya case in India. It's a case the whole world must know abouy
omg yes !!
True
Yess please
Aarushi talvar's case as well
Just looked it up because of your comment. Absolutely heartbreaking but thank you for spreading the word. It’s so important for people to know. My heart breaks for her bc it’s so brutal... but I’m glad that the criminals got death penalty
The military definitely did it and the man who started running away was kinda funny ngl
What's ngl? Lol sry, im old. Its one ive been seeing lately, don't know what it is.
Oh got it! Not Gonna Lie. Alexa told me 😆
@@mrs.elentz2336 i hear ya, i'm not social media savvy and all these acronyms are confusing me.
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The second you mentioned there was a military base on the mountain I immediately thought they had something to do with it. It’s sus that the police weren’t doing anything at all.
I knew about this case beforehand. It was surprising to hear that the fathers thought the animals posed the greater risk (as she said there was an animal enclosure on the other side of the path). And sad, they didn’t expect something like this. That somebody could be so cruel.
My husband is Korean military and he has said that each soldier is responsible for all of their bullets/casings. They inventory all of the ammunition each soldier is assigned, so they would know if there were a bunch of bullets "missing."
Also I love your hair but you don’t have the earrings onnn
My first thoughts! 😂💓💓💓
I KNEW SOMETHING WAS OFF 😫🤣
Yeah on her insta she was like i just finished filming and she realized she didn’t wear any
They’re invisible duhhh
Ahh. The important things .....??????????
3 minutes in and those pictures of them... Gosh I hate when stuff happens to kids :(( literal babies
this breaks my heart...these parents went through agony and one of them passed before he ever was able to gain at least some type of closure.
This case reminded me of the Cheryl Miller and Pamella Jackson case where these two high school girls went missing after they went to a party to later be found years & years later in a pond/lake in their car, guess they drove right into the lake/pond. BUT one of the fathers of one of the girls waited years & years to know what happened to her & he died a few days before her car was found! I always thought it was the father helping her body be discovered...kinda like this case that the father helped find their son even after their death to finally be together :) This case is really sad, I feel that there may have been more than one person because there were 5 kids that could have easily ran off or maybe one person with a gun, really sad. Glad they were found tho :)
we love police incompetence. its baffling and alarming the lack of seriousness when it comes to investigations, especially involving children / teenagers.
it wasn’t incompetence. i’m willing to bet actual money that the police were actively trying to stop the parents and public from finding the truth.
@@erikam4351 I sadly agree with that too. /:
Not incompetence. The police covered for the military.
I absolutely share your frustrations, Bella. Just super sketchy and heart-breaking. My heart aches for these boys. May they rest in peace. So terribly sad. Condolences to the families.
this case made me so upset! from the pranks to accusing a father to the excavation to the psychologist... i pray those poor babies rest in peace ❤️
Whether or not they were a runner away it’s still the polices job to find them.
This is so messed up. I’m honestly devastated about this and poor Taeyong he literally lost all of his friends. They handled this situation so poorly and tbh I believe that they did try to cover up because they did it. The military. RIP to the boys and the dad that died.
I think the logic behind the “superpowers” bit could be that IF one of the parents had killed the children and the guilty parent was so exhausted with the search, they may be willing to let themselves -seem- as if they had superpowers so they could lead the others to the bodies and finally have some closure. The military could then say the “powers” were fake all along and that the person claiming to have powers knew where the bodies were the whole time, shifting any eyes off the military (the true guilty party imo). Only reason I can come up with for why they would become involved the like that.
I think possibly the military shot one or more of them thinking that they were trespassing and on realising their mistake and knowing the uproar it would cause shot the remaining kids and disposed of their bodies
You guys should watch the 2 part documentary on this case, told by the dad's. It is absolutely heartwrenching but it's so worth it to hear the story from their own hearts.
You know what I was thinking? I was thinking that meanwhile the Military lured the parents to their base or something, one of the Military officials could have sneaked into Jong-Sik's father's house & planted the shoes. Idk it may be a stretch but think about it. They're fast, equipped, & sneaky. Idk man. The fact that police wouldn't even investigate them has me uneasy.
this is one of the most insane, sad and infuriating cases i've seen. my thoughts go out to their families. i am absolutely shocked by this case.
Thanks so much for covering this, Bella!! This case drives me insane because it just doesn’t add up. I believe that one person in the military possibly shot/hurt one of the boys, then promised the other boys he’d get help but then murdered them to keep them from reporting the crime. I’m curious if the boy who went home was able to tell police if they’d ever encountered someone suspicious when they were looking for eggs, or were able to give them any info about what they did up there when playing. So, so sad
omg those dads are amazing ♥️ the fact they banded tg and made it their jobs to find their boys 😭
I've never heard of his case. Thank you for covering it. I haven't reached the end of the video yet, but you can see the pain the their fathers' faces. Hope they got/can get closure.
I love how your channel isn't "America centric" (if that makes sense) thank you for doing so much research for us
Have you thought about starting a podcast? I love listening to your cases, I just prefer podcasts so I can do things while I listen. Nonetheless I appreciate your hard work on researching all these cases
Imagine the survivors guilt of the boy who stayed back
Something is missing...I think it’s the funky earrings 👀
please please please do the missing case of Theo Hayez!! happened a year ago in Byron Bay and is still unsolved and needs more attention :))) thank you x
it was definitely the military. theres no evidence that i couldve been anything else
This case made me so mad. I genuinely blame the police for this case not being solved
This is horrific! Even IF the kids were runaways, they’re literally kids !! They’re still in danger and need to be found !
Edit: finished the video, horrific and so sad :(
NEVER STOP DOING THESE BECAUSE THEY ARE THE BEST
This seems very convenient. Like a cover up from the get go. I think it’s more likely that someone from the police department likely got caught doing either something wrong by the boys or was purposely in the woods to hurt people but attempted to wrap the bullet casings to make the crime seem more likely that is the militaries fault, without ever having to investigate it. That’s why the never bothered to investigate. That’s why they didn’t find it during the big search effort. That’s why smudged the crime scene when it was found to purposely point to a convenient, easy answer and likely only leaving behind evidence that would suggest military.
I wonder we’re the 6th friend is at and how he’s doing today. It must’ve been hard for him to find out his friends were killed & that would be the last time he saw them. 😢
So……
-shitty cops
-shitty pranks
-shitty military
-shitty investigation blaming a dad !??!😡
This case is so sad 😞 I feel for the family and more importantly the boys love and prayers for the family ❣️
RIP BOYS ❣️
This makes me sooo angry like they literally said they would give them superpowers, like whattt. Their kids are missing and they play a “practical joke” on them???
being shot or stabbed somewhere fleshy like the stomach wouldnt leave any evidence on bones so i still think the shooting theory is definately possible
The fact that the intelligence services were following them around and the military was off limits to be investigated tells me everything I need to know about this case. Those boys saw something they weren't supposed to see I think going on with the military and they killed them for it.
I can’t believe the Military said they were gonna give the parents powers, what are they talking about.
Thanks for sharing this story! younger generations of South Korea don’t really know this story and I feel like it needs to be shared. I love how you dig up these rare stories. Kudos!
The boys shirts (jackets?) being tied together has to b a big clue. It’s just so strange.
And why would the military use blunt force trauma, wouldn’t it b easier and faster to use a gun, especially when there were multiple victims.
too traceable
Guns are illegal in South Korea, no one owns them except for military and police officers. If a citizen owns a gun, it's kept at the police stations, not allowed to have them in their homes. During a holiday, they wouldn't have been able to have them. The police/military can't just pin it on anyone if they shot all of them.
well have you heard about vanessa guillén??
I honestly think they were killed by guns and the only reason the military had to acknowledge that the bullets founds in the crime scene was theirs was cause the civilians present at the crime scene had already seen it so there wasn't a way for them to cover it up BUT the civilians couldn't have known if the boys were killed by bullet by looking at their bones so the military had the police say that there were no bullet wounds on the bones. This would magically cut the military's involvement even though empty and full bullets were found tied up in the tshirts -__-
@@mw8646 but the boys were missing for a while so why didn't they clean up the bullet casings right away? They had plenty of time to go back and do it.
These poor babies. This is so heartbreaking, once you said “the five bodies-” my heart broke 🥺
She’s spoiling us with all these uploads recently ❤️❤️
My Theory Is Someone From The Military Probably Shot One Of The Boys By Accident & Then He Killed The Others So He Wouldn’t Be Caught And Put Them There And The Police Probably Was Just Protecting The Military
girl why are all your words uppercase
I remember this case, it's honestly so sad and it aches my heart. May the boys rest in peace. ♥️
I appreciate all the work you put into your cases and the fact you cover cases other youtubers don’t, also I need to say I absolutely LOVE your hair! The bangs, the colour, 70’s vibes
Please look into the kidnapping and highly probable murder (he confessed) of a 15 year old romanian girl called Alexandra Măceșanu in 2019 , she called the police 3 times and stated the exact location but no one showed up for 19 hours!!! And the public outrage was so big that the interior minister of romania was fired and there were sooo many protests. they went to leaders of the local Mafia to get her location instead of using police methods they had. the Mafia led them to 3 wrong locations to frame rival clan leaders. they could've found her in minutes as EU mobile phone operators have to give police the location of the caller immediately. so there also was a lawsuit from the EU itself to the Romanian police.
At what point does gross incompetence become corruption? In this case it seems like they were deliberately trying to not solve this.
Would there be evidence of being shot so many year later of the bullets didn’t hit bone? Once child could have been accidentally shot and they killed all of them to stop them from telling.
You should do the massacre of the royal family of Nepal! The crown prince was blamed for killing his family but there are so many theories and conspiracies!!
Get so hyped when I see your channel notifications. I love your videos! So well researched!
The soldier fatally shot 2 boys, went to investigate the situation, but found out there were 5 of them.
The only way to cover his awful mistake was to silence them all
His soldier friends knew this from the beginning, but decided to go along with the cover up.
The soldier now is between 55 - 65 yo, he's at least a high official in South Korean government.
Omg the holes in there skulls could have been the polices sticks when they “ searched” for them
corrupt police?!?! why i have never heard of such a thing!! 🙃
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What’s confusing me is the fact that they got a call to come to a location- money ready, but no one showed up. So whose the person that called &’ did they kill the boys or were they just playing. Also I think this 100% had something to do with the military. I think that whilst one of the commissioners were shooting he accidentally shot one of them &’ after the screams he panicked and maybe aimed for the rest of them? Then again why was everyone treating this case as a sick joke? That’s literally disgusting. That place is DISGUSTING.
I really enjoy hearing cases from other parts of the world. I’m sure covering these stories can’t be easy do to language barriers
I still think someone in the military could’ve shot and killed them, just because their skeletons didn’t show bullet wounds doesn’t mean they weren’t shot in their essential organs and bled out. Maybe the ones that didn’t die instantly from the gunshots were the ones with the blunt force trauma to knock them out until they bled out.
What amazing fathers... I can't imagine what their families went through. Completely devastating. Thank you for covering this case, I think I never would have heard of it.
The police in the U.S. have learned their lesson about missing children. They know that the first four hours are the most crucial and they don't wait 24 hours anymore.
i've watched this documentary before! it was so good!
Where do you watch it?
The poor boys parents! They went through so much bullshit on top of losing their children!
I watched the Korean detective drama Signal a couple of months ago and one of the guys on the cold case unit kept suggesting they should look into the Frog Boys murders. I looked it up but there's only a short wikipedia page on it. Nothing else I could find in English. So thanks for covering it in such detail.