Hunting a Serial Predator - Dark Minds - S02 EP02 - True Crime

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[@PetloverTN]

I feel so sorry for Holly’s brother 😢

[@tracieday8661]

I love John Kelly. His KZbin channel is one of my favorites

[@annettehunter9743]

This investigator really does care

[@user-ym3xf6xp4c]

Yes he does. Did they all have brothers. Did the brothers friends have an older associate on the periphery of their world.

[@Sncedayone]

You should send him your money and write a letter to him

[@bettydamnboop3030]

The FBI should dig up the backyard of his old house. What an evil entity.

[@gkling33]

Absolutely! Why not?

[@IndigoCave28]

Right. Why haven’t they

[@KARREN-KRASS]

@@gkling33that’s sick! They are people you know ! How mean of you 😢

[@prevost8686]

With GPR they don’t even have to dig anymore unless they see anything abnormal on the scan.

[@user-lm4cv3cn3h]

Nobody should be left alone without an adult. It's terrible how women and girls gets killed also men too and boys. Poor family 😢 It's devastating. It's creepy when a guy kills these girls who look exactly like his ex wife

[@angelaclinton9847]

She was 16, men need to learn to control themselves, if they cannot THE MEN should b constantly survailed or chaperoned b/c it's not women & girls who r the problem, so y should we forego oor freedom also the vast majority of violence & SA against women & girls happens in the home and by those close to us, so allowing these men to curtail us only INCREASES the likelihood we will b harmed 😮

[@KARREN-KRASS]

I disagree what if the adult you leave the child with is a child killer? That nearly happened to me when I was nine. I escaped and hid in corn fields.

[@shorsbigmouth]

There were more girls and young women who went missing around Vernon and Tolland in the 1970s...more than the 2 profiled here. I don't understand why LE can't dig up his old house and property. Sad.

[@Sncedayone]

You can

[@dan3nad]

I remember i was walking to school i was in 6th grade a car almost hit me going maybe 50mph, it grazed my clothes, was a wooded road away from any houses, to this day i think how lucky i was

[@lorettasearcy1471]

M. William Phelps is an amazing author,and it's so incredibly sad about his sister in law. I had an uncle who was murdered and the guy got hardly no time at all.

[@chrisfisher1100]

this is absolutely stunning.... wow.... the molly bish situation is crazy

[@redrumhum]

Love his Highlights.

[@Love.Yourself.1976]

I love these investigations & series.

[@petejames1326]

same here they give me something to live for, i love all the re enactments, but nothing beats UNSOLVED MYSTERIES with robert stack though

[@aryanprivilege9651]

Make jokes of privileged or lucky, blessed, all the ugliest thoughts are true. Not even them alone priced, be exceptional careful when exotic. Who’s the stereotypical villain Germanic tribes, stand in for Ustasha. As 5-7 genocides happen always now today! The kindest people, lied to about the war to end all. But made it so, and did what Berlin was this a filth market fixed. Off a recruiting poster, ha ha. Who’s the victim villian sinner saint and self righteous patting backs for nothing. Why fill head with this horror poison if nothing changes. The botttleneck of extinction in genetic swamping is not a cure, it’s a trap.

[@aryanprivilege9651]

Nietzsche, abyss stares back monsters, beware what you fill head with for what reasons. You want this roaming around in place of pleasant thoughts. Awareness and compassion seeding and calling it out, suspicion is right. Fill head with gloomy horror can’t end well, I hope balanced.

[@user-xn2hf9re8r]

just love this channel and this series is the best

[@drewjohn8392]

She said her ex husband was always burying things in the backyard. Did you go dig up the backyard?????

[@1Storm6]

Right? N why didn’t they report him?

[@MrMarek19]

They escape ... When find out smart move

[@MrMarek19]

They left ...she said

[@jacquelinesmart2260]

A timid wife would be scared to. Not all people have brave personalities. Specially abused women with children.

[@bridgetrodriguez4643]

You clearly can't comprehend how dangerous that is

[@cornalien8435]

If Raven says it - it must be so 🙄

[@geezuss1114]

Sickening! Just sickening

[@stevenwallace5990]

I just found your channel!!!!!!!!!…..outstanding format and great content!!!!!!!…..I really appreciate your approach to these investigations and your efforts involving each and every case that you investigate!!!!!!!!!!!……

[@BSlackN]

“ I don’t think justice could ever do what needs to be done to this person “ Those words right there speak volumes. I feel that, I think we all feel that. Because I’d need vengeance for my little girl…

[@whatsupdoc84]

I felt my heart leave my body when I couldn’t find my daughter in Target one day. That was just for a couple minutes…. I can not imagine having that feeling with me the rest of my life.

[@Minivanmusician]

Hunter and his brother have to be q team; victims' age differences are too different

[@thegoodguy44]

Might be an idea to dig up the backyard if his ex-wife was always burying things there.

[@kellycuckoo3143]

May those butterfly beauties rest in peace.🦋

[@MsCwebb]

He placed that dead butterfly there knowing that little girl was going to go back and attempt to place it under the rock. And then he struck. So calculating. Scary stuff.

[@pamelaattrux336]

What a great show

[@jasonurban3597]

I just don't understand why they don't investigate these people

[@sunshinehoward9649]

I really want to take those piano lessons being advertised. but first I need to find piano. Plus the guy is full of energy makes you excited to create music.

[@Matilda-y]

😂 i keep seeing those ads too

[@peterj5106]

The hunter, the wood chopper, the woodsman, 13, the raven.... What's wrong with normal names? Tom.... the neighbour. Steve.... from across the road. Cuz Bubba.... normal names!

[@annetjiedreyer5239]

Sad but Excellent identikit through the eyes of a 5 year old boy, too.

[@chab1rd155]

So will we get to hear a follow-up?

[@allisonoconnor8055]

🤔🤔🤔 wow😢 what are your hobbies 😮

[@makeupboss3568]

Now I don’t know everything about how the criminal mind works, even though my dad and my uncle were both police officers, but hey … it looks like this human has a warped mind. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out the weird things that make a criminal do the things they do. Once they’ve got a “ type “ they don’t stop … and they just keep going. Like Bundy .. all it takes is a type to set them off . I’d be getting a court order, if it’s necessary, to dig up that old yard . Ya never know what might be there .

[@PetloverTN]

Please look into Nashville’s Tabitha Tuders case 🥺

[@duvessa2003]

The first 2 little girls who were taken in the 70’s and never found, makes me wonder if the perp had easy access to an incinerator. Perhaps he was a maintenance guy?

[@KDiamond666]

If you are suspected of harming a child, you should not get any anonymity.

[@dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653]

Yeah, Raven is Keith Jesperson, my old pen pal, and 13 is Joel Rifkin.

[@BURRITO44]

Awesome video

[@blackratinn]

Stunning investigative job by the film maker. I thought this was going to be just another one of those soul-less shock-value documetaries but he actually FOUND the people responsible for this. I have no doubt the huntard and his brother did this. They should just release the pictures of these scumbags so people can keep an eye for them and know exactly who they are.

[@oneflyguy1949]

It is very unnerving just how many of these shows are out there full of heinous acts!

[@duvessa2003]

Surely this host has enough charm to convince someone to have their yard dug up…

[@terrys4351]

The Vernon, CT cases are most likely the work of a man whose sister and wife went missing years apart. True Crime Author and Police Officer Michael Bouchard wrote a book about this and has evidence that puts the killer at one of the murders and points him as a suspect in several others. Book is called Missing in Connecticut.

[@ruthjohnson2710]

Very scary

[@user-zi5ny3zr6p]

Its amazing that the authorities don't seem to make use of cadaver dogs in searching for these victims, at least theres no mention of it.

[@markmajka1877]

Do they have one available? They can't use what they don't have.

[@johnblackbird7523]

He began with the common farm animals and later graduated to the more exotic zoo animals

[@dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653]

She drops her daughter off in a bathing suit, no one around but a strange man…, and just leaves…..🙄

[@PetloverTN]

Agree…can you even imagine living with that?? 😵‍💫😵‍💫

[@dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653]

@@PetloverTN I could not live with that. It’s just too much.

[@user-rc6bw6hj2k]

It's a lake there's going to be somebody else b nice 😮

[@dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653]

@@user-rc6bw6hj2k uhm no. I will not be nice when it comes to ignorance.

[@geezuss1114]

Wouldn't it be a shock to find out our esteemed host is actually the perp?

[@Matilda-y]

Wouldn’t surprise me 😂

[@kamalapati154]

I wonder if the cops took the cigarette butts for DNA. They should have.

[@samueldunhe8468]

I think strongly it was the letter sent to the Holly's family. From Molly bush...leads a clue...just a hunch...but gotta admit there is something there

[@calvinflamand8965]

Headphones and ear buds should be banned I’ve been trying to get that through my daughter’s heads always pay attention to your surroundings and know who’s close to you

[@Liudolfingen]

Loud bang could have been the backfire of a car muffler possibly.

[@philbosshart7606]

Raven is talking to a serial killer. That’s the most messed up part

[@aridyaacob9528]

Still unresolved? How terrible.

[@HellcatMad]

Very eery

[@markmajka1877]

Holly Piranen,s body was found in the Brimfield State Forest.

[@johnhoran9063]

You should really leak there names!!!

[@Tammylovemyink]

Raven is Jeff Jesperson.

[@user-ym3xf6xp4c]

I bet on the day of the pond incident the perp walked into the nearest store and bought a pack of vigarettes. He smokes while waiting. He must be a survival expert. With quasi military training.

[@zeppelin2412]

Vanshing Blondes....or Vanishing Blondes !! 😎

[@pikeman80]

The longer it takes to find a guilty person the more likely that it's a cop that is the perpetrator. The more I watch the more I feel that it's a cop who is the guilty party.

[@prevost8686]

Why?

[@btstakescareofmewhenimsick4892]

Me as soon as i hear the phrase "tightknit community": 🙄

[@skrachamaniacs3878]

Jesperson is Raven

[@heavenlyprayer]

Thats what i said two brother helping eachother threw it all.molly and holly look alike and name sounds alike and the brother your talking about have names that sounds a like i think thats what there type was.

[@patrickregan3302]

So sad n horrible! Stop accusing the host/narrator. Those of U doing that are full of yourselves. U r not investigators nor do any of U have any thing resembling evidence! Go soak your heads%!

[@user-mw7jl9nx7q]

i fill sorry fore the fimaly of the victems

[@tamonettX500]

It was the mail man

[@petemontana5527]

I never knew you can call people in prison 🤔

[@Matilda-y]

Give it a try 😂

[@amypoucher9620]

Why would the guy go from 10 years old to a 16-year-old one after Puberty and the others are all younger I don't think they're connected at all to the sixteen year old

[@jacquelinesmart2260]

Raven was right.

[@maryfuller4259]

The think about raven ?? It's like giving a sick perverted killer away to relive his own stuff. Like he has some mass insights. I guess you could just call up Ridgway he's a sick F too. He's not saying anything that anyone that has watched 10 shows wouldn't know. STOP GIVEING HIM A PLATFORM. ITS SICK.

[@ryanchoate9146]

I particularly disagree I know it’s for entertainment value and while he doesn’t deserve to be on a TV show talking about his murderous ways it is extremely valuable to learn everything we can from these nutjobs so it could help law enforcement help catch other monsters

[@patrickregan3302]

@@ryanchoate9146Unfortunately that is true!

[@KARREN-KRASS]

Raven actually sounds like a nice guy❤ I mean a not nice guy wouldn’t help the cops would they? No so this proves that you shouldn’t judge a cover by it’s book and Raven might even be innocent for all we know? He could have been framed, seriously he sounds so genuinely nice and even harmless ❤

[@peterj5106]

Lol. I don't think old Raven is actually real! He's an actor playing a character for the show. No show would ever get clearance for an incarcerated serial killer to participate in their production.

[@Matilda-y]

Yes this series is all about making an overdramatised entertainment style out of peoples tragic stories. Oh, and making money. No trick too low. Im invested in finding out about those poor little girls now, but never watching again.

[@williammcdonagh7454]

Prosecutors and LE no much more they cover these monsters tracks because if the truth came out they would be out of a job he was most likely brought to the attention of LE early on a common theme in many of these cases

[@UhuruFrontier]

It must be those brothers.

[@marckelly1984]

"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster"

[@mark8337]

Were you ever in Janesville, Wi. investigating a case?

[@peterj5106]

Yes.... I believe it was the case of the phantom poo. 💩 El Stinkieoo, the Stinkie Pinkie. 💩🥺

[@geezuss1114]

Too young I know. Imagination is running wild

[@handsome526]

You were on my block when Danies stopped you and he got out of his car with a crossbow, do your people know that, & I don't even get treated like a human being

[@frankblack8266]

That sketch looks like glen rogers from kentucky tha0t killef0

[@prevost8686]

OJ’s hired hand.

[@allenroe]

14:15

[@Chris-ts8oh]

So because hes a hunter hes a suspect. Dont be a hunter

[@philbosshart7606]

And he does certain things that led a watcher of his videos to be distracted, first and obviously is his intentional hair coloring. Most that would knowingly be intentionally distracting is that he doesn’t look his best prior/during to his case investigations

[@philbosshart7606]

Think about it. If you don’t want to be under the investigational microscope, so to speak, what better way to draw attention away from you than to be an investigator??

[@IndigoCave28]

That’s quite a reach.

[@dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653]

That’s his eccentricities. He’s odd because he’s the type who’s always thinking ab something, and that’s very important in his life.

[@NinoDms]

34.39 look over his left shoulder 😮😮😮😮

[@Matilda-y]

A car 😮😂

[@NinoDms]

Made ya look 😁

[@Matilda-y]

🤭 😆 you sure did. Twice! You got me, can’t stop laughing now.

[@NinoDms]

You know what is really weird....I had a dream someone was going to comment on this comment, then I woke up the next day, and you'd spotted the car 🤔😄

[@tonypasma1707]

😂

[@Matilda-y]

“ WOW!! Strangled!! “ The over dramatised voice over is unnecessary. Inappropriate, Come on, someone’s got to state the obvious.

[@davidhepburn795]

Shouldn't he be looking for who murdered his sister in law think about it he's trying to solve all these different cases but realistically the 1 case he should be badly trying to solve is his sister in law who agrees?

[@dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653]

His sister in law, or better, his brother’s girlfriend, was out living on the streets and using drugs. Who killed her could have been just about anyone.

[@sconyalice9073]

he has

[@1955porsche]

theres a commercial every 3 minutes

[@Mahad-ih6ge]

No actual evidence this is all circumstance

[@einienj3281]

They say the hunters wife is identical to lisa, but still don't show her picture..

[@praxym9293]

Y would they do that. That's risking her safety

[@kushfairyny1]

Its for her protection

[@einienj3281]

I guess you both missed the irony of them saying "she's identical to Lisa"..

[@scallopohare9431]

@@einienj3281There's a difference between saying they are identical, and seeing a photo.

[@einienj3281]

@@scallopohare9431 no one seems to understand irony..

[@KARREN-KRASS]

14:46 Zac is a coward and left his sister for dead! How shameful! How does Zac live with himself to this day I will never understand. 🤬😡

[@JohnathanTotten-oh9vy]

Dude you have issues

[@shorsbigmouth]

I believe Zac was 5 or 6 years when Holly was abducted. If anything, I would blame a dad who let them go alone

[@heathernikki5734]

He was a kid tf is wrong with you 😮🤬😡

[@crimetimedocs]

He was 5 years old! Both would have disappeared if he stayed they were both defenseless

[@user-tn9pl8fh5v]

He was a baby boy if anyone should be blamed it's the lack of adult supervision especially with 2 young children being alone

[@arlynpianar6213]

🥲🥲

[@melinatedvessel6840]

I need to look up this case being reviewed ,but not on this show, it's so cheesy & poorly done..

[@Matilda-y]

Thank you. Thought i was the only one. Sooo cheesy with a lactose intolerance. Disrespectful to the families involved.

[@jarrodwaid4625]

I hate what happened to your sister in law and I hope they find the person but dude don't do a show it sounds and feels like a fake and Jespersen is raven I'm sorry but every moment and whatever in this show feels fake

[@peterj5106]

Including Raven.

[@heathernikki5734]

Word salad comment

[@MegaBored2]

Vanishing, not vanshing.

[@deluxewaterless7229]

We all make spelling errors

[@KARREN-KRASS]

It’s the same as dispeering like vanish

[@geezuss1114]

I mean he was living there. Hollywood is a sick place. You never know

[@KARREN-KRASS]

Raven actually sounds like a nice guy❤ I mean a not nice guy wouldn’t help the cops would they? No so this proves that you shouldn’t judge a cover by it’s book and Raven might even be innocent for all we know? He could have been framed, seriously he sounds so genuinely nice and even harmless ❤

[@user-kd7jh5kv1o]

Are you delusional , he is a convicted multiple murderer who confessed , terrible post Karren

[@pameversole5886]

You really need to go back & listen to his first recorded conversation with the convicted murderer. Pay close attention to the part where he refers to the victim as “it”…not “her”, not “the child “…. but “IT”. If you’re truly as delusional as you sound, you need to talk to a professional. Getting mental help may prevent you from becoming some other “monster’s “it”.

[@user-kd7jh5kv1o]

Do your research ,but i truly believe there is no hope for you , you cant possibly stand by this comment that he is a nice guy, and if you do its you who we all have to worry about in the future.

[@peterj5106]

Whatever "Raven" say's is script written for the show. He's an actor.

[@user-kd7jh5kv1o]

@@peterj5106 Well they don't mention his an actor but they mention he's a multiple murderer !! What are viewers ment to think? if he is an actor then his whole series is a facade and I will not view another doco .

[@sayedkhalilullahmonib3363]

This KZbinr lies from A to Z. Watch his all other videos none of them brings any positive results except mystery. His doing this video to make money that’s it and all of his videos are wasting time

[@massimofalcinelli5043]

I totally agree with you! KZbin Is full of such fame-seeker

[@cameronhowe4066]

he looks like jesus

[@jccjjccj3305]

Jesus was a so black man

[@KARREN-KRASS]

Not Jesus that had a thing for 6 year old girls, that was Mohammad 😂

[@F0rsaken123-cm4gj]

not even close

[@dannysee1]

Stolen content.

[@KARREN-KRASS]

You said the same on his other show

[@Matilda-y]

Someone’s got to call it

[@Jay-ho6gw]

The loud bang was her getting hit by the car so he ran and got scared

[@peterj5106]

But he was next to her when he heard the bang?

[@Matilda-y]

@@peterj5106yep he ran after

[@Jay-ho6gw]

I think holly was hit by the car cause when your young your bones are like rubber because why would the body be 3 miles up the road

[@KARREN-KRASS]

Maybe she ran 3 miles comfortably as she needed the exercise to keep her slim for her modelling career? 😮