The Vanishing of Erin Gilbert

[@Catherinzsl]

That's not an "unsettling series of events;" that's an improbable tale with more holes than a sponge.

[@_7.8.6]

You’d think being at a Fair there would be other people in their cars he could of asked for help instead of apparently walking for 2hrs for help

[@Catherinzsl]

@_7.8.6 That's what I thought. I listened to it again, and it says after he got the car started, _then he drove back to the fair._ Like, what?

[@godfreypigott]

​@@Catherinzsl I've had that before with a flat battery. As long as it's not fully drained, it can pick up enough charge for a start after a rest.

[@amyclare5377]

right... why wouldnt he just get a boost from a nerby car... his story is nonsense

[@seandelap8587]

A main suspect is not being treated as a main suspect thats a problem right there

[@VioletJoy]

Well, we don't know that, though.

[@CATNAPREAL1188]

Hey Violet Joy... What is it like to live in Egypt ? It's obvious you live near the river of D Nile. With tributaries of common sense that runs near by, but misses your boat ? Asking for a Friend.

[@ElFlaccoBlanco]

@@CATNAPREAL1188 Whoah! That’s a liiiiitle bit harsh a response to a very innocuous and perfectly valid statement. After all, if Police Lieutenant Randy McPherron said “we don’t have a crime scene, we don’t have much of anything” then…

[@ElFlaccoBlanco]

Whoah! That’s a liiiiitle bit harsh a response to a very innocuous and perfectly valid statement. After all, if Police Lieutenant Randy McPherron said “we don’t have a crime scene,

[@SuperClaire72]

I genuinely don't think I have ever heard so much bullsh*t as the tale from the boyfriend. Wow!

[@JoJoHOPPE-i7j]

Not a boyfriend. She met that dude DAYS before she took a freaking TRIP with him - not at all advisable!

[@tylerskiss]

There are so many holes in the boyfriend’s story, it’s sickening. That guy got away with murder.

[@ThatWendigo]

It's always the boyfriend/husband 😂 If there's a man involved, he's immediately a suspect, right?

[@jillgarlick2122]

He took his right to remain silent very seriously, as he was entitled to.

[@hlly_yy]

@ThatWendigo Given he was the last person to be seen with her…. Yeah, he’s a suspect. Unfortunately, the boyfriend/husband murderer trope exists for a reason. Nothing funny about it.

[@baxtersmom279]

@ThatWendigo well, it’s true though.

[@alandrosstettina1843]

@ThatWendigo I'm glad you find that humerous. Better hope no one you knows goes missing, huh?

[@marytermini1381]

So....at a crowded festival, instead of doing the logical thing and asking someone if they had jumper cables to help him get his car started, he leaves his girlfriend in the car and walks for two hours to get to his friend's house. Make this make sense.

[@ClownBlood-pt4sg]

You cannot make sense of the nonsensical. He bamboozled LE with a story that makes no sense and literally got away with murder. Any reasonable person knows that he is solely responsible.

[@piaonomata9220]

Right?? That was my first thought--if your battery's dead, you don't leave a crowded festival full of people who might have jumper cables (the organizers/staff if no one else) and walk two hours to try to find a friend's house when you apparently don't even know where that friend lives. You BOTH start asking various people for help. Why they never found her is a mystery, but then again we only have Boyfriend's word that the battery died in the first place. That leaves two hours for things to go sideways between them, him to dump her body, and then return to the festival. I'm curious about his past now. Generally people who commit these crimes don't stop at one.

[@CharingCross712]

What a pathetic alibi. Makes no logical sense. He was the last person to see her alive.

[@tonyboyer1563]

Yea I've been to forest fair SOOOOO many times with my family as I live in anchorage. He most likely killed her

[@Alovellyone]

@Mary, I said the same thing. He walked a total of 4 hours(to and from the alleged friend home)but didn't have the sense ask anyone to give him a jump. We all know what happened. He assumed he was "owed" for the time he spent with her, tried something in the car, she refused and he unalived her. Then proceeded to drive somewhere and throw her body out. It's sickening how many men think every woman wants be host to their penis. If they want a thrill, then stick it in a woodchipper.

[@neneshubby]

Not difficult to figure out what happened. He got her in an isolated area and either tried to assault her or did assault her, killed her to keep her quiet, buried her someplace and made up a bullshit story about his car not starting, then miraculously starting. Sadly, he’s probably going to get away with it.

[@_7.8.6]

Maybe David spent the 2 hrs covering his tracks

[@Skreemqueen75]

EXACTLY!!!!!! I think there ABSOLUTELY is a suspect!!!!! Ridiculous!!!!

[@mol588]

@Skreemqueen75 Police should bring David in, for re-questioning .. if they can find where he's hiding out, living his life ... whilst Erin is gone and has NO life !!

[@godfreypigott]

@@mol588 Arrest him based on what evidence?

[@mol588]

I'm going to edit that to re-question him & any ex's or partners 🤔

[@Loralanthalas]

Maaaaybe. But I bet he's a fun likable white guy who jokes with cops and judges so they'll let him go at least 54 times. Like my brother.

[@garycrowther4912]

The “boyfriend “ obviously knows what happened !!

[@Originella]

"Close by" is not 2 hours. Red flag #1...

[@godfreypigott]

This is Alaska.

[@Loralanthalas]

​@@godfreypigottwalking past a town and festival and military base to go to your friends house for help is a bit much.

[@helenaolsson7990]

Strange. The car did not work. Then it did. He walked to a friends place and could not locate it. 😮

[@richardl772]

…..and he didn’t ask anyone there for a set of jumper leads.

[@helenaolsson7990]

@richardl772 Exactly. So strange. Take a two hour long walk leaving her in the car. No, I don't think so.

[@truei1864]

Walking 2 hours? Hmm. Thanks for another great video!

[@Starpilot17]

I’m sure someone at the event had jumper cables.

[@KohalaLover]

Tragic. Another beautiful young lady disrespected by, presumably, her new “friend” Dave Combs. His story is bs. He is absolutely the cause of Erin’s demise. Was Dave’s car and parking lot at the fair searched? I’m guessing it wasn’t as LE initially blew off Erin’s disappearance. Wondering what Dave is doing these days; what crimes has he committed since or before Erin went missing?

[@jillgarlick2122]

I would say his story IS bs, but proving it has not been possible for 53 years, so I doubt it ever will be proved. It doesn't matter what his life has been since , the Police have no clues and Dave has never or will never discussed it and he most likely has all the answers, then it that is that.

[@FrankFernandez-s6c]

You & your voice it's very special 💗 thanks for your content

[@tevman69]

No mention of LE impounding her ‘last date’s vehicle, here. Was there an explanation of how his vehicle’s battery miraculously recharged itself! Two hour walk, one way? BS. How many residential homes did he pass during that time? Let alone, no other vehicles traveled by him, on that long journey? These are just a couple of questions that should’ve been explained.

[@bethlinn7242]

That actually can happen. If you turn everything off in your vehicle with a dead battery and let it sit for a while it can regain enough power to turn over and start. I’m not saying I buy that story here, but it can occur.

[@JoJoHOPPE-i7j]

@tevman69 I didn't read any comments before I posted this, but I pose nearly identical questions! Furthermore I thought that the initial investigation is always laser focused on the last person to see the victim alive!?

[@tevman69]

@ It really makes one wonder, if some officers are actually qualified or in it for the power and financial benefits. IMO.

[@Loralanthalas]

​@@tevman69my police and judges are human. If you make them laugh and you seem likable, you can literally get away with murder. Its better then confidence and even a clip board. Making them laugh will open any jail cell door in America through 2025. Go ask my brother (blonde hair and blue eyes helps, obviously. Anyone saying it doesn't is either ludicrously stupid or a racists themselves).

[@ea8269]

That guy may be lying about going to see his friend.

[@julz3tt3]

Yes. Then calling the next day is very suspicious. Trying to cover his ass by doing that.

[@socialservicessuck]

Wonder if that guy is related to P Diddy since they have the same last name probably not but it’s worth a shot anyway.

[@jillwiegand4257]

And how do you not know where your friend lives?

[@heather-cz8yk]

Better investigation should be done on her new “friend” Dave Combs.

[@jillwiegand4257]

2 hours is a long time to leave her. She and her sisters look like triplets. ❤ How sad for this young woman. Alaska is not safe.

[@ChaCha.44]

I thought they looked like triplets too, beautiful young ladies! I also think the new guy killed her or if not he at least knows SOMETHING about what happened to her that he's not telling police...hopefully he's confided in someone about it and we can only hope that person/people he told will eventually come forward to break this case wide open!!

[@mrchase7191]

The guy came back to his car and it started

[@godfreypigott]

That happens.

[@Loralanthalas]

​@@godfreypigottnotice how he NEVER needed to change the battery after that. So no. It doesn't happen.

[@godfreypigott]

@@Loralanthalas (1) Yes it does happen. It's happened to me more than once. And you can find the explanation if you bother to google. (2) How do you "know" he NEVER had to change his battery? I just watched the video again and that wasn't stated anywhere.

[@phyllispartonmarks8912]

So very sad he got away with murder! It was so easy for him. He put her body somewhere. This case was botched from the beginning. Hugs & Prayers for the family and friends of precious Erin!

[@robinbanks610]

How incredibly sad😢

[@Giggles1900]

Something is not right. What's up with the police officials? The last person should've been thoroughly questioned by the police officials. What is happening?

[@ninaballerina2807]

How can the cops justify not arresting the boyfriend is beyond me? All bs. Well, I suppose we are expected to be grateful that David Combs got a new lease of life while Erin is denied her life, her whereabouts and the closure to this travesty of justice they call a mystery!

[@stevenbrookover3934]

Yeah its really common for a car to have a dead battery and then somehow charge itself back up.🙄

[@godfreypigott]

Actually, it IS common. It's happened to me more than once.

[@stevenbrookover3934]

@ well so much for my theory

[@Loralanthalas]

​@@godfreypigott😂😂😂😂 you still being on that 29 year old battery or lying your ass off?

[@sandyvantine7514]

I think that the guy she went out with made up that story about the car not starting and him walking to nowhere. He lied and the stupid cops just took him at his word. Very bad detective work by Alaska cops.

[@Meh4991z]

The car battery supposedly being dead is what struck me as odd. You’re in the parking lot of a crowded carnival and it would make so much more sense if you asked someone for a jump as opposed to taking a 2 hour walk to your friend’s house. The boyfriend is giving off a bad vibe.

[@Charlotte66666]

One of my favourite crime channels 😊

[@auntbarbara5576]

💯💯 me as well! 💖💖

[@RichardYbnez]

😂😂😂😂PAB.... RICHARD.

[@laurametheny1008]

There's only one answer here and bf has it. Jeez! Thank you DC🙏🏼💔🕊️🦌

[@magnus1001]

So they were at a fair with people all over the place and he decides that instead of asking someone for a battery jump he's going to walk 2 hours to a 'friend's' house....that he ended up not being able to find?! Then he comes back, Erin is gone and the car magically starts? It is a lot more likely scenario that Colmes killed Erin and buried her body in that forest. Did the police even bring scent dogs to try and trace her possible trail? He won't take a lie detector test and is uncooperative and they just let him go? Crazy.

[@jenniferryersejones9876]

Thanks, DC.

[@lelolai03]

The guy she went out with most definitely did it, they just didn't find prove or didn't search enough to find prove. His story is just obviously a made up. So sad he is free and enjoying life while she is gone so young, and her family doesn't even have a body to bury.

[@seandelap8587]

Lazy investigating certainly won't help to solve any case which seems to be the theme of this one in particular

[@Loralanthalas]

Its amazing how almost half of cases are never solved due to lazy human work. But we insist that police are not human and need no supervision. Police being the same people with morals so moldable they carry out the every changing and annually changing laws of our county. Even when they legalized weed, no one blinked that just last week they were beating g the crap out if a pothead and giving hum lofe. Next week it's no longer illegal, and those police have ZERO qualms about the beating they just laid down with that man still in the hospital. Those are our police. Thugs. I'm a daughter of two cops. I know how evil they purposefully are.

[@Trev-jz6yw]

Did they ask him his friends name who he was trying to locate? And to retrace his steps? They could catch him in so many lies if they did. How does her family not think David is responsible? It’s so obvious!

[@SadieMae-zw4qb]

I thought it was a first date? In any event, that’s your guy right there.

[@caligirllala1267]

She’s exactly my age….such a pretty girl…this is so sad…😢

[@chelseagirl278]

Me too, it makes it even more heartbreaking 💔

[@edinsoncavanirespector]

@@chelseagirl278if she was ugly or your age it wouldn’t be as tragic by your logic

[@Helen-mh8mq]

I hope they at least went to the guys apartment or home to investigate.

[@RexHolbrook]

The boy friends story is sketchy as hell .

[@Loralanthalas]

Ok. So im not the only one who thought "I went to look for her" and also "I was having fun (and totally forgot to look for her)" was questionable

[@char2win]

Great upload

[@joeylowry874]

Thanks DC!

[@davidhollingdale5408]

The only information as to the unfortunate young lady's 'disappearance' isCombs's story..which is highly improbable, to say the least. Uf he wasn't responsible (extremely doubtful),he knows who or what was.💔

[@elizabethgalligan1805]

Thank you so much for this interesting case 😊👌🏻

[@beckywiththesharpknife8331]

Can you please do a story on Michael Negrete? Missing UCLA student who disappiin 1999.

[@MsAdventure531]

There’s a link within the description of this channel to request a case via Google Forms.

[@debrarobinson9539]

I THINK WE ALL SUSPECT THE LAST GUY SHE WENT ON THE DATE WITH. HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE SHE IS I BELIEVE. HOPEFULLY ONE DAY THEY WILL FIND HER REMAINS. GOD BLESS 🙏🏾❤️

[@01karmacop]

Watching from Scotland ❤the channel

[@JoanneRutledge-mk8ms]

❤ your channel so much, I remember when u did these an would appear in them❤😊

[@katiemvp6536]

He was the last one to see and be with her. He is the main suspect and his story does not make any sense. To leave her in his car for two hours, then all of a sudden his car turns on but she’s no where to be found. He refuses to cooperate with law enforcement. Come on!! How frustrating!!!

[@Loralanthalas]

Honeslty that they couldn't be bothered to find the body within a 1 hour radius is just pitiful

[@elizabethmcglothlin5406]

Sadly alaska is large and thinly populated outside the cities.

[@CATNAPREAL1188]

WHO IS THIS GUY RELATED TOO ?? He must have a High profile family member. HisStory does NOT make ANY SENSE ! 1st he leaves the girl for 2 hour's in the wood's. When he returns the car magically starts. So he roars off, back to the fair/festival and doesn't bother to call her house, doesn't check to see if she made it back safely ? During those 2 Magic hour's that he took that nonexistent walk is when HE HAD 2 Hour's to kill her, hide her body and then LIE for year's and year's. WHO WAS THIS GUY RELATED TO IN THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY ? Was He the Judge's Son ? Was He the District Attorney's Son ? Some HOW I Hope that her family is able to hire a P.I. to seek out the answers as to WHY that guy wasn't charged with her murder. Damn it, even Stevie Wonder could SEE that HE Killed her within those 2 hour's DAMMIT !!! DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT ! STOP BEING CHICKEN SHITZ !!!

[@staggerlee6794]

Unfortunately the only someone that knows something is the person that murdered Erin. 😣

[@Superion74]

Combs only met Erin Gilbert a few days before at a bar before taking her to the festival, and his story has a lot of holes and inconsistencies. Why wasn't he treated as a prime suspect? They could have search his car for clues. I'm pretty certain he was the one who was responsible for her disappearance.

[@aileenjackson1706]

Boyfriend did it.

[@karenk3458]

I can’t believe this case remains unsolved😢😢😮! I hope they find out what happened to Erin!

[@sandybeach3576]

Law enforcement could have arrested and prosecuted the perp for murder, based on the evidence that they had.

[@IEATOSI]

Please do the unsolved case of Jessica Renee Johnson, a 37 year old mother, who was found hanging from a mailbox with shoe laces. Police labelled it a bizarre suicide, but almost all of her family and friends are convinced that it was a homicide. There are pictures from that small mailbox and other pictures, which make this unsolved case more than suspicious.

[@bafirebat]

This David guy might be the most obvious liar of all time. Are you kidding me?

[@SallyKohorst]

Where is Erin?😢😮

[@lmjones.9060]

I lived there. I don't remember this. Hope this is resolved .

[@marknewell997]

I think we all know what likely happened.

[@bobbaralawrence2002]

So, he drove back to the fairgrounds to search for Erin? I thought that's where the car was parked. At the Liively Beer Garden, at the fair. Why didn't he ask anyone there to give him a jump? Why didn't he go back inside the bar and the phone to call his friend or Erin's sister? And another thing. I left her sister home at approximately 4:00 p.m. it took them 1 hour to reach the fair. However, they were last seen at 6:00 p.m. before they headed back to his car. Who will spend an hour to drive to a fair and only spend an hour? This case has so many holes.

[@lisaoloughlin6476]

Seems like the police don't want to investigate??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[@JAY-lo3sx]

That many people about you would have asked for them give you a push to get the car started. Very suspicious. Would be good if you could look at the case of the murdered taxi driver in the 70,s I believe. From YEOVIL SOMERSET whose body was found under a bridge in the village of yetminster . Still unsolved. Thank you.

[@sharosmith]

So sad, someone does know something….she didn’t just fall off the earth! I’m so sorry.

[@karenboouk531]

Hello DC hope you are well. Someone does know something why they let the family suffer like that baffles me honestly. Sending love to you and the family. Xxx 🌹🌹🌹

[@Nana-Opa]

⭐️

[@rhettoneill836]

All lies still give tells..2hrs is significant...is the victims remains 2hrs away..this case reminds me of Kristin Mondafferi who went missing near Sanfransico..she had beautiful sisters also❤

[@Loralanthalas]

Only 1 hour. Round trip.

[@BrittBratt2You]

🙏💜✝️🙏💜

[@geezuss1114]

What you do have is a family in anguish. Horrible!!

[@CG-gp2gc]

😢

[@lisa8477]

😢😢😢❤

[@JoJoHOPPE-i7j]

She just met that David in a bar DAYS before going out of town with him! Young ladies, take this as a cautionary tale! She knew NOTHING about the dude, so if he's a secret killer, she made it extremely easy for him to ply his trade. A dead car battery does not just miraculously correct itself! He could have graped and strangled her and thrown her down a mine shaft (hopefully she was truly deceased because if she was not, that would make a tragic event even more tormenting) and, oh my GOD I just realized why so many people just disappear in this country!! Sadly, I fear that David has actually committed the perfect murder!! Unless they were in a DESERT, why would dude have to freaking WALK two hours to some deadbeat friend's place?? Weren't there any people, businesses or PHONES between the alleged stranded automobile and CIVILIZATION? First and foremost, why the fuc* didn't he just phone AAA with one of at least TWO cell phones available inside the car with the dead battery - that isn't actually dead? If my obsession with true crime has taught me anything, isn't the first person they investigate thoroughly supposed to be the last person to see the victim alive? Another thing, it's preposterous to even CONSIDER that that she would have sat alone in the vehicle (especially in a rural setting) unless she had a firearm with her! The ONLY way this scenario would be somewhat plausible would be if we time traveled back to 1973, they were in a desert and they were BOTH walking in pursuit of the now extinct PAY PHONE - even then there's no way she would have remained in the car! This guy has got more tales than Teddy Ruxpin! LOCK HIM UP!

[@FallenAngel9979]

I used to love watching Teddy Ruxpin!

[@Loralanthalas]

Any physcopath can hold in their crazy for 6 months. Are you actually saying women should never go out with a man unless their family has known him for generations? 😂

[@Trev-jz6yw]

The friend had feelings for her and she didn’t recognize his feelings and he murdered her!!! How is he not the main suspect here?

[@danielemoore1953]

What a shame. She was really pretty.

[@auntbarbara5576]

Thank you! #DARKCURIOUSITIES 💖💖💖

[@stuartholmes9471]

Wonder if is car was ever checked for evidence the car not starting sounds abit suspect.

[@fizzao1342]

The boyfriend’s story has more holes than a sieve.

[@carolyndalton7775]

✔️

[@stevenbrookover3934]

Such a BEAUTIFUL girl! I mean absolutely gorgeous!

[@ashleyhoffman4117]

the BF

[@Paul-k3d]

I remember hearing about this girl years ago and every time I hear this story it makes me sick this was a very nice looking girl who had a whole future ahead of her she was definitely met with some kind of foul Play and I hope the perpetrators are brought to Justice. I'm surprised there was no DNA left at the site inside the car they should have swapped the car for fingerprints in DNA.

[@Loralanthalas]

In the late 90s whe OJ killed those people and left his DNA in her neck: DNA wasn't trudged by thr public and OJ was let go. Why would you think even before this time in a land of idiots who worship stupid and jocks would somehow turn to or trust science?

[@dawnieangel76]

That scumbag not only is guilty, but he must have some kind of tie to law enforcement or someone higher up.

[@squanderbird1]

Hay, y’all ❤

[@joeylowry874]

Howdy!

[@squanderbird1]

@ hayyy!

[@TheLT704]

Who are the two guys at 4:37 ? Were they looked into?

[@normn2915]

What a strange comment, so anyone who takes a picture with her should be looked into?

[@NoirFan84]

​@normn2915 LOL. These internet sleuths always do this kind of crap. Any high-profile missing person or unsolved murder case that gets media attention you get anyone who is interviewed or mentioned as a friend or family member of the missing or deceased person get accused by people on social-media of being tge culprit, it's ridiculous. Remember the Idaho Murders for instance? I don't think there was a person in that town that wasn't accused of being behind it. 😂 That photo in this video is just a random existing photo of her, almost certainly not on the day she disappeared nor from the location she disappeared. 🤦‍♂️

[@FrankFernandez-s6c]

The boyfriend isn't coming clean on his side of events , just not taking the polygraph test is enough to " raise concern" on this individual

[@SerenDipity64711]

It's bizarre the police have not pursued Combes as a suspect!!! So many holes in his ridiculous story...was his car ever examined for evidence??

[@Loralanthalas]

All it takes is him cracking enough jokes they think he's a cool guy.

[@tonyboyer1563]

Been to forest fair many times. It's not bad if you stay with your family. very odd case tho...

[@Fourleafclover9]

Bs story where is this piece of work , needs arresting.

[@janismitchell3122]

Not defending David, but I actually have tried to start my car before and it wouldn't start. After waiting for over 2 hrs for AAA to show up I tried to start it again, and it started right up, so I know it is possible.

[@baxtersmom279]

It happened to my son’s car just last week.

[@Loralanthalas]

Still driving around d with that battery arr you? 😂 no. You had to go change it. David never did.

[@lisaoloughlin6476]

I don't understand why the troopers are not investigating the fellow she went with, especially because he refused to take a polygraph, can't they get a court order. After all she just met him in a bar a few hours before?????????????????????????????

[@Loralanthalas]

A lie detector is less accurate then humans. Never take one. It will NEVER prove your innocent.

[@stanhankins3175]

Good loving gone bad.

[@Nora.Lynn82]

Do you know if investigators looked into the possibility that Israel Keyes could be involved?

[@amandakamar252]

Why does everyone suspect Israel Keyes? It was the date!

[@grahamgordon9541]

The guy's a murderer!

[@YimmyyaRashoo]

are you joking....Her date killed her period, leaving car lights on for hours will drain the battery.....it will not suddenly be charged again , Her date is 100% guilty

[@timelessvoid4186]

Thats not even a mystery as to who did it with the bs story he made up.