true crime stories have dominated the
press in recent months
some corners of the world have obscure
true crime stories that you might never
have heard of in your part of the world
there are other crazy true crimes that
sound fake but are real
number five
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twenty-four-year-old aaron marie gilbert
had the world at her feet the promising
young woman had moved to anchorage
alaska from san francisco california the
year before at her sister's request
aaron quickly settled into life in
alaska and began making friends and
turning heads wherever she went
neither aaron nor her family ever
believed that she would be at the center
of one of alaska's most bizarre missing
person cases that you'll never believe
before her disappearance aaron had
enrolled in beauty school and was
excited about the upcoming academic year
standing at almost six feet tall erin
loved to play basketball and was
described as a responsible and kind
young woman she also liked to let her
hair down and dress up and hit the local
bars
on june 30 1995 erin was drinking at a
bar when she met david combs
the pair immediately hit it off and
agreed to go on a date the next day
july 1st 1995 rolled around and aaron
was excited for her date
at the time she was living with her
sister and her husband at their house
while she worked part-time as a nanny
david arrived at the home to collect
erin and as she left her nephew said
auntie aaron you should bring a cell
phone to which aaron replied no that's
okay
a detail that would go on to haunt
aaron's sister stephanie
the pair drove up to the girdwood forest
fair in gerdwood alaska and walked
around looking at the stalls and taking
in the natural beauty of the forests
around them
witnesses recalled seeing aaron and
david in a beer garden at the fair
and david told investigators that they
left at around 6 pm to go back to his
car
when they arrived at his car they found
that the headlights had been left on
which had drained the battery
david told aaron that he would walk to a
friend's house nearby to get help and
that he would be back very soon
two hours passed and david found himself
walking up and down looking for his
friend's house
in the end he gave up his search and
returned to his car when david returned
he was shocked to find that his car
miraculously started even though it had
a dead battery
he was also shocked to find that aaron
had disappeared and there was no sign of
her anywhere thinking that perhaps she'd
gone back into the fair to kill some
time he searched for her until around
1am before calling it quits and heading
back home
the next morning david phoned aaron's
sister stephanie to ask if she had
gotten home okay
but to his horror stephanie hadn't seen
or heard from aaron since the night
before
realizing that something was very wrong
stephanie and other family members went
down to the fairgrounds to search for
aaron but found nothing
eventually the alaska state troopers
were called to the scene and a missing
person investigation was officially
opened
search dogs helicopters search and
rescue and volunteers scoured the
forests for aaron but it was as if she
had vanished into thin air
stephanie told investigators that it was
very uncharacteristic for aaron to go
walking in the woods
and that there was no reason she could
have run away
months turned into years and despite the
best efforts of the alaska state
troopers aaron gilbert has never been
found
david combs the man that aaron was with
on the night that she disappeared is not
considered a suspect but her family
believes she met with foul play that
night
she's described as a white female with
short pixie cut brown hair and hazel
eyes she's 5 foot 11 and 145 pounds and
has a tattoo of a large blue flower on
her chest
anyone with information is urged to
contact the alaska state troopers on
907-428-7200
907-269-5497
number four
59 year old abby flynn spent the day of
february 2nd 2020 getting everything
ready to host a super bowl party that
evening
abby and her friends had excitedly
discussed the details for weeks and now
their plans were turning into a reality
at around 2 40 p.m she facetimed her son
and told him that she was going for a
quick walk before the party
this wasn't out of the ordinary for abby
her family told nbc that she was a keen
hiker and loved walking trails behind
her massachusetts home
on the weekend of the super bowl party
her husband rich was out of town and in
texas leaving abby to have a fun-filled
evening with her friends
when abby's friends arrived at her home
it was empty
everything for the party was laid out
and ready the oven was still warm but
there was no sign of their host
concern grew as her friends searched the
neighborhood but found no sign of abby
sensing that something was wrong her
friends called the police department and
reported her missing
within minutes the police had descended
on the home and an investigation was
open
according to the police department there
was no sign of forced entry and no sign
of a struggle in the home making this
one of the strangest true crime stories
to recently occur
abby's phone was left on the kitchen
counter and nothing seemed out of place
now over a year later abby's friends are
still wanting answers
abby flynn is described as a white
female with brown hair and brown eyes
she's five foot five to five foot seven
and 190 to 210 pounds
she was last seen wearing a navy blue
l.l bean puffer jacket
a long-sleeved flannel shirt blue jeans
and ll bean boots
if you have any information you're urged
to contact the local police department
at 978-283-1212
or the massachusetts state police at
978-745-8908
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number three
the case of calvin jones has so many
twists and turns that it sounds fake but
we promise it's 100 true
in 1964
33 year old calvin jones and 23 year old
sarah tolbert were in a relationship and
going through the highs and lows of any
normal adult relationship
on june 13th 1964 the pair were driving
in calvin's car when they got into an
explosive argument
the pair exchanged crosswords invented
their anger and in a fit of rage calvin
pulled out a rubber hose and hit sarah
with it until she was unconscious and
eventually passed away from her injuries
panicked calvin drove around for hours
hoping that sarah would regain
consciousness but she never did
upon realizing what he had done he drove
himself to the nearest police station
and confessed
he was swiftly arrested and held in
custody pending an autopsy in full
investigation
the coroner who performed sarah's
autopsy was astounded to find that the
attack wasn't the cause of her death at
all
two separate coroners independently
concluded that at the time sarah had
been suffering from sickle cell anemia
and that the disease was the cause of
her passing and thus the result was
recorded as natural causes
the coroners were unable to provide any
evidence that the attack contributed to
sarah's passing thus absolving him of
the crime
police officers visited calvin's cell to
inform him that his charge had been
downgraded for murder and he was now
facing an assault case
everyone involved in this case was
baffled by the bizarre and unusual
outcome in 1966
calvin entered a guilty plea to assault
charges and narrowly escaped more
serious charges thanks to the autopsy
the judge presiding over calvin's case
addressed the court saying were it not
for the medical reports this man would
have been facing a murder trial today
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number two
gellain vedrin came from a very
successful and affluent family
she was the director of a school in
paris her oldest brother felipe was an
executive with shell oil and her other
brother charles henry was a local
politician and gynecologist
the david drean family all lived under
one roof in chateau martell in france
the chateau had been passed down through
generations of the deva dreams and to
say it was beautiful would be an
understatement
in the 1990s gillane met terry tilly
when he began working as an
administrator at the school at first he
became gillane's friend and as time went
on he gained the family's trust jean
marchand told bbc news quote at the
beginning tilly said he would look after
our home investments and trusts
we just wanted to protect them
we used professionals but he made us
believe he was better than that
unbeknownst to the devadrin family terry
was slowly gaining control over them
he was able to whip the family up into a
frenzy and kept them in a cult-like
state for over 10 years
gillane would soon grow to regret her
decision but at this point it was simply
too late
terry's control started subtly but he
began telling the family that they were
in the center of a bizarre masonic
conspiracy
and that he was their only hope
he began convincing the family to
barricade themselves inside of the
chateau martel
and encourage them to cut off contact
with the outside world to keep them safe
terri threatened the family telling them
that if they went outside or interacted
with anyone except each other that their
lives would be in jeopardy
members of the devadrin family who were
under terry's spell described him as
hypnotic and very convincing
terry's behavior only intensified and he
managed to convince the family to stop
paying their taxes and to sell off some
of their properties
all of the proceeds from these sales
went to tiri as he was the one in charge
of the family's finances
in 2007 the french authorities noticed
that the david dreams hadn't been paying
their taxes
and after a dispute the chateau
martell's furniture was removed and
auctioned
some articles also mentioned that terry
convinced the family to sell the
historic family home and gained around 5
million dollars doing so
following the sale of the family home
and the repossession of the furniture
terry moved the family to oxford and
forced them to work with all of their
wages going directly to him
christine de vedrin the wife of charles
henry managed to escape when her boss
met terry and sensed that something
wasn't quite right
with the help of her manager she was
able to get back to france and reported
the whole ordeal to french
authorities following a lengthy
investigation terry tilly was arrested
and sentenced to serve just eight years
in prison for arbitrary detention
the devadrin family are now without
their ancestral family home and are
struggling to make ends meet
christine de vedrine told business
insider quote eight years is a small
price to pay for what he did to our
family the trial is behind us and we
will do everything to rebuild
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number one
bernie teed was a mortician in the small
town of carthage texas
with the population of around 6 700
people
carthage was a tight-knit community and
everyone knew bernie through his line of
work
in tough times bernie was there for the
community and ensured that their loved
ones received a thoughtful and dignified
send-off
so in 1997 when he was arrested in
connection with the disappearance of 81
year old marjorie nugent the whole
community was shocked
in 1990 marjorie nugent laid her husband
to rest
and it was at her husband's funeral that
she met bernie teed who was working as a
funeral director
the two quickly became very close
despite the 49-year age gap
as marjorie got older she needed more
assistance and bernie quit his job and
became her assistant and carer in some
capacity
marjorie had also named bernie as the
sole heir to her multi-million dollar
estate which would have influenced
bernie's decision and later actions
for years the pair traveled together and
spent time together
their friendship blossomed and they were
often seen around town together that was
until november of 1996 when marjorie
mysteriously vanished
carthage is a small town and marjorie's
absence was noticed pretty quickly
but bernie pushed these concerns aside
and made up different excuses as to why
she hadn't been out and about for a
while what the community didn't know was
that bernie had gotten rid of margaery
and was storing her remains in a freezer
for nine months bernie kept up the
charade of being a caring friend who was
running errands and looking after an
ailing old woman
the excuses worked for a while
in mid-1997 marjorie's friends finally
called the carthage police department to
request a welfare check
when police searched marjorie's home
they found her remains inside of a
freezer and bernie immediately confessed
to what he had done
bernie painted marjorie out to be an
evil woman who controlled him until he
snapped
bernie was swiftly arrested and put on
trial but the trial didn't run smoothly
despite his open confession the people
of carthage didn't believe that their
beloved bernie was capable of such an
act
after weeks of back and forth arguments
and once the evidence was laid out in
front of them the jury found bernie
guilty and he was sentenced to 50 years
in prison
in 2014 bernie filed a successful appeal
and for years he was able to live his
life as a free man
that was until marjorie's family
appealed this decision which saw bernie
put before a new judge and a new jury
this time the jury ensured that he would
be in prison for the rest of his life
handing down a sentence of 99 years
bernie teed continues to file appeals
and he'll next be eligible for parole in
2029
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