Police: exists Him: *and i took that personally*

Him: Kills 3 girls Police: baby I'm not even here 👩🏽‍🦯 Him: steals a bag of walnuts Police: you are under arrest for a very planned mastermind crime.

strange man, running around in weird clothes and clearly out of breath: _visibly suspiciously_ "Can I come in and have a cup of tea?" british person: "Bloody hell you've been runnin' for a while, come in!"

For a mentally disabled guy to kill a child an hour after he was caught and to do it without leaving any evidence or fingerprints.. And the family called the police 4 hours after he was caught. I don't know, world.. I don't know..

Him: assaults a 13yo girl Police: ok Him: strangles some chickens Police: *you what now*

the fact she was picking flowers absolutely breaks my heart

cases like this just make me think of those people of the older generation that are like “ahh back in my day we didnt have all these rules, kids just used to play out none of this molly coddling like kids today... they were perfectly safe” 👀 were they safe... were they 😳 xxx

“...he picked up a hobby” “A rather unconventional hobby..” “He began burglarizing homes” WTF?! 🤣🤣🤣

It’s terrifying that he escaped the mental hospital, had a cup of tea with a random person and asked ‘do you not feel unsafe?’

The police: arrest him for committing a crime Him: *and I took it personally*

I wouldn't even open my door unless I was expecting a package...I can't imagine inviting a rando in for tea lol

Him: Assaults little girl. Police: ... Him: kills her chickens. Police: HOW F- DARE U

Eleanor: _"in his revenge , Straffen snuck around the girl's home in the middle of the night and strangled 5 of her Family"_ ME : _OMG ! Family Members??!!_ 😩😭 Eleanor: _"CHICKENS"_ 🐔

I cannot ever imagine a time when it was perfectly fine and safe to let your 9 year old go off to the movies alone 🤷‍♀️.

I've seen NO ONE point this out so far, so I'd just like to mention; at the point where Eleanor said "So he happily demonstrated by walking up behind one of the officers and did it on him" or whatever, I was genuinely concerned for that poor officer. Like, she didn't mention him asking that officer if it was alright, he literally just went up to him and did it. Now, I know that he was in a room full of officers and they're normally prepared for this kind of thing, but Jesus that'd be terrifying. Like you're just w/ you bros, interviewing some guy who strangled a little girl, and thr guy gets up and says "Yeah ill show you how i did it" and he starts walking towards YOU. I'd just be like "shitshitshitshit" XD

Imagine how guilty the police officers wife must of felt

Ugh the little first baby girl shattered my heart when I heard she was picking flowers before getting kidnapped.

Please cover the Dylan Ehler case PLEASE he’s still missing and his dad is pleading to get his name & face out there

him: assaults a child police: I aint hearing that noise him: steals walnuts police: 5 star chase

Imagine seeing his face on the news and remembering that you served tea to him just a few hours before

When I was around 6 years old, my mom let me play in this small field outside of our house alone and it was like the middle of the day. She normally doesn't let me play alone but for some reason she let me go that time. In the distance I could see a tall guy walking in my direction. I didn't think much of it coz I assumed he was in a hurry and is just passing by. But the closer he got I realised that he was looking at me and the vibes he was giving weren't right. So glad I did the right thing by getting up and hurriedly speed walking to my house. Swear he was so close behind but by some miracle my older brother went to check up on me (when he rarely did) and this mf did a complete turn to the right and hurriedly walked off down the street. I told my family and they kept me locked in the house for a while for my safety. Parents, it doesn't matter if you're letting your kids play outside when the sun is out or when there are people around coz anything can happen to them and not all kids get away from these situations.

can we talk about her makeup tho? SHE LOOKS SO GOOD

I used to live near Broadmoor as a kid and I remember the alarm going off once when it wasn't a drill. My gran was staying with us and my mum forgot to mention what day the drills were on, so when my gran heard the alarm go off she assumed it was just the drill and so took me to the park regardless. When mum returned home, gran told her how impressed she was at how seriously the drill had been taken that day (doors locked, shops shut, all streets empty, shutters down, curtains closed, lights off etc) and my mum was just like "The drill is in two days..." Turns out someone had genuinely escaped. They'd been caught pretty quickly and hadn't actually managed to get anywhere close to civilisation, but it still terrified my mum to think of what could have happened to three year old me and my seventy year old grandma.

Thank you for not saying the R-slur, even though it was his technical diagnosis

police: *catches him at 6pm* *murder at 7pm* also police: "he was back in hospital but it was definitely him"

"His teddy named Rupert" Stewie from Family Guy: 👁👄👁

im sorry but im like ten minutes in and I have to say: WHY IN THE HELL DID THEY NOT CONNECT THE FIRST TWO MURDERS I-

this case honestly broke my heart. the first girl was only picking flowers, FLOWERS this act is so innocent, she was only 5. I can’t believe he didn’t even get anxiety or any guilt of what he had done. If I did this i would feel so guilty that i would confess myself. i couldn’t imagine how much pain the parents went through. 💔

"Screw the police, I'm going to get my revenge on them all" *kills two random innocent girls, confesses immediately when caught* ??????????

The fact that he knows his actions were wrong enough to lie proves he wasnt too insane to understand he was wrong when he killed the first two

Important notes I feel should be mentioned: mental hospitals back then were infamous for their mistreatment of patients, and if you were deemed at all mentally unwell you were basically ostracized. Mental health treatment back then was incredibly traumatizing; mental health schools are still incredibly abusive to their students and often they receive parental permission to lock children as low as the age of 4 in a room for hours, or to restrain them. (One school I went to actually broke a child's arm restraining her and refused to get off her until she "calmed down" Which was about an hour. No news coverage, or charges were made. She did eventually go to a hospital and got a week off school) So this man was never given the chance to properly learn about justice or property because he was never given justice himself, or given property himself, or anything. Of course what he did was wrong but it was most likely cause by all the incredibly horrible things around him that would've been just normal. The police leading thing... I very much doubt that they got him to accidentally confess??? Like is that just me or is it just super deniable that they managed to corner this supposedly stupid man and mentally trap him Last note: IQ isn't real. There isn't such thing as smart points. It is essentially just testing your memory and ability to follow commands (which is how we test animals IQs btw, how well they can follow commands) this case has shown the man is obviously not as stupid as people back then made him out to be (take his escape plan for example, it would've been tough to pull off without a bit of quick thinking)

Him: murders a kid Also him: goes home and sleeps with his teddy RuPeRt

I always hear how it was much “safer” back in the day and how ppl would let their young children walk alone etc., but from the looks of Eleanor’s channel turns out it wasn’t much safer than nowadays at all🤣

How was he found guilty of Linda's murder if the only evidence is police claims? Isn't it like, a definition of reasonable doubt? That poor girl didn't even get the justice she deserved.

my mum used to work are horetham hospital, she has lots of story about how badly the patients were treated.. she’s pretty much scarred by her time there

So he's not mentally capable enough to kill someone and doesn't know why it's wrong yet he's clever enough to escape to a high security prison?

"55 years and 3 months, God I'm bad at my job". Never a more relatable phrase

imagine if he didn’t kill her, that would have been her best memory of a stranger :(

Personally don’t think he did the third murder as he would have gone into detail

Police: Him: ..i jUsT tHiNk iTs FuNnY hOw

13 year old girl: He strangled and threatened to kill me! Police: ... 13 year old girl: He strangled some chickens! Police: *BANG BANG BANG* FBI, OPEN UP! *Kicks the door down*

Can we also discuss the fact that the dependent had a black eye whilst being returned to Broadmoor. Did the leading questions turn into violence and he was unable to defend himself? No DNA. No fingerprints on the bike and sign of fingernails on the child's neck. However this child died it is so sad.

But if he didn’t kill the third girl, why did he say “I didn’t kill the girl on the bike”, like that’s suspicious. Another thing that didn’t make sense is that witnesses said that they’ve heard a little girl screaming at 7 pm and according to what is said on the video, by 7 pm he was already found and questioned. This means that he couldn’t even witness the crime or know about a little girl on the bike..

The fact there’s a place called an “idiot colony “ makes me so angry how would that help anyone

Him: "What would you do if I killed you?" Me: "Umm...die?"

I just don’t get, if some scared little girl came in and said to me “that grown man was strangling me.” I would walk over there and strangle him back.. but they are just like “hey kid, thanks for stopping by.. Here’s a lollipop?” I’m so saddened for her.

So I live in Hampshire and one of my friends lives on the estate just outside Broadmoor and honestly those alarms are chilling !! I have no idea how anyone lives round there.

Police: Listen John it's okay if you go around strangling little girls we don't mind but don't be strangling our chickens that's when we get mad

Liner is next level🔥

The fact that she was out just picking flowers and that turned out as such a sad story is just heart breaking 💔😕

obsessed with your content! Where i work at i have to listen to media via an mp3 player, it really helps me get through my work weeks! I appreciate your channel!! Thank you for spreading awareness to these cases that aren't so popular. And letting all the victim's names be heard!

Me, an American, hearing 55 years was a record for the UK: 🧍🏻‍♀️

Why is no one talking about how STUNNING Eleanor looks?

The fact that he specifically asked about the scenario of someone escaping coming to the town and it being unsafe shows he knew it was wrong and why, also his escape plan was very well thought out, plus he had been cleaning for over a year and could have remembered to wipe down his fingerprints after moving the bike, I think the times were reported wrong and he was new to police questioning before but later learned not to outright confess like he did prior. Also the nail thing, maybe he stopped biting his nails for a while because he was confident in his escape, but started it up again once he got caught, I think there is a strong possibility that he was guilty.

Wow! This was one of most tragic yet interesting ones yet! I really dig all the historical info such as the Broodmoore siren, the locations in more detail etc. Well done,Eleanor! 🖤

Little things like the fact that she gives content warnings, even though it means she might lose some views, are what makes Eleanor easily one of the best true crime youtubers on KZfaq

That’s just so sad to know that his victims were so young and had barely been alive on this Earth and experienced life in general. :( rest easy, angels 💕

This is an older video i missed so watching it now. Really happy with your presentation of the cases

I remember being at school and the broadmoor siren going off. We had to wait in school until we were picked up. Was really scary as a kid.

I was just thinking about Eleanor and then she posted wow

One does NOT simply strangle chickens and get away with it

Cant even imagine how that mother of the first 5 year-old must have felt after knowing she was frantically searching for her daughter while the killer just watched and walked away from behind💔

This is such a sad story. But I couldn't help but notice... Everyones seen Family Guy right? Is Stewies character possibly based off this guy? That would explain his English accent, his head, and why he's so close to Rupert (his teddy). Just something that clicked in my head, it could be.

How sad that this little girl was expecting flowers and ended up like this... Five years old man😢

not enough of these comments are talking about how sad all these kids losing their life is. :( RIP

The nail marks on lindas neck could be from her trying to get his hands off her

I really enjoy how you tell the stories, they make so much sense this way. And about this story in particular - poor children :(

I feel like maybe the “I didn’t kill the little girl” statement could have been misconstrued by the police to be a confession. Even with his young mental age, John had experience with police and knew that they were trying to pull a confession from him. If Linda was the only little girl in the neighborhood, maybe he saw her playing and kept running from broadmoor? With the other two girls he had prolonged interaction with them and decided after a while to kill them. I don’t think he would have seen a child while he was fleeing the hospital, decided to kill her immediately, and then kept going. Just my two cents.

He likely had bacterial meningitis, endemic in India and brain damage is a side effect of surviving it. I disagree that he did not know right from wrong. A 10 year old knows right from wrong. He understood killing meant going to jail, he understood that clearly. Back in the '50s they did not have the language or neuropsychiatry we have today. It's not like he encountered situations where he lost his temper and acted out in rage, he hunted just like every other serial killer, he had a victimology, he had a method and not having a motive for killing does not mean you aren't capable of knowing killing is wrong.

There's a boarding school near Broadmoor for kids who struggle in traditional school environments that I went to - and the siren every week was so creepy. I remember having nightmares about it going off all the time. Fuckin creepy.

Hello, Eleanor, I hope you are well and having a happy new year. You do such a good job with your videos. Your research seems extensive, and your passion, enthusiasm, and empathy are evident. Keep up the great work. l look forward to the next video. :D

okay but the fact that so many people were kind enough to have tea with a complete stranger lmaooo

Only in the 50s would you let a 9 year old go off watcha a whole movie alone

I grew up close to Broadmoor, so many rumours and stories it scared the shh out of me. I don’t recall hearing the alarm weekly but definitely a few times as we kids would RUN home so fast thinking someone had escaped.

I grew up in one of the towns surrounding Broadmoor Hospital and still only live 2 miles away. From the age of 11-18 every Monday at 10am I would hear the sirens from my school. They test them weekly. I would occasionally hear the sirens at the train station when I started working in London and caught the 10am train and in a weird way it feels comforting... maybe just nostalgia? 🤣 It comes up so often in cases yet surprises me how close it is to home each time! They stopped using them in 2018 but some of the sirens still stand. Love your vids ❤️

Who would let their (young) daughter go out alone after another girl just was murdered in the area? Maybe it's the time, but I wouldn't let my children go out alone for quite some time after that.. Edit: it has been pointed out that the times were really different back then. I understand, I just wrote this in the heat of the moment from my own perspective. I don't mean to be hurtful or ignorant (if it sounded that way). I also don't blame the parents, because actually thinking about it, I understand why they did what they did. I won't delete this because I hope others will also learn from this (so please read the replies!)

It is super suspicious that he said that out loud. He was so confident to confess to the first 2. I think it's possible the family saw their chance and took it. Maybe he heard somebody mention it or possibly seen the little girl sometime when he was out. But to outright deny that he did it...? Didn't seem like him.. In a weird way. Also, the nails are a super suspicious clue. I feel like the cops seen an easy out for this little girls murder and didn't even bother to really look into it. It all seems off.

wow this must have taken you so long to put together so well done!! this was such an indepth story and i really liked the way you told it. i listened to this like a podcast while washing and ironing lol so thanks for keeping me entertained :)

Him: Hurts the poor girl Police: Baby I'm not even here Him: Assaults the chickens Police: Oh baby Nah that ain't gon work

Tbh I wouldn’t let my 9-year-old child go to a cinema by herself after such a horrible thing had happened to another child not far away

I love how respectful Elenor is when talking about these cases. I just thought that should be mentioned

New to your channel but I am hooked. Since this crime was in Bath, you should look into the Bath School Disaster. It's from Bath, Michigan. Very crazy and tragic situation. Keep up the good work, great content!

I went to school close enough to Broadmoor to be able to hear the alarm every Monday morning and it would catch me out and send me jumping out my seat Every. Goddamn. Monday. It's a very important drill and it's amazing that they're still taking it this seriously but holy moly did it scare me like nothing else!

I personally think that he did not kill Linda (or whoever was riding the bike)and it was Linda's parents because of the following reasons. - His fingerprints were not on the bike and he did not have gloves - John was in custody by the time the screams were heard - He was so open about the killings of the other two murders - The parents are hella suspicious - The parents didn't call the police until 5 hours after she went missing - If John had killed Linda and he already had a life sentence we would have admitted to the murder by then I also feel like the parents got him involved in the murder or maybe he saw it, thats the only part 8m a bit confused about.

Can you please cover the Deorr Kunz case? There are so many theories as to what happened to him and 2 Private Investigators both have different opinions as to the guilt/innocence of his parents! It's worth a look and I think you'll find it fascinating. Keep up the great work!

My name is Cicely. I NEVER hear my name in stories and this REALLY creeped me out😩

It's only 25 minutes in and everybody's talkin by her makeup instead of the case.

You guys are talking about her makeup and obviously it’s amazing but like he escaped and was just like “can I have tea” and these people at their doors were just like “eh seems fair enough come inside my house stranger I don’t know” ????

The police: - breathing - Him: *and I took that personally*

Me and my mum love watching your vids. They're so much better than the documentaries that me and my mum watch! Keep it up :D

HOW ARE YOU SO PRETTY?? WHAT-

when eleanor uploads, i drop everything to watch her

I was listening to the entire crime case but what keep getting me distracted was how one side of her hair was more curly then the other side 😂

it’s been about 69 years or sm like that since these murders. I feel so bad for the kids who where murdered by him.

The parents of Linda seem very suspicious but how did John know that she was on a bike?

Corpse: E-girls are ruining my life Him: Police are ruining my life

Amazing case. Very interesting.

so somehow i missed this video when it came out last year but i almost had a heart attack at how gorgeous eleanor looks in this. the thick eyeliner really brings out her eyes

Could you please cover the Andrew Walker murderer, he’s my grandma’s nephew and he’s still alive and lots of people are angry he’s free. It’s quite an interesting story. We have nothing to do with him tho obviously

he confessed to basically every other crime he committed, so i’m more inclined to believe the cops were trying to coerce him to confess and he got annoyed. plus the timeline just doesn’t add up.