After 30 years the mother says " now we can sleep".....omg! HEART BREAKING!!!

My softball coach was talking about this when the case was solved. Turns out Ive been playing softball for over 4 years just across the street from where the guy lived. Scares me to know that he could've been watching all of the little girls playing.

That man- who painted his truck just after April’s death- would be in prison to this day had it not been for DNA. Frightening thought.

My little brother is 8 years old. I can’t imagine something like that happening to him. Finally April can rest.

April would have been about 39 years old now... RIP April Tinsley

The eye witness women you talked about was my grandmother. She still talks about the case to me to this day and she recalls everything.

Imagine if she never left her umbrella at her friends house that day

I really want to give a big hug to April's mother. Her life was stuck for 30 years Oh poor april she was so cute.

The fact that the family was literally stuck in time, like time went on for everyone except for them, is so heartbreaking. Wow.

I honestly don't understand why people are able to do such things like this to innocent kids. I'm talking about kidnapping, killing, and raping ... i just don't get it. If you have urges, u should really seek help... don't hurt others for your "needs."

When you said that he responded with "April Tinsley" when police knocked on his door, I gasped and got shivers.

The end makes me really sad because my mother often tells me about how when I was little she imagined me as adult what I'd look like what I'd be like as a person who I might get married too what my career would be and now she always tells me your more beautiful than I could have imagined... That got stolen from this imaginative mother I know her daughter too would have been more beautiful than she could have imagined

"my memory of her as..when she was just a little girl. that's when it ends" oh boy, that broke my heart!!!

This case is in my hometown. I was not alive when it happened. They had a community event this past weekend at "Aprils Garden" which is a memorial. We went out there and saw her mom. I am so glad they caught this guy. Rip April

I just got my AncestryDNA test back today. I kind of want to contact that company you spoke about and let them know to test my dna against crimes in certain areas where I lived when younger. My father is a convicted child molester and not sure his dna was collected when he went in. I googled and can’t find a definite answer as to if his dna would have been collected or not.

“He was trolling down the street and he told us he saw April walking down the street and he pulled up a block and waited outside his vehicle for her to walk by. He told her to get in the car and she did. He then took her to his trailer in Grabill, the same trailer he was living in [when he was caught],” Martin recalled. Miller sexually assaulted and killed April in his trailer and then under the cover of night, he took her body to a ditch along County Road 68 in DeKalb County. But there was still the question of why. Miller had told police he had pre-meditated wanting to take a child, but he had never seen April before the day he abducted her. “[I think he answered it] in an indirect way. He was looking for a child suitable for what he wanted and he saw her as a target and he jumped on it,” Martin said. “It’s scary to think there are people in our society capable of doing this. Had she been five minutes earlier or five minutes later, we probably wouldn’t be sitting here today. It could have been anybody, any little kid in that area that day and that was probably not the first time he had gone looking,” Hetrick said. Miller admitted to Detectives Martin and Hetrick that, after he snatched and killed April, over the years he had thought about taking a child again. He even went trolling through neighborhoods and parking lots, but he never found an opportunity. “To think he could do something so heinous as what he did to April in 1988 and then just stop, I think everyone was very skeptical of that and I think we tried to answer those questions,” Martin said. “We were very direct with John about other cases. We kept going over other cases. We knew there was no DNA match, but we were persistent with John to tell us and help other families if there are other families and he was very insistent there was not. It’s incredible that he went looking and fortunately no one was there.” (I went digging cause some of this was left not answered. He didnt know her he just wanted to do it and saw an opportunity and jumped.. disgusting.. Also he has been portrayed as slow and was sent to some sort of institution where he was supposedly raped.. So him being slow he took it as it was "ok" to do it.. crock of shit if you ask me.. Since he went around writing all that shit to other girls.. He even fantasized about doing it again. and has insisted that he did not.. only because he never got another chance)

At this point, I think something like this will likely be the only way the Jon Benet Ramsey case is solved.

This is why parents now drive their kids everywhere , even if it's a 5min walk: & all the local nurseries have access via entryphone only, 6foot fences & CCTV in the playground, with primary schools following suit. Sad.

Cop: do you know what this is about Killer: April Tinsly Cop: what? we are here for tax evasion Killer: ummm I said nothing

Finally someone that tells the stories with their normal voice 🤣

If anyone is reading this watch a movie called “Lovely Bones” it’s about a girl who was murdered and she refuses to go to heaven so she watches over her family and gives them signs that she’s still here. It’s so good and it made me cry

Someone needs to get on Jon Benet Ramsey’s case ASAP that’s by far the most frustrating case I’ve ever read & I need answers

I wish at birth everyone legally has to participate in a DNA test. Would solve so many more murders and sexual assault cases.

Ima cry that little girl was so cute and innocent And this man is a monster

Why.Do.I.Watch.These.at.night?!?

I can’t be the only one who scrolls through comments while watching so I don’t get too scared hahah

I can’t understand how anyone could be this evil. This whole thing just hurts my heart so badly

now i understand why my mom never wanted me to talk and always said no and made me take the bus.

I love that not only is this technology thriving BUT that people are caring enough to go back to old fold cases and still fix it. I feel like a lot of times cases go cold and that’s that.

That’s incredible that these new technologies are helping solve these cases. People worry about Ancestry and 23 & Me using their DNA, but in situations like this I’m glad they do!

They need to do this for the Zodiac killer.

As a teacher, I can attest to the full moon thing... I noticed that my students acted weirder, or that the days didn't go as planned. I casually brought it up with my mother who has been teaching for 35 years, and she was like "OMG! EVERY TEACHER KNOWS THIS!"

If you’re looking for another case out of Indiana, please look into the deaths of Liberty German and Abigail Williams. They were murdered in 2017 and there is a photo, sketch, and Audio file of his voice. He’s never been found though.

'' Janette wished her whole life to be a mother, April was the daughter she dreamed of'' Damn that hit me right in the feels, ouchie!

I’m from Fort Wayne and people still talk about this case when they do the “stranger danger” presentation at schools.

I can’t believe people sexually assault children. It makes me so so so sick and angry. How can someone look at a CHILD like that?! Hurts my stomach to think about that.

My little sister is about to be in 1st grade ... I would never stop looking for her if she went missing. I'm glad that justice was served. Many Cases go by without being solved .. I'm glad this one was solved.

People get scared of technology but this is exactly what it should be used for! So glad it’s been solved and the family can have closure. RIP little April.

I’m currently 16 and my mom woulddd neverrrrr let me walk the streets alone no matter the neighborhood

I've seen so many of these sad stories, but this story of April really broke my heart and I just caught myself crying especially when I saw how they built the April's garden.

You know when she uses past tenses to describe April that it's about to take a bad turn..

The music playing freaks me out more than the video lol. But this case is so sad I wish it never happened

“theres only one thing im gonna ask him. why” :(

Imagine being a relative of a killer

She was so adorable- ;-; it's hard to look at someone picture and know that person is actually dead and how they died.

He appears in court today. I'm keeping myself updated! So happy justice was served. Rest in peace, April.

How amazing is science!? God bless all the amazing scientists out there… who help make solving crimes easier as time goes by. So happy that April’s family got Justice.

i feel so bad for everyone involved, the lady who saw her last, her friend she went to go play with, her mom. They all must have some guilt they will never compile shake.

Hey Kendall! I'd love to get your take on my great-uncle's case. My uncle Richard, his wife Belinda, and their two young children went missing September 1974 on a camping trip in the forests of southern Oregon. Their bodies were found the following spring. Unsolved case and has at least one suspect who is currently incarcerated for other similar crimes.

How heart breaking.....r.i.p to that poor little girl!

Thank you for not using those creepy scary sounds that they use to tell crime stories. It makes it so much easier to watch these type of videos. I really really enjoy your content and this youtube channel is such a comfort zone for me. Thank you for doing so much research and posting videos for us.

He was convicted and sentenced to 80 years. I guess there's justice in him having to die alone in prison.

I'm I the only one that thinks is insane to let a kid that small walk alone? Maybe time were "different" but were they real ?

Something good about prison: Child abusers, child molesters, and child murderers are the enemy of EVERYONE. This dude won’t last. And as horrible as it is to say, I hope his end is gruesome and painful.

As a child of the 80s, my sister and I both thank our lucky stars that we made it through. We used to run around the neighborhood at 3+ years old with our brother and our neighborhood friends. I still have a scar on my knee from when I fell down my neighbor's driveway when I was 4. Life was different back then. Things like this didn't happen or they happened to other people. It could have been any one of us. Scary.

I have been binge watching all of your videos between studying for nursing school exams; it's my reward after listening to lectures. Thank you so much for your easy to navigate page and awesome, detailed deep dives into these crazy stories.

Wow. Technology is truly amazing. As much as I talk smack about people constantly on their cell phones, or people sitting in front of the TV/Computer all day, we would be nothing without technology

Ok, about those notes: that's when I'd just pack up and leave that freaking town. I would never wait around for some perv to threaten my child. Now, I know that most people don't have the means to just skip town like that...

I live in Fort Wayne Indiana and barely anybody talks about this story, this is only my second time hearing this.💯

As I’m on the treadmill , binge watching these videos, I look behind my back especially with the spooky music 😩😩😩💔💔❤️❤️ 👀

OMGG the note on the barn scared the shit out of me...

When i was younger (aprils age) i would get so mad that my mum wouldnt let me go out by myself etc like my friends did but now i totally get it and i will be the same because you never know who is out there some people are capable of these things and you never expect it to happen to you but these cases just really make you think how easily these situations could have been avoided ☹️ so sad

This is so heartbreaking but at least im glad her mom was alive to see justice done

I got my own my story. My mom was a teacher at a university and I went to give her something with my dad and maid,my dad went inside to give my mom her jacket and my maid took me outside to get some fresh air right outside the car she put me on top of the car and kinda you know stretched and looked away for a little bit,a man snatched me of the roof and started running away my maid screamed and and a student (god bless him) tackled him and got me back (I was 5) and I wish I could thank him,I’m really great full I am alive to tell this story. A beautiful little girl called April was killed i am great full I survived but sad she didn’t 😖

Every time I watch 1 of these I break. I have 2 little girls that are my whole world and I cannot imagine the immense amount of pain these poor parents go through after losing their little angels.

bruh this music is scaring me but i can’t stop watching because i have to no how this ends!!!

This case scares me every time I hear about it…. Because I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and so did my mother. She says she remembers when April went missing and how scared everyone was. Unfortunately, I also ended up being witness to a case that happened in Fort Wayne as well… In 2011 when our family friend Aliahna Lemmon went missing around the holidays and was found murdered… it really traumatized me knowing someone that close who was only a few years younger than me was killed… it’s so messed up how people can just do this to others… absolutely horrible! Makes me sick 😞

And this was her only child too how heart breaking poor mama 💕😞

I just couldn't take it when April's mother started to speak...i just broke down... couldn't control my tears... she is so sweet but she must be in soooooo much pain

Its so satisfying when they get solved

I found your channel a few weeks ago and I've been hooked, I've been watching every day since. I love the way you piece apart the information!

She would have been 40 or 41 now, maybe even 42. You will be missed April🥰❤❤

He worked at the Walmart I worked at. Crazy.

I'll never understand how some men do such sick, twisted, discusting things to children. Thank God for technology. I hope it advances soo such that no one gets away with this shit anymore. God bless ❤

No kid or grandkids of mine is gonna be walking any where by there self’s at that young age.

When you said “he found a body” and the music started, I almost cried 😩😂

Wow, he looks SO much like the sketch

I’m happy that they found the killer. The worst thing is to find your child/ someone you know dead and not even know who did it. I hope April rests in peace.

This beautiful little angel was born on my birthday the year my Mom was born... so sad this happened to her😔☹️

Prayers for this sweet family, for little April to RIL and for her to get the justice she deserves 🙏🏽

My mum would never let me out, I wasn’t even aloud to walk home or to school until I was in grade 8.

Truly sad story but I'm so happy she got justice and that the killer is caught 😭💛💜so much love to her and her family keep up the great work kendall

I am in my kitchen watching and this the first video I have watched from Kendall that made me cry. That poor baby. This happened to me when I was twelve years old but I LIVED TO TELL. Blessings to that sweet girl and her family.

Kendall, your videos always have so much heart. Thank you for helping us discover April’s story, and may she rest in peace.

Can u talk about Sandra Cantu she was found but I have found her case very interesting

I say they should continue to use this method to find the killers. The goal should be to solve ALL the murders that are cold unsolved murders. I'm just happy that April has her justice, and now other cases can be solved and murderers can be put away for good.

Such a beautiful little girl. I can’t lie. I’ve been binge watching your videos and my heart breaks for these victims and their families. Makes me wanna hold my baby tighter and never let him go!

What a beautiful little girl. Breaks my heart. So sick. I love how the family finally has closure. That’s really the best you can ask for.

I am NOT a commenter. I am a true crime junkie though. And I am also from Fort Wayne. I was so upset to see none of my channels covering this story when it broke. This was huge for our city - this had tormented us for decades. I’m 26, so my childhood was vastly different than my parents BECAUSE of this case - particularly the notes. Thank you so much for covering this.

To add on to the full moon thing, my dog that passed away ago had a seizure only on full moons. So weird!!

It's so beautiful and heartwarming to see all the support from the community to April's mom and the rest of the family. ❤️

Its so nice to see people are still going back and doing the research and using new developed methods to solve cases that have been cold for years. Its nice to know people still care about ones who families think have probably been forgotten.

8 years old 1988, April in the 1st grade missing on April 1st. Wut

Your videos always make my day, Kendall! I appreciate all the work you put into these videos for us, and I wish you success in the future!!

I live in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and I was in baton. before the killer was found, he lived in this neighborhood. I was in a parade, and marched right past his house. I was about 10 years old when I marched in the parade. it is truly chilling knowing that me and my group marched past the killers house.

That sad music at the end that you play on some of your videos gets me every time I cry

I remember seeing an article that they’ve found the killer . I’m glad they found justice for her. Its so sad for the family . Thanks for the update

My sister is an OB-GYN. 100% weird shit happens with the full moon! They actually have extra staff that day, because more women go into labor. It's a fact, not even opinion! Also- I think it's amazing that they're able to use new DNA and technology to solve crimes!

These cases always hit me super hard as a mom and stepmom :( I can imagine the heartbreak parents in these cases feel and what the children went through

Not sure why just today I found this channel, but I love it. Have binge watched 4 videos and counting. Thank you for the great content!!!