Hi guys. How are you today? My name is Bailey Sarian
and today is Monday which means it's murder,
mystery and makeup Monday! (vocalizing) If you are new here, hi. How are you? Every Monday I sit down and
talk about a true crime story that's been heavy on my noggin and I get ready for my day, do my makeup at the same time. If you're interested in true
crime and you like makeup, I would highly suggest you subscribe because I'm here for you every Monday. Also I upload on Saturdays as well, just normal like makeup tutorials, and just more stuff about my
life over there on Saturday. So before we jump into today's story, I just want to give a shout out to myself. (gentle harp music) Because tomorrow, November
26th is my birthday. I was born tomorrow, but we
got a lot going on this week. We have Thanksgiving, we have my birthday, and Black Friday which is
like all the sales and stuff. So I just wanted to let
you guys know my viewers, my friends, tomorrow on
my birthday, November 26th we're doing a big merch restock. If you guys didn't know, I have merch. I see a lot of you guys asking for items that say suspish on them. We have those, I will
leave in my description box where you can find
where to purchase the merch, because there are some
like fake sites too. Which is so strange to me, long story. So merch, November 26th okay? Once it's gone, that's it we're done. And then on Friday, which is Black Friday, Loud Lacquer, remember
the polishes the collab? Loud Lacquer is also going
to be having a big sale. I will leave in the
description box where you can find the nail polish collection, The collab I did. I mentioned it in last week's tutorial. This is one of the colors right here, it's called Nay Nay I Say. So if you want to have a
very Bailey filled week, two places baby: Merch and Loud Lacquer. I just wanted to give you guys a heads up, 'cause I know I see a lot of comments about merch and when it's coming back. November 26th, it's going to
be a good time for my birthday! So I will shut up, I will stop rambling and
let's get into today's story. So today's story has
been heavy on my noggin for quite some time. And it's to the point where I feel like I might be making it up. So everything I'm going
to be saying, well, I feel like all of my videos, I need to be saying
allegedly more just because, you know, you gotta be careful out here. And I will explain at the
end what I'm talking about. But Bettie Page. I feel like she's I mean, she's iconic. I feel like everybody
knows who Bettie Page is. And if you don't, I'll be explaining, but I forgot to mention really quick. If you're ever curious
as to what I'm using I list everything down
in the description box. Just little F-Y-I. (alarm beeping) Now, when Bettie was in high school she attended it in Nashville and she was known to be
like a really good student. She was ambitious, she had drive. She was competitive and she
was also just a nice person. This is what I gathered, of course. We don't really know we weren't there. She was nominated and
won homecoming queen, and she was a mascot of the ROTC company. Bettie would go on to graduate high school in 1941 and like many others, especially in a small town she was just star struck
in an awe of Hollywood. And she knew that's where she had to be. So she packed her bags and she headed out to Southern California to Los
Angeles to become a big star. So Bettie was able to get
out here to Los Angeles and while she was out here,
she was going on a bunch of auditions and she just
wasn't having much luck like getting any work in the movies. But the biggest problem
that was preventing her from getting jobs was that she had like a really thick country accent. So when she went on jobs
she's supposed to play, I don't know. You just never hear like
super thick country accents in movies unless... You just really don't huh? Unless it's like--nevermind Bailey. But you know what I'm saying, she had a thick accent. It was preventing her
from getting jobs okay? So then she was like I'm going to take some acting classes, and some speech classes so I
can get rid of this accent. But it was like a solid
year and she still, she still just could not kick the accent. So in later years, Bettie
would go on to complain that the one screen test she had it, failed to get her a job because she had refused to entertain
the producers after hours. Betty ended up for a brief moment marrying a man who was a sailor but that didn't last too long, I don't even think it lasted a year. And then once that marriage was over, she ended up moving to
New York city in 1948 hoping that the stage would
do what Hollywood wouldn't do, which was take her as a serious actress. So one summer when Bettie is out there in New York, it's 1949 now. She's at a beach called Jones Beach. While Bettie's out there she attracts the attention
from a police sergeant. But he's also a part-time photographer, and his name was Jerry Tibbs. This man spots Bettie and he's like, she's got something special, she's got something unique, I would love to take photos of her. Which if anybody in this day and age, if somebody does that like just run. This man named Jerry Tibbs
and his friend Cass Carr, they ran a photography club that held photography classes at the YMCA. So they were always looking
for new models to come in, that way they could practice shooting. This guy is like, goes up to Bettie, introduces himself as like, hey, this is what I do, this is my work. I would love for you
to come and be a model. And so Bettie went down there
to the YMCA and she just started like modeling for them. And it wasn't anything like
nude or anything like that. It was just pinup style stuff. And she had never modeled
before, but she was good at it. Betty ended up becoming like a, a model for all different types of photographers while she was there. Anywhere from amateur,
all the way up to like professional photographers. And while she was doing these test shoots she ended up making
her way into magazines. Like there was one called Wink and Flirt, Wink and Flirt. I'm not a cute winker. And then from there she ended up getting the centerfold in an early
Playboy Christmas magazine. Now this was big I mean, centerfolds? She's killing it! Now when she was in
the Playboy centerfold, this is when she caught the
eye of a man named Irving Klaw. And Irving Klaw was like the pin-up king. How about that? Mr. Klaw? Wasn't that the guy's
name on Inspector Gadget? Mr. Claw, the claw, something like that. The claw! Okay, anyways. But he, this guy was a big deal okay? So Mr. Klaw had found his market niche by catering to customers
who wanted pictures of bound women wearing
high heels, stockings, and like other you know, sexy lingerie or, it was a lot of bondage okay? So this was the 1950s. Now there was no such thing as being sexual or sexual
acts being photographed in bondage, underwear, positions, Oh my Lord! It was very taboo was Mr. Klaw was doing. Now by today's standards Mr. Klaw, I'm just going to keep
calling him Mr. Klaw. His photos seemed pretty tame
and innocent in photo sets and film loops with titles
like teaser girl in high heels or Bettie gets bound and kidnapped. Bettie would like act out
short scenarios in which she and other woman took
turns modeling fetish gear, getting wound up in ropes and leather, and occasionally spanking
would be involved. And I guess I should mention really quick by no means am I saying
that bondage and all that is taboo and weird and stuff, or that bondage is what leads
to set events down the line. We'll go into it, just that disclaimer right there. I am no way associating the two together. Okay? Kapeesh? 'Cause I know someone's going to try it. So at this time they had paid Bettie $10 an hour for taking the photos. And typically they would
last about five hours. Then Betty would get like
a $50 tip on top of that, which was pretty cool. It was a lot of money. Oh, I got a cramp on my butt! Oh, Ooh fuck! Her photo sessions were
scheduled every Saturday, so she would make her
way down to the studio, and every Saturday she would
just take these photos. So Betty was doing pretty good I mean, she was making good money at that time. I mean, secretaries were getting
like a dollar, $2 an hour, and Betty was making $50 in five hours. She's killing it. It was just a good time, but you know good times don't last forever. So spring of 1955, mind you a lot of like other little stuff happened, like in this timeline I'm giving you, but I kind of just broke it down to where it was a simpler timeline. Anyways, spring of 1955, the presidential election it was coming up. when the elections are coming up I mean, you see it right now
everybody's making their rounds and doing the most. There's this guy running, he was a Senator and his
name was Senator Kefauver. You know what? I listened to so many little
clips trying to figure out how to pronounce this guy's name. Kefauver? Anyways the Senator guy, he was from Bettie's home state, and he had entered the race. So he's doing his little,
his rounds, not little. I mean, it was pretty major. Now he was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and he announced that he would be leading an investigation on kids in jail, and how the media, movies, television, comic books and especially pornography, are very impressionable on young minds. So they were trying to, well this guy, the senator
guy was trying to do a study proving that movies,
television, comic books and pornography all played a big role in why they were in jail, the kids. You know they're still trying to push this agenda to this day. It's debatable, of course, but whatever they were heavy on this. Okay? And he wanted to
make pornography illegal. He mainly just wanted to prove that these things are what's
causing kids to be bad. So this guy was saying that he thought it was a bad influence and degrading to even grown-ups let alone young people. Pornography especially this
freaky bondage stuff we found. I don't know how I found it, but I did. The situation had happened
where a young kid had died, and it's unclear exactly
like what he was doing, but it seems like he was either one trying to
commit suicide or two, he was exploring his sexuality
and people were confused. People, people that
didn't know what it was! I'm not laughing. I'm laughing, ah fuck. Okay. So this kid who was under 18, he had died and there was like a court trial going on about his death, and pretty much they were trying to, again push to get rid of pornography
because this young boy. So they're using this young boys case to really push their agenda. Cause this, this boy, he was found hanging by his knees with ropes,
from like a tree outside. Ropes tied around his ankles and then the same ropes reaching around from his ankles to his arms and looped around his neck so that
his body is pulled back in a very grotesque looking position. They used the word grotesque to describe how he was found, this boy. Don't shoot the messenger. Now in court this is when
Bettie gets pulled into it. So in court they pull a picture of Bettie Page in one
of her bondage photos. And she was in the same exact position as the young man was who had died. They had found this picture
of Bettie and they brought it into the courtroom and they were like, see he was trying to
recreate this picture. Their fault that he's dead. They had a pretty strong case. I mean, it was a very similar position and it was pretty hard to convince anybody that he wasn't trying to
recreate that picture. So in court they were trying to prove what Bettie Page was doing
and the photographer, and the photographers should be illegal because it kills people obviously. I don't know much about
bondage the world-- This is a side note I'm sorry. Do they add disclaimers? Like hey, don't try this at home? I guess I should Google it huh? So all of this hot mess in court and whatnot was pretty much the beginning of the end for Mr. Klaw. It was pretty much the end of what he was doing in his photographs. Congress amended the postal
code to prohibit the mailing of non-sexual bondage materials. Mr. Klaw was charged in 1963
for violating that statue. And then for Bettie,
she was pretty much just the whole experience
just knocked her down. She was a target for
this anti-bondage push, but Bettie did the sensible thing, putting as much space between herself and Irving Klaw as possible. It just left Bettie feeling beaten down. And I mean could you imagine being the face of something like that? So as time went on Bettie just kind of quietly like disappeared from the New York scene and
then on New Year's Eve 1958, during one of her regular
visits to Key West, Florida she attended a church service at what we now know as the Key
West Temple Baptist Church. Like they're just pretty extreme. Now mind you before I move forward, cause now I'm going to get
more into like the mess. I'm not like doing a Bettie Page biography so there is
a lot I'm leaving out. So just a little FYI, she's accomplished, she accomplished a lot in this like modeling career, and she was a pretty
big name she was iconic. She was everything she was everywhere, so I'm not trying to like
ignore all of that at all. So when she was down--I
need more concealer. When she was down there in Florida, that's when she married
a man named Armond, Armond Walterson and this was like 1958 and it didn't last long, they divorced in 1963. And then after her divorce, she attempted to become a
Christian missionary in Africa. But she was rejected because
she already had two divorces and that's not accepted. Interesting now how we can
laugh about these things, like that's so dumb she got a divorce, a big whoop, but that time
it was like so serious. Could you imagine? So she was pretty bummed out about that, you know? Boo. In 1963 or 1964 Bettie ended up remarrying her first husband. It only lasted a couple of months. So in 1972 Bettie is still in Florida, police got an alert of
an incident at Bibletown, which was like a ministry retreat, and someone had called the cops because Bettie was running
around through a motel complex. She was waving a 22 caliber pistol and she was yelling over and over again about the retribution of God. They don't like arrest her or anything, they just ended up letting her go because she was at that time staying with one of her ex-husbands. Her ex-husband picks her up and then takes her back to the home, and that's where she stays
for a couple of months. Now about a month after
this first incident Bettie is having dinner
with her ex-husband and her ex-husband's two kids. They're not her kids, they're her ex-husband's okay? So they're all sitting down
around the dinner table. What could go wrong at dinner? Well, Bettie's ex-husband called the cops because Bettie was at
the dinner table right? And she was holding a knife up and she forced her ex-husband and the kids to pray
before a portrait of Jesus. And she yelled at them
"If you take your eyes "off this picture I'll cut your guts out" end quote, that was a quote. So Bettie's ex-husband
calls the police like, "yeah she's got us like praying
to this Jesus portrait". So then police come out and
she was charged with breach of the peace and confined in a state hospital for four months. At that time it was
noted by police that they thought she had something
mentally going on, but it was like undiagnosed, but they made a note of
it in the police report. Bettie was staying at this state hospital, and she was there for about four months. And when the four months was over, her ex-husband again the one that she threatened
with the Jesus portrait, he picks her up and they
go back to his house. I would say bad judgment call, but who am I to judge? So while Bettie was staying
at this state hospital, it was at this time that it was noted or she was diagnosed with
paranoid schizophrenia. And I'm not sure if like
Bettie knew this already, like beforehand, and I don't really think
it's any of our business. But it was mentioned, like this is the point
where she's officially been diagnosed and like
it's in her file I guess. Bettie goes back with her ex-husband, they go stay at his
house no big deal, right? Everything's great she's doing good. And then not even long after
she got back to the home, in October of 1972 police
were called again to the home, and the cops were called because Bettie was just losing her shit. When police arrived they see that Betty is just making a mess. She's making a mess. They see that Betty's
just destroying the home. She was ripping pictures off the wall, she was knocking things onto the floor, she was breaking plates. Just trashing the house, and she was just seeing red, she would not calm down. So when all this is happening, police obviously they
have to arrest Bettie, because she's trashing the damn place. They end up putting her in
the back of like a cop car. They shut the door, they go over and they start
questioning her ex-husband, and just trying to get his side of the whole story, you know as police do. The police officer's like okay, great. I'm going to go back to the car that way I can question Bettie now and figure out what the
heck's going on with her. So when police go back to the cop car, open up the back door and they see she pulled her dress up and
she pulled her underwear off and she was just masturbating with a coat hanger that the
officer had somehow missed. Bettie was arrested and
she was going to be charged with assault and battery
and disorderly conduct. But luckily for Bettie I guess, assault and battery and
disorderly conduct charges, they were completely dropped after she recommitted herself back
to the state hospital. So she ended up staying at
the state hospital again for about six months this time. And she was under constant
suicide watch sadly. And after six months she was deemed fine and they let her go. And at this point, Bettie realizes that she wants to go back to Los Angeles. April of 1979, Bettie once
again moves back to Los Angeles. She didn't really have any place to stay but she ended up finding
a trailer to rent. So this trailer was owned
by her neighbors who were in their seventies and
they rented it out to her. Sadly though for Betty, it really didn't last long because she ended up attacking
the 77-year-old husband that she was renting the trailer from, and he said it was completely unprovoked. She just came out of nowhere with a knife, she started making threats towards him. He said it was like a lot
of just religious stuff. He wasn't even sure
what she was upset about but she was upset and she had a weapon. So this guy kept telling Bettie like, put the knife down, put the
knife down, drop the knife, and she wouldn't do it. So when Bettie was like turned around, or not looking this guy who
she was attacking had a wrench. So he ended up just
whacking her in the head with the wrench and
knocked her out completely. So Bettie ended up being charged with two counts of assault
with a deadly weapon. Bettie was found not guilty
by reason of insanity. Following year she was sentenced to five years confinement
at another state hospital. But of course she got just off the hook a lot, you know? But seven months later on
her doctor's recommendation, she was released from the state hospital. Now it's June of 1982 and Bettie's still living in Los Angeles and she's really struggling to
keep like a place to live. It was reported allegedly, she kept getting kicked out of places because she would get into
like really lame arguments with like other renters. At one place she was renting, she assaulted an elderly woman twice. No idea what the fight was about, I don't think it really matters, but yeah it just seems like she's getting
more and more aggressive. So then she finds a place
to rent in Santa Monica, and it's in Los Angeles
and it said just randomly one night she entered the
bedroom of her sleeping landlord. It was like two in the morning. She creeps into her room okay? She gets on her landlord's bed, she straddles her landlord
who's an older woman. She straddles her and
then she shakes her awake. Now when the landlady wakes up she sees that Bettie's holding
a foot long bread knife. And the landlady said that Bettie whispered to her saying, "God has inspired me to kill you" and that's the last thing the
land lady remembers her saying before Bettie proceeded
to try and kill her. Allegedly Betty sliced her from corner of her mouth
to corner of her ear. So she gave her like a Joker smile almost, like super gross. Bettie stabbed her landlady
four times in the chest, she barely missed her heart, she stabbed the hand eight times. I'm assuming that was the
landlady was trying to protect herself? Defense wound? And then she also cut off
like one of her fingers. When brought to court
Bettie pleaded not guilty, but changed her plea to not guilty by reason of insanity after
two California Department of Medical Health doctors testified that she was insane and had
confessed to the attack. No word on what happened to the landlady. I actually think she might have lived which is great, which is great. Don't get me wrong. But I also read somewhere that she died. I don't know who to believe, Hold on. So Bettie was sentenced
to eight and a half years in state prison. I'm sorry not state prison, the state hospital again. So she was there for
eight and a half years and she stayed there until 1992, and then she was released. How many chances does one person
get in their lifetime huh? Now Betty was released in 1992, and at that point she was still famous. I think she was even more famous actually. She was having a moment again, she was famous! She was like what, I'm famous again? At that time there was a series of books that were released
called Private Peeks. I think it was just all Bettie Page's images and photos and
photo shoots she had done. And it just started this whole new craze, brought in a bunch of new fans, and a bunch of people rediscovered her. Hugh Hefner remained a
fan throughout the years, and she was eventually
interviewed sympathetically by Playboy and allowed herself
to be photographed again for the magazine's 50th
anniversary in 2003. Anyway so I mean, movies came out about her, and to this day she's
still pretty popular. I feel like I always see something, either a documentary or something. I always see her around. And then in late 2008, Betty Page was hospitalized
for three weeks with pneumonia before she
suffered a heart attack. She was transferred to another hospital, and that's where she sadly
passed away at the age of 85. Wait, sadly? This is where I am so torn, and I am the biggest hypocrite ever. Not just because she's a woman, but because she's Bettie Paige. So naturally I want to be like, well there's probably reasons why she, she was mentally ill that's why she attacked those people come on. But it's like a lot of the
killers we've talked about, you know are mentally ill. And yeah, so I'm calling myself out. I'm a hypocrite because I
want to sit here and be like, well there's reasons why, she probably did it for certain reasons. But at the end of the day, she did some fucked up shit you know? So I mentioned this on my
live stream on Instagram on Wednesday that I wasn't sure
if I wanted to do this story or not for a couple of reasons because, well mainly because I don't
even know if this is true. Hear me out, hear me out. I know she got arrested and stuff but, when you research like
Bettie Page very lightly they talk about her attacking
people like getting arrested. And they never really explain like, what was that about? Man when I was looking up Bettie Page, I was just like how come
nobody's mentioning it anywhere? It was really difficult to find, and I could only find like two
articles that actually went into greater detail about what she did. And I remember watching an
interview years and years ago. It was a long-ass time ago. I watched an interview
and that's where I learned that this happened. Because I loved Bettie Page, I still have like some
of her artwork around, she's on my arm. So this is a zombie, but it's technically Bettie Paige. I'm a fucking hypocrite. You know when I'm yelling, get better idols? Bailey. Bailey I'm talking to you you shithead. I remember watching a
thing with Bettie Page, It was like she was being
interviewed years and years ago, and she talks about like the situation. And I swear, I swear that she mentioned hat she killed the landlady. That always stuck with me. Went on with my life, kept living. Now last Saturday I uploaded a video where I did a cheap wig hall. And one of the wigs that I
was really looking forward to get was the Bettie Paige wig. I loved her hair it was iconic. So I bought this wig that was
Bettie Page inspired right? And I was talking about it and I was thinking about it afterwards I was like, I should do a Monday video on
her cause she killed a person. Me remembering that old interview I saw. So I'm doing the research
and I kid you not, you can't find anything about it. Everybody like just skips
that part of her life, and I think because the
good outweighs the bad and it's to the point
when I was researching, like I started to feel a little crazy. I was like I might be
making this whole thing up, maybe I'm confused? And then I came across a couple of articles where it did mention that she attacked a couple
of people, one died. And then there was another article saying that she attacked a couple people and the landlady at the end, she didn't die. So I could only find two and we know she was arrested and stuff because there were reports on that. Any who so I hope you like
this story about Bettie Page. Thank you so much for
hanging out with me today, I hope you found this interesting. But let me know your thoughts down below! Also and just a quick side note because I know some people
are going to ask me, Bailey why didn't you
wear your Bettie Page inspired wig in this video? 'Cause it's about Bettie Page. And I've been asked this a couple of times where people were like
why don't you do a look inspired by the person or whatever. And no people are already
think I'm insensitive for putting on makeup while
talking about true crime, and I just feel like if I
start doing makeup looks inspired by the killer... No bitch I just feel like that's a little... Just because of the topics, I just don't feel like it's
appropriate at this time. There are other times for that. I don't want to turn a true
crime into a makeup look. That just is so-- Anyways I hope you have
a wonderful day today. Don't forget tomorrow, my birthday November 26th, merch restock. I will post the links everywhere. 9:00 AM Pacific standard time, It will go live with Loud Lacquer. They are doing a sale on Black Friday. I again will be posting
the link everywhere for that as well. I hope you have a happy and a safe week. Make good choices, please be safe out there, and I'll be seeing you guys later! Bye!
NOT SO SURE ABOUT THIS ONE?????!!!!!!!!!!!
Is this where Morbid got their idea from for their latest episode?
http://KillerBetty.com