CHRISTMAS CABIN KILLERS: TIEDE FAMILY

hello everyone and welcome back to my channel welcome to another true crime video this one is like totally could be a movie plot it is a very very wild story so buckle up and let's get right into it we are going back to Christmas of 1990 so this is Kay and Rolf Tita they were a married couple who owned a beautiful cabin really far out the middle of nowhere in Oakley Utah and they often refer to this as the Tita tranquility this was their family spot to get away from it all to relax to connect with nature this is where they had family occasions this is where they're building their memories this was a very happy place for them to be and these are their daughters Lynnae and Tricia and this cabin was far away from the road like over two miles away from the regular road but you had to drive up directly to it on snowmobiles that's how like out and secluded it was parked their cars and then they would snowmobile in to the cabin it was winter of 1990 and they had decided to actually spend all of Christmas at the cabin so days leading up to Christmas days after Christmas and they'd already gone up there set it all up set up their Christmas tree had presents under the tree it was three days before Christmas and they realized they had some more Christmas shopping to do it was December 22nd they went into town did their Christmas shopping came back parked their car got into their snowmobiles because that's how you had to get to the cabin and they actually took two separate cars there was two different groups of them on the first group being Lynnae her grandma and her mom and they got there first so they arrived back at the cabin first so there was stuff to bring into the cabin but lynnae's hands were absolutely freezing she asked if she could just run inside warm up her hands and then come back and help bring stuff her mom said yes so Lynnae went into the cabin having no idea what she was about to walk into when she got up the stairs she said she saw like a flash like a gray figure out of the corner of her eyes go behind the fridge and she actually thought it was one of her cousins that was there early for you know the Christmas celebration and that he or her was gonna you know jump out and surprise her however she was clearly wrong man in a gray sweatshirt and frizzy hair jumped out and pointed a gun directly at her now at age 16 can you imagine how scared you'd be and when her mom came in a man with thick coke-bottle glasses was pointing a gun directly at her my mom was saying to him what is it you want why are you here I'll give you anything but only seconds after that the man shot Kay and she fell to the ground and then right after that he pointed his gun out lynnae's grandmother and shot her in the head and this was incredibly traumatic for lenay I saw my mom go down I turned at that point and looked over my shoulder to my grams and saw her get shot in the head she talked about how you know devastating this was to see all this in front of you happened to your mom and your grandmother and she instantly was just shook with fear because she realized that her dad and her sister were on snowmobiles on their way back to the cabin and they would be arriving any minute but the man in the gray sweatshirt grabbed Lynnae and put the gun to her back and so she had no choice but to just stay there and wait Fazlu and a sister Trish and her dad pulled up the garage a man popped out in a ski mask and holding a gun I dad could see tears in my eyes and it was an unspoken communication and he knew at that point that something awful had happened to mom after they had any money instantly Ralph dropped everything grabbed everything that was in his pocket and started to like just pouring it out onto the ground like dude take anything you want and that is absolutely what you do unfortunately in this case they were so evil that they didn't care and they decided that they were gonna shoot him anyway in fact the men with the coke-bottle glasses was told to shoot Lynnae his dad right there he actually held the hammer back but refused to fire the rifle and so the other guy who was tying up Lynnae at the time stopped what he was doing and held the gun up to their dad and listen to the girls explain how this happened so then the other man is training my sister pulled his gun out pointed it at my dad pulled the trigger once click no fire twice click no fire third one went it off that blasts was so close I could feel it I had no doubt in my mind that he was dead I just I cannot imagine the evil that you would have to have to kill someone in front of their children you know what was weird about this whole thing is these guys had been in their cabin they like made themselves at home there was they were eating things food was everywhere all of their Christmas presents were opened so it showed them that they weren't you know afraid of getting caught on they were waiting for them to come home they wanted them to come home I guess to destroy their evidence since they had left evidence everywhere their plan was to burn down the whole cabin so the Tina's had these gas cans at the cabin they always had them there and they were to fill up the snowmobiles so these two men grabbed the gas cans and started pouring it all over the house so I bet you have a feeling where this is going they decided to set the house on fire burn it to the ground get rid of their evidence and they ordered the girls to start packing up all the stuff they took on to the snowmobiles and then take them out of there basically these poor girls have just seen their grandmother and their mother gets shot their father gets shot and then they are told to take their killers on snowmobiles out away from the only place that they know is secure which is no longer secure anymore and they have no one they have no one no one knows this is going on so they were actually headed up to the main entrance of this community and that's when they saw their uncle this is their uncle brand-new sword and he thought that the two men were their boyfriends so he actually tried to walk up to them and they acted super super weird the girls completely ignored him didn't even make eye contact or acknowledge him ee didn't act like they knew him and they were doing that because they were smart these girls are very smart and resourceful especially under the pressure they were in but they ignored Randy they acted like they didn't know him because they knew that if they acted like they knew him or he was their family then they would shoot him as well and he thought this was strange but just whatever figured it was teenage [ __ ] so they kept going and they got to the car they loaded their guns into the car and one of them looked over to the girls and showed them that he had a knife and said don't worry I'm just as good with a knife as I am with a gun so basically threatening them don't make any moves if you've been watching my channel for a while or other true crime stuff you know the time after someone is abducted is crucial time is of the essence so there uncle Randy actually saw them again in their car and he was waving them down trying to get them to stop and the girls completely ignored him again thank God they didn't try to you know motion towards him or anything who knows what could have happened but that's when Randy figured something is definitely wrong that is unusual for them then less than a minute later Randy stop someone coming up on the snowmobile and this person wasn't wearing a coat no helmet no gloves and he was bleeding this man's face was swollen and his eyes were swollen closed and I go wow who is this tonight look I don't like goddess my brother Rolf and his face is just huge in full blood and just just big hes eyes swelled shut blood sickles because it was cold he was in really bad shape just frantically talking about how someone had shot him his wife had been killed and his kids had been kidnapped so obviously Randy started to panic I mean he's dealing with his brother who's shot in the face but is alive which is good I wasn't sure when I first heard the story if he was going to live through that but amazing that he did but he has him he clearly needs medical attention immediately and then he's got his nieces who are kidnapped and he's chasing after them so he picture what this dude is dealing with his brother's laying in the backseat bleeding screaming about how his kids are and he is literally chasing the kidnappers with his nieces in the car he started heading down the canyon in his car as fast as he could and this was you know in the 90s the cell phone service was shitty already plus it was even worse because there in the mountain it took him multiple tries and honestly I'm surprised he even got through at all but he finally did get through to 911 he explained to the police what had happened where the girls were what car they were in where they were headed and he needed a helicopter for his brother immediately but right at that moment his cell phone died so we actually ended up pulling into a gas station and calling 911 from a payphone meanwhile in the car the girls were freaked out but trying to stay calm but that's when they noticed a police car passed them stop turn around and follow them so obviously that was a huge sense of relief for them the two men that we're kidnapping them started panicking obviously they ended up turning right towards the canyon and then drove about another mile before the car fell off of an embankment I remember looking up the car was at an angle and noticing the entire road above us we came down was full of maybe a couple cops mostly people in common clothes drawing down with pistols and shotguns and rifles at us tonight there was cops pointing guns at me and my little sister says no no that's my sister and I don't think they'd received information that there was even hostages in the car I reached back for my sister's hand and grabbed her hand and said duck and we both ducked and we were praying and just squeezing each other's hand and the arrest process wasn't too difficult the suspects were arrested at this at the car as long as they were in total control of a situation by use of fear and force then they continued to function when that control went away that's when it it stopped and they surrendered to authorities finally showed up and took rolf to the hospital who was clearly in critical condition and it's really crazy that he survived because later on they found out that he had also been doused with gas and partially set on fire at one point he ran into his cabin tried to take his snow vest off and got in the shower and put out the fire so obviously deputies needed to go back to house and survey the scene and see what what happened and listen to how police described the scene when they got back to the house I picked up a faint smell it was kind of like burnt hair and maybe burnt fabric as I entered a garage there was 12 to 18 inch puddle of blood that it was fresh as I started up the stairwell I could see holes in the walls bullet holes coming from one wall across the stairwell into the other wall I actually walked in to the smoke before I really realized that the top floor of that cabin was on fire [Music] then our mindset went to protecting the victims property on top of the coffee table though as a VCR cameras and tapes some of the most interesting pieces of evidence they found in the house was a video camera that actually had a tape in it and it was recorded by the killers they were opening the family's Christmas presents what is it I remember thinking of the pure malice and hate that these men must have what heartless jerks oh who are these two men they were in their early to mid-20s the first one being Vaughn Taylor who had previously been convicted of aggravated burglary and then there was Edward Ellie who had been previously convicted of arson which is setting things on fire they both had recently been released from prison and sent to a halfway house and they were able to leave this halfway house and go out and look for jobs the two of them were literally hitchhiking around the area and one of them knew someone who owned a cabin in the same area so they randomly targeted the teeta's family cabin it actually robbed several other cabins before this but they waited at theirs because they knew the family was there and would be coming home what they really needed was a car to get out of there so that was their like main objective about robbing them specifically now this probably seems like a slam-dunk case you know really simple they came in and killed these people they clearly did it whatever move on put him in jail punish them but it actually was really complicated they had to figure out their roles in it each of their roles who shot who how did everything go down by the end there was a total of at least eight felonies against these men this included murder aggravated kidnapping arson and the high-speed chase and the family was going for the death penalty they were pissed and rightfully so it was so evil it was so unnecessary and selfish for these men to do what they did in five months after the crime Vaughn Taylor pleaded guilty to two counts of capital murder and the state actually dropped all other charges on him in exchange for the plea actually decided to go in front of a jury instead of just a judge and after going to trial doing the full full trial the jury actually found him guilty of both counts of murder and sentenced him to the death penalty not only once but twice essentially he had to death sentences few weeks after taylors it was time for Delhi's trial what's crazy as that brawl Teta who came to court delhi seemed to have no idea that he had survived he had to face the man that he had shot in his face into his eyes the only reason he survived is because the killers actually used the wrong gun when they shot him we're using a birdshot which I guess is the smallest sigh I'm so bad with guns even with a smaller gun has odds of surviving that were still like one in a thousand but it definitely helped that they use the wrong type of gun I think it was extremely gratifying for Rolf to be able to you know speak in court and what he needed to say faced him and after Delhi's child he was actually charged with the murder and was sentenced to life in prison because he was sentence for second degree murder the death penalty had to be taken completely off the table he would have gone first-degree murder but one of the jury members was set on being second so they held out and so getting the death penalty 2001 Delhi wrote a letter to Linnae and eventually Lynnae responded to him and you know took her a really really long time years I believe but when she finally did she was able to forgive him in a way Delhi has shared with me that he has grown into a man not the same evil boy that committed the crime I believe that I gained my freedom back for myself by choosing to forgive Delhi later on in 2014 Taylor actually tried to appeal his sentence January 24th to 2014 the Utah Supreme Court rejected his appeal basically argued that they didn't get a fair trial because 75% of the jury was Mormon the Utah Supreme Court has rejected this so as of right now he is just sitting on death row now you'd think after going through this the family would have never gone back to that cabin but they did they actually decided to take this situation which they felt like you know they took their mother from them their grandmother from them there's a double funeral for my mother and grandmother my grandmother's name's Beth to dwell pots [Music] my mother's name is Kate to dwell PITA but they didn't want them to be able to take that spot from them so they ended up redoing the cabin making it even better than it was before and Linnaean Trish like bringing their family and friends up there all the time they love going there still it's a place for healing for them and I can really understand that you know in a way that's the last place that your mother was that your grandmother was where their spirit was before they were gone I feel like that area indeed would be very healing if you changed it and you know took it back and made it yours again so I just thought that was so beautiful that they did that sadly though Ralph was diagnosed with cancer and passed away in 2009 as for the girls they feel like they have moved on enjoy going to their cabin often and they think that this experience has brought them so much closer together so so my heart goes out to their whole family I cannot imagine how different Christmas would be forever after this and just how you would come back from such a traumatic event I mean these girls are very very strong and I have a lot of respect for them so anyway that's it for me today guys I hope you enjoyed this story let me know what you think below and I will see [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] 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Keywords: Cabin, interesting, story, christmas, Tiede, family, educational, documentary, true story, storytime, true crime

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Length: 17min 23sec (1043 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 13 2018