FOUND Over 4 Years Later: Attorney Royal 'SCOOP' Daniels

hey guys welcome back to my channel so today we are doing another found video and it's been actually a while since I've done a found video I have a few planned for this summer that are really interesting and today I wanted to start with one that comes out of Colorado you guys know I like to cover cases in Colorado because those are the ones I'm familiar with that I see them covered locally and I know things about them so naturally I am interested in those cases and you can probably hear my cat right now she is tinkering around just for those of you who don't know I do have like 16 animals in my house right now so you will see random ones in the background there's always comments like oh Kendall got a new pet oh the pet died no they are all alive and they are all here there's just many of them and it's kind of varies who's in the background but today you might see my cat meatball but yes today's case is a Colorado case and it is so weird and interesting I think you guys are gonna find this very strange it's very different from most true crime cases it's just an interesting one we're gonna be talking about a man named royal scoop Daniel before we get started today I have two little announcements one I am relaunching my chill pack giveaway okay in June I will be giving three people eight chill pack and it's super easy to enter if you're a subscriber to this channel you're pretty much already entered all you have to do is like formally go enter at the link below and in these chill packs there is a bunch of CBD products from hemp bombs which is the best CBD company I absolutely love them in the pack there's ponies there's capsules there's syrup and then it also includes items from monk it includes seven of my favorite monks which will be listed at the giveaway site and then it also includes my coloring book I put this out about six months ago it is filled with designs that I came up with see that is my name so you can chill out while coloring and then to top it all off you get $100 merch credit to my website where you can get any of my merch designs any of the thorne designs it can be used on anything that will be links below and then one other thing if you live in Texas I am going to be in Austin for my first ever live performance with my husband Josh we are doing a live version of our podcast RTX festival there will be information linked below I don't want to talk about it too much because I know not all of you most of you are not in Austin or anywhere near Austin so if you are and you want to check it out it's July 5th through the 7th and all the information that you need about it is below but anyway let's get into talking about royal scoop Daniels so this case takes place in another area of Colorado another mountain town although not a super small mountain town it's actually a pretty well-known like ski resort town in Colorado it's called Breckenridge I've gotten to Breckenridge so many times we always knew people who had houses in different mountain towns like my family could never afford one but we would just go and like stay in other people's houses so someone we knew had one in Breckenridge and we were there a lot it's a beautiful area it's a great place to go if you ever want to visit Colorado and it is where our story takes place today so this is royal scoop Daniel and he actually moved to Breckenridge in the early 90s scoop was a lawyer and he had his own law firm in town and he was pretty successful and he was also very well known in the town like super super involved in the community that he lived in he was at all of the fundraising events all of the parties people just knew him would stop and say hi to him okay if you're gonna be in here you can't be annoying there were a lot of like fun really there were a lot of fundraising events in this area and scoop went to pretty much all of them like people knew that if there was some type of fundraising event scoop was gonna be there because he was a very charitable person he liked to give money to various charities and you know good causes so like I said he was a lawyer and actually most of his clients were Brazilian companies and they were in various areas of steel production so he's living a pretty average life he's doing pretty boring law stuff he was 61 years old and you know he's pretty settled into his life he has a ton of friends he's really involved in this community and he's kind of like settled down you know what I mean he was described as someone that really everyone loved he worked in this building it was the strange building because it's a mountain town and a lot of times there's like multiple things jammed in one building and that was the case with this like the bank was in there there were law offices there was like the radio station deejay was in there there was just a bunch of random people in this building and so whenever people would come in for whatever like if they were going to the bank or something they would stop in and see scoop like that's how well-known he was he had tons of friends and was really really well-liked honestly he was known as being compassionate helping other people and need really caring about people's like personal problems like when he talked to you he truly valued what you were saying and wanted to know more you know he wasn't just bullshitting around with everybody he felt like a real part of the Breckenridge family in a way so we're gonna start our story on April 26 2007 scoop had a normal day that day he got to the office by 8 a.m. like normal every morning in his office he would make coffee and a bowl of oatmeal and eat that and he did that just like normal he had a normal work day nothing out of the ordinary and then around 6:00 p.m. he left work for the day and he and his girlfriend actually went to this fundraiser that night they got there at around 8 p.m. and this fundraiser was actually like Titanic themed so people were dressed up as people in the Titanic and doing like little reenactments and stuff and while he was there people said he spent a lot of time socializing going around talking to people at different tables you know greeting people he hadn't seen in a while he definitely wasn't like sticking to himself he seemed like his normal happy self like going around and talking to everyone and like I said he was really well-known so it wasn't at all unusual for him to be noticed by people and to be talking to a lot of people and to just be the popular one at the event who was known as being a bit of a party animal so scoop liked to buy everyone drinks he liked to have a good time and he also liked women he was always doing something for a woman having new women for dates he was just known as being a ladies man a real like charmer he would be really flashy with money and almost use it to like manipulate people into liking him he would buy people drinks he would really really shell out the dough and that night at the charity event he had spent like 500 bucks on various items so after the fundraiser was over scoop went home just like normal with his girlfriend and they went back to his house they slept there you know woke up the next morning and it was a workday so he took her back to her place at 5:30 in the morning and then went to work so he got there you know a little after 5:30 and that was early even for him and he was known for being kind of one of the people who was normally there early so when other people started coming into the office they noticed that scoop was nowhere to be found which is weird because his coffee was there and his bowl of oatmeal that he had every morning was out and eating so he clearly had been there that morning so pretty understandably the staff was like okay he probably just went out and did something like when I ran an errand and he'll be back but as the day went on scoop still didn't show up so they started to get a little concerned especially because they had planned meetings that day and scoop had missed them which is very very unlike him so people around his office started to think something's really off here it was very unusual for him to miss meetings especially because if he even was running late he would call and let people know even if it was like 10 minutes so it was almost the end of the day and scoop still had not shown up so everyone was getting very very worried at this point he wasn't returning anyone's phone calls and no one had any idea where he went by 3:00 p.m. the staff was getting really worried about him they started to think you know this is very very unusual for him he was very communicative with people and it is a small mountain town like if this was in Denver it'd be like a little different but it's a small area there's not that many places you can go this was so unlike him and so out of the ordinary so they went ahead and made the decision to call the police so police came to his office and when they showed up they realized that his car was still there this was really strange to them because he was actually known as being someone who always drove even like short distances walked anywhere so for him to not take his car was very weird it didn't take long for people around the town to realize that scoop was missing because it was such a small town and he was you know super well-known so him going missing was just so strange to people and people were really worried because like I said he was someone people truly really liked and this was scary for everyone so they searched his apartment and they actually didn't find anything out of the ordinary nothing helpful no clues all his clothes all his belongings seemed to be exactly in their correct places nothing seemed weird or fishy even not only was his apartment perfectly fine but his office was completely normal and you know the old meal was out the coffee exactly how he would have things what's really weird is his car keys were left in his office but not only that his dog was also left in his office I'm scoop was known for bringing his dog into work you know Colorado my own town typical office you can bring your dog in and he just left the dog there so that was very alarming to people so because of this police started to think that maybe scoop was close by but possibly injured or stuck or in danger in some way so they launched a search and rescue operation they especially searched the areas around his office and his home just to see if anything was out of the ordinary one thing that was concerning to the police however is behind the building there was like this big river and it was not just you know a little creek it was a river it was rushing quickly and you know it's coming from the mountains so it's cold at this time of year the snow in the mountains is melting and all that water comes you know rushing down so it was flowing pretty intensely at that time people thought maybe there's a chance he like slipped fell in couldn't get out because of the current something like that so they gathered a really big search-and-rescue team other departments helped out got involved with the search effort and they divided everyone up into little teams and sent them out looking for him friends and volunteers are still looking for a well known Breckenridge lawyer who's been missing since Friday police say they don't have any clues about his disappearance requested camera from his office it took a little while to get it but when they did they saw footage of scoop coming in at 5:30 a.m. like they thought but what's so strange is there is no footage of scoop leaving the building which I do not understand police had literally no idea how he could have left the building without being seen it was almost like he had just vanished so like I said one of the local radio stations for this area was in this building and there was a DJ in there his name was Scott Howard and he had actually called the police because he said that on the morning of April 27th around 7:30 a.m. he walked into the little kitchenette that the whole building kind of shared and he and scoop passed by each other when they were there he was passing by as he was filling up his coffee the morning he was seemed distracted he seemed a little they didn't really respond to my good morning he just kind of passed he didn't really even make eye contact with me he's usually just got a high or a smile out of them but this morning he seemed very distracted the disfigured he was kind of grumpy didn't have his coffee yeah but when he realized he went missing he thought maybe something was going on so they ended up finding out that around 7:40 8:00 p.m. that night the night that scoop went missing he actually made a phone call to the police the cell tower that the call was made from was a cell tower that was only a few blocks away from his office so it was clear that scoop was still in the area when he was making the 9-1-1 call if you assume that you know he was the one making the call however after talking with operators it was determined that when the call was made no one actually said anything and the call was just left completely silent so because of this people started to think foul play you know maybe someone has kidnapped scoop or hurt him you know something has gone wrong it was also discovered though that in addition to his 9-1-1 call scoop had also made a call to the person that was organizing that fundraiser that he was out the night before and he left a voicemail with his credit card information so that he could pay for all the purchases he had made at the auction that night what's strange though is that this person got into the office that morning and they tried to run the credit card but the card was declined and this made her actually think that he was abducted that maybe he was forced to drain his whole bank account two days after the disappearance there was still no sign of scoop and so they decided to bring in the Colorado Bureau of Investigations so they started looking into scoops past and they started to realize that there was a bit of a wonky picture going on they were kind of shocked to discover that before he lived in Colorado he actually lived in Washington DC and that's not the shocking part obviously the shocking part was that he secretly was married and had eight children eight children [ __ ] eight that's a lot of kids to hide so like no one in the town knew this they were all shocked to hear this so something that he was clearly trying to hide like he was kind of trying to start a new life in Colorado would he go try to start a new life somewhere else so they spoke to his ex-wife and she basically said that he just dipped out like really suddenly and made this you know last-minute decision to go to Colorado and she was like you know haven't seen him since so they also contacted his current girlfriend and they found out that the day that he went missing he also gave her a key to his apartment which she thought was really weird because they hadn't even been together that long and it was just kind of like a random time to do it and he also gave her running suits his favorite running suits and also some of his heavy winter snow boots because he said he wouldn't be needing them for a while with all these new clues gathered the police felt like they had a little better picture of who scoop was and they had four possible scenarios of what they thought could have happened he could have been a victim of foul play he had possibly succumbed to some sort of medical condition he was experiencing some type of mental issue where he was disoriented and didn't know where he was or he just left on purpose and then I don't know how the Secretary failed to mention this like right off the bat but we learned that the secretary actually was given a check by scoop before he left he wrote her her like paycheck and left it on her desk so if you're being kidnapped or something that's not really something you do you know hang on let me write a check before I leave it's kind of strange so once people start hearing more details about this vibe in the public kind of changed people were starting to get pretty annoyed with him people were starting to think the worst with scoop that they were being duped in some way it was becoming clear that you know Scoob probably was responsible for his own disappearance so after they searched a little more into his office and his house they found some more possible evidence that he could have left on his own they looked through a paper shredding machine and they discovered that there was some papers about child support in there one was even a letter that talked about how scoop was behind on his child support payments and because this was sent through a shredder it really made people think you know he had something to hide or he didn't want to face child support for his eight kids and because of this sketchiness around money people started to think okay he's kind of a fake like he was walking around here being a big-shot paying for everyone's drinks and you know buying up the charity events and was known for being kind of a flashy guy but it could even pay child support so did he actually have the money that he acted like he had and then scoops girlfriend came forward and revealed that scoop has had a bit of a financial issue apparently he had tried to get additional credit through the bank before and was denied so they decided to contact his bank get all his bank records and also another tip was called in from one of scoops clients who said that a real estate transfer and a 1031 exchange had happened and that the individual had given scoop about $250,000 to keep it for up to six months before he reinvested it into some real estate and basically after a while the person had asked for their money back from scoop but he had already spent it which is you know really unprofessional and after doing more investigation they realized that scoop actually had a twenty different bank accounts open not sketchy at all right he was constantly like transferring money around moving it to different bank accounts just being sketchy they also found out that he had taken personal loans from people like literally dozens of people and scoop owed money to all of them so to put the picture together with the child support and everything else that scoop was in pretty bad financial trouble and after the investigation process went on they discovered that he had stole from seven different clients and because of this he went from a missing person to a wanted person finding is that there is evidence has started to surface that started to lead us to believe that mr. Daniel was involved in criminal activity we found sufficient evidence to show that there was probable cause to believe that he was involved in the criminal act of felony theft consulting with Breckenridge Police Department it hasn't wore on okay search warrants and finally arrest and the police automatically filed charges against him even though they didn't know where he was one was for felony theft and the other was for commercial bribery and when the word got out to people in the town people were really mad and upset that's someone that they trusted someone they thought was part of the communities and they really liked had lied to them I had to duped them all so pretty much all the public and the police we're all turned on scoop you know there was still a few of his family and friends that thought you know there must be more to the story and he's gonna explain it one day and then one of his old clients ended up coming forward and saying that they were with him and they somehow got to talking about disappearances and like going missing and they were discussing how it'd be like pretty much impossible to go missing in America these days but he said that if he ever did go missing he would have been in Brazil so this was an interesting bit of information to police that he was even discussing going missing so after a while the case ended up going cold for years went by and then there was finally a break in the case in 2011 Wednesday December 7th 2011 to be exact a man tried to come across the us-mexico border in San Diego and and when this person presented their passport to the US they looked him up and they realized that it was scoop Daniel trying to come on home they realized that this man had a warrant for his arrest immediately detained him and he went to a local jail and this is where he told them you know his excuse for leaving and basically he was stressed out with work exactly what I was going to do and I kind of decided that in my chest drive off a cliff or something and that's when I called 9-1-1 and then I said to myself that that was silly because 9-1-1 probably wouldn't be able to help me beside just scoop so whether you believe scoop or not is kind of up to you I don't know if this was you know something he did plan a while in advance it seems like since he was talking about going missing a lot that he probably did plan this in advance but I don't know some people think that he really did just make this crazy irrational decision because he was in a really dark place mentally and was having these bad thoughts but I don't know do you guys think he staged the 9-1-1 call did he just lie about almost taking his own life or did all those things actually happen how far do bands do you think he was planning this so turns out that all this time he had been living in Mexico and was a writer for a web site he said that he lived a really modest and simple life much more modest than the one he was living back in Breckenridge and he claims that he had no idea that this case like blew up and that tons of people were searching for him and his friends and family were worried sick about him something that you I feel bad for the people that went out of their ways way to look for me with [Music] it's like dude how did you not know you thought you just left and everyone was like oh whatever like we forgot about him like what he didn't have contact with any friends or family or that girlfriend the entire time he was there he ghosted everyone and thought no one cared eventually I guess he felt guilty and he came to the conclusion that he probably should just come on home so in regards to all of the money that he had taken from people and swindled from people and lost he said that all that money was not spent on his personal life that it all went into trying to save his business which I guess was pretty much upside down scoop ended up not having a trial and instead pleaded guilty to two felony theft charges in exchange for 11 charges to be dropped he actually went through a pre-sentence investigation to determine how long they should sentence him and they found out that when he was missing scoop had actually somehow applied for Social Security benefits from the US and actually received them from the federal government in Mexico in this case the judge did order a gag order which means that a lot of the information never made it out to the public so there is like quite a bit that we probably don't know but scoop sentencing was on April 19th 2012 and he was sentenced to 12 years in prison the maximum that he could have gotten was 16 years so I don't know I feel like 12 years for this is it's fair enough you guys will have to let me know because I'm sure some of you will disagree the court records show that scoop was charged with eight felony counts of theft of over $15,000 and also five counts of commercial bribery but these additional charges were actually dropped in the plea deal his attorneys tried to argue that you know you needed to start getting to work to make money to pay off everything that he owed so you couldn't go to jail but the judge decided that it was just too much money to have to pay he was going to need to pay people back nearly five hundred thousand dollars and it was just too much to do and too long of time that he would have to do it so instead he was sent to jail and people were actually mad a lot of people that knew him and that got conned by him or lost money from him were pretty mad and they they thought that the sentence wasn't even long enough they thought that he should have been charged with all of those original charges and nothing should've been dropped in the plea deal but I don't know you guys will have to let me know your opinions on that it's a pretty wild story I remember this is one of actually one of the first missing persons stories I had heard of this was going on when I was in high school and it's just such an interesting when he was so weird so yes let me know your thoughts on this below you guys be sure to enter the giveaway the link is in the description box like I said it's super easy you don't have to go do anything else other than be a subscriber just to enter but that's it for me today guys I hope you're having a great day and I will see you next time I also gave her running suits his favorite running suits and also some of his heavy winter snow boots because he said he wouldn't be needing them for a while when Nina min Mexico's for sure [Music] [Music]

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Length: 24min 59sec (1499 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 03 2019