SOLVED: The BABY-FACED Butchers

you're such a genuine gym thank you for clicking on my video i'm brooke mckenna but today's case is about the baby faced butchers this is a solved case but it takes a lot for grown-ups to ask for help so what happens when they are refused that help what occurs when no one believes how bad it really is until it's too late in this case there's a missing girl a brutal murder of a man and the arrest of two different people what was really to blame and could anyone have stopped this by the way i post so much content like this it is my absolute passion to tell these stories and i mean no harm or disrespect when i do so so if that's something you'd like to support me in doing all you have to do is make sure you are subscribed with the post notification bell on giving this video a thumbs up and leave me a nice comment down below i also want to thank our sponsor castify now i'm sure you've heard of this military grade protection phone cases because of how popular they really are but they're 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casedify.combrookm and that will be linked down below so thank you to cagedify for sponsoring this portion of the video now let's get back to the story so it was 1997 in new york and the abdellah family lived in new york city they lived actually in central park near the park they lived in this beautiful apartment this was parents angelo and catherine and they had a daughter named daphne now angelo was actually a kind of a food company executive basically he was high up in this food chain that was kind of international so he did make pretty good money and his wife was a french-born model she was so beautiful so talented and so they did really well for themselves they lived in an apartment adjacent to central park so they got the best views and they were more than comfortable as a family they were extremely wealthy could basically buy themselves anything that they wanted and they were used to luxury comfort and the best of the best but money doesn't buy you everything and it doesn't buy you the ability to steer clear from the evil of the world so on the early morning hours of may 23rd of that year there was commotion outside of their bedroom window and this was at central park there were ambulances as well as police cars with their sirens on headed right inside directly to strawberry fields they had no idea what was going on but somebody was dead there had been a murder there a man was found floating in the lake and once they were able to fully pull him from the water investigators found that he had been stabbed several times but it was even more than just the stabbing this man had been mutilated it appeared as though he had the slash from ear to ear as though someone was trying to decapitate him he also had markings on his hands as though somebody was trying to take off his hands his abdomen had been cut open to the point where his intestines were actually spilling out and this murder really did appear to be overkill as investigators brought him in for an autopsy the medical examiner confirmed that he'd been stabbed over 70 times from head to toe there basically wasn't a portion of his body that wasn't injured and he was finally identified he had zero identification on him but his fingertips did reveal him to be a 44 year old named michael mcmurray now he was a new york city resident people from the area knew him and investigators began searching for his friends and family in order to pick a timeline to start looking into as to how he could have ended up murdered in the lake in central park they also wanted to find out who exactly michael was and from his friends and family they found that he was actually a pretty successful real estate agent in manhattan and he also was one to frequent the park so when he got off work at night he would kind of go drink kind of hang out with some friends walk around look at the nature and he did that to relax so he was often at central park he lived with his 80 year old mother margaret he didn't have a wife didn't have a girlfriend and have children he basically had no strings attached to him he just lived his life freely and that's how he kind of liked to live there were bottles of alcohol littering the ground where michael had been found which made sense if he was someone who would go to the park to drink but there was also too many for it just to be from one person so the question was could this amount of overkill have been from a stranger most the time seeing a murder so brutal meant that it had some sort of passion behind it and probably some sort of connection as well but it could have also been that michael met someone that night that wanted him dead and that possibly he didn't know them before that night but even then why would this person have wanted to murder him well investigators had actually been called to this scene very early that morning so it was the early morning of may 23rd so this had approximately occurred the late evening of may 22nd but the call came in at around 1 34 in the morning and this was an anonymous call about a drowning the caller said that there was a body in the lake yet they didn't want to leave a number or a name where they could be reached again for further comment but there had been a call that had been placed to 911 earlier this was about an hour earlier at 12 47 am this was from a father who couldn't find his daughter he was calling to report her missing because she had not come home yet that night and since she was going through a lot of things as a teenager which we will get into in a little bit they wanted to make sure that she was okay so they wanted to report her missing so people could start looking for her now this was a 15 year old girl and when they went to talk to her father they entered an apartment they were talking to him in the lobby of the apartment about details about her to search for her and that is when the doorman of this you know luxury apartment in new york overheard them talking and said actually i know where your daughter is to everyone's surprise they turned and they asked him what he was talking about and he informed them that he had seen daphne abdellah just a few moments earlier she had come right through the doors and she was with her boyfriend and they also were kind of bloody and when he asked them why they said they had gotten into an accident while rollerblading but he said that they had gone to the washroom which was in the lobby area the ground floor of this hotel and they should have still been there so they immediately headed to this area sure enough daphne and her boyfriend were in this washroom in fact they were completely naked in a bathtub together and daphne spoke up first saying the exact same thing that the doorman had said that they had gotten into this rollerblading accident and so they had gotten a little bloody and they wanted to wash up before going back to the apartment so since there were cooperating statements investigators were like okay at least this girl isn't really missing so even though it was a waste of time to look for this missing girl they were happy that she wasn't really in danger and so they escorted these two teenagers back to their apartment and shortly after daphne's boyfriend's parents picked him up from that apartment and they kind of went their separate ways for the night after dealing with this investigators then received that second call for the night they came in around 1am this was the one about the body being in the lake and this time it wasn't going to end as happily or as easily because the caller didn't tell the name or the address of you know who they were where they could be located and they left the tip anonymously so they didn't know how this person knew that someone had drowned there and since they had no information to go on and they feared that this may have some sort of foul play involved they decided to trace this tip to the location where the phone call had been made and this led them straight back to the apartment that they had just come from an hour earlier right next to central park the one where the father had reported his daughter missing but she wasn't really missing they quickly realized that the missing girl daphne abdellah was actually involved in a murder case in the same night because she had made that phone call to investigators they were confused at how this girl could have been missing found and involved in a murder case in one night at 15 years old until they realized just what they had seen an hour prior two teenagers washing blood off of themselves in secrecy yet they were only kids they couldn't be killers right well they found daphne in her kitchen calmly eating mac and cheese and they began to question her and she spoke up almost immediately claiming that her boyfriend killed a man and she had witnessed it now she said that her boyfriend who was christopher vasquez who was also 15 years old was responsible for all of this and she wanted to make it right by telling investigators christopher vasquez was known to be quite a nerdy boy he didn't have many friends he kept himself he had that you know nerdy style if you want to say that and he was quite poor so really his style came more from necessity than from showing who he really was and he also suffered from mental health mental illness anxiety and depression plagued him and he had to take medication for it because it was so bad but he was also said to have recently joined a gang and that is when his personality began to change and he was said to have stopped going to school and he would kind of lash out at people he punched someone in the face at a party for absolutely no reason so while investigators headed over to christopher's home to interrogate him they also wanted to talk to daphne about exactly what she had seen that night because she wasn't really going into detail her father angela warned her not to say anything because he was going to pay for a lawyer to get there but she didn't listen and in fact she said she would take them to the exact location where this body was found because they had not yet found michael mcmurrow this location had not yet been released to the public no one would have known it besides the killer or somebody who had spotted him there obviously but this hadn't happened much later than his murder so daphne then walked investigators to that exact location and showed them michael's dead body floating in a lake when they were pulling his body out she screamed out at him i tried to help you i tried to give you cpr but what she would say next was what would officially connect her to the murder because that's when she said she knew this man michael that she had actually met him in an aaa meeting this really surprised investigators that a 15 year old would have been in an aaa meeting at all however daphne's father had much to inform them on at this point both daphne and christopher were arrested and charged with second-degree murder as well as robbery and the district attorney actually said that he didn't believe that they would be convicted of first-degree murder which is why they weren't charged with it to begin with since they were so young that was the main reason the only reason why daphne continued to say that christopher was responsible for it all that she had just witnessed it and she claimed that the motive was jealousy that they were on lsd and that michael had you know put his arm around her or touched her and that made christopher jealous enough to start stabbing him and ultimately kill him she said that she was afraid of how christopher was acting that night but yet when they talked to christopher he said the opposite he claimed daphne was the one who committed the murder but then daphne calmly admitted that she was the one who informed christopher on what to do she said that although she didn't kill him she did tell christopher to gut the body so it would sink meanwhile news was spreading fast about these baby-faced butchers or that was what they were being referred to as due to how young they looked they were young but they looked even younger and those who knew daphne and christopher had no problem talking about them and how strange they were when they were together how odd they acted when they were around each other they claimed that daphne was especially unpredictable and rude and that she had quite the attitude she was always trying to act like she was from the wrong side of the tracks like she had this horrible upbringing like that made her tough when in fact she was from a very wealthy family and sometimes she would decide to flaunt that instead and show people money and show them how you know she was important because she had that money she was said to often drink and then she would try to pick fights with strangers walking down the road and she would get angry with her friends when they didn't back her up on these fights many believed her behavior was actually a ploy for attention in fact one time while her and her friends were at central park a woman was actually attacked and a reporter came to of course ask people around about the crime how it made them feel and daphne was picked to talk and she actually told the reporter this makes me think not to trust a single person many of her friends stopped wanting to be around her by the time she got into this relationship with christopher but they weren't technically official you see daphne and christopher had met at an aaa meeting as well and their parents had both forced them to go due to the fact that they were only 15 years old and already getting into these substances now they were hanging out with the wrong crowd of people and they were both headed down such a dark path that they actually were taken out of school separately of course and entered into a rehabilitation program where they had to basically stay all day long so at nights when they were free they would go to central park and end up just drinking and partying there anyways instead of committing to the program they committed to each other and christopher appeared to be madly in love with daphne wanted nothing more than to be with her forever yet daphne wasn't really as committed to him she kind of played with his heart put him on the back burner friend said that they were on again off again that daphne would flirt with other boys just to make him jealous and then go back to him and she didn't really ever want to make her mind up about him they were also said to be the complete opposites before christopher changed because daphne was really always said to kind of have this rebel streak this dark side to her but christopher was known to be a religious quiet boy who was the kind to find homes for stray dogs he would go with his grandmother to church he was on time for school every day but when he started to slowly change daphne only accelerated that like i told you daphne wasn't a good influence and even her parents could attest to that you see her father angelo and her mother catherine had decided they wanted a child and they were thrilled to get into the world of adoption and help raise a child who didn't have a home so 15 years prior to this they were informed of a little baby girl who had just tragically lost both of her parents now i believe this was in a car accident but i could not find anywhere to confirm this once i thought i had read it so i just know that they died tragically both of them at the same time the baby was okay and so the baby was put into the foster care system to be adopted by another family she'd become an orphan in seconds and she was looking for her forever home so these two were a match made in heaven or so the abdullah thought they were immediately ready to adopt this beautiful baby girl and daphne became their daughter they were enamored by her from the very beginning loved her so dearly wanted to give her everything they could and with the money they felt like they really could she went to private school she took exotic vacations she could have anything she wanted however the abdullas began seeing things that were very off about daphne from the very beginning and she was a hostile little girl especially towards them in fact she began to scare them on multiple accounts angelo and catherine had told people that they were afraid of the daughter they had raised as their own and they had no idea how to help her change her or help themselves she was short-tempered she would verbally and physically assault them and this was on a daily basis in fact her father was so distraught at how she was acting had no idea what to do or where this was coming from that he actually took out a restraining order against his daughter because of the violence she was inflicting on him if you've watched me you know that i have a huge background in dealing with adoption at the whole system it's a huge part of why i feel so passionate about telling you the truth as to what could have been happening here and that is that there is a huge community of adoptive parents who have dealt with this very thing the fear of an adopted child now before i get any further let me make this very clear not every adopted child is like this not every foster child is like this many are more than happy to have a family they grow up to be the most loving respectful amazing human beings filled with love these children the ones like daphne they are ones that have and can and still enough fear and grown adults entire families that these families are seeking help in any way they can this is a child with reactive attachment disorder but for the families dealing with it i can tell you that it is about the equivalent of dealing with a domestic violence situation and i do not say that lightly i do not say that jokingly i know how severe that is some professionals will tell these type of families that this has never happened with an adopted child before it must just be you and your family there must be something wrong here with you but that's a lie because this has happened many times and continues to go unnoticed as well as silenced and that's why i speak on it so often i cannot say for certain that this is what the abdelas went through of course because i haven't talked to them but i can say that the similarities that they have to the communities of these adoptive parents is uncanny and not every rad child escalates to murder but some do i won't lie and that's exactly what daphne did her family wasn't surprised and neither were her friends i mean they said that she often talked about murder and slicing people and the night of the murder she actually said the exact words i'm going to kill someone tonight it happened but no one believed it was going to because of how many times that she would make up these stories and be so dark and angry while the couple was in jail their attorneys of course prepared for the trials and daphne's attorney named george winbaum then stated she would be pleading not guilty he said that she witnessed the stabbing but was not an accomplice he said she's a sympathetic individual charged with a heinous crime however it had come out that daphne had told christopher to you know of course gut the body so it would sink but she also helped destroy michael's identification card and told him to attempt to cut off michael's hands so that he couldn't be identified by his fingertips now of course this failed and they were able to get his fingerprints but she did tell him to do this four months later that september daphne finally told the full story she said that christopher went with her to rollerblade at central park that night and that they always did this after getting out of their aaa programs like i said but she then showed christopher her switchblade and said that she wanted to slice someone that night and that is when daphne said christopher pulled out his own knife and told her he was in they were drinking quite a lot and then they soon joined a group of people who were drinking as well they came upon someone they knew who was actually telling a story to a whole group his name was irish and they knew him from aa but this was actually the nickname for michael that's what he went by during these aaa programs and unfortunately he had been doing what he did almost every night that night which was the same thing daphne and christopher were doing walking around drinking in central park they asked irish to go to the lake with them at around 11 p.m on may 22nd and he did willingly they sat there drinking for a while before daphne said that they began to threaten him with their knives daphne said that christopher then began stabbing him several times and she was actually kicking him and the legs to push him down which is when christopher jumped on top of him and continued on she said that michael was begging them to stop and that is when she told christopher to slice his throat from ear to ear they didn't stop going at him until his entire body was mutilated and then daphne said she had a plan for disposing of michael and that he needed to be gutted because he was a fatty and he would float thankfully even though they did do this his body still floated around this time an officer had heard screams from a male voice near that lake and shortly after saw two individuals rollerblading away over a year and a half went by before the convictions and christopher's trial was being delayed because his attorney was describing extreme emotional disturbance he had to undergo psychiatric tests at bellaview hospital and basically they wanted to determine whether he was sane enough to stand trial but daphne at this point was given a plea deal and she was going to get manslaughter if she pleaded guilty there was nothing else she had to do she didn't even have to testify against christopher when she entered the room of her court date she actually turned around and smiled at her disturbed parents and mouthed i love you to them she said during the trial that she had struck michael to cause some serious physical harm but she didn't mean to murder him daphne said it was a fight between christopher and michael that started it all but she didn't know what the fight was about only that she did kick his feet out from under him which is how he was on the ground why he fell over and she was still not taking responsibility for what she had done both daphne and christopher were only 15 possibly 16 at this time and for two teens in new york they would have only been allowed to be sentenced from three to ten years however they were both being tried as adults for this murder christopher was found sane enough to stand trial and his blood had also been found to match with blood at the actual crime scene there was also a knife matching the knife wounds found in his home that had michael's blood on it he'd also given four confessions to a psychologist but these were all thrown out and not shown at his trial but christopher hadn't gotten a plea deal like daphne did so he was still being tried for second degree murder however he was then acquitted daphne's voice was heard on a friend's answering machine taking responsibility for the murder of michael but even with all of this they were both found guilty but only from manslaughter and sentenced only to 10 years in prison the jury said that they both gave confusing statements and little details and that none of them knew whether it was michael who stabbed him that night or whether it was daphne and daphne refused to testify making it harder for them to say she was guilty and make their final decision so they ended up giving them 10 years and they were both sent to the albion correctional facility michael's family who had been at the trial this whole time were so angry and they said there were at least 35 stab wounds and it took a half hour how do you come up with manslaughter this jury didn't have the guts to make a hard decision they took the easy way out after the convictions daphne actually stood up saying that she was sorry that she wished she could go back to the past and resurrect michael she said i was wrong for being in the park at night i was wrong for drinking underage and i was wrong for the admitted actions i took as much as i wish i could go back into the past i am dealing with the circumstances as best i can since this case was so huge in the media due to them looking like such children and being so evil even more people who knew them even vaguely began coming forward just to you know get in the middle of everything to get their name out there but they had also gave some interesting information and people who had seen daphne around her apartment said that she was kind of a self-conscious teenager an angry girl she showed up to school out of uniform she was always you know on drugs high drunk she just seemed like she had this typical you know teenage phase that she was going to grow out of christopher was known to be on antidepressants at the time because his parents were going through a divorce he was also quite paranoid because he had been jumped by a few teenagers on a subway and so after that he started carrying around his own knife to protect himself it was believed by the public that daphne was the mastermind of this and that christopher basically carried out the murder for her that she manipulated him into doing whatever she wanted by you know having this back and forth of you know loving him and then not really liking him and doing that over and over again he craved her attention and he would do anything to get it even kill some people even said that possibly she was flirting with michael that night trying to get a reaction out of christopher and that he entered a jealous rage or pat possibly daphne told him to go after michael and or she just encouraged him to continue once he started they were both denied parole two times while serving their sentence however daphne was known to be the perfect prisoner working in the industrial training program she planned to work with children when she was released christopher was the same he completed a high school diploma he completed an alcohol abuse program he had a clean record besides a violation for smoking but that was only one time and he was a good inmate as well but six years later it was 2004 and they had three more years to go or so everyone thought now they were actually paroled that january instead it was huge media news they both went back to their childhood homes christopher's brother actually had to fight a reporter who was trying to get too close to christopher while he was moving back in daphne was going home with her father because her mother had passed a year prior so it was just going to be the two of them but christopher soon after disappeared from the spotlight altogether was not heard from again but daphne just couldn't stay out of it see two days after her release she headed back to central park to the crime scene she sat down on a bench nearby the lake and left a note saying rest easy i tried to save you i'm sorry i failed you i'm sorry for the pain i caused you and your family this was actually found by one of michael's friends who had gone there to mourn his death and as soon as he saw that it was signed d he ran to the doorman of the apartment building and he asked if she was back and he said she was he said personally i think she should have left that to god and not have left a note on the bench i understand she wants to make amends but that's not how she should have done it another of michael's friends say six years is nothing it's a travesty knowing they were in prison was cold comfort even though i knew someday they'd be out i've lost all my trust in this system but it's hard to not wish them well in a sense i'd like to believe they were rehabilitated his family actually refuses to speak on it and both daphne and christopher had a curfew and they can't leave the five boroughs of new york but then just a few months after in october of 2004 daphne was found to be making death threats to a woman in brooklyn i don't believe it was ever released who this woman was why she was making the death threats but nothing more was ever really said about this then five years after this in 2009 at 27 years old daphne was living on the upper east side when she got into a car accident she went on to sue the couple for her injuries which included her having to be confined to her bed for a while she said she suffered serious injuries and great pain due to their carelessness and she was looking for financial compensation i was unable to find whether she received that or not but that is all that i could find about daphne and christopher but what do you think really happened that night would christopher have killed without daphne will christopher kill again well daphne let's hope not considering they are out roaming the streets of new york city living normal lives but i'd love to hear your theories on it please be kind as i will always be respectful of your opinions if you are respectful of mine and i hope that i have brought you a new case that you hadn't ever heard before but don't ever forget to speak up your voice is powerful enough and i love you to absolute pieces also remind you to check out my second channel genuine gems that will be linked in the description where i do vlogs and different kinds of beauty and personal videos okay bye [Music] you

Channel: Brooke Makenna

Views: 153,372

Rating: 4.9317503 out of 5

Keywords: solved, solved true crime, true crime, crime, documentary, true crime documentary, solved murders, kids who kill, killer kids, baby faced butchers, Daphne Abdela, Christopher Vasquez, Michael McMorrow, New York City murder, 15 year old killer, teen killer, teen kills adult, Central Park murder, female killer, deadly women, Daphne abdela now, Christopher Vasquez now

Id: EBi10YviOTA

Length: 32min 18sec (1938 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 15 2021