The Tragic Death of Melissa Platt Feat. Interview With Her Sister

[Music] hey guys welcome back to my channel and welcome to another family involved true crime video if you've never seen one of my family involved videos i will link the playlist below of previous ones that i have done and the reason i do this style of video is to give the family members of some of these victims a platform sometimes i just can't believe how many people i reach and letting families reach you guys is just so helpful to them you have no idea last month i did one of these videos on ellen greenberg and her family was so so grateful for the amount of people that just went to their facebook page and you know left a message or clicked like and they told me that they had more people come to them on their social media and stuff after my video than they did from even working with a couple tv productions so that's just huge and made me so proud of this audience the fact you guys take the time and you care about these families that you understand how vital it is that they have a voice i know some of you really would rather me just tell the entire story and i understand that however i want to do what's going to be best for the victim and their family so i only do these videos about once a month for that reason but thank you to everyone who is supportive when i do these and today we're going to be talking about melissa platt so melissa's sister michelle contacted me a few months ago through my victim's advocate form which is linked below and asked me if i could cover her sister's case and when i looked into the details i definitely was intimidated you know this case is really heavy and i definitely want to say that before we go into it but it's also such an important video it's so important to raise awareness about this case because there's no justice here and i know she's also contacted a few other youtubers and podcasters to cover this case as well to try to get the word out to as many as possible i just looked and saw danielle halland just covered this as 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throughout melissa's life she had several different health issues which i will talk more about but it all started when she was a newborn she had a severe case of colic and she also had low blood sugar so hyperglycemia and had to be hospitalized for a month after her birth which was really you know scary for her mother but after she recovered from that she was just fine and was a really healthy kid in her early childhood even as a baby when she was still crawling around they noticed right away that she was very adventurous and had a really happy personality melissa was very close with her sisters and she and michelle actually would ride pieces of cardboard down their family staircase and they would also jump off their roof onto a mattress so they were very adventurous the three girls were so close when they were growing up that her mother actually would dress them up matching as if they were triplets we were best friends i mean we were so close we were actually called two peas in a pod when we were younger because we were just always together i have really good memories of staying up late when we weren't supposed to and watching scary movies and going to sleep and having terrible nightmares but then get up the next day and watch another one because you know we just we love that we had such a blast doing that and my sister would be the first to tell anybody that you know she'd say i can't sing for nothing but that didn't stop her you know she would turn on our little home recorder she wouldn't sing her heart out i i try so hard to focus on those positive memories that we have but then it's it's just it's difficult you know knowing what happened to her when she was eight years old their family moved to jacksonville north carolina and started a new chapter there but they only stayed there for about four years before heading right back to texas and settling in baytown when melissa was younger when she was about 15 she started to work for mcdonald's and she was specifically in charge of planning and executing birthday parties which i think is so cute so 90s birthday parties at mcdonald's were so fun when you were a kid and i think it would be a really good job for someone who loves kids and melissa definitely did she absolutely loved children she would talk about how she couldn't wait to become a mother eventually when she was 16 she decided to move back to jacksonville to live with her sister maria and her family she had several kids and melissa loved her kids so she wanted to spend more time with them and kind of help out then in october of 1995 melissa had her first daughter named brianna she was super thrilled to be a mother she could not wait to raise her daughter but just like her her daughter unfortunately had some health issues when she was born she had a cleft lip and she also had a hole in her heart so they spent a lot of time at the ronald mcdonald house which if you are not familiar with that it's a place where families don't have to pay they can stay and they're taken care of if their child is sick melissa got married in 2001 before having her second daughter who's named chastity and she was born on july 4th 2003. however this marriage did not last long and she and her husband separated in 2005. but melissa was just so happy to have kids that's what really drove her in life she loved being a mother she loved her children and melissa was described as being a really bubbly and cheerful person with an infectious smile she was also always willing to help anyone in need and melissa also loved animals i felt like that was something we had in common i love people that love animals i feel like if you love animals you just have this good nature about you and she had a little pet parrot named alvin isn't that the cutest thing so fast forward to 2008 melissa was 31 at this time and she started dating a guy named joey joey worked at barn hill construction company and he actually met melissa in 2006 at the auto parts store that she worked at and this joey guy is bad news okay he's had a history of domestic violence up until meeting melissa which i will explain more he had already had two ex-wives both who are very scared of him so this was not a good person for melissa to be with from the beginning he lived in a single wide trailer on rex howard road in pink hill which i guess is a very very small town kind of a farming community there's only a little over 500 people living in this town and it's about an hour away from greenville north carolina and at this time melissa was having some legal trouble she was on probation for writing bad checks and she was not allowed to leave the state she was convicted in onslow county in 2005. now melissa was really into joey and she would stay at his trailer most of the time she pretty much lived there and eventually she even got a tattoo of the name joey on her lower back and a huge element of their relationship was alcohol they spent a lot of time drinking together up until this melissa was never a huge drinker she liked beer but when she met joey she started drinking hard liquor at one point melissa just realized things were totally out of her control that she had developed an addiction to alcohol so she made the decision to get some help and she contacted the onslow county behavioral health clinic in jacksonville and also the walter b jones alcohol and drug abuse treatment center in greenville but joey was not supportive of this at all he wanted her to continue drinking he didn't want her to get help so when he would pick her up from either of those two clinics he would literally stop and get alcohol on the way home and then pretty much make her drink it and he would even threaten to leave her if she went to rehab so he was the worst possible partner you could have if you are dealing with an addiction the relationship between melissa and joey just was incredibly toxic he was very controlling manipulative he didn't want her to have a car he didn't want to have a job he didn't want her to see her talk to family we didn't know for quite some time what was really going on you know abuse victims tend to you know hide what's going on make excuses for bruises on their body and melissa was no different when i did find out what was going on i tried to tell her you know get out of that you can come live with me i'll help you out and so you can get on your feet but you know she was scared she would tell me about things that would happen between them for instance one night he just you know didn't like the way she looked at him he forcefully kicked her out of the house through a window actually threw her out this window shut the window locked it and locked her out all night she told me that she couldn't get into her car to sleep in there so she had to sleep on the ground now this apparently was nothing new so there's an incident that i want to talk about that occurred prior to all this but during melissa and joey's relationship so um melissa was shot and you know she went to the hospital she told the doctors that she shot herself now she was shot about right here and if you think about that that's a very awkward angle to turn a gun and shoot yourself so i firmly believe that this was just another incident where melissa was covering up for joey now i can't prove it i'm just going off of the medical report knowing how abusive and toxic their relationship was and i feel it's important to bring this up to kind of help you understand how scared of him she was you know um he would threaten to kill her and feel like based on this she believed that he meant what he said now before we go any further i do again want to say this is a very very difficult case to talk about and i know all true crime cases are and it's to be expected you know and i don't normally put like any type of trigger warning on my videos normally just because it gets flagged with youtube if i do that which i'm pretty sure this video is going to be demonetized if it's not i will be donating whatever is able to be raised through ad revenue to melissa's family but again i highly doubt that it's going to be monetized and it's so important that i'm able to say as much as i can as brutal as this case is i think it's so important to hear the reality of what some women face and of course not just women some men face domestic violence as well you know it's just truly an epidemic that we have to deal with and i know it can be difficult to listen to stories of domestic violence if you have experienced it yourself and statistically i know a large chunk of you probably have and i really really feel for you and that's why i want to let you know that i'm going to be getting into some serious details here and it might be a good time to go ahead and click out if that's going to be too difficult for you to hear and i also of course for legal reasons want to say that everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law and that the points i'm about to make are a legend and from the family so on october 3rd 2008 it seems joey beat melissa severely and after he beat her he just wrapped her up in a blanket and left her there she was left rolled up in this blanket lying on a mattress in excruciating pain wrapped in a blanket alone for days and for six days while she was lying there joey was coming in and out of the trailer going to work going wherever else who knows where he was going honestly and acted like everything was normal just was doing his typical routine now melissa was very close with her mother she would talk to her on the phone as often as they could and over that six days her mother marian called several times hoping to get a hold of melissa and every time she wasn't able to and when joey would pick up the phone which at first that's what he would do he would make up some excuse for you know why she wasn't there why she couldn't come to the phone whatever so my mom called back to speak to her and joey answered but made up an excuse why she couldn't come to the phone but marian knew that she would eventually call her back even if she was busy and it was just excuse after excuse so she started to get pretty suspicious and at that point joey just stopped answering the phone he just would let it go to the voice message machine the answer machine picked up she left a voicemail and then the next day it just rang and rang so you could tell the answer machine had been turned off and she would leave messages for melissa and she knew that if melissa heard those messages that she would have called back so since melissa was having some legal troubles she was on probation and had a probation officer so her mother called her probation officer my mom just had a gut feeling that something was very very wrong and so that's when she called my sister's parole officer and said you know can you please go do a welfare check we just had a horrible sinking feeling that something very bad happened i instantly knowing how the relationship is went to the absolute worst case scenario and all i could do is just say please please let it be that she was just too scared to talk on the phone and that it's not the worst case scenario that you know i'm thinking so this was on october 9th 2008 and when they got there melissa was in horrible condition she was lethargic and in extreme pain still alive but barely she had bruises all over her face all over her body she you know just miscolored skin she looked exhausted so of course he called right away for help and paramedics got there very quickly and paramedics when they got to the scene some of them said that this was one of the worst scenes that they had ever seen and you got to remember these people have seen some horrific stuff the first responders report is very telling to me they said that the moment they walked inside they could smell her body fluids and so that tells me when he would leave and come back he had to have smelled that he obviously knew what state she was in it was clear that she needed immediate medical attention the condition that melissa was left in was completely inhumane and like i said melissa was alive but she was unresponsive she was breathing normally which gave them hope and also when they spoke loudly to her she would open her eyes she was still wrapped in a blanket or a dust ruffle and she was naked from the waist down her head and arm were through her shirt but only on one side so one arm was just hanging out and this is the most horrific part probably melissa was left lying in her own urine feces and vaginal blood there was a bottle of liquor right on the nightstand next to the bed so they knew that alcohol was probably involved so she was taken by ambulance to the lenoir memorial hospital they brought her in and did everything they could you know but her injuries were so so severe i mean she was bruised head to toe like every part of her had some kind of bruise was whether it was an old one that was in you know different stages of healing or brand new ones she had really dark and deep new bruises in her abdomen area and even her pubic bone was bruised and swollen and she also had two black eyes her jaw was broke in two places they did a cat scan on her and they were able to see bleeding in the brain she had a brain bleed she had a two by five mark on her neck she had huge bruises that looked like almost the shape of a foot like she was either kicked or stomped on not only that guys it gets worse her jaw was dislocated in two places and she was also missing a lot of her teeth and that's when they realized that her condition was much worse and they were able to handle at the hospital she was at so they flew her somewhere else they life-flighted her to pitt county memorial hospital in greenville north carolina and they performed an emergency craniotomy so after surgery she was out for a long time she was found on october 9th and then it wasn't until october 17th that she opened her eyes after surgery and at this time she was able to talk to police a little bit but she was on a ton of pain medication she didn't really know what was going on and at first she told them that she was in a really bad car accident i mean she could have had a dream who knows or maybe she just found that from a movie or you know she had no idea what was going on and then after that she told the police that she was actually just clumsy and fell down a lot and i'm not sure if this was to protect her boyfriend or you know if she just genuinely didn't know what was going on because of the pain medication it was obvious that her injuries weren't from just falling down a lot why would she be laying in her own feces and urine when someone's in the trailer with her for six days it doesn't make any sense i remember being at the hospital and i was in a room with detective brayden he was the lead detective on the case i was really confused because joey hadn't been arrested at all like just brought in for questioning and i asked him i said what is going on with this are y'all planning to arrest him at the minimum for negligence for allowing another human being to lay in that state for several days and he said well he was taking care of her and i was kind of taken aback by this statement and i said how was he taking care of her and he said well you know he was feeding her and keeping her hydrated being that she had a job broke in two places you know i said how was he feeding her with a broken jaw and he said oh you can you can eat with a broken jaw and he just got up and walked out of the room and i just i really couldn't believe what i had just heard so investigators decided that they you know should just wait to interview her until she's a little further into her recovery but unfortunately that never happened now when melissa's family talked to her about the situation they heard a very different story according to them she told them exactly what joey had done to her now this was actually written down in a journal word for word by melissa's mother marion my mom and sister were like melissa look what happened to you did somebody do this to you and she said yes they said was it joey that did this to you and a look of absolute fear and terror came over her and she said that he dragged her outside by her neck threw her into the bushes ripped her shirt off and hit her over the head with something hard and also according to melissa's mother joey had also been forcing her to drink alcohol through a straw there was a can that was actually filled with liquor and had a straw in it and knowing that my sister was unable to move in her state it's pretty clear that he was giving her this alcohol and i truly believe it was just to keep her you know loopy and out of it intoxicated so melissa ended up being in the icu for nine weeks imagine what that was like for her family ups and downs maybe she's gonna survive maybe she won't what truly happened i mean so much emotion so much trauma and things had gotten even worse for her during this time because she got a horrible case of meningitis which if you know anything about that you know how absolutely devastating that can be on someone's body and not only that she also developed a staph infection towards the end of this nine week period she started having a lot of seizures she was unconscious a lot of the time she barely knew what was going on and it became clear to some of the doctors that she just was not going to make it and at one point fluid filled her brain and they had to insert a second tube to relieve some of that pressure and then tragically on december 17 2008 melissa was pronounced brain dead at this point her family had to make the horrific decision to take her off life support melissa was only 31 years old so when they did the autopsy they discovered that melissa's cause of death was traumatic brain injury and at first the forensic pathologist said that this would be consistent with her alcoholism and her fall so let's talk about the investigation so immediately joey is the prime suspect her whole family thinks that it's joey so the police interviewed joey's ex-wives and his two sons his first wife and him had two children together and they divorced in 2001 and then six months later he ended up getting with his second wife married her in 2002. after conducting some interviews they also found out that he was violent towards his own mother in his house growing up and not just verbally he was physically and mentally abusive to his own mother so it tells you what kind of guy he is and apparently a few times it was so bad that she almost went to the hospital or called the police but she was too scared and never did there was also a lot of abuse to his own children he slapped them he punched them and they interviewed his youngest kids and they said that they witnessed him several times being horribly abusive to their mother and that they would have to physically break up some of their fights as children which is so scarring they told the police about all this horrific abuse they saw joey commit against their mother but one of them actually was at joey's place when my sister was there and he said that joey would be very demeaning to her and there was one incident where he said joey held up his hand pretending like he was he like had a gun in his hand and like put it up against her head and pretended to pull the trigger and was just laughing so clearly this guy has a serious history of abuse so one of his sons joseph ended up staying with him for a brief period of time in the trailer with melissa there so he was kind of able to see what their relationship was like and according to him melissa was a trophy to him and he also believed that melissa was cheating on him at the time and he said that he was glad that his father was finally getting a taste of his own medicine that someone was hurting him because he had hurt everyone else according to him there was a ton of drinking in the house that their tolerance for alcohol was just out of control they were drinking all day every day he said while he was there joey had never hit melissa but that he did see him verbally and mentally abuse her time and time again and he would always make his other wives lie and say that their bruises were from other accidents so he would just talk about clumsy all of his wives happen to be and joey actually told his son joshua that when he had come home one day he found melissa just passed out on a concrete slab in front of her house he said that she fell out there and that those injuries are what caused her death joey claims that the way melissa got all her injuries was from falling outside onto like a concrete slab it doesn't make sense at all there's just no way she could get that amount of injuries from what he described happened to her it it just doesn't add up let's say in some bizarre world that that's actually what happened to her then why did you allow her to lay in that state for days suffering when i think about the amount of pain she must have been in you know she would have wanted help now it's definitely clear that melissa had a serious drinking problem it spiraled out of control into a terrible addiction where she felt very helpless according to joey's son joseph melissa was drinking all throughout the day um she drank beer in the mornings and just would continually drink and that joey pushed her to drink more and more and he also had expressed to joey that he was worried that melissa was drinking way too much so he would send her to detox and joseph said that he thought joey was just doing this to kind of make himself feel better about the situation and to look good to everybody else joey had also opened up to joseph about how melissa had cheated on him and how she was cheating with like a delivery driver and stuff so they were definitely having a lot of arguments and and domestic disputes in their relationships over things like that at one point joey actually called the guy that melissa had cheated on him with and asked him to come pick her up and he did and she stayed with him for three months but then he dropped her back off with joey eventually so the police interviewed joey several times and they even went back to the trailer to reenact everything in the bathroom joey had claimed that she had taken another horrible fall in the bathroom he said that she fell in the bathroom and got pinned between the toilet and the tub he said he came home and found her that way oh and that she had also hit a plastic trash can it was a very small plastic trash can in the bathroom on the way down and this doesn't make sense at all to me i've seen the size of that bathroom and the gap between the toilet and the tub where he claims he found her pin between like a small child couldn't even fit in between that gap so that already doesn't make sense to me and during interviews the investigators actually said that they were trying to clear him and they didn't take that much time interrogating him or investigating him apparently he was super cooperative they thanked him profusely for his cooperation in fact and they liked him it seemed and they even said that he had been fantastic now joey also offered to take a polygraph test but he was cleared for being able to do that process because he had a hearty addition which could ruin the results so it would be pointless so they never did that and his story was that melissa had first fallen outside on september 29th he said that that night melissa had been drinking all night and she went outside and fell onto the neighbor's concrete carport and according to him she got up from this and made it to his car got in there and was just sitting in there when he found her hours later he also said that she was naked because she always slept naked and he said during that next week after that she was trying to heal by just kind of relaxing at home that she didn't want to go to the hospital because of her alcoholism so they would just relax on the couch watch tv hang out and he thought she was on her way to healing but he said that she could barely get to the bathroom on her own she could barely eat she was in horrible condition during this time and he said that she just wanted to drink so he would help her drink with a straw so basically his story was that she would have all these falls from drinking and he would find her in random places and it was just an ongoing issue but he would continue to force her to drink it sounds like didn't want her to get help so the story doesn't make a lot of sense at all from the beginning but investigators seem to think that joey was great and that they you know had no reason to think that he could have done something to her and the police were very much empathetic to joey during his interviews they were constantly letting him know you know you're we're gonna get you out of here real quick like sorry to inconvenience you basically so melissa didn't have anyone in her court from the beginning literally while they were waiting to reenact melissa's fall they were making small talk with him about the weather acting like none of this mattered it didn't even seem like a concern to figure out what really happened to melissa joey explained that she had defecated herself in the bed and that this was common i guess that she couldn't really control her bladder much when she drank that she would wet the bed almost every time that she drank he kept saying over and over again that he had done everything for her that he possibly could have that she was just a really clumsy person he basically blamed her said that she was clumsy and a drunk and that she ended up this way and that he kind of saw this coming the whole time so as you probably can guess joey was ruled out by the police and is not considered a suspect melissa's family is as you can imagine absolutely devastated heartbroken to this day over melissa's death and the fact that she has not gotten justice they believe that she is a victim of horrific domestic violence her mother has sent letters to the lenoir county district attorney brannie vickery about doing an investigation she was told that she would be informed of the progress or if the case was closed but no one ever contacted her she called over and over again before getting someone on the phone was told the case status was inactive and there wasn't any evidence for a criminal case and basically since melissa didn't tell the police that this was happening to her that she was being abused they said that there's nothing they can do which is horrible because that's why so many women are afraid to come forward to not be believed or they're afraid of being abused even worse if they come forward and no one helps but they say everything that she was telling her family and close friends is all considered hearsay to them which is mind-blowing to me because she has the bruises and the injuries and the record to prove that there was something more going on also the police could not and cannot to this day explain that bruise on her neck it's a huge bruise two and a half by five inches that's huge and they cannot explain how it happened and the medical staff said that there's no way that that is from a fall it does not make sense so joey is really the only potential suspect if you even consider him that or if the police even consider that him that i should say but he was never charged with anything not murder not domestic violence nothing at the very least he should have been charged with failing to call 9-1-1 but he wasn't joey was asked why he didn't contact you know 9-1-1 and he actually uh changed his story he gave two different reasons um the first one he said that melissa said she didn't want him to call i'm sorry but if you see somebody in the horrific state my sister was in you would call and then he changed it and he said that he didn't call because they called so many times and they always come out that they just wouldn't have come out which that's completely not how that works when you call 9-1-1 to report an emergency you know they have to address it so the police ended up ruling that her death was caused by an accidental fall drunken fall melissa's family is confident that joey did this my mom had talked to one of the district attorneys one time and that district attorney told my mom that that he fully believes that joey did this but he feels like there's not enough evidence to take it to a jury they feel that it's pretty obvious she was severely abused they believe she was for a long time they tried to get her to leave but melissa wouldn't leave and that's so familiar to so many i'm sure toxic relationships that's why they're toxic because you keep getting roped back in it's the cycle of abuse that is hard to break out of it's hard to tell other people about it can be embarrassing it can be scary it can be painful you know she was going through so much at the end and if melissa's mother hadn't called the police she would have died probably on that mattress in the trailer with joey which i mean at least it was a little better that she was able to pass comfortably in a hospital with her family just thinking about her days of lying there in her own filth it's so inhumane that it's hard to even wrap your mind around the fact that some people could let something like that happen while they're living there with them just it's like a whole nother type of evil so sadly melissa's father michael died in 2010 from cancer before seeing any justice for his daughter and as of now the case has been officially closed and that was decided back in april of 2012. i'm the captain of the police department that handled my sister's case his name was captain oldenburg he got to the point because my my mom you know we were calling and trying to keep my sister's case on their radar and it got to the point like captain olderberg told my mom time to just stop calling him i mean that's that's the level of disinterest that we've been dealing with this entire time every year my mom put together packs and she sends them to joey to district attorney and the governor of north carolina senators and nobody um does anything we've had a district attorney the current one that's in office um did send a letter to my mom just basically saying you know reaffirming that they're basically not going to do anything there will be no change to this so every year we try to keep this on their radar but you know so far there's been a complete lack of movement on her case and to this day they say that they think joey is innocent that he cooperated fully they said he was never angry or showed any violence towards the investigators but obviously he's gonna put on a good act for them there's so much proof i mean the fact that both of his ex-wives have detailed examples of what they went through should say so much should carry so much weight but our system's so messed up that of course it doesn't as of right now they say maybe if more evidence is brought forward they can do something but as of right now with her history of alcohol abuse they say there's nothing that they can do that the injuries are consistent with a drunken fall and according to joey she was just falling all the time which obviously drinking can make you more clumsy it can make you fall but to the extent that she was and for his lack of care that's what gets me is the lack of care for her in the end like even if she is falling and drunk why wouldn't you take her to the hospital get her help you just left her there lying in her filth for days you know apparently it's okay to just allow somebody to lay in your home and slowly die the fact that police can see beyond that and think that's in any way normal is just baffling and just to know that her life was taken away in such a brutal manner and you know he was just able to go on like nothing happened you know he there was no responsibility put on him for anything it's just terrifying to know that this could happen to somebody and there's absolutely no repercussions for the person that made it happen i'm not sure how this documented history of abuse didn't factor in to the investigation and if it did factor in it factored out really quick because you know we're here right now talking about it um but i just thought it was important to to mention all that because i really do feel like there was some judgment there and there was just a lack of caring and a lack of interest to really get to the bottom of what happened but her family is not giving up all of them are still fighting and i can't tell you how important it is just to go and give these families a follow on their social media let them know that you're there that you want justice now there is a petition seeking justice for melissa i expect you to take the time to sign it petitions don't take long guys and they do a lot so please take a second of your day sign that petition and also melissa's family is working on raising money to hire a private investigator in north carolina named jan barefoot we had a meeting you know i went over you know everything and she firmly believes there is a major injustice with her case and she wants to work the case and these private investigators are so so expensive and so out of reach for so many people the retainer fee alone for this is 7 500 so if you were able to donate it all like i said i will donate whatever revenue is generated from this video to that cause hopefully it's monetized i tried to be as light as i could for a case that's as heavy as this um to see if we can get this monetized but if not i will donate whatever is generated through youtube red which is a small amount but still from the bottom of our hearts we appreciate any support i created a twitter account and it's justice for melissa platt and i'm posting updates there as well i also went ahead and created a teespring store and any any money raised from the teespring store 100 of that goes toward the private investigator fund as well any support any help is so so greatly appreciated if anything comes of this i hope that there are people out there that will hear my sister's story and i'm referring to people that are in toxic abusive relationships and maybe if they hear my sister's story it'll give them that nudge to you know take the first step to try to get out and get to safety and before i close this video i just want to say i am so inspired by michelle for contacting me to do this video for speaking up it's not easy to get on camera and talk to people about a horrific trauma in your life and the loss of a loved one so i hope that all comments towards her are respectful that maybe you'll consider follow her on social media do whatever you can to show that you support what this family has gone through and their efforts to get justice for melissa platt but that is it for me today guys if you enjoyed this video please give it a thumbs up it helps it be seen by more people and if it's demonetized the thumbs up are really gonna help so please definitely do that also make sure to subscribe put on your notification bell and that's it stay safe out there you guys and i will see you next time

Channel: Kendall Rae

Views: 1,274,775

Rating: 4.9605312 out of 5

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Id: 80uVYznDUvU

Length: 42min 2sec (2522 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 27 2021