This psychopath finally got caught | Strange but true (Pt. 15)

sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction and today we're going to look at three stories that demonstrate that but before we get into today's stories if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious deliberate in story format then you've come to the right channel because that's all we do and we upload two or three times every week so if that's of interest to you please invite the like button to come to the cinema with you to see a movie they really want to see but then proceed to talk incessantly to them throughout the entire movie and about halfway through spoil the ending also please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads alright let's get into today's stories in october of 2014 a 35 year old woman who we'll call olivia met her husband for lunch at a restaurant in western new york the couple had not originally planned to stay at this restaurant for very long but one thing led to another they were having a nice time and before long it was six pm and they had been there for six hours and over those six hours both of them had had a lot to eat lots of bread and pasta and cakes and all sorts of stuff and they had had some alcohol but not very much olivia had been careful to only have four drinks over those six hours because she wanted to be able to drive and her husband similarly limited his drinking so he'd be safe to drive and so after they got the check and they paid for their meal they both hopped in their respective cars and they began driving home as olivia was making her way home she unfortunately got a flat tire and so she pulled off to the side of the road and she called roadside assistance as she was waiting for help to show up another motorist happened to drive by and they misunderstood what was happening they saw olivia standing outside of her car with the tire popped off and they thought she'd been in an accident and so they called the police and reported it and so the police show up a few minutes later they pull up right behind olivia and when they get out they ask her you know are you okay do you need any help and she would say oh no i just had a flat tire i'm totally fine you know thank you for stopping though but the police as they're listening to her speak they see her eyes look kind of glassy and glazed over like she's drunk and as she was speaking they could have sworn she was slurring her words and so they said hey ma'am have you been drinking tonight and she would tell them that well yeah i have had a few drinks but only four over the last six hours and i don't feel drunk at all that has nothing to do with the situation i'm in now i'm i'm not drunk but the police were not buying it and so they put her through a series of field sobriety tests that she managed to get through but she struggled with enough that it sent up some red flags and so they made her blow into a breathalyzer a breathalyzer is a device that uses your breath to register how much alcohol is in your system also known as your blood alcohol content or bac for short bac is scored as a percentage out of 100 and while no one should ever get behind the wheel of a vehicle if they are impaired it is the case that in america you are allowed legally to operate a vehicle if your bac is point zero eight percent or lower for reference if a 160 pound female consumed about three alcoholic drinks maybe a little bit more in the course of an hour she would most likely have a .08 bac if that same 160 pound female were to consume let's say eight alcoholic drinks over the course of an hour she would definitely not be allowed to legally operate a vehicle because she would be very very drunk her bac would have spiked to 0.2 percent which would put her in the range where she would most likely have alcohol poisoning and eventually she would most likely lose consciousness if this same 160 pound female were to consume 13 alcoholic drinks over the course of an hour her bac would jump all the way up to 0.4 percent where she's not just drunk and unable to operate a vehicle at that level you're talking about potentially dying from consuming that much alcohol when olivia blew into this breathalyzer she fully expected that she would be below the .08 percent legal limit because after all she'd only had four alcoholic drinks over a six hour period and so that would put her well below that legal limit but that was not the case she blew a staggering .33 percent the cops couldn't believe what they were looking at because they're looking at olivia and they're thinking at that level she should be somewhere between losing consciousness and dying but here she is just standing there talking to us acting a little bit buzzed and so they assumed their breathalyzer must have made a mistake so they went back into their car caught another breathalyzer did it again and again olivia blew a 0.33 percent bac the officers couldn't understand how this woman had such an extreme alcohol tolerance but regardless they charged her with driving while intoxicated and then brought her to the hospital for medical intervention there her bac remained high even after a full day had passed without her consuming any more alcohol this is around the time that it was discovered that olivia had a very very rare medical condition called auto brewery syndrome which in a nutshell meant her body transformed glucose from foods specifically carbs like bread pasta that kind of thing into alcohol olivia who was totally unaware of this condition had developed this wicked alcohol tolerance because she was basically drunk all the time not because she was a heavy drinker but because she ate carbs this condition if left untreated can do the same damage alcoholism and binge drinking can do to the body the only way you can treat it is by drastically changing your diet when olivia's condition was discovered and made public the charges against her were dropped and she would go on to just stop eating carbs altogether in 1887 35 year old robert ladrew was a very talented detective working in paris france he was so talented that periodically he would get called upon by other police departments around the country to help them solve their most difficult cases and so that year there was this coastal town in northern france that had the string of sailors that went missing and nobody had the slightest idea what had happened to them and so naturally robert was called in to investigate the night robert arrived in this town it was very late and robert was tired so he went straight to his hotel and he went to bed the following morning he got up and he went straight to the local police department to meet the local officers that he would be working with on this investigation but when he got there he was told that the missing sailors case had been lowered in priority because during the night a murder had been committed down on their beach and so that was now their main focus and so they apologized to robert and said you know i'm sorry you came all this way for nothing but since you're here do you want to help us in this beach murder investigation and robert said sure the victim was a middle-aged man named andre monet who owned a dress shop in paris france he had recently moved to this coastal town to enjoy the beautiful scenery when his body was discovered early that morning it was quickly determined he had been killed by a single gunshot wound to the chest where the bullet actually went clear through him out the other side but they hadn't found the bullet there were no suspects there were no leads there was no clear motive however they were able to rule out robbery because there was still money in andre's pockets and so robert and the other local officers left the police station and made their way down to the beach where they began examining the area where andre had been found the local officers focused on looking for the bullet while robert decided to walk a little ways down the beach to see if there was any evidence that had been overlooked in the initial search and after only walking a very short distance robert noticed some barely visible footprints that appeared to pass right by where andre's body had been found and these footprints they continued past that area and then up a flight of stairs up onto the road where they disappeared robert called over the other officers and told them to make plaster casts of these footprints so he could analyze them what that meant is the officers would literally just pour liquid plaster inside of these prints and then when they dried they would pull that plaster out and it would literally be a 3d model of the foot that had made the prince and so as the officers are working on these casts robert says to one of the officers that these prints looked really odd to him like they were familiar in some way but he just couldn't place where he had seen them before less than an hour later when the plaster had dried the officers pulled them out and they handed them to robert and as soon as robert looked at them he physically reacted to what he was seeing it was like he was disappointed and then without saying anything he just walked down the beach with these plaster casts until he got to the secluded area where he sat down and he sat there for hours and hours just staring at the plaster casts seemingly unaffected by the sun that was blazing down on him the whole time and the tide that was very quickly creeping up on him the local officers who were watching this they didn't know anything about robert all they knew is his reputation which is he is this totally legendary detective and so they didn't dare question his methods even though this seemed really odd what he was doing finally by mid-afternoon robert wood put the cast down he would stand up and he would walk back over to the mystified local officers and when he walked up to them he would say there's no reason to stay at the beach any longer or interview any more witnesses i think i've solved the case but then instead of elaborating he just turned around and walked up off the beach and headed back for his hotel the local officers just looked at each other and shrugged and they left too early the next day the bullet that had killed andre monet was found on the beach and so when robert showed up to the beach the chief of police handed him this bullet in an effort to help him continue the investigation and as soon as robert looked at it he sighed and said okay now i know for sure what happened and then robert proceeded to break down the murder he said the killer woke up in the middle of the night on the night that andre was killed and he got out of his bed he put on his clothes and then he headed down to the beach there he encountered andre monet a man he didn't know who was most likely out for a midnight stroll as well the two men struck up a friendly conversation but at some point it turned into some sort of quarrel at which point the killer drew his pistol shot andre in the chest and then fled the scene robert told the local police chief that the reason he knew all these details is because he had been the killer he killed andre monet but he didn't do it on purpose and he didn't remember because he killed andre monet while he was sleepwalking he told the chief when he was given those plaster casts of those footprints he knew immediately why he thought those prints looked so familiar because as soon as he looked at the casts he could tell whoever had made the prince was missing a toe and as it happened robert was missing a toe so those prints looked exactly like his footprints and that morning when he had woken up in his hotel room before even going down to the beach he had noticed that his shoes and his socks which were next to his bed were sandy and damp and he thought that was so strange because he couldn't remember how they got that way but he was too busy to investigate and that night after he had sat all day looking at the casts and then left the beach leaving the local police officers totally mystified he had gone back to his room and the first thing he did was get his revolver out from under his pillow and he discovered that one bullet was missing and he always kept his revolver fully loaded and so he spent the rest of the night trying to convince himself that this was just one big coincidence but the following morning when he was given that bullet he knew immediately that this was not a coincidence the bullet that had killed andre monet was the same type of ammunition that he loaded his revolver with and so he had to be the killer he had effectively caught himself the police were totally shocked and did not believe this at first more specifically they didn't want to believe that robert their star detective was behind this horrible homicide but eventually after examining all the evidence they agreed he had to be the killer but to test whether this really was sleepwalking and not some elaborate cover-up by robert they decided to conduct an experiment robert who was fully cooperative with the investigation was told to sleep in this jail cell where he would be monitored 24 7 by armed guards and in this cell with him would be a revolver loaded with blank rounds and he was told to keep it under his pillow for the first couple of days nothing happened robert never touched the revolver during the day or when he was asleep but about a week into this experiment robert suddenly woke up in the middle of the night in this trance-like state he reached under his pillow pulled out the revolver and began firing at the guards right outside of the cell and so this convinced the police that robert had been telling the truth about what happened to andre monet he really had killed him while he was sleepwalking a decision was made not to prosecute robert for the murder instead they decided to basically exile him for everybody's protection and so from then until 1937 when robert died he was forced to live alone on the secluded farm outside of paris where the only visitors he ever got were doctors who would only show up during the day and with armed bodyguards on december 18 1956 a brand new game show called to tell the truth aired on a major american television network the premise of the show was relatively simple four celebrity judges would be presented with three people called contestants who all claimed to be the same person and this person who they claimed to be was always remarkable in some way they had some incredible talent or some crazy job or they had accomplished something extraordinary one of these three contestants was the real person they were claiming to be the other two people were doing their best to pretend to be that person and it was the job of the celebrity judges to try to figure out who was telling the truth so for a set amount of time on the show the celebrity judges would ask the contestants questions about their background and try to figure out you know who was who and then at the end of the time the celebrities would cast a vote about who they thought was the real remarkable person after the votes were tallied up the host would have the real remarkable person stand up to reveal themselves and the entire audience would go crazy and that was the show and the show became quite popular so popular in fact that today nearly 70 years later it's still on the air and over the show's very long history virtually all the episodes are pretty similar it's a pretty redundant show but there is one episode that will forever go down as the most unique in october of 1972 three contestants walked out onto the stage in front of the four celebrity judges and they all introduced themselves as ed edwards then the host of the show read aloud the biography of the real ed edwards and he would say that ed at one point was on the fbi's list of the top 10 most wanted criminals in america for crimes like armed robbery and impersonating a federal officer and then after he was finally caught by law enforcement and went to prison a prison guard helped him turn his life around and then upon release from prison 14 years later ed remained this reformed criminal and became a successful author and motivational speaker who specialized in telling people how to identify con men and criminals and how to protect themselves from these people after the real ed edwards biography was read aloud the three contestants sat down and the celebrity judges began asking them questions about their past and then after the time was up the celebrities cast their votes and then the real ed edwards was revealed and even though two of the four celebrity judges had correctly identified the right ed edwards the crowd was totally astonished at who this guy actually was because he did not look like this ex-convict he looked like this kind of all-american middle-aged father who was totally harmless and wouldn't hurt a fly but either way the show ended and then the world forgot about ed edwards until 2009. that year ed's estranged daughter 40 year old april blasio finally decided to investigate something that had plagued her for her whole childhood despite her father's claims that he was this reformed criminal and the stand-up law-abiding guy she didn't believe it she never believed it she thought he had never been reformed and just was a criminal and always had been behind closed doors ed was violent and abusive and he was a compulsive liar she remembered in the 1970s and 80s when she was a young kid ed would make their family pack up and move sometimes in the middle of the night and april always assumed it was because her dad was wrapped up in something criminal but every time she asked him he would say oh well you know i was an informant when i was in jail and i snitched on some people and some of those people have figured out where we live and so we gotta move april knew he was lying but there was nothing she could do and so they just kept on moving around but she always thought something else was going on so in 2009 when april is now this 40 year old woman she's laying in bed one night and finally says you know what i'm just gonna start googling some stuff so she hops in her laptop and she starts typing in the different names of towns that she and her family lived in as a kid and then after she'd write the name of the town she'd write unsolved mystery or unsolved crime and she would see if anything popped up and so as she began looking she found one in 1980 it was an unsolved murder in a town called watertown wisconsin that happened right around the time that her family very briefly lived in this town there was this young teenage couple that had left this wedding and they'd driven down this dead end road and they were just kind of enjoying each other's company when an unknown assailant who matched the description of ed edwards walked up to their car broke in shot them both to death and then disappeared and so on a hunch april called the watertown police department the following day and told them that i think my father might have been responsible for this double homicide it's just a hunch but he matches the description we were there in this very small window of time when it happened and so the police said okay we'll go have a look and so the watertown police they tracked down ed edwards who was living in kentucky at the time and they got him to give them a dna sample and when they tested the dna sample it matched these samples that were taken at the crime scene in 1980 and so ed edwards he was arrested and brought back to wisconsin and as soon as he was in custody he confessed to the murder and then he requested the death penalty but he was told the maximum punishment for this crime was life in prison ed didn't like this and so he confessed to another double homicide from 1977 in ohio where he killed another teenage couple thinking that would give him the death penalty but through a loophole they said well actually that still won't get you the death penalty you're still facing life in prison and so frustrated ed revealed a third murder he had perpetrated in 1996 he had killed his own foster son for the insurance money and so for this crime he was eligible for capital punishment and so he was sentenced to death but he would die of natural causes two years later in 2011 before the state could execute him since his death cold case investigators and members of his own family have theorized that ed edwards is almost certainly responsible for more killings beyond just the five he happened to confess to in fact many people believe ed edwards could actually be the infamous zodiac killer who's one of the nation's most notorious uncaught serial killers that killed 37 people in northern california in the 1960s and 1970s if this is true then ed edwards did not become a killer after he was on that game show in 1972. no when he showed up for that game show and stood in front of the audience and smiled and answered questions to the celebrity panelists at that time as you're watching him on tv he would have already been a seasoned serial killer with dozens and dozens of victims but ed stopped confessing to murders after that third confession because he was just kind of using those murders as bargaining chips to get what he wanted the death penalty and once he got it he went silent and now that he's dead we're never going to get another confession out of him and there's no proof connecting him to any unsolved murder cases and so unfortunately it's unlikely we'll ever know the full extent of ed's reign of terror so that's going to do it guys if you found the secret in today's episode let us know in the comments section what it is and where you found it so give us the time stamp and if you're the first to do that we'll pin you at the top of the comment section if you got something out of today's episode and you haven't done this already please invite the like button to go to the cinema with 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Keywords: strange, dark, mysterious, true, story, scary, scary story, horror story, disturbing, narration, narrator, storyteller, storytime, storytelling, unsolved mystery, solved mystery, true crime, oof, nope

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Length: 21min 52sec (1312 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 30 2021