- Hi friends, how are you today? It's me again, I'm here. I hope you're having a
wonderful day so far. If you are new here, hi My name is Bailey Sarian and it's Monday which means it's murder, mystery and makeup Monday. (Bailey singing) That's my theme song. Don't know how we ended
up with it, but we did and it's here. Every Monday I sit down and I
talk about a true crime story that's been heavy on my noggin and I do my makeup at the same time. I'm here for you every Monday and I also upload on Saturdays as well, so I would suggest you
hit that subscribe button especially if you're interested
in true crime and makeup because it's cool. So last week we talked about
the Unabomber and his manifesto and it was interesting you know. I thought about writing him a letter, I might but I don't know, I don't know how I feel. I don't know. Oh, oh oh oh oh really
quick, this is a side note so I read my comments right, as one does and I've noticed a couple of comments that will say stuff like, 'This story was boring.' 'I'm not impressed by today's upload.' It's got me feeling some kind of way. I'm trying to think how
to word this properly. Hear me out first, when I talk about these stories, I understand that some
of them are like whoa! What? Huh! Like very, what? And then some stories are more just kind of like straight to the point. There's not as many twists and turns. When I pick these stories,
it just kind of interests me like you can think this
video is boring or whatever. For you to comment that it's boring, not interesting or that you're disappointed in my upload, it's just kind of weird to me. You need to remember that
these are like real people we're talking about and yes I make light of
certain situations and stuff but maybe just keep that
comment to yourself. I don't know. Like, I just don't like those comments. They make me feel sad for the fact that we're so desensitized to these stories, it has to be so extreme in order to, please you, I don't know, but think about it before you comment it is what I'm asking. These are real people and their lives have either ended or have been affected. Does that make sense? Also I've seen comments
saying that I look bored. I look like I'm not enjoying this anymore and that made me feel bad
as well because of course, I wouldn't do this if I
wasn't interested in it. I think what is happening
is sometimes I film at night cause it's like the only time I have. When I film at night, I do
speak a little bit lower I'm not as like animated and stuff because I live in an apartment, I share walls with people
and if it's late at night, the neighbor's sleeping upstairs, I'm trying to just kind
of keep it down a notch and just kinda tell the story. So frustrating living in apartment 'cause I always feel like I'm
working on other peoples time 'cause it's such a loud neighborhood and it's not my favorite
to film at night time, it's really not but, sometimes it's my only option. So, I just had to say those two things. I forgot to put my piercing
in so let me do that. Okay, we've got the piercing
in so you know she's serious. And this week, the story was recommended
to me by one of you guys. Shout-out to @KalynShae99 on Twitter, she sent this to me and it was really interesting and really kinda gross to be honest as well so you know that's right up my ally and I thought let's do it so Barbara Daly. Barbara was born in Boston in 1922. I believe she was an only daughter, I didn't read anything
about her having siblings so forgive me if I am wrong there but I believe she was the only child. When she was 11 years old in 1933, her father actually committed suicide. He locked himself in the garage, he committed suicide by
carbon monoxide poisoning from the exhaust. Barbara was the one that found him which I couldn't even imagine how that affects a poor child. Once he committed suicide, it
was just her and her mother and they just waited for the life insurance
payment to come through. Now this was like back in 1933, so I believe life insurance
was different then, you could actually get life insurance if somebody committed suicide. Now I think if you commit suicide, you don't get life insurance. I could be wrong there. It might be a fixed amount or something which is so stupid but that's... They ended up collecting
a good amount of money when the life insurance came through. Once Barbara's mother collected
the life insurance policy that's when the two of
them, Barbara and her mother they moved to New York City. That's when they took up a residence in the Delmonico Hotel in New York. Based off like articles I was looking at, it seems like the Delmonico
Hotel was a pretty, elite hotel. It's no longer there anymore. Trump actually purchased it in 2001 for like 115 million dollars and turned it into the Trump Park Avenue. What I'm getting at, is
they must've have had... They must've got a good
amount of money in order to stay there. From my understanding, they were not wealthy, Barbara's family and so
that's kind of suspish. Do you think the mom killed him? Now the two of them are
living in New York City and Barbara is in her teenage
years, her early twenties. She's thrown into the middle of the city and she becomes a prominent socialite. What is a socialite? A socialite is somebody who is wealthy and is always at different parties and always invited to
the latest and greatest, those restaurants that
you can't ever get into a socialite will be there. It's just somebody who networks. I don't know, socialite I will Google. So I Googled socialite and its says, a person who is well known
in fashionable society and is fond of social
activities and entertainment, which like that could be any of us. Anyways, Barbara becomes
a prominent socialite in New York City, when
she was there you see. Barbara would be named one of New York's 10 most beautiful girls and from that she gained
regular modeling contracts, with Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. Her social status in beauty
constantly brought her invitations to high society parties, allowing her to date
various wealthy admirers. Very high brow, high class, she just like networked
her way to the top baby. In her real life she
was actually suffering from a mental illness. Her mother also suffered
from Schizophrenia but I couldn't really get
that much clarification. Now this was a time when mental health was not really even talked about because if you were seeing
a psychiatrist or anything, you were taken as somebody who's crazy. Am I saying that this is true? No. But this was a time when
everybody thought that. She was also seeing a
private patient psychiatrist, his name was Foster Kennedy but she never mentioned it, she kept it a secret, she didn't tell anybody because if anybody knew,
she would lose everything. Now Barbara actually got invited to fly out to Hollywood for a screen test. She really wanted to be an actress. She just wanted to be famous. Hold on why am I doing... Let me do liner off camera. Why do I try and do it on camera? I don't know. While out in Los Angeles, Barbara did not get cast in a movie but she actually left
with a new friendship and that was from an actress
or an aspiring actress named Cornelia Baekeland. Barbara met Cornelia and
they really hit it off and they became friends and they started hanging out a lot and then Cornelia introduced
Barbara to her brother named Brooks. Now Brooks was actually
working as a trainee pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force. Now at first Barbara is like, oh that's cool, like he's cute but like he flies planes. Now back then, they didn't have Google so they had to figure
out sh*t on their own. I'm not sure how exactly
Barbara figures this out but I think probably word
of mouth I'm assuming, but she finds out that Brooks, this guy and Cornelia come from a very, very wealthy family. Money you and I will never know. There's different types of rich. There's the self made millionaire and then there's rich rich which is old money, usually like the oil industry or the railroad company, those people are like rich rich. Anyway, she finds out that this family, rich. Brooks, this guy that she's
like kind of interested but not really, she finds
out that his grandfather invented plastic. He invented it. He probably stole it from someone, but he's the one that
like got that pattern and everything. There was no plastic before this man. So the two of them, Brooks and Barbara they're dating now, they're official. Barbara, she's like oh my
God, he's the best thing ever. she's like f* yeah I'm set for life b* come on ask me to marry you. So as time goes on, allegedly, the relationship was pretty
rocky from the start. They seemed to always
be bickering, fighting. Eventually I think Brooks
is the one who was like I'm really done with this and I want out of this relationship and then good old Barb
was like well guess what, I'm pregnant. Now she knew like that Brooks was just trying to
get out of the relationship. Now here's the kicker, here's the kicker. Barbara wasn't pregnant. Nay nay. Barbara just didn't want this man to leave 'cause then she would
have to go back to work but she didn't tell Brooks this until after they got married. They got married right away, you know getting pregnant before marriage is just frowned upon, this is those times, doing anything wrong, it was frowned upon. It was frowned upon to breathe, just everything was frowned upon. So they quickly get married in California because Barbara is pregnant, we have to get married before anybody finds out that she's pregnant. They get married, boom. Barbara's like, oh by the way, not pregnant. Of course that leads
to a really big fight, Brooks is really disappointed, it's f* up. Barbara over here is just so happy because she sealed the deal. She's now Barbara Baekeland
and you know what that means, money. She's now part of the family. Baekeland family. Baekeland is the plastic
company that the family owned. So after the marriage, the couple had set up a
home in a luxury apartment in the Upper East Side of New York and in this apartment they
held parties all the time. They would invite only
the fancy and well known wealthy people in the area. Come on over, we're gonna have a party an extravagant dinner, just to kind of keep this
socialite thing going. I honestly don't know why
Brooks stayed with her after finding out she
lied about being pregnant. I couldn't really find much information, maybe she lied to him and
said she lost the baby I don't know and maybe divorce would've
been frowned upon. Now overtime Barbara in general, became well known to everybody
for her unstable personality. She had rude outbursts, not fun to hang out with, she was just rude. She was very rude to people. But again, it's a time
where you can't get help and if anyone knew she
was seeing a psychiatrist, it would be done for her socialite days. It was also reported that
Barbara was an alcoholic, she would get sloppy drunk. It was also said as time went on, her husband Brooks, he had many affairs. I'm talking like a new girl a week. He just was constantly sleeping around. Whoopsie. Barbara actually did end up pregnant, for reals this time with Brooks baby. She ended up giving birth to
a little boy in August of 1946 and his name was Antony Baekeland. They called him Tony for short. So every summer beginning
in 1954 and then onward, the whole Baekeland family, they would pretty much do
what a lot of rich people do. They have the luxury of
having a home or many homes. They had their main home, like in New York and then they had another
home, Spain, London, Paris and then it just really
depended on the season where they wanted to stay. It's cold, let's go stay
in our summer house. Why pay for heating when you
can just go somewhere warm? (laughs sarcastically) Am I right? Peasants. And then in 1960 the family decided, let's just go live in Paris. Something happened in New York. I think it was at a party, Barbara I guess had just gotten
really sloppy sloppy drunk and just was a mess,
like embarrassed herself. That's why they decided
to go stay in Paris because they don't know about
that little hiccup I had. Let's just go stay there and start over. While they're in Paris,
Brooks her husband, he had met another girl
English Diplomat's daughter and she was 15 years old. At this time that wasn't illegal. 15 sounds great. He meets this girl, she's 15 he's like wow I love her,
she's the love of my life and Brooks is like I'm gonna marry you. This is such a lifetime movie. Brooks goes to his wife
Barbara and he's like, hey, met this 15 year old, she's fire, I wanna be with her. I want out of this marriage,
here are the divorce papers I want out. Now like any of us would
be, Barbara was traumatized. She was so upset plus she was jealous and bitter that, he was going with a fifteen year old, a much younger woman,
lady, kid, much younger kid and she was 'better looking than her.' That's when Barbara just lost it. She was like my life is over, no more money. I love this man. so Barbara came up with this great idea, she's like you know what,
I'm gonna kill myself. So she tries to kill herself. It was more for show. Brooks is like, really Barb? She tried to kill herself
but it didn't work because she didn't really wanna die, she just wanted Brooks to
be scared and stay with her. Brooks comes home, finds her, he's like I'll break off the affair, I just wanna be with you Barb so Barbara ends up being fine
and she gets what she wanted. Brooks breaks up this
affair with the 15 year old and just wants to be with Barbara. As far as the relationship
goes with their son, it's really not talked about much because it doesn't seem like there
was much of a relationship. There was nannies taking care of Tony, Barbara just giving him whatever he wanted because she didn't
really wanna be a mother so she just gave him stuff
and that was good enough. Poor Tony, this little
kid, he's just growing up super wealthy but he really
doesn't have parents around to take care of him, pretty much ignored. Tony, the son, after the age of 18, he decides to kind of travel around and live in different
areas than his family. Like he wants to be on his own. Plus they're wealthy, he
can go wherever he wanted and the parents didn't care, which is like the dream
when you're a teenager. Tony was like, I'm just
gonna through Europe to like different places and then kind of figure out where I'm gonna live. So then in 1967, Tony is now 20 years old. He decides to go live in Italy and at this time, Tony ends up meeting a
guy named Jake Cooper and Jake Cooper was a
bisexual, Australian man. Now Jake would become a
really close friend to Tony. Jake would be the one to introduce Tony to various different drugs. Tony's like oh s* this is cool, drugs. So Tony and Jake are getting pretty close, they're pretty much living together. A little bit of time goes on, they're experimenting with drugs and stuff and then Tony's like, I think I'm attracted to dudes and I'm gonna be with this guy. So they ended up being in a
romantic relationship together, the two of them, but they didn't tell
anybody because again, this was a time when no, nay nay, nay. Barbara was still living in Paris while her son was having this
relationship down in Italy. Word got back to Barbara that her son was in a relationship with a man and Barbara was like oh hell no he is not. Barbara was like I'm
gonna drive down there and I'm gonna go get him, bring him back and we're gonna fix this. He will not make this family look bad. Barbara drives down there to
where her son's staying at and she's like get your s* we are getting out of here right now. Barbara actually wanted to set her son up, with a young girl. Barbara firmly believed that Tony just didn't meet the right girl and that's why he was gay. He needed a girl that he actually liked and he wouldn't be gay anymore. Barbara hit up one of her friends, her friend had a young Spanish daughter and her name was Sylvie and pretty much Barbara was like this is the girl you're gonna date, you're not dating a guy anymore. This is who you're
dating, she's moving in. The relationship was moving quite quickly. Sylvie, Barbara, Brooks, Tony, they were all living together. Barbara's plan actually backfired and she found out that her husband Brooks, was sleeping and had a
relationship with Sylvie. Yeah, s* it's messy. So then in 1968, Brooks
decided that he was just again once again he was done
with Barbara and her s*. He wanted to be with this Sylvie girl, So Brooks goes to Barb
and tells her once again, like I want out this, I
want out of this marriage. Luckily for Brooks I guess, they ended up getting a divorce and Brooks ended up marrying Sylvie and Tony tells Barbara that I'm gonna be with a guy that's
what I want, I like men. This time it just really
set her off the rails, like she was livid. Okay look, Barbara was having a
lot of affairs as well throughout her marriage, it
wasn't just the Brooks guy. She was also engaging in some affairs and I'm mentioning that because, her thought process here
really doesn't make sense. It's just different. So Barbara was determined to fix her son, so she would hire prostitutes for Tony to have sex with them
and none of it was working. Barbara here was like, you know what, I've had many
men tell me that my p* is bomb. Maybe if I sleep with
Tony, he'll be straight. Hey. Her ego is that big. My vagina is that special
that it will heal Tony of his gayness. Oh yes, this is what she thought. Barbara was alleged to have manipulated her son
into having sex with her, which is absolutely disturbing. Now her son was really good looking so I don't know if she was
like actually attracted to him or what. But at the end of the
day, that's still your son so that is... And it's said that during
his young adulthood, Tony displayed signs of schizophrenia with paranoid tendencies and his erratic behavior caused concern and then eventually, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. However, his father refused to allow him to be
treated by a psychiatrist. He believed that it was immoral, it was against everything they believe in and there's no way he's gonna get help. He's not schizophrenic,
he just needs a nap. So when Barbara is having
this relationship with him, having a sexual relationship with him, it's even worse because she's
taking advantage of her son who is suffering from a mental illness that's going untreated and she's just making everything worse with her selfish actions. Got tongue tied. They're having a sexual relationship for a little bit of time. It's even said that, Tony was seeing another guy
and then they were at the house and then Barbara had
a threesome with them. Barbara felt like... She thought if I have sex with my son he's not going to be gay anymore. But she did that. Here on October 17th 1972, Tony ended up murdering Barb. Tony goes down into the kitchen and he grabs a kitchen knife. He went behind Barb, his mother and he ended up stabbing her just a couple of times because his first stab
almost killed her instantly. I think it was only like two times but he stabs her and
Barbara ends up dying. She was 50 years old at that time. Tony at this time, was 25. So you see this story was pretty old and there wasn't that
much information on it so there's a lot of stuff
I'm not really clear on like I'm not sure why
police came to the scene, who called? I'm not sure on that. But police do end up coming to the scene and they end up finding Barbara, she's dead on the ground
and they also find Tony, he's still at the house. Police arrest him, they take him in and he confesses to the murder and he's like, yeah I did that s*. He also goes on to say that
Barbara was abusing him and he just couldn't take it anymore so he went up and he killed her. He was gay, he also had mental health
issues that were going untreated and it was because his
mother wasn't allowing him to be himself but also
was preventing him from getting more help, as far as the mental illness goes and she was abusing him. He just had all this rage built up and he's like I'm just gonna kill her. It's sad, but like at the same time I'm kinda like well... I don't really... It's like the Gypsy Rose story, remember? I mean it's nothing like that, but it's kind of similar. With Gypsy Rose, she
wasn't sexually abused but she was being abused and then she just had somebody else kill her mom. There's a video on it which I did and I will link it down below
if you wanna watch that one. But with this story, Barbara is abusing her son. The only way he thought he
could get out was killing her. Do I think it's right? No. But I guess, Don't come for me but I
kind of understand I guess. Like I would, I... You don't wanna agree that
yeah it was the only option but sometimes its like dude I don't know. Anyways so he confesses to the murder, he gets charged with murder,
but instead of going to prison he was institutionalized at Broadmoor, which is a psychiatric hospital and he was there until July 21st of 1980. He seemed to be doing really
well and the doctors were like, you know what, he seems
like he's doing well, he's gotten better of this illness. I'm not sure again what
the thought process was, I read that a group of his friends had a petition to get him out, said that he was being abused and he shouldn't even be there, he's fine. But then I also read that
that wasn't the case. So he did get out in 1980 and he was 33 years old at this time and Tony's like okay
I can't go with my dad because his dad, he doesn't
want anything to do with him so Tony was like I can't go to my dad and decides to fly to New York City to stay with his 87 year old, maternal grandmother, this was Barbara's mother. Now it seems that they also
had a very toxic relationship and it only took six days
after he was released, July 27th he attacked his
grandmother with a kitchen knife and he ended up stabbing her eight times and he broke several bones. It seemed he was very upset towards his grandmother for a couple of reasons. One, she didn't believe him that Barbara was sexually abusing him and then also she didn't
approve of him being gay. Then he was arrested by the New
York City Police Department, he was charged with attempted
murder and sent to prison. After eight months of being in prison, he actually was expecting
to be released on bail at a court hearing March 20th, 1981. However, it didn't workout
because there was a delay in the transfer of his
medical records from the U.K. This made Tony extremely depressed, he went back to his cell and then he ended up putting a plastic bag over his head and he killed himself. There are a lot of
people who do not believe that Tony killed himself. They believe that he was murdered, but there really isn't any proof to show that he was murdered, so I'm not really sure. I'm not really sure what I think either. Anyways, so that is the
story about Barbara and Tony, Brooks Baekeland. I know I was kind of all
over the place with the story because again there
wasn't much information about a lot of things. There was actually a movie
made based off of this story, it's called Savage Grace and it stars Julianne Moore
I think it is, plays Barbara and it kind of shows the relationship and what happened. A lot of the family say
that like it's a movie, so a lot of the parts are over exaggerated that it's not very factual, but it is a pretty good movie if you wanna watch it I don't know. Yeah so that's the story. Sad, gross and sad. So let me know your thoughts down below. I feel really bad for Tony, I mean he had a pretty rough a* life and Barbara over here sucked balls, like she sucked. It just goes to show you, you could be the richest
little b* in the world but guess what baby, your life still probably sucks. Barbara was a piece of s*. I really don't know what else to say. I hope you have a wonderful day today, you make good choices and
let me know down below what you want me to talk about next week. I appreciate you guys so much
for always sending suggestions it means so much. Make good choices and please,
be safe out there okay? I'll be seeing you guys later. Bye.
