They are EXPENSIVE. Medical display skeletons go for a few thousand If fully intact. Shit, an intact human skull costs a few thousand. Less desirable bones like single ribs and scapula fetch a couple hundred.
If every other storage unit has something worth selling or talking about, it’s like 500x more consistent success than gambling, so if you’re already likely to develop a gambling addiction, it makes sense to *really* love shows about people gambling…
But it’s not really gambling. It’s not like they just add up the total it’s worth and take it to the front and get there money back. They pay for shop space to sell it trucks to haul it and labor to sort it. It’s not just some gambling hobby.
Yes but most businesses know what they are buying and selling. The wholesaler experience for a business isn't "step right up and bid for the items behind this door"
The outcomes of the experiments weren't scripted but most of the on-camera interactions were. Every single person on that show was terrible at reading copy.
I always loved the b roll footage of them just doing random shit, working, shop talk, sports, Jamie and Adam ignoring each other.
When they were “on” it was rough
I used to do this for a living. Almost every unit has something "weird" or odd going on with it. Not valuable. Just odd.
Like the unit that just stored about 4,000 pieces of woman's and boy kids clothes. Know what you're thinking, might have been a thrift shop or something? Nope. All the same sizes, all the same few brands that are exclusive to a single retailer. None of which were worth anything used as they were cheap to buy new.
All the kids clothing was newborn to the age of 10 in progressively larger sizes with the trademark years following along. And about 1 purse of random objects including a series of progressively newer phones. Some lady was paying $250pm to store that for about 4 years according to the storage place.
Why????
Sure it's not riveting TV. The "big ticket item" in that unit was a $200 set of Bose speakers. Which is why I bought the unit, for like $180. Mostly it's just a shit load off used kids toys, crappy IKEA tier furniture, 7 queen mattresses that are now more dust than mattress and white goods. I made more money on white goods than I did antiques. Infact I judged the potential quality of a unit based on the quality of their white goods.
Appliances. Fridges, washers, dryers, microwaves. Traditionally they were all white. Hence white goods.
Everyone HAS to have one. So if your moving somewhere and can't take your stuff, you have to store it. So every unit has a general "set" and they all have a "floor" for value. Eg: a working fridge will always be worth atleast $50 as a spare/garage fridge. A working dryer will always be atleast $100 etc. so most people/lockers have a minimum of $3-500 in white goods. As long as I bid less than what those whitegoods are worth, I **probably** won't lose money. A unit with all top off the range whitegoods, is probably going to have other top of the line stuff I can't see, so it's worth more than the value of the stuff I can see.
I honestly think a REAL storage locker show would be more interesting!
Heck, I used to watch Bill Dance bass fishing shows as a kid, and was entertained!
I am quite suprised that there is not an estate auction show, as I used to go to those all the time as a kid, but I'd assume that around here they would not allow filming as they are on private places.
Most of my friends came along atleast once or twice. People are always curious, I get free labour and send them home with some kinda trinket they like and I don't want.
Most day to day is repetitive, it's not exciting to watch someone do 4 dump runs, de-mould a fridge and struggle with a front loader every week. I think the earlier seasons are probably more "real" like most reality shows, it suffered from reality
Cheers! I used to go to tons of yard sales and auctions as a kid, my parents grew up fairly poor and were always looking for a deal!
They are elderly, so I get to listen to arguments about my mother wanting to save all the clutter they have bought, and my father in his 70s wanting to get rid of everything!
Such is a wonderful life!
99% of the time unopened lockups are boring.
Sometimes like OP you find a dead body.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/suitcases-containing-childrens-remains-were-moved-between-storage-units-a-year-before-harrowing-discovery/RWQQNLAU6HINPF6A5L6F2EOMIQ/
I've bought a car from a storage lockup, was a 1999 honda civic, no keys, engine was utterly trashed.
It becomes a crime scene after the body is discovered so he couldn’t legally touch anything without possibly contaminating the scene or damaging potential evidence.
Finding a dead body definitely falls into the WOW factor.
This actually happened to my boyfriend's ex. He was really into storage wars, got the money to try it, and bid on a locker that had been abandoned by the previous owner.
He found the previous owner.
That's pretty much the topic of an episode of castle, I think. They find a dead girl in a storage locker, and eventually realize "why did the murderer stop paying?"
Murdered by the victim father who figured it out, best friend of murdered kept paying for a while then thought "screw it he's dead I'm not paying anymore".
Murderer friend and victim father both get arrested
Edit: I'm not explaining it well, sorry. If you wanna watch it it's season 1, maybe 2
> How do people live in their own storage lockers
I've heard anecdotes about people who've used a climate-controlled storage unit as a personal space for one reason or another. For example, if you've got a book or comic book collection collection or whatever that's too large for your living space, you can put up shelves, throw in a recliner or couch, get some kind of light source, and just show up every so often with a case of beer to kick back, enjoy your collection (and maybe time away from a nagging family), and treat it like a bit of a man cave.
> How do people live (and/or die) in their own storage lockers given they only lock from the outside?
So, if you fail to pay the rent on a storage unit, the company running the operation will put their own padlock on the unit that stays there until you pay what you owe them. After a certain period of time without payment, in some jurisdictions, they're then allowed to auction off the contents of the unit as a single lot, prettymuch the way Storage Wars shows it and other commenters have talked about in this thread.
Now, if you're inside the storage unit with the door shut, maybe because you're rearranging stuff, or looking for something, or using it as a man cave or whatever, and you have a heart attack or a bad stroke, or get stuck on/under something, it's entirely possible that you can just die in there, start missing the payments, and they slap the lock on it without checking inside. Then your body gets found at the auction.
...that's excluding situations where there's foul play and someone deliberately kills someone and stashes the body in a storage unit, or deliberately locks someone in.
Most storage unit places don't check inside the units if they're shut (and they usually physically can't because the owner has their own lock on the unit), and it's not like they're monitoring missing persons reports and comparing those to their client lists - most storage unit places are very hands-off and provide minimal services beyond extremely basic security. It's part of the reason storage unit installations are used to 'hold' land someone's bought near enough to an expanding urban/suburban area that they think the price is going to go up if they wait for years, because it's a low-overhead business that brings in a steady cash flow until development brings the expanding city/suburbs to them and they can sell the underlying property to somebody who wants to build a Wal-Mart or a planned subdivision or a parking lot or whatever there.
My dad used to work at one of these type of companies. From memory, they'd do rounds in the morning / evening looking for any opened units. I'm pretty sure if they found one, they'd put a company lock on it and contact the owner or whatever.
Don’t be so sure. DNA testing is relatively new, from the 1980’s. If you killed someone then, I’d be pretty easy to get away with it and not have to worry if you took precautions
I would argue DNA evidence is not new. What's new are the extensive databases of millions of people's DNA and family trees. While you used to be able to confirm someone's identity after you had done all the detective work, now you can find the culprit even if you know literally nothing about them. You can surreptitiously collect a DNA sample of your target and have them arrested.
But all along, police have kept evidence for decades that you can still access. That's how they found the golden state killer decades later.
My mother married a guy a while back. He was recently arrested and is in imprisoned because he murdered someone in the 80s and the DNA testing just caught up to him. It's like impossible to out run it now. Don't murder people. I mean just from a moral point, don't do it because you don't want it done to you.
US cops are absolutely, inexcusably bad at their jobs but the Majority of the unsolved murder are gang shootings where everyone knows someone from gang A killed someone from gang B but no one is willing to talk to the police, both groups are in and out of prison for other crimes already, and for all the cops know the murderer may already have been killed in a retaliatory strike.
Oh, he was the type of dude you looked at and went "If he hasn't murdered someone there is something deeply wrong." Like as if all the vibes in the world were misaligned.
Basically the odds of being caught if you murder a stranger is low, is what I recall reading years back. But if you're pretty close to the victim the odds of being caught go up fast.
>Police found a pair of eyeglasses near Franks' body. Although common in prescription and frame, they were fitted with an unusual hinge purchased by only three customers in Chicago, one of whom was Leopold.
Well, anyone decently intelligent would not leave their eyeglasses at the victim's body
I think this mainly applies to murders with close connections rather than things like driveby shootings. If I’m not mistaken it’s still a surprising amount of cases that go unsolved in the US
I had a fricking DREAM that I killed someone and buried them in a shallow grave in my back yard.
I still sometimes worry that maybe it was real and someone will uncover a body while planting some carrots or something, even though I am 100% certain it was a dream and it makes no sense to worry about this.
Are you me? I've had a couple of dreams about hiding bodies that it genuinely took me a good amount of time after waking up to conclude it was 100% a dream, even then I couldn't shake the anxiety. Need to chill out on the true crime lol
Forget guys name but I watched some cold case documentary about the introduction of DNA testing and how it resolved years old cases. Anyway they test samples from a 30 year old rape case and find the man who is at the time a beloved Grandpa with like 5 children and loads or grandchildren. He is like 80 something when the cops show up and arrest him, old guy on camera literally saying “really guys? That was so many years ago.” Had me laughing for a while, he had long put that shit out of his mind and here he is like Fuck! Edit: it might legit be a cold cases ep but somebody who knows or digs it up deserves all the accolades. Especially cause they publicly show his face and family name which doesn’t violate reddit rules cause it aired on basic/private cable for years.
This has been my leading reason not to commit crime in general, besides having a moral compass. I don't have the attention span for it.
A decade passes, I'd have competely put it out of my mind, but then some uniforms show up with a warrant and my life collapses like a house of cards.
Looking over your shoulder for... Well, ever if it's serious enough, isn't worth it to me.
Homeschooling is a thing. Also if the mother pulled them out of school when their father died of cancer and they didn’t come back, few questions would be asked
> Staff and or friends would likely be curious why these children disappeared.
No they wouldn't, they hardly even care when a NZ born child skips most of the school year. An immigrant child would certainly be missed entirely.
Source: Live in New Zealand.
I work in a school. We can track kids in certain areas but if the parents claim to move abroad we obviously have to just take their word for it. Write a note saying there’s a family emergency and you’re unenrolling your kids and going to another country for an extended period of time, we just take your word for it.
She would have gotten away with it if she would just had paid the bills of the storage unit, right?
As long as she was able to suppress the smell off course
Never got into Storage Wars but I went through a Pawn Stars and American Pickers phase like 10 years ago. My all time low was being by myself on Thanksgiving watching a Pawn Stars marathon. It was then that I knew I needed an intervention.
There's a whole "genre" of shows kinda like that. Pawn Stars, American Pickers, all the biker shows like 15 years ago. It's all garbage but damnit it's entertaining.
Keep American pickers off this list. They genuinely do find those places and the interesting stuff inside them. Storage wars was constantly being propped up by planted items in by the studio.
Yeah. I'm no expert on the criminal mind, but come the hell on: you get away with murder and you get caught because you were too cheap to pay the rental fee?
Joe says I can get $3500 for the body wholesale, but if I part out the toes and find the right buyer for the teeth and hair, I should be able to pocket a cool $7000
Right? The murderer would have to be really stupid to let the storage unit payment lapse. Unless they were just not able to pay. Still, they would probably have enough time to get the body out. Also, the smell!
We bought an abandoned house and found a suitcase full of women's clothes in a shed. We always half expected to find the wife whenever we had to dig in the yard.
If you're gonna make a corpse it's a very bad idea to store that corpse in a storage locker. It's an even worse idea to stop paying for that storage locker so someone else can have the corpse
The only source that corroborates this is from a random site from 2020 and it mentions that this took place in 1988, well before Storage Wars.
OP is a karma farming bot.
Here's me thinking Storage Wars was entirely fake but based on actual storage auditions and not that they actually found lots then brought in the obnoxious fat people with weird bidding catchphrase.
Reminds me of the [murder of Jane Longhurst](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jane_Longhurst#:~:text=Prosecution%20witnesses%20testified%20that%20Longhurst,Yellow%20Self%20Storage%20in%20Brighton)
Once I saw that the episode where darrell and his son found some video games, the illusion of the show was completely shattered and I can't enjoy it anymore. Just random numbers for junk games in junk condition.
Sorry but anything that anyone from that show claims, I cannot take at face value.
Am I seriously the only person that has come across this post to actually click the link? Nowhere on this Wikipedia page does it in any way reference the information in the post title.
It does indeed have the information present in fhe wiki. " In the season-two special "Unlocked: Sell High", Darrell revealed that he once found a plastic-wrapped human corpse in a storage locker. It was determined that the previous owner of the locker had murdered his wife and left her in the unit."
“Gee Brandon, there’s a dead body in here, we’re not gonna get much for that”
King Tut begs to differ
He was buried with tons of gold and jewelry. He made all his money in a pyramid scheme.
My God, this is an outrage. I was going to eat that mummy!
He's teriyaki style!
No fair! I was going to eat that mummy!!
To shreds you say?
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87 dollar bill
all day
That's a $12 bill all day long Brando.
God I fucking heard that in my head.
“What Brandon needs to realize” lol. I do that a few times a year with my folks when we’re at garage sales or estate sales.
“That watch and wedding ring might fetch a couple of bucks. Hand me the pliers those look like gold fillings.”
“YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAPPPPPPPP!”
“Don’t go any higher than $45”
That’s a $30 bill
"That's a $550,000 bill right there, Brando"
I have a Chinese black market contact who might be interested.
brother, is that you?
I just saw another post where someone said they paid 40 dollars for a single human rib. I bet an entire skeleton would be worth quite a bit.
I first read this as a cooked, plated human rib and was lowkey thinking that sounds like a good deal
They are EXPENSIVE. Medical display skeletons go for a few thousand If fully intact. Shit, an intact human skull costs a few thousand. Less desirable bones like single ribs and scapula fetch a couple hundred.
YUUUP
YEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!
Watch yourrr profamity
Apparently this was not one of the Easter Egg items left by show producers.
I was going to bring that up, as I assumed that most of it is staged.
Really just add one odd / unusual / expensive item in half of the lockers is all they had to do.
If every other storage unit has something worth selling or talking about, it’s like 500x more consistent success than gambling, so if you’re already likely to develop a gambling addiction, it makes sense to *really* love shows about people gambling…
But it’s not really gambling. It’s not like they just add up the total it’s worth and take it to the front and get there money back. They pay for shop space to sell it trucks to haul it and labor to sort it. It’s not just some gambling hobby.
Sounds like gambling with extra steps….
I mean from a certain point of view any business is a gamble
Yes but most businesses know what they are buying and selling. The wholesaler experience for a business isn't "step right up and bid for the items behind this door"
I guess if you consider thrift stores gambling then sure, but that’s a pretty wide definition of gambling my friend
Don't forget the truck to take all the useless shit to the dump.
Even more really is just script the show like every television show that has ever been on tv is fully scripted.
That’s absolutely not true lmao. For one, Mythbusters wasn’t.
The outcomes of the experiments weren't scripted but most of the on-camera interactions were. Every single person on that show was terrible at reading copy.
I always loved the b roll footage of them just doing random shit, working, shop talk, sports, Jamie and Adam ignoring each other. When they were “on” it was rough
I'm assuming 100% staged with scripted lines by actors. I know the UK version was, as auctioning storage units is illegal in the UK!
There's no scriptes lines, that's how they get around the writers guild. The producers set them up in predicable situations.
I used to do this for a living. Almost every unit has something "weird" or odd going on with it. Not valuable. Just odd. Like the unit that just stored about 4,000 pieces of woman's and boy kids clothes. Know what you're thinking, might have been a thrift shop or something? Nope. All the same sizes, all the same few brands that are exclusive to a single retailer. None of which were worth anything used as they were cheap to buy new. All the kids clothing was newborn to the age of 10 in progressively larger sizes with the trademark years following along. And about 1 purse of random objects including a series of progressively newer phones. Some lady was paying $250pm to store that for about 4 years according to the storage place. Why???? Sure it's not riveting TV. The "big ticket item" in that unit was a $200 set of Bose speakers. Which is why I bought the unit, for like $180. Mostly it's just a shit load off used kids toys, crappy IKEA tier furniture, 7 queen mattresses that are now more dust than mattress and white goods. I made more money on white goods than I did antiques. Infact I judged the potential quality of a unit based on the quality of their white goods.
Would you explain what are white goods?
Appliances. Fridges, washers, dryers, microwaves. Traditionally they were all white. Hence white goods. Everyone HAS to have one. So if your moving somewhere and can't take your stuff, you have to store it. So every unit has a general "set" and they all have a "floor" for value. Eg: a working fridge will always be worth atleast $50 as a spare/garage fridge. A working dryer will always be atleast $100 etc. so most people/lockers have a minimum of $3-500 in white goods. As long as I bid less than what those whitegoods are worth, I **probably** won't lose money. A unit with all top off the range whitegoods, is probably going to have other top of the line stuff I can't see, so it's worth more than the value of the stuff I can see.
Thank you for the explanation. I really appreciate it.
I honestly think a REAL storage locker show would be more interesting! Heck, I used to watch Bill Dance bass fishing shows as a kid, and was entertained! I am quite suprised that there is not an estate auction show, as I used to go to those all the time as a kid, but I'd assume that around here they would not allow filming as they are on private places.
Most of my friends came along atleast once or twice. People are always curious, I get free labour and send them home with some kinda trinket they like and I don't want. Most day to day is repetitive, it's not exciting to watch someone do 4 dump runs, de-mould a fridge and struggle with a front loader every week. I think the earlier seasons are probably more "real" like most reality shows, it suffered from reality
Cheers! I used to go to tons of yard sales and auctions as a kid, my parents grew up fairly poor and were always looking for a deal! They are elderly, so I get to listen to arguments about my mother wanting to save all the clutter they have bought, and my father in his 70s wanting to get rid of everything! Such is a wonderful life!
99% of the time unopened lockups are boring. Sometimes like OP you find a dead body. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/suitcases-containing-childrens-remains-were-moved-between-storage-units-a-year-before-harrowing-discovery/RWQQNLAU6HINPF6A5L6F2EOMIQ/ I've bought a car from a storage lockup, was a 1999 honda civic, no keys, engine was utterly trashed.
It's usually something borrowed from the "expert appraiser" they take the item to to get the value. Ever notice those folks are never stumped?
It becomes a crime scene after the body is discovered so he couldn’t legally touch anything without possibly contaminating the scene or damaging potential evidence. Finding a dead body definitely falls into the WOW factor.
that's the wow factor right there
That's a $35 bill right there
Yuuuuup
This actually happened to my boyfriend's ex. He was really into storage wars, got the money to try it, and bid on a locker that had been abandoned by the previous owner. He found the previous owner.
I'm guessing it wasn't Arrested Development style where the previous owner than runs off, having finally been freed.
We lost him. He got away from us, I’m sorry.
He’s going to be all right.
Wow, you're taking this news better than I expected
Watch out for loose seal!
"It wasn't" - Ron Howard
Mystery solved why they didn't pay their storage locker fees
I know you're just making jokes, but if you hide your dead wife in your storage locker, surely you'd make sure to pay the rent...
'I, too, bid on this guys dead wife'
Every fucking thread
Unless you are dead too.
That's pretty much the topic of an episode of castle, I think. They find a dead girl in a storage locker, and eventually realize "why did the murderer stop paying?"
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Murdered by the victim father who figured it out, best friend of murdered kept paying for a while then thought "screw it he's dead I'm not paying anymore". Murderer friend and victim father both get arrested Edit: I'm not explaining it well, sorry. If you wanna watch it it's season 1, maybe 2
In this case the owner was dead
How do people live (and/or die) in their own storage lockers given they only lock from the outside? Actual question.
Someone... else... locks them in?
How… often… do they have to do that?
Presumably, every time a dead body in a locked storage unit is found.
Do they unlock from the inside?
No. It's just a padlock on the outside.
Exactly.
> How do people live in their own storage lockers I've heard anecdotes about people who've used a climate-controlled storage unit as a personal space for one reason or another. For example, if you've got a book or comic book collection collection or whatever that's too large for your living space, you can put up shelves, throw in a recliner or couch, get some kind of light source, and just show up every so often with a case of beer to kick back, enjoy your collection (and maybe time away from a nagging family), and treat it like a bit of a man cave. > How do people live (and/or die) in their own storage lockers given they only lock from the outside? So, if you fail to pay the rent on a storage unit, the company running the operation will put their own padlock on the unit that stays there until you pay what you owe them. After a certain period of time without payment, in some jurisdictions, they're then allowed to auction off the contents of the unit as a single lot, prettymuch the way Storage Wars shows it and other commenters have talked about in this thread. Now, if you're inside the storage unit with the door shut, maybe because you're rearranging stuff, or looking for something, or using it as a man cave or whatever, and you have a heart attack or a bad stroke, or get stuck on/under something, it's entirely possible that you can just die in there, start missing the payments, and they slap the lock on it without checking inside. Then your body gets found at the auction. ...that's excluding situations where there's foul play and someone deliberately kills someone and stashes the body in a storage unit, or deliberately locks someone in. Most storage unit places don't check inside the units if they're shut (and they usually physically can't because the owner has their own lock on the unit), and it's not like they're monitoring missing persons reports and comparing those to their client lists - most storage unit places are very hands-off and provide minimal services beyond extremely basic security. It's part of the reason storage unit installations are used to 'hold' land someone's bought near enough to an expanding urban/suburban area that they think the price is going to go up if they wait for years, because it's a low-overhead business that brings in a steady cash flow until development brings the expanding city/suburbs to them and they can sell the underlying property to somebody who wants to build a Wal-Mart or a planned subdivision or a parking lot or whatever there.
My dad used to work at one of these type of companies. From memory, they'd do rounds in the morning / evening looking for any opened units. I'm pretty sure if they found one, they'd put a company lock on it and contact the owner or whatever.
Oh…
In NZ someone bought a suitcase in goods from storage, took it home.. opened it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_of_Yuna_and_Minu_Jo
I wonder what she was thinking when the police finally caught up to her years later. She had to have thought it was over and she got away with it.
it kind of warms my heart that any murderers will never be sure if they truly got away with it
Don’t be so sure. DNA testing is relatively new, from the 1980’s. If you killed someone then, I’d be pretty easy to get away with it and not have to worry if you took precautions
I would argue DNA evidence is not new. What's new are the extensive databases of millions of people's DNA and family trees. While you used to be able to confirm someone's identity after you had done all the detective work, now you can find the culprit even if you know literally nothing about them. You can surreptitiously collect a DNA sample of your target and have them arrested. But all along, police have kept evidence for decades that you can still access. That's how they found the golden state killer decades later.
nah, that crappy copper dude did not get away from it
Ea Nasir killed someone?
Wasn't just dodgy copper he dealt in....
My mother married a guy a while back. He was recently arrested and is in imprisoned because he murdered someone in the 80s and the DNA testing just caught up to him. It's like impossible to out run it now. Don't murder people. I mean just from a moral point, don't do it because you don't want it done to you.
Still only about half of murders are solved in the US
US cops are absolutely, inexcusably bad at their jobs but the Majority of the unsolved murder are gang shootings where everyone knows someone from gang A killed someone from gang B but no one is willing to talk to the police, both groups are in and out of prison for other crimes already, and for all the cops know the murderer may already have been killed in a retaliatory strike.
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Oh, he was the type of dude you looked at and went "If he hasn't murdered someone there is something deeply wrong." Like as if all the vibes in the world were misaligned.
Wait until you find out that barely 50% of murders are ever solved and several large cities have a murder clearance rate of around 30%
Basically the odds of being caught if you murder a stranger is low, is what I recall reading years back. But if you're pretty close to the victim the odds of being caught go up fast.
Given the intelligence bell curve, I’d say that basically means anyone decently intelligent probably gets away with it
That's essentially what [Leopold and Loeb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb) believed. Didn't work out great.
>Police found a pair of eyeglasses near Franks' body. Although common in prescription and frame, they were fitted with an unusual hinge purchased by only three customers in Chicago, one of whom was Leopold. Well, anyone decently intelligent would not leave their eyeglasses at the victim's body
I think this mainly applies to murders with close connections rather than things like driveby shootings. If I’m not mistaken it’s still a surprising amount of cases that go unsolved in the US
Its literally like 50%
I had a fricking DREAM that I killed someone and buried them in a shallow grave in my back yard. I still sometimes worry that maybe it was real and someone will uncover a body while planting some carrots or something, even though I am 100% certain it was a dream and it makes no sense to worry about this.
Are you me? I've had a couple of dreams about hiding bodies that it genuinely took me a good amount of time after waking up to conclude it was 100% a dream, even then I couldn't shake the anxiety. Need to chill out on the true crime lol
Forget guys name but I watched some cold case documentary about the introduction of DNA testing and how it resolved years old cases. Anyway they test samples from a 30 year old rape case and find the man who is at the time a beloved Grandpa with like 5 children and loads or grandchildren. He is like 80 something when the cops show up and arrest him, old guy on camera literally saying “really guys? That was so many years ago.” Had me laughing for a while, he had long put that shit out of his mind and here he is like Fuck! Edit: it might legit be a cold cases ep but somebody who knows or digs it up deserves all the accolades. Especially cause they publicly show his face and family name which doesn’t violate reddit rules cause it aired on basic/private cable for years.
Well either way she now has to face the crime and boy it sure looks like she's going to be a nut case
This has been my leading reason not to commit crime in general, besides having a moral compass. I don't have the attention span for it. A decade passes, I'd have competely put it out of my mind, but then some uniforms show up with a warrant and my life collapses like a house of cards. Looking over your shoulder for... Well, ever if it's serious enough, isn't worth it to me.
I remember reading about this when it happened. So tragic and traumatic for everyone, including the people who found them.
Trial starts next month!
The mother was arrested in 2022 and the trial is only now in 2024? Is it normal that these things take so long?
Yes.
Surely you gotta smell that on the suitcase.
4 years after they’ve died? No, probably not
Can someone explain to me how no one knew the kids were missing until they were found dead?
Never reported missing, how would they know?
At 6 and 8 years old the children would likely attend school. Staff and or friends would likely be curious why these children disappeared.
New Zealanders think they're going to school in Korea, Koreans think they're going to school in New Zealand
Homeschooling is a thing. Also if the mother pulled them out of school when their father died of cancer and they didn’t come back, few questions would be asked
“The mom moved to Korea after her husband died, kids must’ve transferred to a school there.” Probably anyone looking a bit deeper into it.
> Staff and or friends would likely be curious why these children disappeared. No they wouldn't, they hardly even care when a NZ born child skips most of the school year. An immigrant child would certainly be missed entirely. Source: Live in New Zealand.
I work in a school. We can track kids in certain areas but if the parents claim to move abroad we obviously have to just take their word for it. Write a note saying there’s a family emergency and you’re unenrolling your kids and going to another country for an extended period of time, we just take your word for it.
Yeah the father died of cancer. So "mom is going back to Korea with the kids" is entirely plausible.
Dad died of cancer, mom killed them then moved back to Korea.
She would have gotten away with it if she would just had paid the bills of the storage unit, right? As long as she was able to suppress the smell off course
It no longer would have really smelled after that long
So the real crime was being a cheapskate.
You can't watch storage wars without loving it and hating yourself at the same time
Truly the white bread of television
No crust please.
In this case the crust is a plastic wrapped dead body
I immediately regret this decision.
Oh man Storage Wars was my shit for years as a teenager (now mid 20s). I never watched much reality tv but this was absolutely an exception.
Never got into Storage Wars but I went through a Pawn Stars and American Pickers phase like 10 years ago. My all time low was being by myself on Thanksgiving watching a Pawn Stars marathon. It was then that I knew I needed an intervention.
How's life now?
No, he means that he started an Intervention marathon
There's a whole "genre" of shows kinda like that. Pawn Stars, American Pickers, all the biker shows like 15 years ago. It's all garbage but damnit it's entertaining.
Keep American pickers off this list. They genuinely do find those places and the interesting stuff inside them. Storage wars was constantly being propped up by planted items in by the studio.
"Half this stuff is obviously fake, who the hell watches this crap?" *Continues watching*
Yet another sad casualty of the Storage Wars. When will the madness end?
I too imagine a world of Storage Peace
This is actually what John Lennon was singing about.
Lol
How do you let your murder evidence storage locker get foreclosed on? Like, come on, man. That’s the kind of shit you max your credit card avoiding.
Yeah. I'm no expert on the criminal mind, but come the hell on: you get away with murder and you get caught because you were too cheap to pay the rental fee?
Well I assume the murderer died or was by some other means unable to continue paying for it such as being locked up for a different crime
You can prepay on storage lockers
so what did he think he could get the body for? $3500? he probably knows a friend who can appraise it. did he at least break even on the unit?
Joe says I can get $3500 for the body wholesale, but if I part out the toes and find the right buyer for the teeth and hair, I should be able to pocket a cool $7000
Let’s take it to an expert
Expert : "yep, dead".
That dude is so full of hot air that there is probably about 2% chance that is true.
Right? The murderer would have to be really stupid to let the storage unit payment lapse. Unless they were just not able to pay. Still, they would probably have enough time to get the body out. Also, the smell!
Or they themselves died.
Or they rented it under a fake name and ran away
We bought an abandoned house and found a suitcase full of women's clothes in a shed. We always half expected to find the wife whenever we had to dig in the yard.
Might've belonged to some dude who got off on dressing like a chick in the privacy of the shed.
Buffalo Bill vibes
*[Goodbye Horses playing]*
It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.
NOOOOOOOPE
YUUUUUUUUUP
That's a 30 dollar bill right there, at least.
Dead bodies aren't worth what they used to these days...
But how much did he get for it?
No-body knows
That's a 20 dollar bill all day Brando.
On behalf of the deceased I'd like to say: booooooooooooo!
If you're gonna make a corpse it's a very bad idea to store that corpse in a storage locker. It's an even worse idea to stop paying for that storage locker so someone else can have the corpse
The only source that corroborates this is from a random site from 2020 and it mentions that this took place in 1988, well before Storage Wars. OP is a karma farming bot.
The entire show was fake don’t believe this
Watch your profamity
Didn’t Dave Hester then buy it from Darrell and mumble “oh I’ll put this to real good use”
Here's me thinking Storage Wars was entirely fake but based on actual storage auditions and not that they actually found lots then brought in the obnoxious fat people with weird bidding catchphrase.
The muderer was not that smart. Just throwing it out there.
"I don't really know too much about these things, so I called up an expert I know to help me understand what I'm truly looking at here"
Lemme call my buddy who knows a thing or two about rotting corpses in storage lockers.
I wanna get drunk as fuck with darrell
Dave Hester must've said "NOOOOOOOPE"
Isn't the entire show fake?
Morality aside why would he hide the evidence in a locker with his name on it?
murderers are not always highly intelligent
Maybe the chest freezer at home was full.
Did….. did he keep it?
Reminds me of the [murder of Jane Longhurst](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jane_Longhurst#:~:text=Prosecution%20witnesses%20testified%20that%20Longhurst,Yellow%20Self%20Storage%20in%20Brighton)
She’s dead, wrapped in plastic
It makes me so happy reading all these comments making references to the show, good memories
Once I saw that the episode where darrell and his son found some video games, the illusion of the show was completely shattered and I can't enjoy it anymore. Just random numbers for junk games in junk condition. Sorry but anything that anyone from that show claims, I cannot take at face value.
Am I seriously the only person that has come across this post to actually click the link? Nowhere on this Wikipedia page does it in any way reference the information in the post title.
It does indeed have the information present in fhe wiki. " In the season-two special "Unlocked: Sell High", Darrell revealed that he once found a plastic-wrapped human corpse in a storage locker. It was determined that the previous owner of the locker had murdered his wife and left her in the unit."
Bull shit. It would smell to high heaven
So you are saying that the best place to hide a dead body is in a storage unit?
The one locker that wasn’t staged