Fame. Wealth. Power. Many of us dream of having such things under our belts, but for many people, celebrity comes at a cost. Between the intense pressure to have a certain look, the scrupulous way in which artists are exploited for profit and the heavy scrutiny from the public, it can all take its toll on an individual in the spotlight. And maybe that’s why some celebrities simply disappear: they bow out before it gets too much. But it’s also possible that something more tragic or even sinister is afoot in such cases – we may never know the truth of these situations. Join us for today’s video, as we examine three strange cases of celebrities who vanished.
00:00 Introduction
01:21 Licorice McKechnie
07:17 Donald Scott Smith
12:34 Ylenia Carrisi
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The mystery of connie converse will always baffle me.
But I am pretty sure CCD covered that already
I relate to her a lot as an autistic person
Ya that one doesn’t get talked about enough
It’s much more difficult to go missing intentionally nowadays than it used to be.
Now, it’s so much easier for law enforcement to track your every move via cellphones, vehicles, financially, and cctv, and the list goes on and on.
Of course, none of the people in this video seemingly went missing of their own accord, but rather, by accident or potentially by foul play.
It would be nice to know what actually happened to them, wouldn’t it?
It’s so sad when loved ones never know what happened.
That’s sad about Tyrone Power’s granddaughter. “I belong in the river” is pretty intense. Isolated from friends and family, possibly under the sway of a predatory man, it looks like she may have succumbed to dark thoughts.
Tyrone Power wasn’t the greatest actor of Golden Age Hollywood, but his best performances are excellent, particularly “Nightmare Alley” and “Witness For the Prosecution”. Poor guy died tragically as well, suffered a heart attack on the set of “Solomon and Sheba” in 1958. If anyone’s not familiar, he wasn’t a minor star, he was one of the biggest stars on the planet. Ylenia Carrisi was Hollywood royalty.
He was lovely. I wish he’d been able to act more, instead of just looking pretty.
@@tereasia Yes, he clearly had the ability. This bothered him a lot, he felt stifled by the roles being offered to him by Twentieth-Century Fox. He was _very_ enthusiastic about “Nightmare Alley” and, if I remember correctly, agreed to make a film he didn’t want to in exchange for Fox financing it. He came from a long line of actors, going back literally hundreds of years. I had assumed he was just a pretty face who got spotted by a scout, but he was the real deal.
And apparently a good guy. He even volunteered during World War Two to work as a pilot getting wounded Marines out of the Pacific. I read George Sanders’ book a few years ago, and his account of Powers’ death (Sanders was filming the dueling scene with Power when he had his heart attack during “Solomon and Sheba”) is really moving. Sanders didn’t suffer fools, so his unequivocal praise of Power says a lot.
That whole story of the blond who jumped in the river at 15:25 sounded suspicious. It supposedly happened on the 6th, and the security guard reported it to no one. She was reported missing on the 18th. At the end of the month the security guard finally comes forward. Sounds more like looking for a reward, or seeking attention, by reporting something that never happened.
He was good friends with Errorl Flynn and died young like he did.
@@EinsteinsHairthey not immediately reported her missing because she was overage, the parents explained that. They last heard from her in New Year’s Eve. They often said Ylenia was a free spirit, and Albano mostly was against her moving away. They took her in the showbiz, but she was pretty uncomfortable with it (she looks very shy and introverted, as it notices well in pictures and footages). So the woman story seems plausible, the dates, appearence and personality match. Most probably she was on substances by the way of disappearing, but I always noticed that she was sad, maybe depressed. It all makes sense to me.
My theories: Licorice was killed by Scientologists. Scott fell overboard and died. Ylenia met with foul play at the hands of her street musician roommate (I don’t think she was the woman who jumped into the river).
If Licorice had been hitchhiking as the video indicated, it could have been that someone nefarious picked her up.
It’s possible she was “sacrificed “
@davet52288 no it’s not.
I think everyone has accepted that Scott fell overboard and died. He’s been legally declared dead. Your theory about Ylenia makes the most sense. However, Licorice’s story is rather odd. It was claimed that she was last seen in 1987, hitchhiking in Arizona, but her sister claims she was in California recovering from surgery in 1990. You would think investigators would have gotten her medical records to confirm her sister’s claim, but who knows. Nothing surprises me when Scientology is involved.
@@cassie1264is her sister a Scientologist? If so anything she says is suspect to me.
If Licorice was last seen hitch-hiking in the Arizona desert, it’s possible that she was picked up, killed, and her body dumped somewhere. Seems like if she was still alive, she would have somehow made her way back home, or at least gotten a note back to her family to let them know she was okay.
I think she was probably killed and dumped out in the desert. I think there is a Jane Doe in the SW, that had extensive dental work and when watching the footage from Woodstock, she looked like she was missing a lot of teeth. I wonder if the surgery was dental work and the year was wrong. I cannot remember the exact Doe and if that has been solved, but I wonder if that is her.
Well, if you’re hitch hiking in the AZ desert alone, there’s a thousand ways to die that have nothing to do with foul play. this is not the place to be afoot and never has been. foul play or not, if that was her hitch hiking across the desert, she likely never left it.
i was thinking the same thing. a lot of truckers are actually serial killers, who most likely take up trucking so they can kill with out getting caught. terrifying thought, when you come to think about it.
I wouldn’t say “a lot of truckers are actually serial killers”.
@@alphooey i would. there’s quite a few of them. can’t recall their names, but i know there’s definitely more than one or two.
In the first case (Licorice): There is a case of a Jane Doe, that I’m having a difficult time placing, that had surgery and extensive dental work… it may be a long shot, as I don’t think she had surgery, but I’m not sure if anyone ever looked there. I wish I could remember the Jane Doe, but I think she was in the US/SW. I’m sure that has already been looked into, but I was thinking it might be her, as she looked as though she was missing teeth in the Woodstock footage.
I know the case you’re referring to but can’t place her either
Castleberry kaye?
Oh wow I am from Winnipeg, MB.I hardly hear my city’s name in true crime videos although it’s one of the most crime prone cities in Canada. Thank you for shedding some lights on lesser known cases!
Hitchhiking across the Arizona desert? Yikes! Licorice is most likely still in the desert.
Lot of people disappear in New Orleans.
Really? Tell me about it! Never been to the US or thr Americas in general. Ever since i heard the story oglf Ylenia I became curious about New Orleans. Can u tell me more about what u wrote and do u have idea why is that?
Look uo the French Quarter…the casket girls of the Ursaline convent, lots of rumors about what happens there….video surveillance shows 2 girls filming all night! They’re disappeared since some time before dawn…..😮
It’s on YT somewhere..
Fame? Nah
The money….. I could pay off the mortgage and just go full hermit
Re: The Licorice McKechnie case:
This must’ve been back around ’89 or ’90. Was a little kid on a camping trip with my dad and a few of his friends, driving around in a truck with an oversized camper on the back. We’d done a circuit around the Salton Sea and were coming back on the… I want to say the 78 W, going through the Anza Borrego State Park area. It’s a tiny and winding two-lane road that at times cuts through rock formations to the point that you’re hemmed in on other side by rock walls, unable to see around pretty sharp corners. It’s later in the day, sun’s going down and is in our eyes as we head west. And I think near the end of the rocky stretch of the road, it bends to the right around a really tall part of a rock wall. We’re in the shade, but then the sun peaks through and…
…There’s this woman wearing a huge Native blanket, sitting with her back to us on the shoulder to our right. Which is to say, *_in_* the road since there’s no room on either side to pull over let alone sit. We swerve out of the way, she turns and shoots us a look through her long hair. I could swear her eyes were light colored… but whatever color they were somewhere else, looking through us. It was intense enough that I still remember it. And like that she disappeared behind the rock in the rearview as we kept going. Everyone in the truck says “Maybe on drugs?, out in the middle of nowhere with the sun going down. With a stare like that, who knows where she is…” etc.
Looking at pictures of Licorice now, the face shape, nose, hair type. The light eyes, the age she would’ve been then. And that she was apparently last heard of wandering around Arizona around this time (the Cali / Az border being about 45 / 50 miles from where we were)… I don’t know. Put a blanket on her and have her sit cross legged on a winding two-lane road cutting through the mountains as the sun’s going down. With a look that I still can’t really describe.
Yeah. Maybe.
That is really intriguing actually. 🤔
@@Cowgirlfrom_Hell As a lame footnote, we ended up camping about several miles from where we saw her. Open little area near a creek and a bunch of cotton willows. We talked around the camp fire and my dad’s friend half-joking wondered if this woman would end up wandering into our camp in the middle of the night.
Good memory you have there. Hmmm…I wonder.
Licorice looks strikingly similar to the Jane Doe called Castleberry Kate. She was found in the Arizona desert and also had dental work done.
They think CK was 17-19 years old so that’s too young to be Licorice.
I was just wondering if she might be in Namus.
@@selecttravelvacations7472With all the cold cases that have been being solved lately, they’re starting to notice that they have been *very* off on estimated age on more than a few occasions.
@@selecttravelvacations7472could get age wrong. Happened many times
@@selecttravelvacations7472there was a case some years back where Pennsylvania had a Jane Doe who was murdered and her age was estimated to be mid to late 20s, in meanwhile in Maryland a 47 year old woman named Cindy Vanderbeek fails to show up for her nephew’s christening and it’s uncovered that her husband killed her while they were on a trip and dumped her body somewhere between New York and West Virginia.
They only correctly identified her after nine years because of the unique shirt she had been found with.
If it hadn’t been for the shirt Maryland and Pennsylvania State Police wouldn’t have made the connection because of the wrong ages; other than that all of the details were correct from height, weight, rough time of death and the sketch looked like her.
Scientology? That’s all I need to hear.
For real though!!! She gone.
Yep, 100%
Thank you.
Great vid as always
An ad before video and an ad 1 minute into video lmao YouTube is RIDICULOUS now.
I just quit out of videos when they do that
But but but it was mr magic😂
Great episode. Thanks for what you do.
Please don’t ever pronounce David Bowie‘s name like that again 4:21
😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂
I have a distant Family Member who is still missing to this day and she disappeared in January of 1977 from Lexington, Kentucky. It was a huge thing that involved drugs, the Police, a prominent Lexington Attorney and the FBI. There’s even a book about it called The Bluegrass Conspiracy. Her name is Melanie Flynn.