AMERICAN FAKES HIS DEATH AND FLEE'S TO THAILAND, 4KHD, #storytelling #thailand #chiangmai
hey welcome to the channel it's saturday it's about uh probably about 10 15 10 20 something like that real nice day up here in chiang mai it's a little bit cloudy and a little bit of wind it's just really really nice the air is real nice and clear today i thought i'd uh i'd come up and walk around soi one and two on the east side of the moat try to get a feel of how many people are here versus what it was like before and i got a story to tell you about a guy just just a strange story that uh it's crazy but anyway we're right here at moon moon lane one and we're going to make a left here story i'm going to tell you about today is a about a guy an american by the name of uh well he was using the name tyler smith and uh he entered the country from from uh cambodia first he went to malaysia and then he came up to cambodia and apparently from all i'm finding out he tried to get some teaching jobs in cambodia and uh stayed there for a while and then he ended up he entered thailand about the first part of 2016 as best i can tell and he was trying to find some teaching jobs and he wound up in khan khan and he got a job there teaching and he runs up on this uh this woman that apparently she was in charge of or had a business that was locating jobs for teachers and she it's unclear whether she had a boyfriend or a husband i couldn't figure out from the article which one it was i'm i'm thinking it was her husband and he was an australian guy and they had a child together and apparently this guy tyler strikes up a relationship with her and he keeps getting bounced around from teaching job to teaching job because he doesn't have any credentials you know he'll get hired somewhere and then by the time they you know really need his credentials to uh to keep him employed he can't produce them and they they move on well she ends up taking off with him and uh they go to bangkok first and he gets a job down there and it's unclear apparently it didn't last very long in bangkok and he they borrowed a bunch of money from her friends uh borrowed a truck and he just this guy just destroyed the truck and and dropped it off in front of the guy's house and and just took off and they left bangkok i want a lot a lot of money well the family of this girl start getting a little bit concerned because you know usually she you know it wasn't odd it wasn't strange for her to take off like that but she'd always call in and you know let everybody know where she was and in this particular instance you know they hadn't heard from her for a while and uh you know they start wondering what what's the deal and they didn't like this guy because he he kept coming up with different stories and uh they posted some stuff on a forum it's a teaching forum and well before you know it i mean all kinds of people are adding stuff adding stuff on it uh how they've run up in this guy in cambodia and he was uh claimed to be a ex-military and in witness protection i mean just a bunch of bunch of crazy stories that you're hearing and so they're worried about her and the husband-slash-boyfriend uh you know he's on the internet trying to find the guy and uh posting and on the different forums and teaching forums and stuff if anybody knows this guy well it turns out he's able to find out that uh this tyler smith is not tyler smith he's a guy by the name of uh jackson hall and jackson is from alabama and back in 2014 jackson got arrested for molesting a child and he made bond on that now how he made it made a thirty thousand dollar bond on on less than a child i don't know you know that just seems crazy to me you know usually when we did cases that involved you know children being molested we did our best to keep the guys in jail uh we'd go tooth and nails to try to keep them keep them in custody but he made a 30 000 bond and got out of jail and sometime in 2000 this is in 2014 and he's he's waiting to go to trial on his charges and uh he exposes himself to a delivery a female delivery driver and this is all in in a place called coleman alabama which is kind of northeast no well it's kind of the center of alabama um just not too far south of tennessee i've been through there before and worked a couple cases over there as a matter of fact but uh anyway they uh the delivery driver reports it and uh they finally figure out that it's jackson that was exposing himself to this delivery driver so they take him to the grand jury and they get a grand jury indictment on him and they go to pick him up and he comes to the door and he sees it's the sheriff's department picking him up and he's got a gun in his hand he runs back inside the house and they have a standoff there and finally they they uh they're able to talk him out of the house and arrest him and sure enough june of 2015 he bonds out it's crazy you know they should have they were in the process of revoking his bond on the other charges but apparently they they let him out i don't understand it it just doesn't make sense to me you know somebody that that's out on bond that commits another crime normally the judge will not set a bond on the second charge you know the guy is going to stay his butt in jail which is what should have happened here and in the meantime more charges are coming up against him for physical abuse on another child apparently the child that he molested was his girlfriend's five-year-old daughter and to me you know less than a five-year-old kid you need you don't need to be making bond bonding hello you don't need to be uh you don't need to be out of jail you need to be under the jail this place this looks pretty uh pretty busy here a lot of cars here and stuff and people sitting out but anyway he makes he's able to make bond and gets out of jail well the tennessee river runs from runs down the middle of tennessee and it runs down into alabama around the north section north northern end of alabama hello swatty cop so some fishermen are out they're out fishing and they find some clothes bloody clothes on you know on the side of the river back and they find jackson's wallet and so they called the police and and uh it was an obvious attempt a bad attempt to to uh to fake a death so he's trying to fake his his death there to get the cops off his tail well it it didn't really work and it turns out jackson had a friend by the name of tyler smith and uh from the pictures that i saw tyler they they look identic almost identical so uh jackson he goes and gets a social security card and tyler's name gets a driver's license and applies for a passport and from alabama he uh he goes to chicago and he catches a flight in chicago now let's take a right here to canada and then from canada to japan and then japan to malaysia and somehow he gets from malaysia through malaysia through cambodia and up to thailand well when the guy finds this out he's going crazy just going nuts you know he's he's worried about the girl and the family is worried about the girl as well she had a sister that was in uh i believe it was either sweden or switzerland she posted up on facebook and i remember reading it how worried they were about their their uh sister because she hadn't been heard from and and uh now they're finding out this guy's a you know a rapist that's uh jump bond in the united states so they're they're posting all over facebook and stuff and and uh finally he's he's showing up they're they're seeing him and uh somebody has contact with with her and she's she basically tells him that she's trying to uh trying to get away from trying to find him a job so she can get away from him and uh meantime the boyfriend turns all this information over to the u.s embassy that gets the marshal service involved in it and so they've got a major manhunt for this guy in thailand and they finally figured out that you know he definitely wasn't tyler uh tyler smith he was he was jackson jackson hall who was on the escape list so he had left back they had left bangkok and they had gone down to uh rayong and he had taught in riyong for a while rayon and from there apparently they went to samoa and she was able to get away from him somehow in samoa and uh went to the police and said where he was and sure enough they uh they set up on a pier down there in samui and he shows up and they snatch him and it's not long after that uh the u.s government's got him on a plane coming back to the united states and it's unclear there's a thing in there that said that she was pregnant with his child and i that's i've only found one article that mentioned anything about that so i don't know if it was true or not but uh he comes back to alabama and they prosecute him on the identity theft charge which being that he got a social security card it was actually a federal offense and uh they let him plead to that and i think he got something like four years he was released from from federal custody in the middle of 2021 so figuring he actually he got picked up october 22nd 2016 and they released him in the middle of 2021 so it looks like he got about four or five years and uh you know i'm thinking i'm trying to find where they prosecuted him for the for the sexual abuse charges and i can't find anything on it i can't find where he was arrested i can't find where they uh they booked him into the uh alabama department of corrections so the only thing that i can figure is that the uh the sexual abuse charges probably was either the witness didn't want to testify or the or it was a shoddy case and they chose to go federal with it which is something that they'll do hello quite often taylor oh okay you make suits yes okay good price on suits huh this is my suit yeah all right man take care now if you need a suit come here but uh hello hello how you doing good i see you on youtube you do yeah great thanks well he'd be on the youtube tonight but uh i couldn't i couldn't understand it and i tried to reach out to the ex-boyfriend i found him on facebook but he never did answer me and apparently he got custody of the child and just left the country and her i don't know no i'm okay i'm walking getting some exercise how are you doing a lot of business a lot of people no no no business huh it'll come take care but uh wow that's a neat little gadget right there i don't have the coordination for that i think i'll cross the street and get on the other side of the street but you know th this guy was really kind of stupid for coming to thailand anyway because if the thai police get after you they're going to get you eventually it may take them a little while but they're gonna find you and they're gonna they're gonna ship you out had he gone to ecuador he might have been safe so all you guys that are criminals wanting to come to thailand don't come here go to go to ecuador there's no uh there's no prisoner treaty there and uh you might be able to hide there real well but you're not gonna be able to hide here and this guy was just well can we walk this way yeah we'll walk this way because that's really the way i wanted to go but uh it just uh when i read the story it was just amazing that uh hello good how are you doing good just walking around exercise one hour i'm okay i'm getting exercise if i ride in there i'm going to get fat thank you though okay give me one of your cards yeah you park here all the time somewhere okay where you stay hang dong i live in hang dong i live here well i'm not tourist i'll put that up there if somebody wants a tuk-tuk this lady will give you a ride okay okay thank you but uh i worked you know i worked a few cases like that and and it was always we always did our best to keep the guys locked up uh you know you heard a kid you know it just uh i always worked extra hard on those cases i didn't you know and i hate to say this but a lot of cops get lazy and once they make the arrest and put the person behind bars they forget about the case and in those kinds of cases you know you need to follow through with it you need to uh you need to keep the guy in jail as long as you can you don't take any any pleas you don't take any agreements and and uh you know you get the maximum jail time out of it because they're they're not going to change you know i mean he's he's out on bond and he commits another offense sexual offense and uh you know put them don't put them in the jail put them under the jail that's that that has always been my motto i have no uh i have no sympathy for those people i have no no remorse for them they're the ones that i have dealt with over the years of the walk this way come around out on the other side the ones that i have done dealt with over the years there's uh see if i can get through i think maybe i can't no maybe this doesn't take me through it might let me keep going here now this is going back into somebody's house it's not the way i wanted to go hello hello i got too much not enough hair yet next week but uh that was always my motto keep them in jail for as long as you can and uh we had in tennessee we had some of the best child abuse of investigators or investigators and prosecutors that that you could hope for and they felt the same way keep them locked up because you know it's i was always there is no rehabilitation for somebody like that that molest the kid it's just uh the only kind of rehabilitation for them is uh putting them someplace where they can't get near anybody i don't know you know i checked the alabama usually usually if you're convicted of a sexual any type of sexual crime you put on a sexual uh registry and that's you know that's pretty much nationwide and i checked alabama this is a great place to have breakfast they really serve a good good breakfast hello and if you can fit through those bars you get it for free i'm way beyond that i'm i'd at least have to pay full price but i didn't find him on any of the sexual registries and i looked but no doubt if he got out of jail and the middle of last year he's definitely on federal probation and they do a pretty good job of keeping track of people it's it's not like state probation where you pro like state probation where you can get away with something yeah top north guest house those guys uh those probation officers are pretty tough on them but uh if anybody knows anything about him leave it in the comments i'd i'd be curious to hear about it i uh i have no use for people that that prey on children none hello how you doing not a lot of activity back here today all in one but it's still early in the day i wanted to get out before it got too hot or it rained now i'm thinking i walk back through here one time yeah there's a little that little alley runs around there it's a nice hotel right here amsterdam shop now we'll go back out here and make a left the voyager hotel and bar is opening soon there you go there's definitely not as many people here as i saw in phuket phuket was there were a lot of people walking around maybe they just haven't got up to chiang mai yet i don't know but this area here is usually always busy now okay let's go this way well we're at 23 minutes i think i'll save this for another day because i keep you all after 23 minutes i know you start getting bored the lost hut see you corner now they'll all open up tonight but anyway i appreciate you checking this video out and leave me some comments uh ask me some questions again if you're coming to chiang mai and you want your hotel checked out just like just drop me an email i don't charge anything for it i'll go walk around the hotel and show you the good places to eat and kind of give you a little advice hello and uh try to help you out when you get here green bamboo massage now this one i did a video for a guy his wife owns this place but uh anyway i hope you enjoy it and i've got some more stories coming up i'm gonna start doing some of the ones of cases that i actually did myself i'm not going to have one-hour videos that's for sure i may have to break them up in little sections but i've got some interesting stories to tell but anyway i appreciate you all stopping in we'll see you later bye-bye
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