Hello everyone and welcome back to Scary Interesting.

In this video, we're going to go over two stories that are profoundly tragic, despite ending in what seems like a resolution.

In the end, the resolution just isn't quite enough. You'll see what I mean.

As always, viewer discretion is advised. On March 8, 2011, Andy Vandenhirk stared at his computer screen and the words he had just

finished typing.

It was a simple two-sentence Facebook post that he needed to think

long and hard about before he published it. There was a huge risk in what he planned to do,

and there was no guarantee it was going to work. In fact, he could lose everything if his plan

went sideways, but considering the sense of loss and injustice he felt, he managed to convince

himself that this was worth the risk. This was his last opportunity to back out because once the post hit the internet, he wouldn't

be able to take it back, even if he deleted it right away.

Chances are, someone would see it and screenshot it before it vanished, so he had to be absolutely

sure he wanted whatever would come after a statement was sent out to the world.

At the same time, there was part of him that didn't even feel like there was any other

option. So, he took a deep breath, hovered his cursor over the post button, and clicked it

before grabbing his coat and walking out the door. 16 years earlier on October 6, 1995, Andy's

sister Nicole, was up before the sun. At 15 years old, she was working a seasonal holiday job

at a mall located near her grandmother's house, which is where Nicole lived.

How she ended up there in the first place was complicated, and it all started when she was born in 1980s, Germany.

Before she could even form memories, Nicole's life changed drastically when her mother married a man named Ad van Denherk shortly after Nicole's birth.

Ad then relocated Nicole, her mother and his own

biological son, Andy, to the Netherlands, where they became a family together. And even though

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