Husband Tries To Kill Wife With Broken Parachute? The SOLVED Attempted Murder of Victoria Cilliers. — Transcript

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1. 0:00hey youtube welcome back to my channel
2. 0:03if you're new around here my name is
3. 0:04alessia and i make videos related to
4. 0:07writing
5. 0:07true crime and the lifestyle today we're
6. 0:10doing another true crime episode here on
7. 0:13my youtube channel
8. 0:14and this one is really interesting it's
9. 0:17actually an
10. 0:18attempted murder case and i love
11. 0:20covering attempted murder cases
12. 0:22because not only are they always a bad
13. 0:24[ __ ] crazy
14. 0:26but the victim survives which is really
15. 0:28refreshing
16. 0:29and just nice to see so that is what
17. 0:32we're doing today
18. 0:33and if you're interested then please
19. 0:35keep watching
20. 0:38so this case happened in october 2015
21. 0:42so it's pretty recent but it's become
22. 0:46pretty popular in the media lately
23. 0:48because of a book that is coming out on
24. 0:51august 6th
25. 0:52written by the survivor called i
26. 0:54survived so
27. 0:55this is 44 year old victoria clyres
28. 0:59she is from amisbury whitshire which is
29. 1:01in england
30. 1:02and she works as an army physiotherapist
31. 1:05so victoria is a really adventurous
32. 1:07person and
33. 1:08one of her favorite hobbies is skydiving
34. 1:11which i
35. 1:12can't personally imagine but she really
36. 1:15loves it and as of 2015 she completed
37. 1:19over
38. 1:202600 successful jumps
39. 1:23so she was not a newbie she really
40. 1:26was into skydiving and she knew what she
41. 1:28was doing
42. 1:29and this is victoria's husband emil
43. 1:32cliers
44. 1:33the pair met in 2009 after meeting at an
45. 1:36army base
46. 1:36and they quickly fell in love she was
47. 1:39swept off her feet
48. 1:40and they later married in 2011. the
49. 1:43couple has
50. 1:44two young children together april and
51. 1:47ben
52. 1:47and from the outside looking in this
53. 1:50perfect little english
54. 1:52nuclear family had everything going for
55. 1:54them
56. 1:55and they had everything they could ever
57. 1:57possibly want
58. 1:58in life but unfortunately this was
59. 2:01not the case by 2015 so just a few years
60. 2:05after the couple had been married they
61. 2:08have started to experience some
62. 2:10pretty severe marital problems and this
63. 2:13wasn't mainly because
64. 2:14of emile who was a piece of [ __ ]
65. 2:18so emile was a serial cheater and had
66. 2:21multiple affairs during his marriage
67. 2:24with victoria
68. 2:25he also had a pretty bad spending
69. 2:28problem
70. 2:28and he would constantly lie to victoria
71. 2:31about all of the money that was
72. 2:33mysteriously disappearing from her bank
73. 2:36accounts
74. 2:37now despite his two young children april
75. 2:40and ben
76. 2:41who were aged one and three at the time
77. 2:44emile was constantly leaving on
78. 2:46work trips and by work trips i of course
79. 2:49mean that he would go and meet up with
80. 2:52his
81. 2:53various mistresses so understandably
82. 2:56the stress of the meals cheating and the
83. 2:58stress of emile's spending problem
84. 3:01really started to take its toll on
85. 3:03victoria
86. 3:04and because of all of this emil and
87. 3:06victoria's relationship
88. 3:08was actually teetering on the edge of
89. 3:11divorce
90. 3:12but victoria was still in love with
91. 3:14emile and
92. 3:15she really wanted to make things work
93. 3:17and in fact she was determined to make
94. 3:20things work
95. 3:21so like i said one of victoria's
96. 3:23favorite pastimes
97. 3:24was skydiving and that is exactly what
98. 3:28she was doing on easter sunday in 2015
99. 3:31and
100. 3:32she was skydiving over the salisbury
101. 3:34plains
102. 3:35which looks like a pretty popular area
103. 3:38for skydive enthusiasts
104. 3:40so the skydiving plan was actually a
105. 3:43meals idea
106. 3:44and he suggested that he bring along
107. 3:47their three-year-old daughter april
108. 3:49so the family could enjoy some you know
109. 3:51bonding time together
110. 3:53now victoria was really happy that emil
111. 3:56suggested that they all go skydiving
112. 3:58together
113. 3:59she was really looking forward to
114. 4:01spending quality time
115. 4:02with her eldest daughter and her husband
116. 4:05and
117. 4:06it was a chance to repair their
118. 4:08relationship
119. 4:09and she was actually really looking
120. 4:11forward to the weekend
121. 4:12so like i said victoria had completed
122. 4:15over 2 600
123. 4:17jumps by 2015 and right before
124. 4:21she had to go up in the plane for her
125. 4:23session
126. 4:24emil conveniently offered to take their
127. 4:27three-year-old
128. 4:28daughter april to the bathroom and he
129. 4:30was actually
130. 4:31carrying victoria's parachute for her
131. 4:34as like a doting husband that's carrying
132. 4:37this heavy bag for his wife sort of
133. 4:39thing
134. 4:39so he ended up taking this parachute
135. 4:42that he was carrying
136. 4:44into the bathroom along with her
137. 4:45daughter april and
138. 4:47when he returned from the bathroom with
139. 4:49april he handed victoria her parachute
140. 4:52and she was on her way so victoria began
141. 4:55the jump like normal but
142. 4:57terrifyingly when she ended up jumping
143. 4:59out of the plane
144. 5:00she discovered that her parachute
145. 5:03wouldn't open
146. 5:04and neither would the backup parachute
147. 5:07and
148. 5:07i cannot imagine the terror that
149. 5:10victoria felt
150. 5:11as she plunged to the ground it honestly
151. 5:15would
152. 5:16keep me up at night i don't even like
153. 5:17heights to begin with
154. 5:19so i can't imagine what she was feeling
155. 5:22while she was falling now
156. 5:24victoria was an experienced jumper
157. 5:27so as she was falling this badass lady
158. 5:30actually tried to untwist the lines in
159. 5:34her parachute
160. 5:35so it would hopefully slow her descent
161. 5:39but unfortunately even with untwisting
162. 5:41her lines
163. 5:42this was unable to slow her fall so
164. 5:45victoria ended up falling 3 000 feet to
165. 5:49the ground
166. 5:49and she landed in a soft field that had
167. 5:53recently been plowed so i guess the
168. 5:55grass was
169. 5:56extra soft so the people running at the
170. 5:59skydiving session
171. 6:00honestly expected to find victoria's
172. 6:03dead body in the field
173. 6:05but miraculously she was still alive
174. 6:08so victoria was rushed to the hospital
175. 6:10where she sustained some pretty serious
176. 6:13injuries
177. 6:14so victoria had broken her pelvis her
178. 6:17ribs
179. 6:18had fractured her spine in four
180. 6:20different places
181. 6:21and had a collapsed lung so this poor
182. 6:24woman was in
183. 6:25a lot of pain and all the doctors at the
184. 6:28hospital were just
185. 6:30amazed that victoria survived and they
186. 6:33ended up telling her that the only
187. 6:35reason
188. 6:35she survived was the fact that she
189. 6:38landed in that soft grassy field
190. 6:41and that she had a small body weight so
191. 6:44there was pretty much a one in a million
192. 6:47chance
193. 6:47that victoria could have survived and
194. 6:50the fact that she did
195. 6:51is so amazing just imagine those odds a
196. 6:55one in a million chance
197. 6:57of possibly landing in that soft grass
198. 7:00so victoria was very very lucky to be
199. 7:04alive
200. 7:04and even though victoria survived her
201. 7:08road to recovery was extremely painful
202. 7:11and it was a long one and you have to
203. 7:14remember
204. 7:14that she had a one-year-old son and a
205. 7:17three-year-old daughter at this time
206. 7:19so it was very difficult to balance
207. 7:22child care and also
208. 7:23recovering and during her three-week
209. 7:26stay
210. 7:27in the hospital recovering emile
211. 7:30acted incredibly cold and unsympathetic
212. 7:34towards victoria almost as if he was
213. 7:37inconvenienced that his wife had this
214. 7:40terrible accident
215. 7:41and after a while emile actually stopped
216. 7:45visiting victoria at the hospital
217. 7:47altogether
218. 7:48and barely spoke to her when he finally
219. 7:50did
220. 7:51pick her up to drive her home and once
221. 7:54she finally got home victoria decided
222. 7:58to really focus on building her strength
223. 8:02and
224. 8:02fixing her body like i said she was a
225. 8:05physiotherapist
226. 8:07so she had all of the knowledge and the
227. 8:09skills
228. 8:10to be able to do this and she worked
229. 8:13hard on herself
230. 8:15four months and i'm sure she was in a
231. 8:18lot of pain
232. 8:18and i'm sure it was very frustrating but
233. 8:21in the end her efforts paid off
234. 8:23and she was actually able to walk just a
235. 8:26few weeks after the accident
236. 8:28and as victoria healed and slowly got
237. 8:32stronger and stronger
238. 8:34her life with emile actually went back
239. 8:36to normal for a little while or
240. 8:39as normal as could be and victoria
241. 8:42started to fall back into her regular
242. 8:44routine
243. 8:45and tried to move on from the horrific
244. 8:48accident that was until a few months
245. 8:51later
246. 8:52when the british parachute association
247. 8:55showed up at victoria's house in
248. 8:57amisbury
249. 8:59and told her that they were launching an
250. 9:01investigation
251. 9:02into her fall they had discovered that
252. 9:05there were
253. 9:06slings missing from her parachute and
254. 9:09slinks are the essential part of the
255. 9:11parachute that attaches the harness
256. 9:14to the actual parachute itself so
257. 9:16without them
258. 9:17you don't really stand a chance at
259. 9:20surviving your fall
260. 9:21now victoria was understandably shocked
261. 9:24by this information
262. 9:26and the british parachute association
263. 9:29actually contacted the local police
264. 9:31who opened up a proper investigation now
265. 9:34i'm sure you can guess who exactly
266. 9:37removed
267. 9:38victoria's slinks from her parachute and
268. 9:41that was her husband emile clyres and if
269. 9:44you remember he
270. 9:45actually spent some time alone with her
271. 9:48parachute
272. 9:49when he took their daughter april to the
273. 9:52bathroom
274. 9:52now this was clearly planned emil
275. 9:55had put a lot of thought into this if
276. 9:58you remember
277. 9:59he was the one to actually suggest that
278. 10:02they go skydiving in the first place
279. 10:04and he was alone with victoria's
280. 10:07parachute
281. 10:08when he took their three-year-old
282. 10:10daughter april to the bathroom
283. 10:12so i'm not really sure what emil
284. 10:14expected to happen
285. 10:16it's pretty obvious that he would be
286. 10:19the prime suspect for the police
287. 10:22and a few weeks later the police
288. 10:24arrested him
289. 10:25on attempted murder charges and at first
290. 10:28victoria really didn't believe that emil
291. 10:31would actually try and kill her
292. 10:34but the more she thought about it the
293. 10:36more she began to
294. 10:37put the pieces together she thought
295. 10:40about how
296. 10:41he was alone with her parachute and
297. 10:44especially
298. 10:44how he acted so cold and unsympathetic
299. 10:48towards her in the hospital
300. 10:50almost as if she was a burden and
301. 10:53victoria's belief was further proven
302. 10:56when the police actually uncovered
303. 10:59dozens of pictures and text messages
304. 11:02sent between emil and his girlfriend
305. 11:05stephanie gullar
306. 11:06and he actually met stephanie through
307. 11:08tinder and they've been seeing each
308. 11:10other for
309. 11:11quite a while reportedly emile was
310. 11:14actually with stephanie
311. 11:15during the first few days of his son's
312. 11:18ben's life and everything emil told
313. 11:21stephanie
314. 11:22was pretty much a flat out lie he had
315. 11:25told
316. 11:26stephanie that victoria had been
317. 11:28cheating on him for
318. 11:29quite a while and that their marriage
319. 11:32was pretty much over
320. 11:33he even went as far as to tell her that
321. 11:37his son ben
322. 11:38wasn't his biological son so stephanie
323. 11:41pretty much
324. 11:42knew nothing about the real emil
325. 11:45and i honestly feel a little bit sorry
326. 11:48for her i can't
327. 11:49imagine the shock that she must have
328. 11:51felt when she
329. 11:52discovered all of this information so
330. 11:55emile's trial began
331. 11:56in october of 2017 and
332. 12:00during the trial some more shocking
333. 12:02information
334. 12:03came out it was revealed that just one
335. 12:05week before
336. 12:06victoria's parachute accident emil
337. 12:10had actually tampered with the gas in
338. 12:12their kitchen
339. 12:13and had tried to cause a fatal gas leak
340. 12:17to create an explosion in an attempt to
341. 12:21kill
342. 12:21victoria and the most disturbing part
343. 12:24about this
344. 12:24was his children ben and april they were
345. 12:28actually inside the house
346. 12:29with their mother at this time and this
347. 12:31gas leak explosion plan
348. 12:34didn't end up working out so that is
349. 12:36when emil hatched the plan
350. 12:38to tamper with victoria's parachute and
351. 12:42try to kill her in that way so during
352. 12:44the trial the motive
353. 12:46for emile's attempted murder was also
354. 12:49revealed emile had a spending problem
355. 12:51and he was actually 22 a thousand pounds
356. 12:55in debt and if victoria passed away
357. 12:58he would have received a hundred and
358. 13:00twenty thousand dollars
359. 13:02from her life insurance policy and emile
360. 13:05wanted to
361. 13:06take this money from his wife's death
362. 13:09and
363. 13:09run off with his girlfriend stephanie
364. 13:12and start a family together
365. 13:13and when he was put on the stand emil
366. 13:17of course denied everything just like a
367. 13:19coward would
368. 13:20but of course the jury saw right through
369. 13:23him
370. 13:24and the judge ended up sentencing him to
371. 13:2718 years minimum in prison
372. 13:30so emile continued to be a little [ __ ]
373. 13:33even after he went to prison
374. 13:35and he constantly bombarded victoria
375. 13:37with
376. 13:38texts and calls and letters he somehow
377. 13:41believed that his marriage wasn't
378. 13:43over even though he tried to kill her
379. 13:45and wanted to
380. 13:46get her back emile's desperate attempt
381. 13:49to
382. 13:50try and win victoria back i'm sure
383. 13:53was partly due to the fact that
384. 13:55everybody
385. 13:56in his life had dropped him once his
386. 13:59shocking crimes were revealed and no one
387. 14:02in his family or his friends
388. 14:04really wanted anything to do with him
389. 14:07and he really had no one left
390. 14:09except for victoria ironically the wife
391. 14:12he had tried to kill
392. 14:14not once but twice and victoria did not
393. 14:17stand for this
394. 14:18and in 2018 she signed for
395. 14:22divorce and cut a meal out of her will
396. 14:25and shockingly emil actually has
397. 14:28refused to sign the divorce papers
398. 14:31and as of filming this video they are
399. 14:34still
400. 14:35legally married and the victoria has
401. 14:37written a book called i survived
402. 14:40which will be released on august 6th
403. 14:43so in addition to the book a documentary
404. 14:46and
405. 14:47multiple interviews have been done on
406. 14:50victoria
407. 14:50and her crazy incredible survival story
408. 14:54and i think that is really amazing that
409. 14:56she gets to
410. 14:57share her story and her resilience with
411. 15:00the world victoria has been really vocal
412. 15:02with her experience with all of the
413. 15:04documentaries and interviews and the
414. 15:06book she wrote
415. 15:08and it is her hope that emil actually
416. 15:10gets
417. 15:11deported back to south africa where he
418. 15:14is from
419. 15:14when they are officially divorced and
420. 15:17thankfully
421. 15:18this case has somewhat of a happy ending
422. 15:21which i love to hear while obviously
423. 15:24still
424. 15:24deeply traumatized and hurt by
425. 15:28emile victoria really has tried to move
426. 15:31on with her life and put this
427. 15:33whole experience behind her and she
428. 15:35actually has begun
429. 15:37seeing a new man in her life who is
430. 15:40really active and involved with her kids
431. 15:43she still works
432. 15:44as an army physiotherapist and actually
433. 15:47obtained her master's degree in
434. 15:50physiotherapy
435. 15:51and victoria is raising both of her
436. 15:53children april and
437. 15:55ben single-handedly and she has decided
438. 15:58that they have a right to know
439. 16:00about what their father has done in
440. 16:03due time but i think the most incredible
441. 16:06thing
442. 16:06about victoria is how she didn't let
443. 16:09emile
444. 16:10ruin her passion for skydiving
445. 16:13so in october 2018 nearly three years to
446. 16:17the day
447. 16:17since her accident victoria actually
448. 16:20went
449. 16:20skydiving again and she of course had a
450. 16:24successful jump
451. 16:25and she was greeted on the ground by her
452. 16:28two
453. 16:28young children and being able to
454. 16:32let go of that terrible experience
455. 16:35and be able to skydive again
456. 16:38must have been so healing and
457. 16:40therapeutic for
458. 16:41victoria and i really applaud her in
459. 16:45her efforts to really work through her
460. 16:47trauma
461. 16:48and not let something that she loved
462. 16:51you know fade away just because she had
463. 16:53a terrible terrible experience
464. 16:55so that is everything for this case it
465. 16:58is a really crazy one
466. 17:00and i love how it had a happy ending and
467. 17:04i hope victoria is
468. 17:05doing well and i am so thankful that
469. 17:08emil is in prison where he should be
470. 17:11please like this video and subscribe to
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472. 17:16i'll see you next monday
473. 17:18for a brand new video bye