A "freak accident" or pure evil?? Unraveling the death of Phoebe Handsjuk
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Who was Phoebe Handsjuk and what happened to her?
Hi friends, how are you today? My name is Bailey Sarian and today is Monday, which means it's Murder, Mystery, and Makeup Monday! Okay. Hi, if you are new here, hi again. My name is Bailey Sarian and on Mondays I sit down and I talk about a true crime story that's been heavy on my... noggin, and I do my makeup at the same time, you know, to keep my hands busy. If you're interested in true crime and you like makeup, I would say subscribe. So today's story is definitely one that's been heavy on my noggin because, I mean, jeez, this story is so weird. So weird, oh my god. Has kept me up so many nights because it's like you're trying to piece it all together to make it make sense, and none of it makes sense.
So if you're ever curious to know what I'm using, I'll list it in the description box down below. But other than that, I will shut up and tell you about today's story. So. takes place December 2nd, 2010 in the heart of Melbourne, Australia. So the story takes place at the Balencia Apartments. You know, they stand tall, they're a luxury high rise that promises like safety and sophistication, but something, something unthinkable happens. Phoebe Handstuck, a 24-year-old woman, is found dead at the bottom of a garbage chute. Yes, you heard that right. A garbage chute. Now, it appeared she had fallen through the garbage disposal chute from the 12th floor, where Phoebe had shared an apartment with her boyfriend. I know, already weird. Though the police had ruled her death as a suicide and the coroner had determined her death was a freak accident, many, many, many, many did not accept this as her cause of death. No. So let's not get ahead of ourselves. Let's rewind and get to know Phoebe a little bit. Phoebe sounded like a wonderful person.
She was born May 9th, 1986 in Melbourne, Australia to her mother, Natalie, and her father, Len. Len was a psychiatrist and he had for a long time, he had been a psychiatrist for like 40 years now. She had two younger brothers named Nikolai and Tom. Yes. And the family lived in Richmond, which was like a suburb of Melbourne. Now, growing up, it was said that Phoebe was known to be a free spirit, a wild child. She had a really active imagination. She loved being active herself, like going outside in nature or going to the ocean. She was also an avid climber and a martial artist. I know, she's doing a lot. On top of all of this, she was artistically gifted and very creative. In school, she was very popular.
She loved socializing. She liked being around her peers and people just overall really seemed to like her. She played on like a basketball team with some of her friends and she was very competitive. She was really good too. She would like zip from one side of the court to the other and like she was unstoppable on the court. It was also said that Phoebe was quite cheeky and playful, and she had a really funny sense of humor. But on the other hand, she could be extremely sensitive, compassionate, and also quick-tempered. Phoebe was known to feel things pretty deeply. I was trying to think, what do you call that? an empath, right? I think she would like feel deeply. Okay. And I think a lot of the times when you are a person like that, who just feels a lot, it can lead to depression, you know? So Phoebe, she really struggled with that too. It just seemed like Phoebe had a lot of emotions as we all do, but you know, she felt a lot.
Well, when Phoebe became a teenager, things got a little funky as they do with like, you know, a lot of teenagers, they go through that phase. She started experimenting with drugs and alcohol at 15. And, you know, to her parents, it was very troubling. She was acting out. It wasn't good. At one point, I guess she had like run away from home and she went to go live with this guy. Unsure how they met and stuff. So it doesn't matter. But she went to go live with this guy who was like an ex-convict. and he was living with his kid and she went to go live with him for like eight weeks
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