hey you and welcome my name is Mike and in this all video I have a story for you that starts out as a tragedy and it kind of quickly switches to a mystery then a hunt and a less than happy ending and to top it off it begins with my favorite the stupidest idea you will ever hear it's like it's definitely up there no joke in this one before we get into it please subscribe to see new stories for the dark I'm talking horror True Crime Unsolved Mysteries you can see them every week but now let's give it a [Music] goo it was pretty you know early in the morning on February 23rd 2008 that 39-year-old AR Squire was he was getting out of bed that morning his still sleeping wife Denise she slept in a separate bedroom and she was still there saw wood away this was a Saturday right so a good time to take it handy you know during the week he AR he was a he was a co-founder a co-partner of the small construction company in this Chicago area so Saturday was when he could rest up after a long week and really like get into his passions see Ari wasn't going to have a cup of coffee and sit in front of the box he would be at early that morning to engage engage folks in his passion which was diesel trucks mad about them does a bear [ __ ] in the woods this was AR's time to himself this was ar time when he' go out into the small garage they had in their backyard of the their upscale Chicago neighborhood Ari is well known in his own local community of this Chicago neighborhood but even better known in the diesel Community Hey listen gasoline get out of here get out we don't want to talk about that we want to talk about Big D diesel time he was a kind likable pretty Charming guy always happy to help others in the community be it local or the diesel one if you're having problems with your truck he'd help you fix it give you advice they would do these meetups where they would race and do pulling competitions and just just Hey listen talk diesel so that morning he grabbed his cup of coffee and headed out the door into their garage to work on his white truck Denise and Arie had been married about 14 years by this stage they didn't have any children together by most the K they seemed fairly happy together though they sort of lived different lives they slept in different bedrooms they had different friends Ari worked as a you know worked in construction as a general contractor in the area while Denise she was an Adjunct professor at a a nearby University she herself rose that same morning about an hour or two after Ari had already headed out the door to go Tinker away in his car she'd been out the night before at an Olive Garden with her friends and she'd gotten back kind of late so she Rose blury eyed and not wish she tailed got out of bed walked down the stairs and into the kitchen to get herself one of them cup of Joe's she wasn't really concerned that Arie was was around she assumed rightly that listen he's either gone out for a drive he he was the kind of guy who would always be doing something so if he's not here he's either in the garage at back or he's off driving somewhere however as she walked over to their drip coffee maker what did concern her was the thick black smoke that seemed to be coming out of their garage it wasn't unusual to see smoke coming out of the garage as Ari would always be there tinkering the W bit of an engineer but this seemed to be quite a lot of it this looked like there was a fire first off Denise thinking well Ari can't be there she tried to call him on his cell phone but she got no answer J walked out to the front of their house and she couldn't see his white truck out there so she assumed he must have gone off for a drive but then seeing the smoke only getting thicker and thicker she called 911 911 my County Sheriff I think my garage is on fire I just heard some noise and I and and I open the door and it's a smoke and there coming from your garage should I go outside or what do I do wa outside we safe okay this was at 8:24 a.m. and the firefighters arrived within minutes of the car she was waiting out front by the time the firefighters arrived and she was telling now I'm very worried that Ari is not answering his phone I'm starting to wonder and worry that he's in there she began to think wow maybe the reason his truck is not out front is he had been working on it the firefighters they pushed past her and they went into the garage and quickly fairly quickly they were able to put out the fire it was indeed his truck on fire in their garage it had been white now it was well any color had been burned away but just as the smok and shite cleared they saw something tragic they saw two legs sticking out from underneath his white truck now the upper half of the poor person who had been underneath this truck was burnt to a absolute crisp but I mean it was it was AR the face was gone but you know he was wearing his clothes and they they found a wallet inside and it was it was it was AR Squire's identification AR had appeared had died doing what he loved working on his truck till his dying moment and investigation would of course begin to try and determine what exactly had happened but it appeared to have been a freak accident AR had been working on the undercarriage while the truck had been lifted up on a tree ton hydraulic jack but in some sort of free accident the truck had slipped off the Jack and crushed AR underneath then as it fell it smashed a light bulb that had been hanging from the open hood of his truck and that then sparked a fire and well you know the rest news of AR's death well it spread quickly is an absolute tragedy as I said you know he's well known in the local community as a general contractor even better known in a diesel Community where he was a well he was like a big dog in that his death was extremely sad Denise was de devastated is what the police might think she would have been but she wasn't when they told her you know we are so sorry your beloved husband um he's burned to a crisp sorry about that you know she was kind of just like [ __ ] sucks you know everybody reacts differently to death some people make a joke some people are simply in shock some people laugh as soon as they hear bad news so the police kind of put it down to that is yeah who knows how you will react and that's kind of fine but usually wears off this was going to wear those jeans all day let me tell you hours and then days would pass and she was kind of just the same a couple of days later that a big old memorial for AR Squire at a local Italian restaurant over a 100 people attended that's how you know well-liked he was and Denise was kind of just looking at her watch the whole time as if you know her favorite TV show was on and she was missing it Denise and AR's marriage seemed cold it it was like they were more like business partners than a loving husband and wife the police would even note when they were walking into the Squire home there was not a single picture of Ari and Denise together zero there was only one picture of their wedding day and it was just of AR by himself wearing his like tuxedo Ari was also deeply in debt at the time of his death before he you know co-owned this construction contractor company he had been the owner of a home health care company which was being accused of $2 million in Medicare fraud he was currently like on trial for for that and that had absolutely drained the the Squire's him and Denise's bank account they had paid over $200,000 like during the course of the trial and it seemed like they were going to settle in the end which would mean Ari and Denise had to pay another $200,000 due to this AR was on house arrest he could only leave the home for work and just you know other Essentials his current company the construction contractor company it was an object failure they were getting shite work and they were even getting shider pay and Ari was also deeply in debt because he had bought a condo complex down in Florida that just seemed to be a a money sync money was going in but nothing was coming out according to Denise it was all down to AR he was a black hole in their bank account uh so if their marriage was a business Arrangement more than a loving marriage they're more like business partners that's the worst kind of business partner you can get you can have that's a very bad business Arrangement and anybody would probably tell you cut your losses so I hear I I hear your braing big dog the police said to Denise does Ari happen to have a life insurance policy by any chance Denise says couldn't tell you the police went to the insurance company and they could tell [Music] them $5 million and Denise Squire was listed as the sole beneficiary so if Arie died this would be very good for Denise Not only would a lot of her money problems go away due to being married to a money problem she would also get $5 million it's not bad and although the immediate investigation showed this to be what appear what appeared in a service to be just a freak accident truck slips crushes him and then a fire starts a deeper look at it like more than a cursory glance would show kind of a couple of things weird here seear was a very skilled mechanic but he was also very safety safety conscious when news of his death reached the auto Community people were shocked arry him he died in an accident no way I mean it can happen to anybody especially a freak accident but usually those who don't take care of [ __ ] are the ones that get hit so people were shocked Arie would be the one who would die so the police were learning strange things about the scene his marriage to Denise their financial problems and they're thinking oh boy here we go if the truck did slip you'd expect scratches and damages which there weren't there he wasn't using the Jack stabilizers with with the hydraulic jack so it would have been it wouldn't have been very steady regardless the truck slipped and fell and smashed a light which started to fire that would make sense except there was no power to the garage the police found the that the circuit Breer was off at the time he would usually you know turn power off to the garage when he wasn't in there for safety reasons with all the equipment in there so how would the light have been on to start a fire in the first place the front wheels of the truck had been removed when it seemed like what he had been in there working on was just changing the oil filter and AR's body had cardboard on top of it which was odd usually might be under you you know against the concrete or whatever and his body was D in some kind of fuel they couldn't exactly tell tell what it was but that seemed to ignite his body and it seemed like a lot more than may maybe something just spilled out of his truck and onto him he was like doed all the way down to his sock it seemed pretty clear to the police that this was a stage scene and likely Ari was dead before his body was placed there and he was set on fire baby we got a murder maybe more than one because investigators would soon learn of another incident like in a in a neighboring part of the city which at the time seemed unconnected but will quickly link back to AR Squire's death see the morning of AR's death that same Saturday a woman was concerned about her son she was worried he could be missing 20-year-old Justin Newman should have been back by now this was at 300 p.m. that Saturday he had to be back by 3: p.m. because Justin would always drive his mom Donna to work she worked at a nearby Target and she couldn't drive herself Justin was every Saturday he would drive her to work he was so like he was always there he his brother Justin wouldn't even let his brother Drive their mom to to work that's how Justin was there so his mom was like kind of worried that he wasn't appearing he wasn't answering his phone Justin a young fell funloving and he worked at a nearby Home Depot he was a very hard worker because he wanted money and lots of it he was a dreamer now that Saturday morning it was his first day on the job out like a side gig he had picked up at a general contractors he had started out about 7:00 a.m. but he said I'll be sure to be back by 3:00 p.m. so I can take you into work like sure you know first day starting on a new job sometimes you might have to St late is you're learning the ropes but as I said now Justin said he would be back by now no matter what so where was he all they knew is that a customer at Justin's place of work the Home Depot had offered Justin some part-time work kind of few jobs here maybe at the weekends and your days off from your regular work help me out as I construction stuff just a chance to get a little bit more money Justin of course jumped at it the guy who was offering him a little bit of extra work that guy's name was I squire that Saturday there were you to go work at a job in Missouri Donna ring ringed Home Depot she didn't have AR's number and she wanted to speak to Justin's boss maybe he knew Arie cuz Arie was a very frequent customer to this Home Depot contractor he didn't need supplies he was in there like four to five times a week so Donna is talking to Justin's boss and guess what he says to Donna you won't believe it Ari was killed in a fire this morning [ __ ] me fine the next day they received a text from Justin saying gone to Missouri call you next week which sounded weird coming from Justin and it was then they reported him missing now was he involved in the fire was he in trouble was he in Missouri had he been in cahoots with somebody who would benefit like Denise and then murdered Arie and then gone on the run in the meantime Denise was trying to have AR's body cremated ASAP but the medical examiner refused to release AR's body because he he couldn't be sure that that was actually AR Squire the body wore AR's clothing right down to the socks it had AR's wallet in the pocket with his identification but the dental records weren't coming up at all so then the examiner noted in AR Squire's medical history that he had broken his arm uh like good few years before all this so he was like well you know a broken arm will still show up even if it's years old and is properly healed you'll still see it so we did a x-ray of AR's arm that had never been broken in his life the police had a link between a dead possibly Ari van Ain missing Justin Justin was supposed to show up at his first day with his at his new job at AR's home and then suddenly Arie is dead but is that Arie and where is either of them so the cops went to the Home Depot where Justin worked and Ari was a frequent customer did anyone else know their interactions anything weird well there they met another customer who also had a weird story about Arie his name was Sandy and he was a carpenter and he had a story quite similar to Justin's he would be in there all the time and you know he kind of sort of knew AR had spoken to him a good few times and Ari had offered Sandy the Sandy character an incredible like mindblowing salary if Sandi would quit and come work for Ari Sandi says well Shooks how better hell yeah Sandi then was given an application form by AR Squire to fill out you know for this job usually job application form you know you're right you got your work history your references your education your whatever this application was was a little bit different eye color shoe size waist size piercings tattoos how many where are they it was more like for a modeling job not a general contractor's job the medical examiner who was still not releasing AR Squire's body would say no this is not the body of a almost 40-year-old man I S was 39 this is like the body of a 20-year-old so as you can see things are starting to fall into place now and then AR's partner at his construction firm would tell the police you know a couple years ago AR said something something a real knee slaper he said something pretty funny he said you know what one day I would love to have a dead body that I could just you know plant there and burn it up and then I would take that person's identity and it would be a fresh start start a new new new start for the Squire for The Squire man man Justin said they were due to work in Missouri so the police began looking in St Louis and by chance a patrol man saw a crooked plate on a car running the registration it linked back to Justin Newman it was parked outside a hotel and going in they were told just a Newman he's staying in room one tree tree police got the team together they got all our firearms and they red up right outside Room 1 Tre Tre in tactical positions they knocked on the door and they announced themselves and they said just the Newman are you in there they got no answer they then got the master key for this room and they opened it the door was still on the Chain they tried to peek in shouting for just the Newman to come out when all of a sudden they heard a single gunshot they all ducked for cover but eventually making their way into that room they saw a body lying on the bed it was the body of AR Squire with a single gunshot wound to that head AR Squire had been hiding in this hotel room the entire time and now his body was right there he was dead for a second time looking at his body as it lay on the bed in his hotel room AR Squire's usually brown eyes were blue he had been wearing contact lenses to look like Justin Newman Denise and Arie had been emailing the entire time they were both in on it trying to get away from the burden of their bills they were just waiting for the life insurance check and together they would ride off into the sunset this had been something Ari had been planning for a while first with Sandy who looked like as you can see remarkably like Arie then with Justin AR even got the contact lenses the Just For Men everything to try and look 15 years younger can't imagine it worked Justin was a lot younger than Arie but he was closer to Arie in size so that morning Ari lured Jus over knocked him out with chloroform put him under his white truck set him on fire then he was going to assume Justin's identity he put in contact lenses so his eyes would be blue like Justin's and he took off in Justin's car going to St Louis Denise would later say uh she thought the emails that Ari was sending her while he was on the run she thought oh he's dead though she thought these were like previously scheduled emails before he died so that's why he was asking for things after his own death about like how's my funeral and did you burn my body yet it was a very sad end for Justin Newman who just trying to make a little bit of extra money working an extra job and he was so excited to start Sandy the carpenter he had nearly taken Justin's Place as Ari had offered him the job before he offered it to Justin Newman but Sandy had slept in when he was supposed to go to Aries so he dodged a bullet quite literally Denise was never charged with any crime the insurance company they refused to pay out the policy as well already you know self-inflicted and to date she still lives in that exact same house where she doesn't wink wink know her husband burned a young fellow to death so he could take his place and together they could start a brand new life it's still weird that Denise was never charged with anything her attorney would claim the lie detector tests the police made her do showed she was never aware of her husband's plan to murder somebody and then switch identities but I mean that don't really as we've seen before that passing or failing a li detector test doesn't mean much her attorney said quote she knew nothing about the plan she knew nothing about the design or the Newman man who is deceased her attorney refused though to answer any questions about the at least four emails AR sent to Denise after his supposed death where he asked when will my ashes be returned what are you going to do with my ashes Denise responded they're not releasing the body yet she didn't say they're not releasing your body as if she was emailing ghost later in a civil suit a jury would decide that Denise should pay Justin's family $6 million who knows if they ever got a dime of that money though this truly is one of the most tragic and stupid plots I've covered thank you so much for being here it means the absolute world to me now if you're looking for more stories please check out the that chapter podcast it features brand new podcast exclusive stories they're out every every single Monday morning and it's available on all podcast platforms so please give that a goo but until the next little video which will be out in a couple of days uh please take care of each other and yourselves cuz I love you my care [Music]