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Let's rewind the clock by almost 14 years. It is the summer of 2010. Barack Obama is a year and a half into his first term. Jason Derulo and Ke$ha are ruling FM pop radio in the States and epic sci-fi film Inception is a #1 blockbuster in movie theaters. Speaking of blockbusters, the movie rental chain Blockbuster is still doing strong although its days are numbered at this point. For one down-home Georgia woman and mother of two Dayna Kempson Schacht, life is good. Little does she know that her life is about to be tragically cut short in a car wreck on the fateful evening of July 17, 2010. She was only 23.
WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED?
Dayna Kempson was driving down Georgia Highway 19 when for some unknown reason, she lost control of her car and crashed into a tree right off the road. Her death was sudden, instant and likely painless. Responding firefighter Terrence Terry Reid was among the first on the scene. For whatever reason, this Terry dude decided to record the grisly crash's aftermath on his cell phone. Terry made somewhat callous remarks in a flat deadpan tone like "there's a piece of skull on the console; smells like she's been drinking". Apparently, at least one other responding firefighter was also present and heard making comments in the video.
The video had a duration of approximately 1 minute and 47 seconds. One would think that there was nothing quite atrocious about Terry's video. Well, that is nowhere near the most callous aspect of this case. About two months after Dayna's death, Terry thought it would be a good idea to share the cell phone video with his fellow firefighters who weren't on the scene that evening. I'd wager that he wasn't expecting one of the firefighters to show off the video to his fellow bar patrons, but that is exactly what happened. The video spread and someone had the goddamned gall to send it to Dayna's parents as a horrific joke.
When I say the video spread, I mean it spread like a fucking Arizona wildfire on a meth binge in the dry heat of summer. And apparently at some point, it ended up on YouTube. The video was taken down from YouTube faster than you can say Anal Destroyer, but it remained on a blog site for at least a little longer.
WHAT EXACTLY IS LOST?
Okay.... so not unlike the infamous Porsche Girl case, which is empathically not lost and the photos can be found right here on WPD, someone had the gall to make a website specifically for the purpose of hosting the video. The URL was "https://daynakempsoncrash.com" and the YouTube video was embedded on it.
Dayna Kempson Leaked Crash Video
If you click the link above, you will find that there is no thumbnail for the crash video but it is probably as close as we can get to seeing the video in its original format these days. All traces of the video have been wiped clean off the surface web with the sole exception being a brief segment of audio extracted from the video, that can be found in this gem from Associated Press:
I've read that for at least one or two years after the video went viral, screenshots or stills of the video were still floating around online. That is hearsay but certainly not impossible, as the video was viewed by a healthy number of people and social media was a substantially wilder place in the early 2010s. Google's monopolization of social media was not yet complete, and YouTube wasn't nearly as censorious as it is today. With that said, I have yet to personally come across any of those stills in my searches.
PROS VS CONS OF THE FOOTAGE BEING FOUND
Here, I have to put aside my fascination with this case and take Dayna's heartbroken parents into consideration. They were utterly devastated by how Dayna's death was not just exploited but mocked and disrespected. Some things are clearly better off lost, although I am well aware that I am posting this on a website dedicated to hosting death footage amongst other similar macabre things. I'm here for the same reasons that you all are. I am fascinated by death, gore, trauma, tragedy and all things that shine a light on the darkest underbellies of human nature. This is why the "pros vs cons debate" is a thing in the first place.
Let's just say that the footage does get recovered, which is unlikely but not impossible, and is exclusively hosted on Goregrish where folks gather to see the reality of death. What are the pros for us? They certainly exist for morbidly curious peeps like you and me, but I believe they may be outweighed by the cons of Dayna's poor parents having to know that their young daughter's gory death scene is still being spectated by strangers. Not to seem hypocritical, this video was my morbid white whale for a few years but another part of me is tempted to give up my search and let sleeping dogs lie. What do you all say?
WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED?
Dayna Kempson was driving down Georgia Highway 19 when for some unknown reason, she lost control of her car and crashed into a tree right off the road. Her death was sudden, instant and likely painless. Responding firefighter Terrence Terry Reid was among the first on the scene. For whatever reason, this Terry dude decided to record the grisly crash's aftermath on his cell phone. Terry made somewhat callous remarks in a flat deadpan tone like "there's a piece of skull on the console; smells like she's been drinking". Apparently, at least one other responding firefighter was also present and heard making comments in the video.
The video had a duration of approximately 1 minute and 47 seconds. One would think that there was nothing quite atrocious about Terry's video. Well, that is nowhere near the most callous aspect of this case. About two months after Dayna's death, Terry thought it would be a good idea to share the cell phone video with his fellow firefighters who weren't on the scene that evening. I'd wager that he wasn't expecting one of the firefighters to show off the video to his fellow bar patrons, but that is exactly what happened. The video spread and someone had the goddamned gall to send it to Dayna's parents as a horrific joke.
When I say the video spread, I mean it spread like a fucking Arizona wildfire on a meth binge in the dry heat of summer. And apparently at some point, it ended up on YouTube. The video was taken down from YouTube faster than you can say Anal Destroyer, but it remained on a blog site for at least a little longer.
WHAT EXACTLY IS LOST?
Okay.... so not unlike the infamous Porsche Girl case, which is empathically not lost and the photos can be found right here on WPD, someone had the gall to make a website specifically for the purpose of hosting the video. The URL was "https://daynakempsoncrash.com" and the YouTube video was embedded on it.
Dayna Kempson Leaked Crash Video
If you click the link above, you will find that there is no thumbnail for the crash video but it is probably as close as we can get to seeing the video in its original format these days. All traces of the video have been wiped clean off the surface web with the sole exception being a brief segment of audio extracted from the video, that can be found in this gem from Associated Press:
I've read that for at least one or two years after the video went viral, screenshots or stills of the video were still floating around online. That is hearsay but certainly not impossible, as the video was viewed by a healthy number of people and social media was a substantially wilder place in the early 2010s. Google's monopolization of social media was not yet complete, and YouTube wasn't nearly as censorious as it is today. With that said, I have yet to personally come across any of those stills in my searches.
PROS VS CONS OF THE FOOTAGE BEING FOUND
Here, I have to put aside my fascination with this case and take Dayna's heartbroken parents into consideration. They were utterly devastated by how Dayna's death was not just exploited but mocked and disrespected. Some things are clearly better off lost, although I am well aware that I am posting this on a website dedicated to hosting death footage amongst other similar macabre things. I'm here for the same reasons that you all are. I am fascinated by death, gore, trauma, tragedy and all things that shine a light on the darkest underbellies of human nature. This is why the "pros vs cons debate" is a thing in the first place.
Let's just say that the footage does get recovered, which is unlikely but not impossible, and is exclusively hosted on Goregrish where folks gather to see the reality of death. What are the pros for us? They certainly exist for morbidly curious peeps like you and me, but I believe they may be outweighed by the cons of Dayna's poor parents having to know that their young daughter's gory death scene is still being spectated by strangers. Not to seem hypocritical, this video was my morbid white whale for a few years but another part of me is tempted to give up my search and let sleeping dogs lie. What do you all say?
