She Tried to Get Help… But Her Daughter Killed Her | Yun-Mi Hoy and Isabella Guzman

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Greetings citizens. Hey you. Hey you beautiful creepy human being you. And welcome to today's true crime episode.

[00:00:05]I'm so happy that you are here. I'm so happy that somehow in all of this that we're forced to deal with on the day today you and I were able to find each other on this crazy little planet that we call home. My name is Britney or Bradstein, whichever you prefer. And today we're going to be discussing the murder of 47year-old Yun Mi Hoy. On a warm summer night in August of 2013, tension that had been building in a home over a period of years in Aurora, Colorado, finally came to a breaking point. What happened next would leave 47year-old Yun Mi Hoy dead inside her own home, the victim of a brutal, deeply personal overkill murder. And in the immediate aftermath, police were not looking for a stranger. They were looking for her own daughter.

[00:00:53]18-year-old Isabella Guzman had vanished into the night, triggering a manhunt that would grip the community and leave people asking one question. What happened here? But before we get into the details of today's case, if you have not yet had the pleasure, please make sure to join the Brat Pack by subscribing and ringing that bell. I put out a new video every single week, sometimes two a week, and I would love to hang out with you. Yes, you.

[00:01:20]Specifically you. But I can only do that if you join the brat pack and become one of us. Now that said, today I'm going to tell you the story of the murder of Yuni Hoy. I read all the things that you do not have to. And at the end of this video, I want you to answer the question of the day. I'm going to give it to you now so you can have it kicking around in your brain as we go through the details of this case. But of course, I want you to answer once you have something to go on. Okay? And the question of the day is this. Do you believe that Isabella Guzman should ever be fully released or do you think in cases like this that there should be lifelong supervision?

[00:01:56]Let me know all your thoughts in the comments below because I'm very curious to hear what you have to say. And now with all that said, come gather around and let me tell you the story of the murder of Yun Mihoy. So, Yuni Hoy, she was born on December 17th, 1965. And she was born in South Korea. There isn't a ton of information on her early years available online. Like, I don't know if she had siblings, if she did have siblings. I don't know what their names are. I don't know who she was as a child, the traits that she carried from her childhood into adulthood that helped form the person that she became. But what I can tell you is that everybody who talked about her said that she was just great, that she was an incredibly hardworking woman. She owned a business.

[00:02:42]She owned Bella's Portrait Studio at the Town Center in Aurora, Colorado, where she worked incredibly hard, sometimes working 12 hours a day just to ensure that she could do the best for her and her family. Once living in the US, Yuni did end up meeting a man and getting married. She married a man named Robert Guzman and the two went on to have one child together. This was a daughter name that was born on June 9th, 1995 that they named Isabella and called Isa for short. Now, for whatever reason, the relationship between Yumi and Robert did not last and the two got a divorce when Isabella was pretty young. She was about 3 years old and from that point on she lived primarily with her mother. We'll get to that. It gets a little back and forth when she uh gets a little bit older, but she lived with her mother.

[00:03:29]And her mother, a year after separating from Robert, ended up in a new relationship with a man named Ryan Hoy.

[00:03:36]And this is the man that she'd go on to marry and was actually married to at the time that she was killed. Now, Isabella lived with her mother and her stepfather for the first couple of years after Yuni and Robert, Isabella's biological father, uh separated. But around the time that Isabella turned 7 years old, Yuni did send her off to live with her father. Apparently, the relationship between Isabella and her mother was incredibly strained, and she and her husband Ryan had a very difficult time getting Isabella to do basically anything that they asked. She was super disrespectful and super disobedient. And Yumi just kind of hopes that sending Isabella to live with her father could get her to a place where she would understand some boundaries and have respect for anyone other than herself.

[00:04:23]Like she was really desperate to try to raise her daughter to be a good person.

[00:04:27]And I mean at the age of seven it was already a humongous challenge. Now this did not go as planned. It did not go very well. Apparently Isabella did not do very good with her father either. At first, she had a hard time adjusting to the change and then she had issues with Robert's new wife because he ended up getting remarried and she had issues with Robert's wife. And after about 7 years of them living together, when Isabella was 14, she was sent back to live with you and me. Now, even though Isabella was back living with her mother, there was a lot of resentment between the two of them. And it seemed to be coming from Isabella. If you were to ask Ryan, who was in the home, it seemed to be coming from Isabella. And Yuni would do everything in her power to try to alleviate this. She would try to bond with her. She would try to get her to come and work at the studio with her and she would even write her daughter notes. Yuni loved her daughter so much that even though Isabella had become progressively volatile towards her, which we will get to that later, she wrote a daughter. She wrote a daughter.

[00:05:27]No, she wrote a note to her daughter in which she said, quote, "To my dear daughter Isabella, even though we have some difference, I let you know I love you and I will always love you." Heart, mom, heart, get this, okay? She loved her daughter so much that when they were living in the home together and Isabella had moved back in with them, it was Isabella. Yeah, not you, me and Ryan, the married couple. It was Isabella who got the main bedroom in the house, the bedroom that has like the bathroom, the big one. They gave that to Isabella because Yimi just wanted her daughter to feel like she had her own space and she could kind of feel secure in her place.

[00:06:04]And what's really sad about that is that everybody who knew the family said that like Isabella didn't really seem to appreciate any of it. Like she didn't seem to care what her mother did for her. Robert, even though he and Yumi were divorced, he had nothing but good things to say about her and said that his daughter, who he was very close with, by the way, just didn't really care about all the things that Uni did for her. Isabella was just said to have been very difficult to deal with. And the older she got, the more difficult she got to be around, and they didn't really know why. And her stepfather Ryan said that she was just incredibly hot-tempered and she loved to walk around the house and just like talk [ __ ] and run her mouth and she would be like, "F this or f that or f you." He said that he could tell that Isabella was very depressed about her life and blamed her mother for her misery. He said in the weeks leading up to the murder, Isabella seemed incredibly angry. There was a lot of anger and cussing and just rage. And he said that his wife was pretty strong and would go back with Isabella. like she wouldn't just let her say whatever she wanted and silently take it, but nothing seemed to phase Isabella. And he said she was just very quick to go into a fullblown rage. And later during an interview with police, he told them a story about when Isabella was younger, she must have been around 14 years old when she went and like tried to take a fan that belonged to Ryan. And when he told her that she couldn't have it for whatever reason, the fight between them escalated to the point that she punched him in the face.

[00:07:31]So, it just seems like she had a lot going in going on on the inside and it didn't really seem like she had anyone she could talk to about it because like at that age you're not going to talk to your family quite as much. It's usually your friends and Isabella was a bit of a loner. Before dropping out of Overland High School, which is where she had attended, she only really had one friend and one boyfriend. And both of these people ended up actually being interviewed by police. And they were both able to give some interesting information into Isabella and her mindset around the time of her mother's murder. First, Isabella's boyfriend, her ex-boyfriend at the time, his name, I can't remember his actual name. He went by Tony, though. Uh his name was Tony, and he said that the two had dated for 3 years, but about a week before the murder, the two had broken up. So, he was around the family a lot, and he was around Isabella a lot. So, he was able to give some insight. and he said that Isabella had some things to tell him about her mother and the relationship that were sort of contradictory to what he had seen. She told him that her mother was very um aggressive with her and he said that he said that she said he said that she said that she even suspected her mom was trying to poison her and her dogs. Okay. Okay. She said she had eaten something out of the fridge and got super sick after the fact and she believed she had been poisoned and then said that she smelled a strong smell of bleach coming from the dog's water bowl. So, she thought her mom was also trying to poison the dogs.

[00:08:58]Okay. In another instance, Isabella told him that her mother Yuni had like stabbed her in the back of the head with a pair of scissors and had told her that she wanted her and her daughter to die together.

[00:09:13]Okay, so that sounds pretty crazy and it sounds pretty intense. But according to Tony, when he was around, he didn't see anything even close to this. This is just what Isabella was saying, but all he saw was a normal relationship where sometimes a mother and daughter argued from time to time. Now, speaking of Tony, while I have him here, I'm going to give you a little more information because Tony was also able to give them some insight into Isabella's maybe mental state and her propensity for violence around this time, too. Okay?

[00:09:45]Cuz he said just days before Yumi was murdered, he had gone over to the house because he wanted to like return some of her stuff and pick up some of his stuff because the two had just broken up. And he said that when he went to the door and he knocked on the door, she answered it. Isabella and she was not happy to see him. She was in a rage when she saw him and that she grabbed a nearby golf club, like a golf club that they had by the door, and tried to attack him with it. Now, why would she do this? He says that she was convinced that he was cheating on her with their friend. This was a girl named Catherine, who we'll talk about in a second. Now, Catherine and he both completely deny this and say they have no idea how she even got this this shot, this thought in her brain, but said that she fully believed it and was enraged and was determined to take it out on him. Now, I will say that we can take Tony's statements with a grain of salt because he did do something weird and he lied to police, which I think made police look at him for a hot second when it came to this case because he told police that this attack with the golf club happened like 3 days before the murder and said he hadn't even been at the house the day of the murder, but it turns out that he was at the house the day of the murder, that this event happened the day of the murder. So, she showed violence towards him that same day and that he had also showed up there another time at the house. I guess either before or after this instance, he had showed up, he knocked on the door, he didn't get an answer, so he just like walked in to go and get his stuff. And Ryan, Isabella's stepdad saw him do this. So, his word isn't the strongest, but based on what Isabella would go on to do, I would say that it doesn't seem too far-fetched to think that she would have attacked him on this day, too. Now, Catherine, I mentioned Catherine. So, let me tell you who she was. Okay, Catherine was the one friend that Isabella had while she was in high school. And Catherine was interviewed by police and able to give them some information. She was able to tell them that during the time that they were friends in high school, she had seemed pretty normal. She said that she, her boyfriend, Isabella and Tony at the time, so the two couples would hang out together and they would smoke weed. But she said that Isabella never did anything more. into harder drugs and alcohol, stuff like that. She didn't do anything that would like point to why she would go on to do what she did.

[00:12:01]Okay. She did say that it was actually the opposite that leading up to the murder, Isabella seemed to find this like new found kindness and sort of closed in on herself and got more quiet leading up to the murder. Though, that would change pretty significantly. I believe it was just 2 days before Yumi was killed. Yeah, 2 days before. So, this would have been on August 26th when all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Isabella sent Catherine a pretty angry text where she called her a quote derogatory word and ended the text with saying, quote, "I know what you did."

[00:12:37]And Catherine at the time's like, "Well, I'm glad that you know what I did cuz at least one of us does cuz I have no idea what you are talking about." So, she texted Isabella back asking like, "What are you talking about? What is going on?" And Isabella never responded. She didn't get a response from Isabella until 2 days later. And this text came in at 7:15 p.m. And the context of this text is just very, very confusing because she said to Catherine, quote, "The astrobeam has been awakened." Yeah, the astro beam has been awakened. So Catherine texts us her texts her back and is like, "I'm sorry, what?" and gets no response from Isabella. But this text about the astrobeam came in at 7:15 the night that Isabella killed her mother, Yun Mi Hoy.

[00:13:30]So with that, let's go ahead and talk about what happened that night because this seems as good a place as ever to segue Wyatt Herp. So it was August 28th, 2013 when Yun Mi Hoy was coming home from a long day at work. She had been working at her photography studio at the nearby mall. And she was exhausted, just ready to pick up dinner and go home to her family. Her husband Ryan, he was like 40, six, doesn't matter. Her husband Ryan and her daughter Isabella. So she picked up the food and she got home at about 9:30 that night. When she got in the door, she talked to her husband. She asked where Isabella was. He said that he wasn't exactly sure where she was, but she was somewhere in the house. Like she was home. And Yuni said that she just wanted to quickly go up and take a shower before they ate or before she ate. He was going to eat without her.

[00:14:20]She was going to take a shower real quick, eat, and then she wanted to go on an evening walk with her husband once she was done. That was her plan for the night, just eat dinner and go on a walk with her husband. So Ryan starts to eat while Yuni is taking her shower. And after a little bit of time, he hears some really loud begging that he says was loud enough and more and intense enough to actually shake the house. And this was followed by a blood curdling scream. And recognizing the scream is coming from his wife, he immediately got up and just started running up the stairs. All the while hearing his wife screaming his name and begging for help.

[00:14:56]So he gets up the stairs. He gets onto the second floor and he sees the bathroom door where his wife is supposed to be taking a shower and it's cracked open and he can hear the water running.

[00:15:04]So he starts to approach the door. But as he does, he sees Isabella, her back against the door, closing the door with her back. And when he goes to get it, like to open it, he finds that it's now locked. He does what he can to try to get this door open. He's pushing it.

[00:15:19]He's banging on it. He's trying to slam into it with his body, but it feels like somebody is like sitting up against it with their feet on the wall or something, making it so he just can't get in. But he continues trying until he sees something that horrifies him. and it's that he sees blood start to seep out from under the door frame. Like the door under the door, blood just starts seeping out. So he gets the phone, he dials 911. It's about 10 p.m. when he connects with the dispatcher and he's talking to the dispatcher when all of a sudden he notices that his wife has stopped screaming. He just hears her utter one more word. She says Jehovah before he stops hearing anything at all.

[00:15:57]A few moments later, the bathroom door opens and he sees something inside that no person should ever see. It was something that could absolutely traumatize a person. And it said he saw his wife nude on the floor, covered in blood, blood everywhere. There's a baseball bat like next to her and like under her kind of. And her daughter, 18-year-old Isabelle, is standing over her holding a knife.

[00:16:24]He goes into shock. He can't speak. He can't move. Isabella also does not move.

[00:16:29]And then eventually just walks right past him, doesn't look at him, blank stare past him, walks out, and she's gone. So, he tells the 911 dispatcher what he's seeing, and the 911 dispatcher starts talking him through doing CPR, performing life-saving measures. He doesn't know how to do CPR, but he does what the person instructs him to do, and he notices pretty quickly that his wife isn't alive. He said when he looked in her eyes just she was not there. It was just a blank stare and it was clear to him that she was dead. I mean this woman she had been stabbed over 150 times. There were over 30 stab wounds to her face and 40 to her neck.

[00:17:11]And as soon as the first responders arrived to their home, which was on the 2600 block of South Lima Street, she was pronounced dead. So immediately they knew who had done this. They didn't need to ask questions, right? So they initial immediate immediately they immediately launched a manh hunt for Isabella and Ryan was able to give them information on what she looked like. He told them that she was wearing a pink sports bra and turquoise shorts and he told them that she was armed because she had left the house with that knife. Now police did everything in their power to try to find Isabella. They tried to trace and track her cell phone, but found quickly that it had either been shut off or it had died. So, they were not able to find that. They used one of the Denver choppers, like a helicopter, to try to search for her. Couldn't find her. Then, they sent out something called a reverse 911 call, which I didn't know what that was, so I Googled it. I looked it up on the Google machine, and I found that it's just like a message that gets sent out to people. So they sent this message out to everyone within a mile and a half radius of her home to try to be on the lookout for her, but still she maintained her disappearance.

[00:18:23]She hid she was gone for over like throughout the night. They didn't find her that night is what I'm getting at.

[00:18:28]This manhunt lasted a whole 12 hours before she was finally found. and she was found hiding inside of a parking garage off of South Parker Road with the knife and she also had knife injuries to her hands. She had been sleeping inside somebody's parked Jeep and I guess this car was being held for a client of a vehicle service and a company employee came in the morning and saw that next to the Jeep there was a bunch of stuff like a backpack and some clothes and upon further investigation he saw that there was a girl who he recognized from the photos all over the news in the back of the truck or the Jeep. Is a Jeep a truck? Now, she was sleeping in this Jeep at the time, but for whatever reason, whether he spoke or the dispatcher misheard, the police showed up to this parking garage thinking that they were responding to a dead body being in the back of a Jeep. But when they got there, they found that that was not the case. When they got there, they actually found that Isabella wasn't even in the Jeep anymore. But they did report that they had found items that seemed to be linked to Isabella's crimes near the vehicle. So police started to canvas the the parking garage and within no time they found Isabella trying to leave the parking structure. And so she was arrested at about 2:00 p.m. on August 29th, 2013. And at the time of her arrest, items were confiscated from her which included a knife. And later they retrieved additional items connected to the murder from a nearby grocery store bathroom. I guess they like were able to get the surveillance footage from this bathroom and they saw her go in covered in blood and she went into the bathroom and then I guess cleaned up a little bit and came out. So when they went into the bathroom, they were able to recover the items that she had left there which included clothing and bandages and they were all covered in blood. And for a side tangent, when she was there, apparently some lady like tried to help her and bought her a bunch of stuff to help her. And she told this lady that she had been assaulted and that's why she was covered in blood and that's why she needed help, but she didn't want to get the cops involved. So, they nobody called the cops. Nobody said that they saw her. Now, once the news of what Isabella had done and that she had been arrested kind of hit the press or whatever, people were very surprised to hear that she would have done this to her mother. Though everyone knew she was a bit hotheaded, nobody could ever think that she would go on to do something just so incredibly brutal. Her aunt, this was a woman named Melanie, said that she had just seen Isabelle a couple of months prior to this and said that she just seemed like a totally normal teenage girl. She said that Isabella seemed very sweet. She seemed very coette, which is a very adorable word that I did not know the meaning of, but it just means being a little flirtatious. And she just said that she could see Isabella maybe getting mad, maybe screaming, storming off, locking herself in her room, putting in her iPod, and ignoring her mom, but she could never see her doing something like this, not something so incredibly violent, right? And Isabella's father, Robert, said that he too was just so surprised and was so heartbroken to learn the news of the murder of his ex-wife. He said that Isabelle at the end of the day was a good kid with a good heart. And he couldn't understand what could have happened that would have provoked this type of reaction, especially because the last time he saw her, he thought he had gotten through to her and thought he had gotten through to her about the importance of respecting and listening to your mother. And the last time he saw her, by the way, was actually the day of the murder. When they had this conversation, it was the day of the murder. So, get this.

[00:21:59]Apparently, the day of the murder, hours before the murder, Yuni had called the police on Isabella and had them come out to the house. I guess she was very concerned about her daughter and her daughter's behavior. She just couldn't handle the way she had been acting towards her, and she was very concerned about an email that Isabella had sent to her that made her feel very uncomfortable and very unsafe. So, four police officers alongside is Isabella's biological father, Robert, had come to the house. And when they got there, they just found her sitting outside in one of those little porch swanks. Apparently, when they got first got there, she was very uncooperative, very iate. She was still yelling at and cussing at her mother. And the cops told her like, "Listen, bro, you need to lock in. Like, you are an adult and your mother is completely within her legal right if you keep doing this to have you evicted and removed from this property. Like, you need to listen to her if you want to have a place to live." like on a base level, not just because it's like the right thing to do is be nice to your mom, but like at a base level, if you want a place to live, perhaps you should tighten it up so you don't get yourself kicked out. And apparently, she had no response to this. So, they left. And after they left, Robert sat down with his daughter and he talked to her. And he said that her mom was just worried about her. She was worried and overwhelmed with how Isabella had been acting recently. and he said specifically of this conversation, quote, "I went to talk to Isabella and we sat down in the backyard looking at the trees and the animals and I started to talk to her about the respect that people should have for their parents and I was trying to let her know that she should be obedient to her parents, not rebellious, that she should try and listen more and everything was going to be fine." And this conversation, I thought that I made progress, but obviously it didn't do nothing because hours later, this thing happened. It's just so sad because at this time he's talking to her, he thinks he's making progress sitting on a swing with his daughter looking at the animals and the trees and then hours later she had murdered her mom. And it's also crazy because apparently after he left, she seemed totally cool. Like Ryan was still at the house and he watched everything, right? He said she seemed friendly. She gave her dad a big hug. She said her goodbyes and everything seemed fine. He said after the cops left, you and me went back to work, so it left just the two of them at the house. And he knew that she was very angry, like she was super pissed off at her mom for actually like having the nerve to call the cops on her, quote unquote, if you're listening on audio, quote unquote, having the nerve. But he said that no matter what, he could never expect her, no matter how angry, to do something like this. But she did. Ryan later told police that at the time that Isabella killed her mother, she was in a rage like he had never seen her before. He said he knew this just by the simple brutality of the attack. He said that he could hear her hitting Yi over and over and over and just heard the thumping over and over and over. And at the time he thought it was just with her fists, but now we know it was like it was a knife. It was a knife being hidden to her and possibly also that baseball bat.

[00:24:58]And it's so sad because in the time leading up to the murder, Yuni was very nervous and uncomfortable having Isabella in the house. It's like she could sense something was wrong. She said Isabelle was just getting more aggressive and more threatening to her and would cuss at her and curse her and even at one point spit in her face. Can you imagine spitting in your mother's face? In your your mama in her face. He also said that Isabella had sent Yuni a very strange email. And I mentioned this before, but I forgot to go into it further, and it's a little bit weird, but I guess Yuni, no, Isabella sent an email to Yuni's email address, but in the email, she was writing to a woman named Cecilia. And this is a woman who nobody knows, Ryan, Yuni, Isabella, nobody knows a Ciccilia, but he said the email still came into Yuni's email, and it was very weird and disturbing to her because it said in part, quote, "You will pay."

[00:25:54]Ryan said that Yuni had been on pins and needles because of everything that had happened with Isabella, especially in the days leading up to the murder. And he said Yuni had expressed to him that things between the two women were just getting worse and worse. And then we ended up here with Yuni being tragically murdered and Isabella being arrested.

[00:26:14]Speaking of, after Isabella was arrested, she sits down with investigators to be interrogated. And they quickly find that Isabella is not claiming that she didn't kill her mother. Well, that's entirely true.

[00:26:28]Isabella is claiming that she didn't kill anyone. She's claiming, okay, that she's not even Isabella. She says that she is a 15-year-old girl named Samantha Gonzalez. And she says that her mother's name is not Yun Hoy. her mother's name is Sabrina Hicks and that right now what the police have is just a case of mistaken identity. She tells them she's from Ohio, that she had gone to Montgomery High School in Ohio, but when asked um if she'd be able to show them a photo from her yearbook, she said that that wouldn't be possible because she had skipped picture day at school. She said that she lived with her mother, Sabrina, at 2657 South Jamaica Circle in Cincinnati, Ohio. But police found that this is an address that doesn't actually exist. Though there is a similar address that exists in Aurora, Colorado, right across the street from Isabella's home that she definitely could have committed to memory. But she says she lived in Ohio and she got kicked out of her house after a fight with her mom, her mom, Sabrina. So she says after the fight with her mother, she grabbed a backpack filled with her belongings and she jumped on a bus heading across the country to California. Why she stopped in Ohio? Oh, I really cannot say, but she was heading to California to meet up with her boyfriend. She said she had a boyfriend and that his name was Gabriel and he was going to be meeting her at some nearby apartments and that he had told her once she arrived that he would take care of her fully and she didn't need to worry or want for anything. But the investigators hear all this and they're like, "No, no. You're 18-year-old Isabella Guzman. You went to Overland High School. Your mother, her name's Yi Hoy, and you killed her last night and that's why you have those knife wounds on your hands." But she says that no, those are scissor wounds from her mother. And I watched the entire interrogation here and her it's very interesting. Okay, cuz one very convincing. She seems like she believes what she's saying. But the other thing that was really really strange is that like her tone is so off. She's very flat. She's very unemotional. Even though she's being accused of doing something terrible, she never like goes up goes down. It's very just like duh duh like almost monotone is the best way and she seemed kind of unemotional. So the cops ask her if pretending to be somebody other than who she is is a sort of coping mechanism to help her deal with what she has done.

[00:28:55]And she says that she didn't do anything. Again, she says the entire time this mistaken identity. She adds that this whole situation is very frustrating that she's not scared of what's going on. She's just kind of freaked out that somebody who did nothing could be arrested and held and questioned when it wasn't them.

[00:29:13]Basically, she tells them over and over to just fingerprint her, to just take her DNA, to just do it as quickly as possible so they could confirm she wasn't who they were saying she was because she just wanted to leave and get to Gabriel because he was probably worried about her at this point. They go through and they question her about her history, her physical illnesses history, her mental illness history. She says she has none, just normal colds like anyone else and nothing mental that's ever come up. They ask her if she's ever seen a psychiatrist and she tells them no, which we know isn't true because in Isabella's case, she did go to see a psychiatrist like 2 or 3 years before the murder, and they said there was nothing wrong with her. They ask her if she's on drugs. She says no. She says she didn't do anything the night before that would alter her thinking, her remembering, anything like that. She was just totally sober. And she confirms she knows the date, the time, all of the things. She just knows. And she just tells them that she is tired. She says she's tired because she spent the night sleeping on a park bench basically. And they told her like, "Listen, no, you're not tired from that. You're tired because you spent the night running from the cops and trying to sleep in a in a jeep that wasn't yours." They ask this girl, Isabella, but we'll call her this girl for now because this is the conversation they're having. They ask her like, "Why would anyone kill their mother? Why would any girl kill their mother?" And she said that she truly couldn't understand why somebody would do that because her mother was a horrible person and even she wouldn't do that. And the cops quickly glob onto that statement. They're like, "Oh, your mother's a horrible person. Please tell us in which way she's a horrible person." hoping that she'll kind of like talk about her mother, pretending it's somebody else's mother, but it really is talking about you and Mihoy. But what she tells them is that her mother hated her because she was an illegitimate child. This is what she says, illegitimate child. She says that her birth basically ruined her mother and father's relationship, which made her mom very terrible to her, and said that she didn't hate her mother, but that her mother was very scary to her. She said her mother wouldn't beat her exactly, but that her mother would cause injuries to her. Then implied that the cut marks on her hands that she says were from scissors were a result of her mother.

[00:31:21]She said her and her mother had a terrible relationship. They weren't close. She didn't even know her mom's birthday. They didn't have that type of relationship. And she said that in her opinion, there are two types of moms in the world. There are good moms and then there are like the Casey Anthony type of moms. And she said in her opinion, her mom was more on the Casey Anthony side of the spectrum. She also says that a mark on her arm was another injury that her mother had caused to her, but police knew that Isabella got that mark on her arm from being like snipped at by a police dog. But all this to say is that this girl is saying that her mother is scary. Why, which is why she left home and why she was on a bus and why she left and she was sleeping in the park, etc., etc. Now, they try everything in their power to get her to admit that she's Isabella. Okay. They tell her they know that she's lying. They tell her that they're going to bring somebody down who can identify her. Either her father or her stepfather. And she's like, "You can bring down whoever you want. I don't know them because she's not me. So, it's going to be a waste of your time. You've just got the wrong person here." They tell her that she scares them because she has absolutely no conscience whatsoever. They tell her that she is evil with one officer saying to her specifically, quote, "You're one of the most evil person I've ever sat across the table from." And I don't know, I really didn't like the way that this guy interrogated her. And honestly, it probably is a bias of mine because I feel like if this was like some dude who was a serial killer, I'd be like, "Fuck it, interrogate him how you want." But something about this, maybe because I know how this case does play out in the end, it just bothered me to see how he talked to her because at one point she talks about like being a person and having a soul and he says to her, quote, "It's laughable. That's laughable that you have a soul." Adding people who do what you did, soulless. And then this cop calls her an idiot and asks her like, "How stupid are you?" And you know what it is is it just also felt like very unprofessional. But anyway, she says like, "Listen, I'm not evil. you don't even know me. I'm just some random girl that you saw walking outside and you arrested. She tells him that she wishes so badly that she didn't try to take a shortcut through that parking garage. She says that it was like the worst choice of her life because now she's wrapped up in something that had nothing to do with her. She tells them she's trying to be understanding, that she's not mad at them, that they're just human beings and they've made a mistake and that people are allowed to make mistakes. and then tells them like if I had somebody in front of me that I thought stabbed their mother 150 times because they had told her like what they sat her down for. She's like if I had somebody in front of me that I thought did that, I'd be out to get them too, but like it's not me. They tell her that she's going to jail. They tell her that there's no bond for firstdegree murder and so she's going to be in jail basically for the rest of her life. And she just tells them like listen, take my fingerprints, take my DNA, do whatever you need to do to prove that I'm not Isabella. My name is Samantha. I want to get out of here as fast as I can. I want to go be with Gabriel and I want to go have this the kind of love that I read about in my story books and be happy for the first time in my life. This is what she tells them. So, finally they do.

[00:34:24]Finally, they do swab her cheek to take her DNA. And when they do, they ask her.

[00:34:29]They're like, "Okay, let's say let's say you're right. Let's say we're all wrong here and you're not Isabella and you're Samantha etc. ETC. How do we go about proving who you are? Who can we contact?

[00:34:40]who can we call so that somebody can look at you and say who you are to help expedite this situation, right? And she's like, "Why would I give you the phone number and have you call somebody who tried to stab me with scissors or who stabbed me with scissors?" She tells them like, "I don't want to tell you my mom's name. I just want to go to Gabriel." And they're like, "Okay, what about your dad? Can you tell me your dad's name? Can we do something here?"

[00:35:01]And she tells them that she doesn't know her dad's name. She says that her mom quote hoarded around a lot. And so she had no idea who her father was. She just knows that she was illegitimate, so it could be anyone. She tells him all she knows about her dad is that he was Mexican, which is how she got her last name, Gonzalez. She says her mom never told her anything about him, not even his first name. And she said that she didn't know his cell phone number, didn't know her mom's cell phone number, and said that they didn't have a landline anymore because her mom was cheap and let the phone get disconnected. She said that even if she could put the police in contact with her family back in Ohio, she wouldn't because they were violent and that's why she left in the first place. She didn't want to go back. So, seeing as how they weren't going to be able to have anybody from Samantha's family, quote unquote Samantha's family, come and identify Samantha, they instead bring in Robert, Isabella's biological father. So, he walks in and they ask him who she is and he says like, "That's my baby girl.

[00:35:57]That's Isabella." And then he goes in and he tries to hug her and tries to hold her and she immediately like pulls away and like shrinks herself back as far as she can into the wall trying to get away from him. And it's sad because everybody said like even though she had beef with her mom for sure, like her and her dad were just like super close. But even that, even being confronted with her actual father, she did not admit to who she was. And in the end, she just told them like she really hoped that they found Isabella, but it was not her.

[00:36:28]She said that she was so upset because she really thought by running away she was going to be improving her life, but now it was so much worse. And she said that she was worried about going to prison because she was so pretty that she would be.

[00:36:41]And the cop responds to that by saying, "I don't think you're that pretty." And she ends up turning towards the wall like in the corner and just cries. So when the interview was finally done, Isabella was taken to the hospital to get her hands stitched up before she was taken to jail. Taking taken to jail where she was charged with the first-degree murder of her mother, Yun Mihoy. Cuz spoiler alert, it was Isabella. There is no Samantha Gonzalez.

[00:37:08]So legal, let's talk about the legal of it all. Isabella was late to her first court appearance because she refused to leave her her cell. But when she finally came, they get her to walk in and she just seems a bit off. She seems a bit odd. I watched as many clips on this as I could find and she just kind of like her emotions are off. She smiles and she smirks a lot at the camera. She's like sitting kind of blinking a lot and twitching and looking at the judge trying to it seems like trying to comprehend what's happening but maybe not quite doing it. She ends up noticing that the camera is on her from the media and she just turns and stares at it just like I can't do it. just like a complete blank stare before finally looking at them and like when her eyes tear up she's like which I feel like you might have seen that video before because a lot of people have seen that video and she just looked generally confused and like she didn't know what was happening and this case ended up in this video rather if you ended up blowing up on Tik Tok like if you were on Tik Tok around 2020 for some reason this footage made its rounds around Tik Tok which is how I initially learned about this case and pre previously I created a video on this case, but it was just 20 minutes long, which is insane and not enough info, which is why we're here today. But anyways, the video of Isabelle at at this hearing circulated and people were super weird talking about how they could how they could fix her and how she was sweet but psycho. And it was just very reminiscent about how so many women reacted to that [ __ ] loser tattooed face killer, uh, Wade Wilson. You remember him? That [ __ ] everybody thought he was so hot. I'm like, he has a philosophy tattooed on him.

[00:38:47]He's tall with tattoos. Can we just have like can the standards just be the the bar is in h like tr truly I I that he pissed me off people and him that case made me mad and this is similar to that.

[00:38:59]But anyways, Isabella at the hearing she's acting super weird especially considering the circumstances that brought her to that courtroom that day.

[00:39:07]And it turns out there may have been a reason why she was acting like that because after her arrest, she was evaluated by mental health professionals for both the prosecution and the defense. And both sides determined that she was suffering from schizophrenia and had been having delusions for years.

[00:39:27]They determined that Isabella had been hearing voices and her mind made her believe that Yuni was not her mother, but instead a woman named Cecilia. And she believed that if she did not murder Cecilia, the world would have ended, which is something that could explain how this happened because yes, Yuni and Isabella had a tough relationship. Yes, they argued. Yes, they fought. But it seemed incomprehensible to those that knew them that it would ever go to this point. Yet it did. Man, mentally ill or not, the pain that this caused was real.

[00:40:02]The outcome is the same regardless. And I just feel so like Ryan. I feel so bad for him. I guess within days of this happening, he got rid of everything that would remind him of Isabella. There were two dumpsters outside the house that were filled with like stuffed animals and just things that belonged to Isabella. And on the ground near the dumpsters, there was a young picture of her like as a child. It's just so sad.

[00:40:23]But anyways, back to the legal aspect of this case. The prosecution agreed that Isabella was mentally ill and made a statement that said basically it was clear that this girl was suffering and therefore they did not contest and instead supported Isabella's plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, which is such a weird thing. This is the only case I can think of in recent memory where both sides just agreed like that.

[00:40:49]And so the judge ended up granting that plea, the plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. And the prosecution said of their decision, quote, "We punish people who make decisions to do wrong when they knew better and they could have done something differently. In this particular case, I am convinced based on the evidence that I've seen and the information that's been presented in court that this woman did not know right from wrong and she could not have acted differently than she did given the significant schizophrenia and paranoid delusions, audible visual hallucinations that she was going through. I was convinced of it and felt like in the interest of justice, I had to take these steps. So with that, instead of going to prison, Isabella was transported to the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo for an indeterminate period of time. It's basically until a date where she's deemed to be safe and no longer a risk to the public. And for a bit, it seemed like that date may have come sooner than anybody would have expected because just 7 years after being sent off to the mental health facility in 2020, Isabella was trying to be released. She claimed that she had not been herself at the time that she murdered her mother and said that she was now restored to full health. She appeared by Zoom call because of the 2020 and the CO of it all. And she claimed that her sanity had been restored, saying specifically, and I quote, "I'm not mentally ill anymore.

[00:42:18]I'm not a danger to myself or others."

[00:42:22]She then added that if she could go back and change the way things have played out, she would. Isabella claimed to have been physically and emotionally abused by her family for years prior to her crime. She said there was already a lot of tension and abuse in her early years.

[00:42:38]But it got worse when she was about 14 years old because her family who were strict and devout Jehovah's Witnesses could not handle that Isabella had chosen to forego the religion. And with that choice, the abuse worsened. She said that sometimes the fights between her and her mother would get physical because of this and that she still has a scar on her hand to this day from one of those altercations. Now, I haven't seen any evidence to prove that this abuse took place. I do think it's very, very possible that Isabella was very hard to deal with because of her mental illness when she was younger and that they had no idea what they were dealing with and that could have been very frustrating and maybe there was lashing out because of that. But I think it's equally possible that because we know this girl was suffering from delusions that she could have imagined that this type of abuse was happening to her. It's really hard to say. It's hard to say when you know you can't trust somebody's mind, but that doesn't mean bad things don't happen to them. It's just super sad either way. super sad that like this couldn't have been like seen and addressed sooner because maybe if it had been, Uni would still be alive and Isabella could have gotten the treatment that she needed and maybe she wouldn't be in the position that she was in that she is in. Maybe she would just be out in the world living a totally normal life, being a totally normal daughter with her mother because now Yun's life is gone and Isabella's has been destroyed. And she has said that since going into that hospital for treatment, it hasn't gotten much better.

[00:44:09]apparently. And this is so tragic because of like because of what we know this girl's been through now that we know that she was suffering mentally.

[00:44:15]Like it's so sad to think that she went to a place to get help and that something like this happened to her. But I guess in 2015 she reported to the hospital staff that one of the like dudes who worked there, one of the employees actually assaulted her. She said that this male employee had asked her to go look into a closet to look through some old clothing and then once she was inside, he followed behind her and closed the door and assaulted her.

[00:44:38]And she said this was not the only time this particular employee had abused her, but said that she didn't say anything because there was a serious imbalance of power. And she believed that if she told anybody, she might not be like believe that this man would retaliate and ruin her life because they are in control a lot about your over your freedom, you know. Now, I haven't seen any updates on this case. So, I know that Isabella obviously wanted him to be prosecuted, but the DA's office had told her that the hospital never made a report of it, and she said that she did make a report to the hospital authorities. And eventually, this report was recovered.

[00:45:15]But as of today, I don't see any update on what happened here. But I do realize that I digressed a little bit here because we were talking about the potential of her being released and I just went on this rabbit trail a little bit cuz I just think it's so sad if that did happen to her. I think it's horrifying and we hear about those types of things happening all the time. So, I just wanted to mention it. But now back to the potential of her being released cuz she's asking for release in 2020.

[00:45:37]And it looks like from what I can see, she was not released not in 2020 and not even now. But that's not to say that the reigns haven't been loosened up at all because they have because in 2021 it was determined that Isabella could leave the mental health facility to go receive her her therapy, her treatments or therapy.

[00:45:54]And she'll just have to wear a little GPS monitor when she does so that they can keep track of her, obviously. So, it might not be the total freedom that she wants, but it's definitely a taste of that. It's a taste of the freedom that she may someday get. And you know, whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is up for debate because Yun Mihoy lost her life in the most brutal unimaginable way that I can imagine. At the hands of your own kid, I can't even imagine how scared she was cuz she left this earth not even knowing what was going on. So, that had to have just been a mix of hurt and betrayal that I can't even imagine. And yet Isabella may be free one day. And you know, I just don't know what justice looks like in a case like this. Isabella did a terrible thing, but she was found to be legitimately mentally ill at the time of the crime. So what's right here? Is it justice to keep somebody committed to a mental health facility for the rest of their lives because they were struggling if they do get better? Or do we release somebody who committed a murder but was mentally ill and got better so they have a chance to go out and live their lives when their victim never got the chance.

[00:47:04]And with that, that, my friends, is the story of the murder of Yun Mi Hoy. I hope that you found it to be informative. I hope I gave you all the information you would want when looking into this case. And of course, I just want to thank you for remembering her with me today. Now, considering everything I told you throughout this video, I want to revisit the question of the day, and that was this. Do you think that Isabella should ever be fully released? Or do you believe that if somebody has a mental health condition like this and commits a murder that they should have lifelong supervision? Let me know all your thoughts in the comments below cuz I'm curious to hear what you have to say. And also, if you vote for lifelong supervision, let me know what you think that that looks like. Do they stay in a facility? GPS tracker? They need to check in with somebody. Let me know all your thoughts cuz I am curious about this. Before you leave, please don't forget to leave me a comment down below with whatever case you'd like to see me cover in the future. As you may or may not know, I have a long list of cases. And when you leave me a suggestion, I put it on my list with your name next to it. So, if I cover it, I can give you a shout out. I love looking into the cases you guys suggest cuz they're often cases I haven't heard of or cases that need more coverage. And I know you're filled with great ideas and great taste. Otherwise, you'll not be here. If you haven't already, please don't forget to join the brat pack by subscribing and ringing that bell. I put a new video every single week, sometimes two a week, and I would love to hang out with you. Yes, to you, specifically you, but I can only do that if you join the Brat Pack and become one of us, one of us, one of us, one of us. And if you want to hang out more consistently, all my social media is listed down below along with a link to my merch store and a link to my membership. Oh, if you don't already know what you're seeing with your eyes, what you're hearing with your ears, there's also a podcast. It's true crime with Bradstein, wherever you get your podcast, Spotify, places like that. So, if you want to go give it a like, give it a listen, a download, whatever one does to engage with the podcast, I would appreciate it. But if not, I just want to thank you for being here. And with that, I want to thank you for being here when you could literally be anywhere else in the world. That is tight. You are tight. I hope to see you in my next video. And in the meantime, take care of yourself.