August 19, 2025 • 20 mins
She had big dreams of becoming a professional wrestler, and a chance encounter with the member of a famous wrestling family seemed to be her big break. Then she disappeared.
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
When you're born with a strong desire to achieve your dreams,
you'll stop it nothing to make it happen. No amount
of challenges or hardships will stand in your way. No
sacrifice is too great. But what happens when you put
your trust in someone to help you achieve those dreams
and they leave you to fend for yourself? You left
your family in pursuit of a better, happier life, only
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to be led astray. Today we'll explore the lengths one
young woman would take to pursue her dreams, the roads
it took her down, the people she met, and how
she ended up a missing person. This is the seriously
mysterious case of Samantha Fiddler. Samantha Fiddler was born on
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May twelfth, nineteen eighty seven, a resident of Canada. Samantha
and her sister April were raised as Jehovah's witnesses growing up,
which came with a lot of rules. Some of these
rules seem reasonable to most people, like not being allowed
to swear, but they also weren't allowed to hang out
with other kids unless they were also Jehovah's witnesses. April
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described Samantha as the wild child who didn't like being
told what to do, preferring to live by her own rules.
While Samantha got into a bit of trouble as a kid,
she was fiercely protective of April, almost putting her on
a pedestal. In addition to her highly controlling upbringing, her
romantic relationships were often controlling as well. Samantha met and
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fell in love with a twenty seven year old man
when she was only sixteen years old. To prevent her
from being kicked out of the Jehovah's Witness community, her
parents recommended that she get married. The honeymoon phase didn't
last long, and Samantha's husband began to physically abuse use her. Thankfully,
she left that relationship quickly and decided it was best
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for her to leave the church. Because she had left
the church, she was no longer allowed to live at
home and had to figure out how to make it
on her own. Samantha was known by those who love
her to have an exuberant, bubbly personality, despite all the
challenges that she had faced in her life. In March
twenty sixteen, Samantha, then a twenty nine year old mother
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of three, had just moved from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to
Florida to pursue her dreams of becoming a professional wrestler,
following the advice of her ex boyfriend, Teddy Hart, who
was also a wrestler. Even if you're not a wrestling fan,
you might recognize the last name Hart. Teddy Hart, who
was born in nineteen eighty comes from a long line
of wrestling legends. He was the youngest wrestler to sign
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a w w E contract and also the youngest to
be let go. He was signed at just eighteen years old,
but coaches said he wasn't disciplined and he wasn't willing
to be coached. In a docu series called Dangerous Breed,
one example shows us why he got cut from the WWE.
Often wrestling matches are scripted and choreographed. Teddy was once
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performing in a cage match and was performing a moon salt,
a dangerous maneuver where a wrestler climbs to the top
of the cage and flips off into the ring. One
of these moves was scripted, but Teddy kept climbing back
up to the top of the cage and doing moon salts.
He goes completely off script putting the other wrestlers at
risk because they don't know what he's going to do next.
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He even begins to make himself sick and he starts
to vomit during the match. The other wrestlers physically removed
him from the locker room after that, and he struggled
to get hired again after this display of unprofessionalism. More recently,
Teddy was operating a wrestling school out of his house
in Edmonton. Teddy's known to be quite a character. He
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also breeds and trains Persian showcats, and he's had anywhere
from fifty to one hundred cats at a time. He
also designs clothes, and he smokes a lot of marijuana.
Despite being less successful in wrestling than other family members,
Teddy would often have a posse of people around him
and almost a cult like following. A subset of wrestling
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fans seemed to like the unknown that Teddy brought to
the sport. Teddy was married to a woman named Fay,
but had an open relationship and had multiple girlfriends. In
November of twenty fourteen, Teddy was charged with sexual assault,
assault and illegal confinement and went on the run from
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police After his wife and girlfriend
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presented evidence to the police, Teddy made his way to Dallas, Texas,
as he had dual citizenship in Canada and the United States.
While in Texas, he meets and starts a relationship with
another woman and is caught on camera making violent threats
towards her, telling her he'll choke her out and that
if the camera wasn't rolling, it would have gotten physical.
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She also said that he would steal her car, wreck
her car and refuse to pay for it, and put
her in choke hold so hard that she would lose
consciousness and then say that it was from her MMA training.
After being convicted, Teddy and his new girlfriend go back
to Canada so Teddy can turn himself into the police.
While attempting to enter Canada, Teddy is arrested on his
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outstanding charges and his new girlfriend is denied entry into
Canada because of an outstanding assault charge, although she says
that this charge was a result of her defending herself
against someone abusing her. Teddy was in jail for two
days before being bailed out and was in the free
world until his court date. Teddy stayed with friends as
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he wasn't allowed back at his house where his accusers
were living. It's during this time that Teddy was waiting
for his trial and he meets Samantha Fiddler. Teddy said
that he and Samantha met through a mutual friend, Bill,
who Samantha was going to be a nanny for, but
that was not the case to Bill. Bill said that
he and Teddy met Samantha while she was a dancer
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at a club. The three of them hit it off.
Samantha was aware of the charges against Teddy, but didn't
really believe that they were true. She had a good
feeling about him, so she continued to see him. Samantha
even brought Teddy to her parents' house to meet her family.
Samantha's sister, April, looked up his name and quickly found
out about the accusations other women have made against Teddy.
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When April asked Samantha about it, April says Samantha got
a little bit defensive. She said that the hearts were
a big deal and that she wanted to wrestle and
Teddy could help make that happen. Samantha began training with
Teddy and built up a lot of muscle. She apparently
told her sister that wrestling is also about appearance, and
she asked to look the part. So to speak. Teddy
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and Bill were willing to invest money into Samantha, hoping
that they would be able to off of her career later,
including financing a Jaguar for Samantha to drive. Only about
a month after helping Samantha get the car, Bill backed
out of the business partnership because Teddy and Samantha were
in a romantic relationship. Bill went into this thinking that
the three of them were strictly business and didn't want
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to be involved when the business partners were now romantic partners.
Even though Teddy has pending charges in Canada, he somehow
was still able to travel to Mexico for a big
wrestling event with Samantha. The two of them and several
cats had been living out of the Jaguar for three
weeks before they finally arrived. It was in Mexico that
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the plan to go to Florida was hatched. Teddy was
going to set Samantha up in Florida at a wrestling
school for intense training for a year. Her children were
going to stay with Samantha's parents during this time. Although
Samantha was still involved in their lives. After settling in Florida,
Teddy went back to Alberta for his pre trial hearing.
Teddy's lawyer was able to get the charges withdrawn, likely
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due to the cross examination of Teddy's ex wife and
ex girlfriend. Samantha was starting training at a wrestling school
called Team Vision Dojo in Orlando, which is certainly notorious
and not for good reason. The man running the school,
Chasin Rance, was a convicted sex offender. His victim was
only fifteen years old. But that's not all. Team Vision
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Dojo also produces custom erotic wrestling fetish videos, some of
which Teddy Hart was in chasing. Claims that the videos
aren't raunchy or sexualized. While we don't know if Samantha
appeared in any videos or if she was even asked to,
it certainly does seem like she was in close proximity
to people who might not have her best interests at heart. Thankfully,
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there was at least one person in Florida who was
looking out for Samantha. She and Teddy met a friend
named John at a wrestling event, and Teddy invited him
to a match in Orlando. Samantha and Teddy picked up
John from the airport, and he noticed the two of
them arguing. He got out of the car once the
group got to the motel, figuring it was none of
his business. As John starts to climb the stairs to
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his room, he notices Teddy and Samantha in the car,
still arguing. Teddy then hit Samantha and John ran back
down to break it up. Teddy says to John that
this isn't what it looks like, but John knew that
Samantha needed to get out of that relationship. Samantha was
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keeping in touch with her family, friends, and her children
despite not having a phone. As the weeks passed, though,
her communication became less and less frequent. Once Samantha called
her friend Jamie from a block number, sounding rushed and
saying that she needed to get home and that she
was kind of stuck in Florida. Jamie had friends that
made frequent trips back and forth from Florida to Canada
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and offered to have one of them get Samantha to
Nova Scotia, but Samantha didn't have her passport, apparently Teddy
took it from her, although Teddy denies this when asked
if she had her phone Samantha said she didn't have
access to that either, but to wait for a call
from a blocked number. That call never came, and that
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was the last time Jamie heard from Samantha. On November fourth,
twenty sixteen, April, Samantha's sister got a Facebook message saying
that Samantha was coming home. Samantha was usually very active
on Facebook, but stopped posting just a few days later
on November twelfth. On November nineteenth, Samantha stopped calling her kids.
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By November twenty fourth, Facebook messages to Samantha were going
unread and unanswered. After two months of no Facebook activity,
April knew something was wrong. She called Teddy and he
said he had no idea where she was and that
he barely knew her. Teddy also told April that Samantha
was a whore, was ruining his life, and wasn't cut
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out to be a wrestler, all things that set off
even louder alarm bells. For a p he represented their
relationship as nothing more than student and trainer and mentioned
nothing about any romantic relationship. He also publicly denied any
romantic relationship with Samantha in a docu series about the case,
even going as far as to call her a junkie
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and blame her for getting herself into a bad situation.
Sometime in the summer of twenty sixteen, shortly after arriving
in Florida, Teddy and Samantha split ways, with Samantha staying
in Florida and Teddy taking the car and going back
to Texas to pick things up with one of his
ex girlfriends. Samantha told a friend that Teddy had her
passport in the car, and Teddy's ex girlfriend says she
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saw Samantha's passport in the car, but of course Teddy
denies all this. Trying to make it on her own
in Florida with no papers was challenging, and Samantha needed
to get a job that paid her under the table.
Through her connections at the Dojo, she was able to
get a job with a tree company hauling branches to
the chipper. She was also able to find a room
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to rent, but it did work out long term, and
she was on her own again in late June of
twenty sixteen. We don't know what Samantha was doing or
where she was until she showed up to an emergency
room in Melbourne Florida. On August thirtieth, twenty sixteen, she
checked in but then decided to leave the hospital for
unknown reasons. She shows back up and this time refuses
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to leave, so the police arrest her for trespassing. She's
released on her own reconnaissance, but has to come back
for several court dates. On November fourth, she posts a
photo on Facebook saying that she's in Miami and told
her friend John that she was working as a dancer
in a strip club. They spoke briefly over her Facebook messenger,
but John never heard from her again after that. Samantha's
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next confirmed movements were on November eighteenth, twenty sixteen, where
she got a new ID at the Polk County tax
Collector's office because she didn't have her passport. People close
to her case think that Samantha went to get this
ID so she can get back into Canada without having
to turn herself into immigration. Some people may not know this,
but if there is a warrant out for your arrest
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and you enter a government building, they can arrest you
on the spot. So the staff at the tax collector's
office reported Samantha's presence to the authorities and she was
arrested again for failing to appear for her court dates.
She was released from Polk County Jail around three thirty
am November nineteenth, twenty sixteen, with several other inmates. Samantha
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tried to call her sister, but April missed the call.
April tried to call back, but it was too late.
All she got was an automated voice, and no one
has seen or heard from Samantha since then. On January fourteenth,
twenty seventeen, April called and tried to file a missing
person report for Samantha in Florida, but the Florida authorities
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were hesitant to take the report. And I'm sure our
regular listeners can guess what they told April. Samantha is
an adult and could go missing if she wants. They
need proof that she's actually missing, which would proved difficult
since Samantha didn't have her phone, her passport, a car,
or even an address in Florida. Florida law enforcement suggests
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that April call the Canadian authorities, but they can't help
because she's not missing from Canada. They wouldn't open up
an official missing person's report in Florida for Samantha until
twenty nineteen. Not willing to give up so easily, April
called hospitals, homeless shelters, and morgues, trying to find any
sign of Samantha. While April was doing all this alone
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at first, Samantha's friend Jamie jumped into help as soon
as she knew that something was wrong. They started googling
Samantha's name, and they found a Rolling Stone article about
Teddy Hart that mentioned Samantha and the fact that Teddy
was being filmed for a potential reality TV show. Jamie
thought it was a long shot, but emailed the author,
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Omar Milauam, hoping to find any information about Samantha's life
in Florida and at least give her children the reassurance
that their mother didn't abandon them. Omar made a post
on Facebook about Samantha and asked people to share it.
It started gaining traction in Alberta, but then expanded to
the larger wrestling community in North America. Despite years of
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basically no movement or public awareness of Samantha's case, the
wrestling community had their own me too moment, starting with
the hashtag Speaking Out. Suddenly, people began sharing their own
stories of abuse and trauma in the independent wrestling circuit.
Even one of Teddy's ex girlfriends, the woman who couldn't
get into Canada, aired her story of abuse publicly and
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she mentioned Samantha, and that's when Jamie noticed. Samantha's story
blew up. The Fiddler family, alarmed by her disappearance, enlisted
the help of a private investigator in Jacksonville, Florida, in
twenty eighteen. After two years with little progress, the bartow
Police Department formally requested Florida Department of Law Enforcement assistance.
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Since twenty twenty, fdl E agents have conducted numerous interviews
with individuals in both Florida and Canada seeking leads that
might shed light on Samantha's case. Years after Samantha went missing.
Teddy claims that Samantha got hit in one of her
practices and decided that she didn't want to do wrestling anymore,
But from videos that Samantha had posted on her Facebook
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page and comments that Teddy himself made on those posts,
Samantha seemed to be motivated to continue training. Teddy claims
that he was also locked up in Texas at the
same time as Samantha, and that she was released first,
but on a YouTube show, the host grilled Teddy, and
based on records that the host had, Teddy was actually
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arrested on December twelfth, twenty sixteen, almost a full month
after Samantha was released. In another interview, he claims that
he was in Mexico when Samantha was released from jail,
but there is a YouTube video of Teddy performing in
a wrestling match on November nineteenth, the day that Samantha
went missing in Los Angeles. While this certainly doesn't prove
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that Teddy had anything to do with Samantha's disappearance, it
at least proves that he cannot accurately account for his whereabouts,
and that leaves us to ponder the theories. I'm sure
most of you are suspicious of Teddy Hart, and that
makes sense. He's known for being inconsistent with his stories
about where he was when Samantha disappeared, and he seems
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to harbor some animosity for Samantha in his public statements.
His previous partners have also made serious claims about the
way he treated them, which should raise concern about the
way that he treated Samantha. But it is possible that
Teddy didn't have anything to do with Samantha's disappearance, although
April points out that he put Samantha in a position
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where bad things could have happened to her. She was
in a foreign country, without proper documents to go home
or to help her find work, she knew nobody, had
no support system, and nowhere to stay. The combination of
those circumstances might have led Samantha to cross paths with
bad people. Her family can news to wonder about Samantha.
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We literally don't know. Her father, Robin Fiddler, told a
news outlet, that's the agony of this whole situation. We
don't have a clue. Our imagination can't drum up what
happened to our daughter. Samantha Fiddler, a white and Cree
First Nations woman, was last seen in Bartow, Florida, on
November nineteenth, twenty sixteen, at twenty nine years old. She
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was five feet seven inches tall and weighed one hundred
and eighteen pounds. She was last seen wearing a white
tank top and white jeans. She has green eyes and
had blonde hair at the time of her disappearance. Her
natural hair color is brown, but she's been known to
die at dark brown black and red. Samantha has a
scar on her lip and several tattoos, including handprints and
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the names Ava and Madison on the back of her shoulder,
a flower on her foot, and a sleeve with the
words Fierce Mother on one upper arm. Her nose, ears,
left eyebrow, and navel are pierced. She also had breast implants,
an abdominoplasty, and botox in her lips. She may have
scars around her navel, and she has a cesarean scar
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on her abdomen. She also went by the aliases Lucy
morning Star, Samantha Steel, or Samantha Lloyd. She's known to
spend time in Polk, Orange, Miami, Dade, Brevard, Broward, Osceola,
and Seminole counties in Florida. If alive today, she would
be thirty eight years old. If you have any information
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about Samantha Fiddler's case or her whereabouts, please call FDL
E Tampa at one eight hundred two two six one
one four zero. Do you have any insights or even
a case you'd like to suggest, feel free to send
it to me. You'll find a comment forum and case
submission link at Lordenarts dot com. Thank you, Fox thirteen,
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WTSP dot com, fdl E, The Charlie Project, Tampa FP
dot com, Laglerlive dot com, WESH dot com, Missing People
in America, ABC Action News, and Peacock's Dangerous Breed docuseries
for information contributing to today's story. This episode was written
by Candice Allison and is produced by Lorden Arts. Thank
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you to our audience here for the live recording session
hosted on the YouTube channel lord and Arts Studio too.
Most of all, thank you for listening and I hope
you found today's episode seriously mysterious. I'm John Lorden. Please
join me again next week
When you're born with a strong desire to achieve your dreams,
you'll stop it nothing to make it happen. No amount
of challenges or hardships will stand in your way. No
sacrifice is too great. But what happens when you put
your trust in someone to help you achieve those dreams
and they leave you to fend for yourself? You left
your family in pursuit of a better, happier life, only
(00:42):
to be led astray. Today we'll explore the lengths one
young woman would take to pursue her dreams, the roads
it took her down, the people she met, and how
she ended up a missing person. This is the seriously
mysterious case of Samantha Fiddler. Samantha Fiddler was born on
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May twelfth, nineteen eighty seven, a resident of Canada. Samantha
and her sister April were raised as Jehovah's witnesses growing up,
which came with a lot of rules. Some of these
rules seem reasonable to most people, like not being allowed
to swear, but they also weren't allowed to hang out
with other kids unless they were also Jehovah's witnesses. April
(01:23):
described Samantha as the wild child who didn't like being
told what to do, preferring to live by her own rules.
While Samantha got into a bit of trouble as a kid,
she was fiercely protective of April, almost putting her on
a pedestal. In addition to her highly controlling upbringing, her
romantic relationships were often controlling as well. Samantha met and
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fell in love with a twenty seven year old man
when she was only sixteen years old. To prevent her
from being kicked out of the Jehovah's Witness community, her
parents recommended that she get married. The honeymoon phase didn't
last long, and Samantha's husband began to physically abuse use her. Thankfully,
she left that relationship quickly and decided it was best
(02:05):
for her to leave the church. Because she had left
the church, she was no longer allowed to live at
home and had to figure out how to make it
on her own. Samantha was known by those who love
her to have an exuberant, bubbly personality, despite all the
challenges that she had faced in her life. In March
twenty sixteen, Samantha, then a twenty nine year old mother
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of three, had just moved from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to
Florida to pursue her dreams of becoming a professional wrestler,
following the advice of her ex boyfriend, Teddy Hart, who
was also a wrestler. Even if you're not a wrestling fan,
you might recognize the last name Hart. Teddy Hart, who
was born in nineteen eighty comes from a long line
of wrestling legends. He was the youngest wrestler to sign
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a w w E contract and also the youngest to
be let go. He was signed at just eighteen years old,
but coaches said he wasn't disciplined and he wasn't willing
to be coached. In a docu series called Dangerous Breed,
one example shows us why he got cut from the WWE.
Often wrestling matches are scripted and choreographed. Teddy was once
(03:10):
performing in a cage match and was performing a moon salt,
a dangerous maneuver where a wrestler climbs to the top
of the cage and flips off into the ring. One
of these moves was scripted, but Teddy kept climbing back
up to the top of the cage and doing moon salts.
He goes completely off script putting the other wrestlers at
risk because they don't know what he's going to do next.
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He even begins to make himself sick and he starts
to vomit during the match. The other wrestlers physically removed
him from the locker room after that, and he struggled
to get hired again after this display of unprofessionalism. More recently,
Teddy was operating a wrestling school out of his house
in Edmonton. Teddy's known to be quite a character. He
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also breeds and trains Persian showcats, and he's had anywhere
from fifty to one hundred cats at a time. He
also designs clothes, and he smokes a lot of marijuana.
Despite being less successful in wrestling than other family members,
Teddy would often have a posse of people around him
and almost a cult like following. A subset of wrestling
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fans seemed to like the unknown that Teddy brought to
the sport. Teddy was married to a woman named Fay,
but had an open relationship and had multiple girlfriends. In
November of twenty fourteen, Teddy was charged with sexual assault,
assault and illegal confinement and went on the run from
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police After his wife and girlfriend
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presented evidence to the police, Teddy made his way to Dallas, Texas,
as he had dual citizenship in Canada and the United States.
While in Texas, he meets and starts a relationship with
another woman and is caught on camera making violent threats
towards her, telling her he'll choke her out and that
if the camera wasn't rolling, it would have gotten physical.
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She also said that he would steal her car, wreck
her car and refuse to pay for it, and put
her in choke hold so hard that she would lose
consciousness and then say that it was from her MMA training.
After being convicted, Teddy and his new girlfriend go back
to Canada so Teddy can turn himself into the police.
While attempting to enter Canada, Teddy is arrested on his
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outstanding charges and his new girlfriend is denied entry into
Canada because of an outstanding assault charge, although she says
that this charge was a result of her defending herself
against someone abusing her. Teddy was in jail for two
days before being bailed out and was in the free
world until his court date. Teddy stayed with friends as
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he wasn't allowed back at his house where his accusers
were living. It's during this time that Teddy was waiting
for his trial and he meets Samantha Fiddler. Teddy said
that he and Samantha met through a mutual friend, Bill,
who Samantha was going to be a nanny for, but
that was not the case to Bill. Bill said that
he and Teddy met Samantha while she was a dancer
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at a club. The three of them hit it off.
Samantha was aware of the charges against Teddy, but didn't
really believe that they were true. She had a good
feeling about him, so she continued to see him. Samantha
even brought Teddy to her parents' house to meet her family.
Samantha's sister, April, looked up his name and quickly found
out about the accusations other women have made against Teddy.
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When April asked Samantha about it, April says Samantha got
a little bit defensive. She said that the hearts were
a big deal and that she wanted to wrestle and
Teddy could help make that happen. Samantha began training with
Teddy and built up a lot of muscle. She apparently
told her sister that wrestling is also about appearance, and
she asked to look the part. So to speak. Teddy
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and Bill were willing to invest money into Samantha, hoping
that they would be able to off of her career later,
including financing a Jaguar for Samantha to drive. Only about
a month after helping Samantha get the car, Bill backed
out of the business partnership because Teddy and Samantha were
in a romantic relationship. Bill went into this thinking that
the three of them were strictly business and didn't want
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to be involved when the business partners were now romantic partners.
Even though Teddy has pending charges in Canada, he somehow
was still able to travel to Mexico for a big
wrestling event with Samantha. The two of them and several
cats had been living out of the Jaguar for three
weeks before they finally arrived. It was in Mexico that
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the plan to go to Florida was hatched. Teddy was
going to set Samantha up in Florida at a wrestling
school for intense training for a year. Her children were
going to stay with Samantha's parents during this time. Although
Samantha was still involved in their lives. After settling in Florida,
Teddy went back to Alberta for his pre trial hearing.
Teddy's lawyer was able to get the charges withdrawn, likely
(07:54):
due to the cross examination of Teddy's ex wife and
ex girlfriend. Samantha was starting training at a wrestling school
called Team Vision Dojo in Orlando, which is certainly notorious
and not for good reason. The man running the school,
Chasin Rance, was a convicted sex offender. His victim was
only fifteen years old. But that's not all. Team Vision
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Dojo also produces custom erotic wrestling fetish videos, some of
which Teddy Hart was in chasing. Claims that the videos
aren't raunchy or sexualized. While we don't know if Samantha
appeared in any videos or if she was even asked to,
it certainly does seem like she was in close proximity
to people who might not have her best interests at heart. Thankfully,
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there was at least one person in Florida who was
looking out for Samantha. She and Teddy met a friend
named John at a wrestling event, and Teddy invited him
to a match in Orlando. Samantha and Teddy picked up
John from the airport, and he noticed the two of
them arguing. He got out of the car once the
group got to the motel, figuring it was none of
his business. As John starts to climb the stairs to
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his room, he notices Teddy and Samantha in the car,
still arguing. Teddy then hit Samantha and John ran back
down to break it up. Teddy says to John that
this isn't what it looks like, but John knew that
Samantha needed to get out of that relationship. Samantha was
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keeping in touch with her family, friends, and her children
despite not having a phone. As the weeks passed, though,
her communication became less and less frequent. Once Samantha called
her friend Jamie from a block number, sounding rushed and
saying that she needed to get home and that she
was kind of stuck in Florida. Jamie had friends that
made frequent trips back and forth from Florida to Canada
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and offered to have one of them get Samantha to
Nova Scotia, but Samantha didn't have her passport, apparently Teddy
took it from her, although Teddy denies this when asked
if she had her phone Samantha said she didn't have
access to that either, but to wait for a call
from a blocked number. That call never came, and that
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was the last time Jamie heard from Samantha. On November fourth,
twenty sixteen, April, Samantha's sister got a Facebook message saying
that Samantha was coming home. Samantha was usually very active
on Facebook, but stopped posting just a few days later
on November twelfth. On November nineteenth, Samantha stopped calling her kids.
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By November twenty fourth, Facebook messages to Samantha were going
unread and unanswered. After two months of no Facebook activity,
April knew something was wrong. She called Teddy and he
said he had no idea where she was and that
he barely knew her. Teddy also told April that Samantha
was a whore, was ruining his life, and wasn't cut
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out to be a wrestler, all things that set off
even louder alarm bells. For a p he represented their
relationship as nothing more than student and trainer and mentioned
nothing about any romantic relationship. He also publicly denied any
romantic relationship with Samantha in a docu series about the case,
even going as far as to call her a junkie
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and blame her for getting herself into a bad situation.
Sometime in the summer of twenty sixteen, shortly after arriving
in Florida, Teddy and Samantha split ways, with Samantha staying
in Florida and Teddy taking the car and going back
to Texas to pick things up with one of his
ex girlfriends. Samantha told a friend that Teddy had her
passport in the car, and Teddy's ex girlfriend says she
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saw Samantha's passport in the car, but of course Teddy
denies all this. Trying to make it on her own
in Florida with no papers was challenging, and Samantha needed
to get a job that paid her under the table.
Through her connections at the Dojo, she was able to
get a job with a tree company hauling branches to
the chipper. She was also able to find a room
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to rent, but it did work out long term, and
she was on her own again in late June of
twenty sixteen. We don't know what Samantha was doing or
where she was until she showed up to an emergency
room in Melbourne Florida. On August thirtieth, twenty sixteen, she
checked in but then decided to leave the hospital for
unknown reasons. She shows back up and this time refuses
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to leave, so the police arrest her for trespassing. She's
released on her own reconnaissance, but has to come back
for several court dates. On November fourth, she posts a
photo on Facebook saying that she's in Miami and told
her friend John that she was working as a dancer
in a strip club. They spoke briefly over her Facebook messenger,
but John never heard from her again after that. Samantha's
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next confirmed movements were on November eighteenth, twenty sixteen, where
she got a new ID at the Polk County tax
Collector's office because she didn't have her passport. People close
to her case think that Samantha went to get this
ID so she can get back into Canada without having
to turn herself into immigration. Some people may not know this,
but if there is a warrant out for your arrest
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and you enter a government building, they can arrest you
on the spot. So the staff at the tax collector's
office reported Samantha's presence to the authorities and she was
arrested again for failing to appear for her court dates.
She was released from Polk County Jail around three thirty
am November nineteenth, twenty sixteen, with several other inmates. Samantha
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tried to call her sister, but April missed the call.
April tried to call back, but it was too late.
All she got was an automated voice, and no one
has seen or heard from Samantha since then. On January fourteenth,
twenty seventeen, April called and tried to file a missing
person report for Samantha in Florida, but the Florida authorities
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were hesitant to take the report. And I'm sure our
regular listeners can guess what they told April. Samantha is
an adult and could go missing if she wants. They
need proof that she's actually missing, which would proved difficult
since Samantha didn't have her phone, her passport, a car,
or even an address in Florida. Florida law enforcement suggests
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that April call the Canadian authorities, but they can't help
because she's not missing from Canada. They wouldn't open up
an official missing person's report in Florida for Samantha until
twenty nineteen. Not willing to give up so easily, April
called hospitals, homeless shelters, and morgues, trying to find any
sign of Samantha. While April was doing all this alone
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at first, Samantha's friend Jamie jumped into help as soon
as she knew that something was wrong. They started googling
Samantha's name, and they found a Rolling Stone article about
Teddy Hart that mentioned Samantha and the fact that Teddy
was being filmed for a potential reality TV show. Jamie
thought it was a long shot, but emailed the author,
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Omar Milauam, hoping to find any information about Samantha's life
in Florida and at least give her children the reassurance
that their mother didn't abandon them. Omar made a post
on Facebook about Samantha and asked people to share it.
It started gaining traction in Alberta, but then expanded to
the larger wrestling community in North America. Despite years of
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basically no movement or public awareness of Samantha's case, the
wrestling community had their own me too moment, starting with
the hashtag Speaking Out. Suddenly, people began sharing their own
stories of abuse and trauma in the independent wrestling circuit.
Even one of Teddy's ex girlfriends, the woman who couldn't
get into Canada, aired her story of abuse publicly and
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she mentioned Samantha, and that's when Jamie noticed. Samantha's story
blew up. The Fiddler family, alarmed by her disappearance, enlisted
the help of a private investigator in Jacksonville, Florida, in
twenty eighteen. After two years with little progress, the bartow
Police Department formally requested Florida Department of Law Enforcement assistance.
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Since twenty twenty, fdl E agents have conducted numerous interviews
with individuals in both Florida and Canada seeking leads that
might shed light on Samantha's case. Years after Samantha went missing.
Teddy claims that Samantha got hit in one of her
practices and decided that she didn't want to do wrestling anymore,
But from videos that Samantha had posted on her Facebook
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page and comments that Teddy himself made on those posts,
Samantha seemed to be motivated to continue training. Teddy claims
that he was also locked up in Texas at the
same time as Samantha, and that she was released first,
but on a YouTube show, the host grilled Teddy, and
based on records that the host had, Teddy was actually
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arrested on December twelfth, twenty sixteen, almost a full month
after Samantha was released. In another interview, he claims that
he was in Mexico when Samantha was released from jail,
but there is a YouTube video of Teddy performing in
a wrestling match on November nineteenth, the day that Samantha
went missing in Los Angeles. While this certainly doesn't prove
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that Teddy had anything to do with Samantha's disappearance, it
at least proves that he cannot accurately account for his whereabouts,
and that leaves us to ponder the theories. I'm sure
most of you are suspicious of Teddy Hart, and that
makes sense. He's known for being inconsistent with his stories
about where he was when Samantha disappeared, and he seems
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to harbor some animosity for Samantha in his public statements.
His previous partners have also made serious claims about the
way he treated them, which should raise concern about the
way that he treated Samantha. But it is possible that
Teddy didn't have anything to do with Samantha's disappearance, although
April points out that he put Samantha in a position
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where bad things could have happened to her. She was
in a foreign country, without proper documents to go home
or to help her find work, she knew nobody, had
no support system, and nowhere to stay. The combination of
those circumstances might have led Samantha to cross paths with
bad people. Her family can news to wonder about Samantha.
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We literally don't know. Her father, Robin Fiddler, told a
news outlet, that's the agony of this whole situation. We
don't have a clue. Our imagination can't drum up what
happened to our daughter. Samantha Fiddler, a white and Cree
First Nations woman, was last seen in Bartow, Florida, on
November nineteenth, twenty sixteen, at twenty nine years old. She
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was five feet seven inches tall and weighed one hundred
and eighteen pounds. She was last seen wearing a white
tank top and white jeans. She has green eyes and
had blonde hair at the time of her disappearance. Her
natural hair color is brown, but she's been known to
die at dark brown black and red. Samantha has a
scar on her lip and several tattoos, including handprints and
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the names Ava and Madison on the back of her shoulder,
a flower on her foot, and a sleeve with the
words Fierce Mother on one upper arm. Her nose, ears,
left eyebrow, and navel are pierced. She also had breast implants,
an abdominoplasty, and botox in her lips. She may have
scars around her navel, and she has a cesarean scar
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on her abdomen. She also went by the aliases Lucy
morning Star, Samantha Steel, or Samantha Lloyd. She's known to
spend time in Polk, Orange, Miami, Dade, Brevard, Broward, Osceola,
and Seminole counties in Florida. If alive today, she would
be thirty eight years old. If you have any information
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about Samantha Fiddler's case or her whereabouts, please call FDL
E Tampa at one eight hundred two two six one
one four zero. Do you have any insights or even
a case you'd like to suggest, feel free to send
it to me. You'll find a comment forum and case
submission link at Lordenarts dot com. Thank you, Fox thirteen,
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WTSP dot com, fdl E, The Charlie Project, Tampa FP
dot com, Laglerlive dot com, WESH dot com, Missing People
in America, ABC Action News, and Peacock's Dangerous Breed docuseries
for information contributing to today's story. This episode was written
by Candice Allison and is produced by Lorden Arts. Thank
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you to our audience here for the live recording session
hosted on the YouTube channel lord and Arts Studio too.
Most of all, thank you for listening and I hope
you found today's episode seriously mysterious. I'm John Lorden. Please
join me again next week
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