In two videos obtained exclusively by the Daily Mail, a blonde nanny is seen affectionately showering a little red-haired girl with kisses and joyfully playing in a beautifully maintained yard. The bond between the nanny and her young charge is clearly evident.

These heartwarming scenes offer no hint of the tragic events that would later unfold, as 35-year-old Samantha Rae Booth stands accused of fatally stabbing the child’s grandfather with a screwdriver.

The footage captures a moment of pure trust, with the toddler reaching out her hand to Booth and laughing in her embrace, showcasing the deep connection they shared.

However, this once-loving relationship has been shattered forever following the incident that led to Booth’s imprisonment. She now awaits trial for the alleged murder of 83-year-old David Ong on October 24.

No matter the trial’s verdict, it is likely that Booth and the young girl will never cross paths again.

The unfortunate event reportedly occurred after Katie Ong, the child’s mother, requested her father to visit her home to check on her daughter, as she was unable to contact the nanny.

When Ong then went silent, Katie’s brother-in-law Douglas Smith then went to the house.

Smith reportedly found the front door of the house wide open with noises coming from the basement. He then encountered Booth ‘in a manic state and covered with blood,’ with Ong lying on the basement floor fatally-wounded, police say.

Smith thankfully managed to grab the little girl and flee, before calling 911 from a neighboring property.

When police turned up at the two-bed in Royal Oak, Michigan, they allegedly found Booth stark naked and covered in blood. She is said to have told officers: ”I f***** him the f*** up, and yes, I did it. God it was too easy.’

Smothering the little red-haired girl with kisses and running through a well-kept yard, the love this blonde-haired nanny had for her charge appears obvious in two videos exclusively obtained by Daily Mail

Samantha Booth, 35, went from a bubbly ‘spiritual warrior’ on TikTok to the woman accused of brutally stabbing an 83-year-old man – the grandfather of the toddler she was hired to nurture and protect 

David Ong, seen here alongside his wife Jacqueline and his granddaughter, was found dead inside the basement of his daughter’s Royal Oak home after Booth allegedly stabbed him to death with a screwdriver

Cops also say they found magic mushrooms and marijuana in Booth’s purse.

While these new videos show an apparently happy woman taking good care of the child, other online postings reveal an alarming decline in Booth’s mental health over the weeks leading up to David Ong’s murder.

She started posting on TikTok in November 2024 under the handle ‘Empath.illuminated, Sam Soul Led Healing.’

The now-accused killer described herself as an ‘intuitive guide,’ ‘neurodivergent millennial lightworker,’ ‘queer, gender-fluid woman’ with ADHD and ‘spiritual lil weirdo,’ inviting her 3,896 followers to learn from her new-age teachings in what she called her ‘sacred sanctuary’.

A Daily Mail review of hundreds of Booth’s videos shows she veered in recent weeks away from her typically upbeat self-help messages toward edgier expressions of instability and rage.

In one ominous post from September 28, she asked her followers, ‘Does this ever happen to you where you feel completely fine, like, within yourself, you’re, like, “I’m feeling good, I feel great,” and then you get this feeling of, like, impending doom, like something’s about to happen, like something bad, and you’re just, like, “hello?” Haha.’

In another from October 15, she wrote, ‘they tried to silence the healers. Turns out, we became feral warriors willing to stop at nothing,’ under a video of herself lip synching to Rage Against the Machine’s song, ‘Killing in the Name’.

Two days later, she described getting ‘to the point in your healing journey where all of the suppressed anger for what you went through rises up and it’s time to throw down for your inner child’.

The horrific murder unfolded inside Ong’s daughter Katie’s $513,000 home in Royal Oak

In the early days of her TikTok channel, Booth’s star power was palpable and the image she cultivated was one of a ‘spiritual lil weirdo’, who strived to bring her small community joy through commentaries on overcoming trauma and finding comfort in her ‘sacred sanctuary’

But the last of her videos before the horrific stabbing revealed a deteriorating mind, with her final video showing her screaming at the camera with an almost manic glee, writing ‘Ya’ll ready? Its f***ing GO. TIME’

‘I’m having one of those days where I literally want to tell everybody and everything to f**k the f**k off,’ she said in a video.

‘I was today years old when I realized how much f***ing s**t has happened to me that I did not f***ing deserve. When do I get to be a f***ing a**hole? Look at me, I want to f**k you right up.’

That was October 17, one week before she allegedly stabbed Ong, a retired real estate broker in the basement of Katie Ong’s home.

Her posts reveal struggles she was facing, including financial problems that forced her to surf friends’ couches off and on because she couldn’t afford housing. 

In several posts in recent weeks, she seethed about people who rebuffed her requests for help and otherwise let her down.

‘Know who the f**k you are. The ones who sat there, abandoned me, watched me struggle, didn’t support me, you don’t have a seat at my f***ing table.’

In one message, posted on September 30, she clapped back at baby boomers urging gig-working millennials like herself to ‘work a 9-5 so you can collect social security’.

‘Okay, Grandpa. I’m just trying to afford groceries,’ she wrote.

Older videos painted a different picture, one with her cuddling her cat as she gave advice about navigating obstacles when trying to overcome bad behaviors to change your life

In a recent video showing her mental decline, she raged at friends who refused to help her, accusing them of abandoning her and vowing they would no longer have a place in her life 

In her many TikTok posts, Booth referred to years of struggles with ADHD, a bout of depression last winter, an anti-anxiety medication she recently said she regrets taking, a long-strained relationship with her father, unspecified childhood abuses and traumas and having been in therapy as recently as the past year. 

She also spoke of ‘narcissistic abuse’ by family members, perceived abandonment by friends and relatives, imposter syndrome and her tendency to, in her words, fall back into the role of ‘a doormat people pleaser’.

‘I’ve had such a challenging year and I have hit rock bottom in so many ways in life and it felt like as soon as that happened, everyone in my life disappeared,’ reads a post dated September 3.

‘You’re 34, single, no kids, moved back to your parents and slightly unhinged,’ she posted about herself last winter.

Dozens of videos reveal her light, telegenic and even charming side. Here she is playing with her cat. There she is dancing while folding laundry, painting by numbers or frolicking on a lake shore.

Dozens of others highlight her personae as ‘lightworker’, encouraging her followers to do the hard work of ‘speaking your truths’, ‘be(ing) your authentic self’ and ‘healing your inner child’.

Like countless other content creators on social media, the woman who admits that she ‘barely got through high school’ dispensed self-help advice based on her own experiences, helping followers ‘anchor the light’ and ‘shift consciousness,’ as she put it.

‘Many of us are very empathic. We feel other people’s emotions and energies. Some of us can telepathically communicate with animals and plants and babies and sometimes other humans and they’re just very heart centered in the way that they approach everything in life,’ she posted in late September.

Her posts over the past six weeks carried a manic edge, veering wildly from despair to euphoria to feral rage – including one where she declared she was ‘divinely protected’ and squared up with her hands on her hips

By mid-October, she seemed to dive headlong into manic glee. On October 15, she posted a video captioned, ‘They tried to silence the healers. Turns out, we became feral warriors willing to stop at nothing,’ while lip-syncing to Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name

In the weeks and days that followed, her mood seemed markedly less stable. 

There is a manic quality to her posts over the past few weeks as, at least in her online presence, she seemed to swing from brooding despair to intense optimism to an almost feral – a word she used at least twice to describe herself – aggression.

‘I am so stressed out. Overwhelmed,’ she posted on September 18.

‘I’m in, kind of, just like an unstable point of my life and I’ve had a lot of stuff just like triggered from relationships stuff, I mean all parts of my life has been triggered and shaken up in some way,’ she posted four days later.

On October 1, she wrote that, ‘October is the month where I leave behind patterns, jobs, people and thoughts that keep me in survival mode.’

Three days later, she posted a video captioned, ‘When you’re divinely protected and someone tries to f**k with your path.’

‘I fear for you, bro,’ reads that October 4 post, accompanied with an audio clip warning, ‘You are in terrible danger.’

Booth’s videos seemed to grow more frenzied, including one of herself dancing to Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’ on October 18, and one featuring an even more manic message, ‘All gas, no brakes,’ on October 20.

On October 22, two days before Ong’s murder, she appeared overcome with excitement in the front seat of her car, writing, ‘When you’re [sic] entire life just completely changed in the matter of moments. Everything I’ve been working for is coming in. Ya’ll ready. It’s f***ing GO. TIME.

A friend told the Daily Mail that she had been distraught and losing sleep in the days leading up to Ong’s killing, when she severed ties with a romantic partner in Massachusetts who she claimed abused her.

He said he spoke with her via Facetime late in the afternoon of October 24, when, as he tells it, Ong came to his daughter’s home to watch his 2-year-old granddaughter to give Booth time for a meal break.

That account conflicts with the police narrative that Ong swung by the home when her mother couldn’t reach Booth by phone.

Booth was arraigned Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder, second-degree child abuse, felony assault and three counts of resisting and obstructing arrest. 

A judge denied her bond, saying she is a flight risk and ‘clearly a present danger to society’.