Content Warning: This episode contains detailed discussions of child abuse, torture, and murder. The case involves extreme physical and psychological abuse of a disabled child, including descriptions of starvation, hypothermia, and torture methods. Listener discretion is strongly advised.
"For months, fifteen-year-old Timothy Ferguson lived in a basement closet that reeked of urine and feces. His mother had installed motion sensors that would trigger alarms if he moved. She forced him to eat bread soaked in some of the world's hottest chili sauce—Carolina Reaper and Trinidad Scorpion peppers that caused excruciating pain. When that wasn't enough punishment, she made him sit in ice baths for hours. On July 6th, 2022, after spending nine straight hours in freezing water, Timothy Ferguson died, weighing just 69 pounds—less than half what a healthy teenager should weigh."
"Intent. It's what separates accident from murder, passion from premeditation, justice from revenge."
"It is not the act itself, but the intent behind it, that makes it a crime."
"Today on Deadly Intent, we're examining a case that challenges everything we think we know about maternal love. A successful law clerk, a devoted mother to some of her children, a woman studying to become an attorney, who systematically tortured her disabled son to death. The question that haunts everyone who studied this case isn't just what she did, but why she chose one child to suffer while protecting the others. What transforms a mother into a tormentor, and how does love become indistinguishable from hate?"
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