The Misery Machine

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Wembley, North London, UK, to discuss the case of Mee Kuen "Deborah" Chong, a 67-year-old Malaysian-born devout Christian who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. At the time of the events of this week's story, Deborah has befriended 38-year-old osteopath, Jemma Mitchell, whom she met through her church group. Jemma and her mother were living in a dilapidated £4 million house and desperately nee...

In today's bonus compilation episode, we'll be discussing the horrible cases of Jennifer Daugherty, Cassidy Rainwater, Elyse Pahler, Abby Choi, and Shad Thyrion.

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This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Brownwood, Texas, to discuss the case of HardiQuinn Hill, a 9-year-old girl who died of severe malnutrition and abuse on August 22, 2022. Her mother, Dawn Faith Hill-Flesner, and her mother's girlfriend, Jamie Faye Anderson, both pleaded guilty to capital murder in 2023. : Child protective workers found that HardiQuinn and her 11-year-old brother lived downstairs in severe filth with trash and lo...

This week, Drewby and Yergy travel to Bali, Indonesia, to discuss the case of Sheila von Wiese-Mack, a 62-year-old Chicago socialite who was bludgeoned to death by her daughter's boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, in a plot masterminded by her 18-year-old daughter, Heather Mack. The couple then stuffed her body into a suitcase and abandoned it in the trunk of a taxi cab, which was discovered by police after the suitcase began to leak blood...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Warsaw, Indiana, to discuss the case of Sarah J Gibbs, a 34-year-old autistic woman who was brutally killed in her apartment. On December 19, 2014, first responders rushed to a duplex fire on East Smith Street. Inside the home, fire crews found Sarah's badly burned body in the living room. While the fire at first looked like an accident, a closer look by the police changed everything. An autopsy ...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head back on over to Pennsylvania to discuss the case of Oakley Cobain Hedlund, a 2-year-old boy from Bradford who was sexually assaulted and murdered by his meth addict father, Tyler Prescott, in August of 2025. As of the date of this recording in June of 2026, the McKean County DA's office is seeking the death penalty.

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🌳🦘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be warned that this episode refers to the sensitive issue of death and dying. Among many Aboriginal groups, it is considered highly taboo to speak the name or display likenesses of a deceased person. In some traditions, they may even temporarily rename things that share the deceased person's name to avoid speaking it. These warnings serve as a standard default, but taboos are ...

This week, Drewby and Yergy stay in our home state of Maine to discuss the case of 3-year-old Maddox Williams of Stockton Springs, whose tragic death drew widespread public attention and prompted severe scrutiny of Maine’s child welfare system. Maddox died on June 20th, 2021, after being brought to Waldo County General Hospital completely unresponsive. The state medical examiner determined that his death was a homicide caused...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Wisconsin to discuss the case of a 14-year-old girl, whom we'll be referring using the pseudonym, "Emma." Emma was subjected to severe child abuse and neglect, and was hospitalized in November of 2025 after weighing only 35lbs.

The teen was discovered by police after her father called 911 when she became severely ill. She was admitted to the hospital with extreme malnourishment and multi-organ dy...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Bensalem, PA, to discuss the case of Cosmo DiNardo, a convicted mass murderer and nepo baby who is currently serving four consecutive life sentences. Cosmo admitted to luring four young men to his family's sprawling 90-acre farm in Solebury Township in July of 2017. There, all four were shot. When the fourth man, Mark Sturgis, didn't die immediately, Cosmo plowed over him with a backhoe while he ...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Henderson, Nevada, to discuss the case of 46-year-old Johnathan Willette, who became the victim of a high profile murder investigation in Augusta of 2023. His ex-girlfriend, adult film actress Devyn Michaels, was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to 28-years to life in prison. Johnathan's own mother discovered his decapitated, chemical-soaked body in his Henderson home. According to ...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head down to the Sunshine State as part of a continuation of our discussion about predators having access to children at Disney - This time, we're discussion the many employees that have been uncovered during various sting operations conducted between 1995 and 2026. These were not employees that were contracted from other countries where they could have been hiding a criminal history. These were US citiz...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head down to Louisville, Kentucky, not for the Kentucky Derby, but to discuss the case of 37-year-old hairdresser and drag performer, Jamie Carroll. Jamie went missing in December of 2009, but was never officially reported missing as he was scheduled to report to prison on drug charges. Prior to his disappearance, he met up with two men, Joey Banis and Jeffrey Mundt. While visiting Mundt's Old Louisville...

On April 23rd, 2026, a woman and her family spent four days aboard the Disney Magic, only to see one of their favorite crew members get hauled away by US Customs and Boarder Protection upon arrival. Disney said nothing. Assuming the worst, the woman took action. Where was this man taken? The truth about what had happened, and what was going on inside the Disney fleet of ships, finally came out on May 7th, 2026. What really happened...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head over to Tangerang, Indonesia, to discuss the case of 18-year-old Eno Farihah, a factory worker who was found murdered in her dormitory room at PT Polyta Global Mandiri on March 13, 2016. Her boyfriend Rahmat Alim, who was 15 or 16 years old at the time of the assault, murdered her alonside accomplices Rahmat Arafin, and Imam Hapriadi - both 24. All three men took issues with Eno after she rejected t...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to the Mojave Desert to discuss the case of 2-year-old Pharaoh Lance Van Vactor, the boy who was a little king. Pharaoh was the son of Douglas "Rick" Van Vactor and Adrianna Brown. You might remember Rick from his recent appearance on Season 8 of 90 Day Fiancé: Before The 90 Days. But this episode isn't about that... It's about how Adrianna's new boyfriend, Mathew Kenneth Berry, decided to beat poor...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head over to Japan, not for cherry blossom season, but to discuss the case of Airi Sato, also known as Ai Mogami. Airi was a 22-year-old hostess and streamer who was fatally stabbed to death near Takadanobaba Station in Shinjuku by a deranged fan. Airi was livestreaming when the attack occurred, and her fans witnesses her final moments on screen. Police arrested 42-year-old Kenji Takano, who was still at...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Mother Russia to discuss the case of Dmitry Baksheev and Natalia Baksheeva, a couple known as the "Krasnodar Cannibals" who were convicted of murder in 2019. The couple’s crimes came to light in September of 2017 after road workers in Krasnodar found a lost cell phone. The device contained graphic images of Dmitry posing with dismembered human body parts, including one photo showing him wit...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head back up to Wisconsin to discuss the case of 5-week-old Alisa Eleanor Rosenbrook, who was the daughter of of 90 Day Fiancé stars Leida Margaretha and Eric Rosenbrook, who died on July 9th, 2025. Just days prior, on July 4th, Eric was arrested for domestic battery after allegedly slapping Leida while she held the infant. Alisa was found unresponsive later that day and placed on life support for five d...