The Misery Machine

The Misery Machine

There’s a problem with True Crime. Creators idolize perpetrators, shame victims, or are completely checked out on cases while they focus on other things. However, we can’t forget there are victims who lost their lives and families who are still grieving to this day. Furthermore, many True Crime outlets spend their time focusing on themselves or rambling, instead of getting right to the facts of the case. We hear you, this is frustrating. The Misery Machine focuses on cases the media fails to give proper attention to. We want to help give those a voice that never got to have one, to begin with. We also cover aspects of cases that other podcasts might look the other way on, and the way that these cases impact their communities for generations. It’s not enough to simply cover a case, our platform must be used to make a difference.

Episodes

July 17, 2025 31 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy head down to Deming, New Mexico, to discuss a shocking case that not many people have heard about. On a sprawling desert property that looked more like a landfill than a home, parents Melvin and Valerie Cordell ran a CSAM ring, performed forced abortions, and made their 7 children live in hand dug mud caves that were found scattered about the land. 

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This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss a case that spanned three states - Oklahoma, Indiana, and Colorado. Our story revolves around an adorable toddler named Oaklee Snow and her baby brother "CS," who were abducted by her mother Madison Marshall and her boyfriend, Roan Waters. The couple brought the children to a trap house in Indianapolis, where they proceed to go on a bender, abandon "CS," and then murder Oaklee. Soon after, they c...

July 10, 2025 24 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to the island nation of Mauritius to discuss the case of Zaliya Shamigulova, a beautiful young Russian woman who was slowly traveling around the world with her companion and roommate, Elena. However, once Zaliya landed on the island, she began to mingle with some of the locals. This included an IT engineer named Puryavirsingh Sundur. For Zaliya, this was a way to connect with new people during her t...

July 7, 2025 39 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy head down to Savannah, Georgia, to discuss the case of Quinton Simon, and adorable little boy born to a drug addicted mother, Leilani Simon. At the time of our story, Quinton and his siblings were living in the home of their grandmother, Billie Jo Howell, when one morning, Quinton went missing. Eventually, all signs pointed to his mother, 22-year-old Leilani, and after weeks of searching through mounds o...

June 30, 2025 27 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy head back over to the UK to discuss the case of Bennylyn Burke, a young mother from the Philippines who was well liked in her Bristol community. That was, until a man named Andrew Innes came into her life. After meeting on a dating website, Andrew lured Bennylyn, along with her daughter, Jellica, and an unnamed child up to Dundee, Scotland. What was supposed to be a short weekend trip ended with mother a...

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This week, Drewby and Yergy head back to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to discuss two lesser known cases. The first is of a woman named Noor Suzaily Mukhtar, a young woman who was attacked by a bus driver on her way to work. The second is a of a little girl named Nurin Jazlin Binti Jazimin, who was abducted from a night market near her home. 

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June 23, 2025 29 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy head across The Pond to Blackpool to discuss the case of Debbie Leitch, a young woman with Downs Syndrome living with her mother, Elaine Clarke, in a terrace house in the town South Shore district. Rather than take care of her daughter's needs, Elaine spent Debbie's benefits on item for herself. She allowed her to live in filth, covered in scabies, and waste away to a mere 52 pound before she finally pas...

June 19, 2025 29 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Colleton County, South Carolina, to discuss the case of Cristina Pangalangan, a teenager girl living with cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and scoliosis. She was non-verbal and depended on her mother, Rita, for all of her day to day needs. Although, Rita, who was a school teacher, had been on CPS's radar, nothing was ever done to remove Cristina from her care. But in August of 2019, tragedy stuck after ...

June 16, 2025 43 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy head over to Milwaukee to discuss the case of Sade Robinson, a beautiful 19-year-old young woman who was just months away from earning her degree in criminal justice. That was until April 1st, 2024, when Sade went on a date with a man named Maxwell Anderson. After visiting a few area bars, Sade accompanied Maxwell back to his home where they watched Love, Death + Robots. No one knows exactly what happene...

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June 12, 2025 28 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Islamabad, Pakistan, to discuss the case of Noor Mukadam, a diplomat's daughter, who was beheaded by Zahir Jaffer, her one time boyfriend. After turning turning down his proposal, Noor was tortured and SAed before Zahir finally killed her. She managed to escape his home twice, only to be intercepted by Zahir's domestic staff. Stay tuned until the end for a special segment from our good friend, Ar...

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June 9, 2025 34 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy head down to the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona to discuss the case of Emily Pike, a 14-year-old girl who was living in a group home in Mesa. However, on the evening of January 27th, 2025, dressed in a pink and gray shirt, Emily left the group home on foot. She was never seen alive again. On Valentine’s day 2025, hikers were walking a trail in the Tonto National Forest found two garbage bags th...

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June 5, 2025 39 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Utah to discuss the case of Gavin Peterson, a 12-year-old boy who was murdered at the hands of his father, stepmother, and adult brother. Gavin was locked in a room without bedding or blankets, and monitored with multiple CCTV cameras. While the other siblings had carpeted floors, Gavin’s room had painted plywood. Tape was laid out in the shape of a box on the floor, and areas in his room were co...

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June 2, 2025 23 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to the Ozarks to discuss the case of Caterina Whitten, a 29-year-old woman living with Fraser syndrome, which left her blind. Caterina's father, David Whitten, adopted her from Russia as a child. He and his late wife adopted 6 disabled children and adults with an array of special needs over the years. However, when David's wife passed away, everything went to hell, and Caterina was left to die on a ...

May 29, 2025 25 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy head down to Tampa, Florida, to discuss the case of 9-year-old Felecia Nicole Williams. Felecia was a beautiful little girl who had her whole life ahead of her. Nicknamed "Sugar Plum," Felecia was a third grader at Edison Elementary School, an active member of Zion Temple Holiness Church (where she sang in the choir), and a member of the Jackson Heights Viking Cheer Squad. But all of this was shattered w...

May 27, 2025 27 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to South Africa to discuss the case of Joshlin Smith, a beautiful little girl who live with her mother and siblings in a small one room shack in the village of Middelpos. But when Joshlin went missing on February 19th, 2024, her community was in shock and went out looking for her. But when rumor spread that her mother, Kelly, sold her to a "sangoma" or "witch" for her skin and eyes, that same commun...

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May 24, 2025 40 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy travel over to the Buckeye State to discuss the case of 14-year-old Kei'Mani Latigue, a beautiful little girl who mysteriously vanished from her grandmother's Toledo home. After her body was recovered from the second floor of an old, burnt out house, police zeroed in on one suspect... Her father, Darnell “Ogletree” Jones.

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May 20, 2025 20 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to the Chicago, Illinois suburb of Plainfield to discuss the case of 6-year-old Wadee Alfayoumi, a sweet and innocent little boy who was stabbed 26 times by his landlord, 71-year-old Joseph Czuba. When asked why he did it, Joseph told police that he thought the kindergartener was going to "do jihad" on him. 

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May 14, 2025 25 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy travel back in time to 1982 Detroit to discuss two separate cases that rocked Motor City... Two cases with eerie similarities that happened just a month apart. However, it's the second case that sadly made headlines... but not for the reasons that it should have. It's a story drugs, betrayal, and a man named Robert who is just as much of a mystery in life as he was in death. 

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May 12, 2025 20 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy head back over across the pond to Ramsey, UK, to discuss the case of Gemma Hayter, a 27-year-old disabled woman who was essentially let down by the powers that be. As such, poor Gemma ended up running with the wrong crowd... a crowd that didn't have her best interests at heart. After an evening at the pub, Gemma's "friends" turned on her, which led to her brutal assault and murder the following day. Due ...

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May 8, 2025 21 mins

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to South Carolina to discuss the sad case of Heather Baynard, a 14-year-old girl living with spastic quadriplegia, a form of cerebral palsy. Due to her condition, her 21-year-old brother, Edward, became her State sponsored caretaker. But due to the pandemic, no one actually stopped into the Baynard home to make sure that Heather was actually being taken care of. So when her parents brought her to th...


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