The Misery Machine

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...

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...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head back to Sin City to discuss the case of Herleen Kaur Dulai, a 29-year-old certified personal trainer and energy healer who was tragically murdered in Las Vegas. Originally from Northern California, she was described by family and friends as a peaceful and kind person who enjoyed playing sports and leading community youth groups. Herleen was was killed on July 16th, 2020, at the home of Akshaya Kubia...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head back to the UK to discuss the tragic case of Angela Wrightson - a disabled woman with a a drinking problem who was just looking for one thing - friendship. Sadly, that "friendship" came in the form of two teenage girls in the foster care system to took advantage of Angela willingness to buy them alcohol and cigarettes. On one of those evenings, the two girls, known as Olivia and Yasmine in...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to California to discuss the case of Danielle Ayoka, a prominent astrology influencer and "divine healer" who gained notoriety following a double murder/s*icide in Los Angeles on April 8th, 2024, the same day as the recent solar eclipse. On the days leading up to the events of today's story, Danielle posted increasingly cryptic and alarming messages on Twitter, calling the eclipse the ...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Keokuk, Iowa, to discuss the case of CaLove Lynn Sackman , a 27-year-old mother of 4 who was tragically murdered on February 5, 2019. Her ex-boyfriend, Adam McCain, stabbed her once inside his vehicle, ran her over with the car as she tried to escape, and then got out to stab her multiple more times. Despite her severe injuries, CaLove was able to identify her attacker to a witness and a 911 oper...

This week, Yergy and Drewby head back over to Malaysia to discuss a case that needs more discussion, and that is the case of Zara Qairina binti Mahatir. We first learned of Zara's case while recently on vacation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, after seeing a #JusticeForZara bumper sticker. Zara was a 13-year-old girl from Sabah who was found clinging to life in a drainage ditch outside of her private boarding school. It was quickly ...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Hayward, California, to discuss the case of 26-year-old nursing student, Michelle Hoang Thi Le. Michelle was last seen at around 7:00 p.m. at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Hayward, where she was completing a clinical rotation for Samuel Merritt University. She disappeared during a break while walking to her car. Her locked SUV was found abandoned nearby the next morning with bloodstains...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head over to Westminster, Colorado to discuss the case of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway. Jessica vanished on October 5th, 2012, while walking a short distance to meet friends for school. Her backpack, containing her glasses, was discovered two days later in a neighborhood roughly seven miles away. Her torso was found on October 10th in a park in Arvada, Colorado. Austin Sigg, then 17 years old, was identi...

I'm sure you all know who the Duggars are, so we don't need to go too deep into that... Just when you thought that their family drama couldn't get any worse (I'm looking at you, Josh, you disgusting creep), Joseph comes waltzing in with new CSA allegations (that he admitted to). It makes you really wonder what other skeletons are lurking that have yet to be revealed... And what about Kendra?

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This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Hanwell, West London, UK, to discuss the case of 14-year-old Alice Gross. Alice left her home on August 28th, 2014, and was last captured on CCTV at 4:26 PM walking along the Grand Union Canal towpath towards Hanwell. Her disappearance led to the largest Metropolitan Police search operation since the 7/7 London bombings, involving over 600 officers. Sadly, Alice's body was found on September ...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Switzerland to discuss the case of 38-year-old Kristina Joksimovic, a 38-year-old former model and Miss Switzerland finalist who was found dead in her home in Binningen, near Basel, in February 2024. In December 2025, her husband, Marc Rieben, was formally charged with her murder following a detailed investigation that revealed exceptionally gruesome details about the crime. An autopsy report con...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Antron Singleton, more commonly known as Big Lurch, an up-and-coming figure in the horrorcore and gangsta rap scenes. In April 2002, while under the heavy influence of PCP, Big Lurch murdered his 21-year-old roommate, Tynisha Ysais, in her apartment in Los Angeles, California. Police found Big Lurch naked and covered in blood, wandering the street, while Tynisha's body was discove...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Queens, New York, to discuss the case of 3-year-old Autumn Coleman, also known as Zoey Pereira. On the night of May 5th, 2019, first responders found a burning Audi sedan near Baisley Boulevard and 155th Street in Springfield Gardens, Queens. Autumn was strapped into a car seat in the back of the vehicle. To prevent her escape or rescue, her father, Martin "Tony" Pereira, had doused the...

This week, Drewby and Yergy travel to France to discuss the case of Lola Daviet, a 12-year-old Parisian schoolgirl and gymnastics champion whose brutal murder shocked the whole country and became a focal point for intense national debate on immigration and security. On October 14th, 2022, Lola was abducted after returning from her school, Collège Georges Brassens, in the 19th Arrondissement (District) of Paris. Her body was found b...

This week, Drewby and Yergy take a look at some of the most disturbing and heartbreaking cases of child abuse in recent UK history. The stories you're about to hear involve the worst failures of parental duty imaginable, cases that shocked the nation and prompted urgent questions about how children are protected.

We'll be discussing four cases: Debbie Leitch, a vulnerable woman with Down's Syndrome who was horrifical...

This week, Drewby and Yergy do something a little different... We'll be discussing the case of 34-year-old Jonathan Gerlach of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, who was arrested in January 2026 for allegedly stealing human remains from the historic Mount Moriah Cemetery. Investigators discovered over 100 sets of human remains, including skulls and mummified parts, at his home and storage unit. He faces hundreds of criminal counts, including b...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Oakland, California, to discuss the case of 18-year-old Nia Wilson, a beautiful young woman who had dreams of joining the military or becoming a paramedic so that she could help people. On the evening of July 22nd, 2018, Nia and her sisters, Letifah and Tashiya, were transferring trains at the MacArthur BART station in Oakland after attending a family party. Without provocation or prior interacti...