The Misery Machine

This week, Drewby and Yergy hop on I-95 and head up to Bangor, Maine, to discuss the case of Braxtyn Smith, a 10-year-old boy who died in February of 2024 following two years of severe, prolonged abuse, starvation, and physical restraint at the hands of his family. Because he was homeschooled and socially isolated, the extreme neglect went unnoticed by authorities until he was brought to a hospital weighing only 48 pounds. His trag...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Washington state to discuss the crimes of Jack Owen Spillman III. Known as the "Werewolf Butcher," Jack is a serial killer and rapist from Spokane, Washington, who is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole at the Washington State Penitentiary. In April 1995, Jack murdered 48-year-old Rita Huffman and her 15-year-old daughter, Mandy Huffman, in East Wenatchee, Washingt...

NOTE: Just a reminder... We're relaying a story to you that has nothing to do with our own personal opinions. Local, state, federal, and international laws have nothing to do with us. Had Kara been smoking anything other than weed, that would have been reported. This is a double homicide, and those details just don't get missed. Whether you personally believe weed had anything to do with it isn't up to any of us to decide. That's t...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Philadelphia, PA, to discuss the case of 4-year-old Zya Singleton. On October 30th, 2019, emergency services responded to a home in Philadelphia's Fairmount neighborhood. Zya's guardian, Samiya Brown, claimed that the toddler had accidentally fallen out of a second-story window while playing with a cat. Zya was hospitalized in critical condition and tragically died from her injuries and a severe ...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss two cases. The first is about a newborn baby named Jeremiah who was tragically found dead inside a construction site porta potty in Gretna, Louisiana. The child's mother, 37-year-old Lakesha Lemelle, was indicted for second-degree murder by a Jefferson Parish grand jury. It was determined at autopsy that baby Jeremiah was a full term, 7.2 pound infant who was born alive. His cause of death was li...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Rensselaer, New York, to discuss the horrific case of Josefina "Josie" Cunningham, an adorable toddler who was raped and murdered by her mother's boyfriend, 34-year-old Robert Fisher. Between July 6th and 7th of 2023, Robert was babysitting 3-year-old Josie at her home on Broadway in Rensselaer. During this time, he crushed prescription medication and forced the child to drink it. While she was c...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to the waters of the mighty Atlantic Ocean to discuss the bizarre case of Ronald L. Fischer, a former anesthesiologist and convicted sex offender who was captured by federal authorities on July 16, 2026, after evading law enforcement for 21 years as one of Rhode Island's "Most Wanted" fugitives. Wait until you hear who hired him while he was on the run...

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This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Tucson, Arizona, to discuss the case of Christopher Mathew Payne, who was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 2009 for the brutal starvation and abuse of his two children, 4-year-old Tyler, and 3-year-old Ariana. His live-in girlfriend, Reina Gonzales, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and was sentenced to 22 years in prison in exchange for her testimony ...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Ohio to discuss the case of Matthew James Dunmire, a a 31-year-old aspiring musician and father who was murdered in March 2021. His death became the subject of a high-profile federal investigation after his body was discovered in a secluded wooded area of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. On March 5, 2021, Matthew left a local bar to meet a woman he had been communicating with online. Surveillan...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Oklahoma to discuss the case of Dustin Joel Walker and Cherie Dawn Walker, a couple who received life prison sentences in mid-2026 following a horrific child sexual abuse and neglect investigation in Muskogee County. The case came to light in August 2025 when Cherie's 11-year-old daughter gave birth at home without any prenatal care or medical assistance, and subsequent DNA tests proved that her ...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to New Port Richey, Florida, to discuss the case of 41-year-old Scooter Abrahamsen, who was brutally murdered on May 15th, 2010 by pornstar couple Amanda Logue (aka Sunny Dae) and Jason Andrews (aka Addison). Scooter, known locally as a fun-loving biker and owner of Embellishing Tattoo & Piercing (among other businesses), hosted a sex party at his residence. He hired Amanda to work at the party....

This week, Drewby and Yergy head back to Georgia to discuss the crimes of Sarah Grace Patrick, a teenage girl who, according to prosecutors, killed her mother and stepfather in cold blood. On February 20th, 2025, 41-year-old Kristin Brock and her husband, 45-year-old James Brock were found shot to death in their bed. Their then 5-year-old daughter discovered their bodies. Sarah, who was 16 at the time, called 911. Following the mur...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Aiken, South Carolina, to discuss the case of Javeayah Harris, a 4-year-old girl who was falsely reported her missing in June 2026 by her parents, Michilae Herring and Johmarea Harris. Following a massive, week-long search by law enforcement and hundreds of volunteers, both parents confessed abusing Javeayah to death before dissolving her body with chemicals and dumping her remains into a pond.

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This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the Siders, a family who are at the center of a major ongoing criminal investigation following the rescue of 16 severely neglected children from a home in Hamden, Ohio, on June 30th, 2026. Law enforcement officers discovered the children completely by chance while executing a search warrant for a parallel, unrelated investigation. Inside the small, dilapidated home, authorities found 16 siblings,...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Flint Township, Michigan, to discuss the case of 7-year-old Casper O'Brien, a little boy who died in November of 2025 from extreme medical neglect. At the time of his death, Casper was 4 feet 2 inches tall, and weighed 220lbs, which was nearly 4 times the healthy average for his age. The Genesee County Medical Examiner ruled that Casper died from dilated cardiomyopathy, with extreme morbid obesit...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Singapore to discuss the case of Liu Hong Mei, a 22-year-old factory worker from China who was murdered and dismembered by her supervisors and lover, Leong Siew Chor. According to reports, 50-year-old Leong Siew Chor killed Liu Hong Mei in order to hide their year-long affair, as well as the theft of her ATM card (and subsequent funds). In June of 2005, he strangled her to death in his apartment ...

Before Netflix decided talk about Taylor Parker, there were other total scumbags that came before her. These are the victim's stories:Bobbie Joe Stinnett - https://youtu.be/1iMjTGeQSjc?si=ls3PJ9N0-QwgPS3

Marlen Ochoa Lopez & Yovanny Lopez - https://youtu.be/YHCQK115__M?si=WC_ieZqKZVu4I3Gj

Reagan Simmons-Hancock - https://youtu.be/hVcb3SKe6P8?si=5fXhRFIVG9a0S1Z7Many folks have asked us to cover the case of Savanna LaFontaine-Grey...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to the seaside town of Blackpool, UK, to discuss the case of 14-year-old Charlene Downes, whose case remains the Lancashire Police's longest running unsolved murder investiagtion. Charlene vanished after meeting a friend near Blackpool's North Pier on November 1st, 2003. Her body has never been recovered. Charlene's disappearance (and presumed murder) uncovered a string of grooming gangs in the area...

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...