The Misery Machine

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Milwaukee to discuss the disturbing case of Katie Koch, a young mother who, along with her boyfriend, Joel Manke, kept her two sons prisoner in their home. The boys managed to escape and ran nude down South 71st Street before a gaggle of neighbors contacted the authorities. Some onlookers described the children as looking like cavemen. However, when police entered the home, they found a scene str...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head back to Aurora, Colorado, to discuss the case of Maha Li Hobbs, a 5-year-old girl who lived with her mother, Alexus Nelson.  When Maha Li's grandmother, Ashiya, called in a welfare check after Alexus claimed that she rehomed the little girl, police discovered a web of lies. Sadly, Maha Li wasn't rehomed. She was dead. 

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This week, Drewby and Yergy head to rural Tennessee to discuss the case of Gregory Scott Hale, a former abattoir worker ( who wanted nothing more than to be like his idol, serial killer Richard Ramirez. In fulfilling that goal, he took the life of Lisa Marie Hyder, a beautiful mother of 5 children who was trying to get her life back on track. 

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This week, Drewby and Yergy head back to Detroit to discuss the case of Wynter Cole Smith, a beautiful little girl that was kidnapped from her home in Lansing, Michigan, and killed by her mother's ex-boyfriend, Rashad Malik Trice. After several hours, police were able to take Rashad into custody in St. Clair Shores, just north of Detroit. However, Wynter was nowhere to be found.  

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This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to discuss the case of Jeffrey Curley, a 10-year-old boy from a working-class Irish neighborhood who wanted to be a fireman when he grew up. Those hopes and dreams were dashed when two men kidnaped him under the guise of giving him a new bike and $50.00 cash. Jeffrey was murdered, sexually assaulted post-mortem, and encased in concrete before being dumped in a Maine rive...

This week, Drewby and Yergy travel to Blackstone, Massachusetts, to discuss the case of Erika Murray, a  mother of seven with a dark secret. After delivering two children, her partner, Ramon Rivera, didn't want any more kids. But after finding herself pregnant five more times, Erika gave birth to the babies in her bathroom at night, hiding the deceased infants in a closet and pretending the two surviving ones were children she was ...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head south to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, to discuss the case of Jeremiah Oliver, a sweet little boy who was failed by DCF. He was killed by his mother's boyfriend, Alberto Sierra, and left in a suitcase in the brush along the side of the highway. It has taken over a decade now for Jeremiah to get the justice that he deserves.

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This week, Drewby and Yergy travel to the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan to discuss the horrible tale of Nadine Lockwood, a 4-year-old girl that died of starvation and neglect at the hands of her parents, Leroy Dickerson and Carla Lockwood. The little girl was forced to sleep in a dilapidated crib covered in a blanket because her horrible mother didn't want to see her face. She was referred to as a throw-away baby by ...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the tragic case of 27-year-old Danielle Hoyle of Memphis, Tennessee, and her two-day-old daughter, Kennedy. Danielle was shot in the head by her then-boyfriend, 25-year-old Brandon Isabelle, and left on the side of the road not far from Graceland. He then took their newborn daughter and tossed her into the Mississippi River alive.  

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This week, Drewby and Yergy head to South Florida to discuss the harrowing case of Maria Nemeth, a beautiful 31-year-old woman who was killed by her jealous boyfriend, Fidel Lopez, after a night of drinking. What was supposed to be a celebration turned into a literal bloodbath after Maria allegedly said her ex-husband's name during intimacy, sending Fidel into a blind rage. 

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This week, Drewby and Yergy travel to the Bronx to discuss the case of Genevieve Rozzlyn Comager, a 3-month-old baby living with her parents, Damion Comager and Ivana Paolozzi, in a transitional housing shelter. The couple made headlines recently when Damion confessed to his parents that he had shaken little Genevieve so hard that it killed her and stashed her body in a wooded rubbish pile near Yankee Stadium.

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This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Efrem Allen and Takesha Williams, two parents from Florida whose son nearly died after an accidental drowning at a vacation rental home. Due to this incident, their son required round-the-clock care from home help staff. However, when the parents attempted to take matters into their own hands, tragedy struck...

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This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Cincinnati, Ohio, to discuss the troubling case of Nyteisha and Nylo Lattimore, a mother, and son who were killed at the hands of Nyteisha's boyfriend, Desean Brown. After Nyteisha suffered a miscarriage, Desean blamed the young mother for causing it and took his anger out on both her and her son, Nylo. 

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This week, Drewby and Yergy travel to Culver City, California, to discuss the case of Jacsun Six Manson, an infant born to drug-addicted parents who died in a South Los Angeles motel room after his parents went on a bender on New Year's Eve, 2019. But Jacsun didn't get the proper burial that he deserved because rather than call 911, his parents, Adam Manson, and Kiana Williams, thought it would be better to throw the little boy int...

This week, Drewby and Yergy travel to the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium to discuss the case of Maddox Derkosh, a toddler who, while on a trip with his parents, fell into the African Painted Dogs enclosure after being boosted up by his mother, Elizabeth, for a better view. Maddox was killed after 11 of the dogs eviscerated him. What happened next was a legal battle between the Zoo and the Derkosh family over who actually was at ...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Angelina Costello, a 3-year-old girl living in Odgen, Utah, who died due to torture at the hands of her parents, Brenda Emile and Miller Costello. Responding officers described Angelina's death as the worst case of child abuse they had ever seen, and one of the officers retired due to PTSD.

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This week, Drewby and Yergy travel to Boston, Massachusetts, to discuss the case of Bella Bond - a 2-year-old girl living in the Mattapan neighborhood born to drug-addicted parents. However, once her mother, Rachelle Bond, meets her new boyfriend, Michael McCarthy, things quickly go downhill for the little girl, whom McCarthy claims is possessed by evil spirits. 

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This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the strange case of Natalie Bollinger, a 19-year-old young woman from the greater Denver area that was found dead on the side of the road near a dairy farm. But as the investigation into Natalie's death progressed, nothing was as it seemed, and her case soon turned into a modern-day witchhunt. That was until an even more bizarre turn of events came to light... Special Thanks to Karen Bombaro for...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Nixzmary Brown, a 7-year-old girl from the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, who met her fate at the hands of her stepfather, César Rodriguez, and her mother, Nixzaliz Santiago-Rodriguez.

Nixzmary's Law was proposed in January 2006 by New York State Senator Joseph Bruno shortly after the events. The law is designed to deter or prevent CA-related crimes by charging parents connected t...