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
This week, Drewby and Yergy head down to Texas to discuss the case of Massail and Mirena Vega, two twin baby girls who never had a chance. The twins' great aunt, Sarah Calderon, sat down with us to talk about her great nieces, the dysfunctional families they were born into, and her mission to make sure these two baby girls are never forgotten.
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This week, Drewby and Yergy head down to Florida to discuss the case of Austin Harrouff - a troubled young man who had a serious break from reality. Unfortunately, his struggles with his mental health had dire consequences for a retired couple who just wanted to hang out in this garage and have a few drinks with friends...
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This week, Drewby and Yergy head back across the pond to the coastal village of Banks to discuss the case of Axel Rudakubana, a teenage boy who went on a stabbing spree at a local Taylor Swift dance class. In the wake of the attack, three little girls were killed: Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe, and Alice da Silva Aguiar. In addition, riots popped up all around the UK due to the belief that Axel was a Islamic terrorist... but he wa...
This week, Drewby and Yergy head back to Ohio to discuss the case of 98-year-old Margaret Douglas, a widow who was still living independently in the home she shared with her late husband for decades. That was until a deranged teenager named Gavon Ramsay broke into her house to videotape her while she slept for "cheap thrills." But when she awoke, Gavon did the unthinkable. But if that wasn't horrible enough, wait until you hear abo...
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Ethiopia to discuss the horrific case of Heaven Awot, a 7-year-old girl that was sexually assaulted so severely that her spine was visible from outside of her body. In addition, we discuss TikTok's war on Heaven, her mother, and anyone who wanted justice for this little girl - as well as the disgusting "crimes of opportunity" committed against women and girls at times of war.
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Augusta, Georgia, to discuss the case of 16-year-old LaTania Janell Carwell - a beautiful young lady who had her whole life ahead of her. That was until her mother, Tanya, married a violent felon that she'd been corresponding with while he was still behind bars. LaTania should have been celebrating her sweet 16, but instead, she was strangled and abandoned in a shallow grave.
This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss two heartbreaking tragedies that took place over 1,200 miles apart… The similarities are shocking… And while these two cases aren’t directly connected, it highlights two different, but critical, ways we’ve seen CPS fail children: Not taking reports of harm seriously from witnesses, and not doing proper due diligence before placing a child in the home of a dangerous person. They serve as examples ...
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Euclid, Ohio, to discuss the case of 4-year-old Aniya Day Garrett, whose cries for help fell on deaf ears. Nobody... Not teachers, not police, not even CPS took this little girl’s cries for help seriously. Even after she reached out to her father for help, the powers that be didn't take him seriously either. In the end, she fell victim to one of the most common monsters we see here on The Misery ...
This week, Drewby and Yergy head back to Indianapolis to discuss the case of Kinsleigh Welty, a 5-year-old girl who was starved and locked away in a waste filled closet, only to die at the hands of those who were supposed to protect her. Even worse? Several adults, both inside and outside of the home knew what was going on, and no one stepped in to help Kinsleigh. In fact, her own grandmother helped cover up her abuse from CPS.
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Derbyshire to discuss the case of Finley Boden, a 10-month-old baby boy who was doomed from the very beginning. Finley was taken away from his parents, Stephen Boden and Shannon Marsden, at birth... only to be returned to their care in the fall of 2020. Baby Finley should have been enjoying his very first Christmas with his parents. But, that’s not what happened…
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This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Kentucky to discuss the case of Miya Rudd - a beautiful baby girl who was essentially born into a family of lowlife petty criminals. After her parents, Tesla Tucker and Cage Rudd, allow their buddy, Brodie Payne, to run a meth operation out of the family home, it's discovered that little Miya was nowhere to be found. Except, she hadn't actually left the house...
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This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Hyderabad, India, to discuss the case of Dr. Priyanka Reddy, otherwise known as "Disha" and "Hyderabad Nirbhaya" in the media. Dr. Reddy was a veterinarian living in the southern Indiana city, who met a brutal fate on November 27th, 2019. After leaving her scooter at a toll plaza and taking a taxi into the city, she was ambushed by 4 drunk men who'd flattened one of her tires. The 4 mean took tur...
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to St. Petersburg, Florida, to discuss the case of Taylen Mosley and his mother, Pashun Jeffery. After some sort of dispute after his 21st birthday party, Taylen's father, Thomas, stabbed Pashun in excess of 100 time in her back and head, leaving her to die in her apartment. Taylen, however, was nowhere to be found. When he was eventually located a few days later, it was the last place anyone expect...
This week, Drewby and Yergy head back over to the other side of The Pond to discuss the case of the Barrass Family. When mother, Sarah, become paranoid that social services are catching onto the fact that the father of her children is none other than her half-brother, Brandon Machin, the disgusting couple hatch a deadly plot to avoid the consequences of their relationship... one that resulted in the murder of their two eldest sons,...
This week, Drewby and Yergy head west to Medford, Oregon to discuss the case of the Criado family. This story draws a lot of parallels to many other family annihilator cases we've seen where Dad is the assailant... He begins to lose control, snaps, and murders his entire family. We saw this most recently with Rowan Baxter, who murdered his estranged wife, Hannah, and their four kids. This story, sadly, is no different. These are th...
This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the tragic case of Skylar Gardner, an adorable toddler who lived in Indiana with her older brother and her mother, Chantell, who cared more about her rap career than for being a mom.
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This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Paris, France, to discuss the case of Mia McQuillin, an American teen who was harboring a secret... After embarking on a high end gap year program that was supposed to take her around the world, Mia gave birth in a Paris hotel room. Rather than seeking help, Mia did the unthinkable... She threw her newborn baby boy from a second story window and into the trash.
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This week, Drewby and Yergy head to sunny Chuluota, Florida, to discuss the case of Grant Amato, a young man living with parents just outside of Orlando. When Grant's nursing and streaming careers failed, he set his sights on something new... a high end Bulgarian cam girl named Silvie. Soon, Grant developed a full blown addiction, stealing more than $200,000 from his family, and taking out a fraudulent $65,000 mortgage... all to pa...
This week, Drewby and Yergy revisit two cases that have come to resolutions, albeit very different ones. The first is of Georgia mother, Lamora Williams, who cooked her two sons in an oven after her boyfriend broke up with her, and the second is of California mother, Ka Yang, who cooked her infant daughter in the microwave after experiencing a seizure.
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This week, Drewby and Yergy head back to Kansas City, Missouri, to discuss the case of Za'Riah Thomas, and adorable baby born to mother Mariah Thomas on December 14th, 2023. Sadly, Za'Riah would never see her first birthday because her mother "accidentally" put the little girl in the oven and turned it on...
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