Suffer the Little Children

Suffer the Little Children

Suffer the Little Children is a podcast focused on giving voices back to victims of child abuse murder and their families. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/suffer-the-little-children--4232884/support.

Episodes

August 11, 2025 49 mins
Over the last two episodes, I’ve told you the story of five-year-old Dennis Vaughan Jr., known affectionately as “Boo,” who died in his grandmother’s house on Christmas Eve, 2019. Boo’s mom, Danielle Vaughan, fought to regain custody of her five kids, all of whom were under the guardianship of Danielle’s mother, Sherry Conner. Despite dozens of reports to DCYF, all alleging that Sherry was abusing her grandkids, they weren’t remove...
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Young mother Danielle Vaughan knew her children were being abused in the home of her mother, Sherry Connor. She spent years pleading for someone to intervene before it was too late. No one listened, and Danielle’s worst nightmare became reality when her five-year-old son, Dennis “Boo” Vaughan Jr., was pronounced dead on Christmas Eve, 2019.

Boo’s body told a story of severe and prolonged suffering, and an autopsy revealed that Boo h...
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In 2016, toddler Dennis “Boo” Vaughan Jr. and his three siblings were removed from their parents’ custody due to concerns of substance abuse and domestic violence. They were ultimately placed in the Laconia, New Hampshire, home of their maternal grandmother, Sherry Connor. Their mother, Dani...
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Lawrence Swift Noxon was born in March 1943. At five months old, he was diagnosed with what we now call Down syndrome. Three weeks later, on September 22, 1943, baby Lawrence died from electrocution under highly suspicious circumstances. His father, John Franklin Noxon Jr., was soon charged with murdering his infant son in what many considered a “mercy killing.” 

For this episode, I spoke with author Jim Overmyer, who wrote The Elec...
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Back in 2021, both episode 49 and minisode #3 featured the story of 20-month-old Quortney Kley. On February 25, 1997, Quortney was sexually abused and murdered by her mom’s boyfriend, Cayce Williams. It took nine years for the legal case to end with Williams accepting a plea agreement in 2006, and he was released in 2021 after spending only 24 years behind bars for the violent sexual assault and murder of a toddler. 

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May 24, 2025 47 mins
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On August 24, 2020, 23-year-old Luis Luna ran into the living room of his shared Houston apartment in a panic, holding his unresponsive 8-month-old daughter, Savayah Mason. Despite an immediate 911 call, Savayah didn’t make it. An autopsy found horrific inj...
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The Innocent is a nonprofit organization made up of active or retired law enforcement. Their mission is to train law enforcement agencies across the country about preventing and investigating child sex crimes. 

In this episode, my guest is Nate Lewis, CEO and founder of The Innocent, whose passion and dedication to the mission are inspiring. You’ll hear us talk about what led Nate to launch the organization, the biggest threats faci...
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In the last episode, I told you the story of ten-year-old Dakota Levi Stevens, a smart, creative, charming kid who was dealt a bad hand in life and died at the hands of a foster mother and longtime family friend. Jennifer Wilson is now serving a regrettably short sentence in the Indiana prison system for crushing 91-pound Levi to death with her 341-pound body weight.

In this episode, you’ll hear my conversation with three of the peo...
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On April 25, 2024, 10-year-old Dakota Levi Stevens was rushed to the hospital in Valparaiso, Indiana, unresponsive. He was placed on life support, but his brain had been deprived of oxygen for too long, and after two days, Levi died. His foster mother, Jennifer Lee Wilson, admit...
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March 29, 2025 11 mins
*This formerly Patreon-exclusive bonus minisode was originally released on August 19, 2021.

In January 2020, a Tennessee mom stepped away for ten minutes of "me time," leaving her two young children alone in the bathtub, and returned to find her 11-month-old son, Aidan Leonardo, floating in the water, unresponsive.

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March 29, 2025 12 mins
*This formerly Patreon-exclusive bonus minisode was originally released on September 28, 2021.

A young North Carolina couple lost a baby in what appeared to be a tragic case of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). When their second infant died less than two years later with multiple suspicious injuries, authorities began looking harder at father Zachary Lee Littell.

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March 19, 2025 48 mins
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In 2022, 15-month-old Isabella Kuykendall attended the United States Navy’s Ford Island Child Development Center, a daycare at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for three days. During those three days, Bella went from a happy, bubbly baby to alternately crying hysterically and becoming quiet and withd...
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February 19, 2025 141 mins
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Over the last three episodes, I’ve told you the story of 8-year-old Raylee Browning, a little girl who died from abusive, neglectful, callous t...
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February 15, 2025 16 mins
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A Virginia family is shattered, a precious five-month-old baby dead, a mother permanently injured, and a husband to blame for their vicious attack.

This is the horrific story of Emmy Chambers.

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 https://www.magicmind.com/LAINEJAN In parts 1 and 2, I told you about Raylee Browning, a sweet, gentle, loving 8-year-old girl whose father, his girlfriend, and the girlfriend’s sister made Raylee their scapegoat for years, putting her through horrific abuse and neglect, all because she had a different mommy than the other three kids in the home. 

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January 25, 2025 12 mins
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On June 8, 2019, police in Muncie, Indiana responded to the YWCA women's shelter on Charles Street on a report of an unresponsive child. There, they found 3-month-old Shae Anna Marie Styhl covered in bruises, burns, and blisters, and an autopsy revealed extensive skeletal trauma, including fractures in both arms...
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Last week, I started telling you the story of eight-year-old Raylee Browning, who died in the home of her father, his girlfriend, and the woman’s sister after years of unthinkable abuse. Raylee’s death was infuriatingly preventable if only CPS and the family court judge hadn’t ignored countless abuse complaints from Raylee’s mom and scho...
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In Episode 4, I told you about Raylee Browning: a little girl who died on December 26, 2018. Although she was covered with injuries from head to toe, her cause of death was a septic infection from untreated pneumonia. The three adults in the home—Raylee’s father, his girlfriend, and...
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December 17, 2024 16 mins
*This minisode, formerly available only to Patreon subscribers, was originally released on June 12, 2021. Since I'm no longer creating these, I’ll occasionally release them to the public for all my listeners to enjoy. I didn’t realize until I re-listened how fast I talked back then; sorry about that!*

On the morning of February 28, 2020, a young mother summoned Milwaukee police to her home, where her 4-year-old daughter, Autumn Hora...
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