The Misery Machine

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 cri...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of 7-week-old A'mir Griffin of Warren, a suburb of Detroit, who starved to death at the hands of his mother, Shantavia Hayden. While Shantavia received benefits from unemployment, state assistance, food stamps, and WIC, she used them to buy drugs rather than to feed her newborn.  Support Our Patreon For More Unreleased Content:  https://www.patreon.com/...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Thomas Valva, a young autistic boy who was abused and left to sleep in an unheated garage by his NYPD cop father and his evil stepmother.  Support Our Patreon For More Unreleased Content:  https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal:  https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine Join Our Facebook Group:  https://t.co/DeSZIIMgXs?amp=1 Instagram: miserym...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Noah Cuatro, an adorable little boy from Palmdale, California, who was beaten to death and sexually assaulted at the hands of his parents, who tried to frame his murder as an accidental drowning.  Support Our Patreon For More Unreleased Content:  https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal:  https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine Join Our Faceboo...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Caden McWilliams, a 7-year-old boy from Denver, Colorado, who was killed by his parents, Leland and Elisha Pankey, via means of starvation, hyperthermia, and suffocation. Little Caden was kept in a dog crate covered in a blanket inside his family's motel room. To dispose of his body, Leland and Elisha sealed his body in concrete and left it to decomp...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Cynthia Hoffman, a disabled young woman from Anchorage, Alaska, who was killed at the hands of her friend, Denali Brehmer, and her accomplice, Kayden McIntosh. But... why would she do that? Stay tuned for a tale of catfishing, dirty diaper fetishes, and a biker father that took matters into his own hands.  Support Our Patreon For More Unreleased Cont...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of newborn baby, Kayleen Lee Blaha. Little Kayleen was born to meth-addicted parents and drowned in a bathtub shortly after her unplanned home birth, all because her mother, Taylor, was afraid that authorities would find drugs in the little girl's system. To add insult to injury, the baby's father, Brandon Thoma, discarded the newborn's remains as if th...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of 10-year-old Anthony Avalos, who died at the hands of his mother and her boyfriend after years of neglect and abuse - with the final blows coming after he allegedly confessed to his mother that he liked boys. Anthony's case, much like that of Gabriel Fernandez and later Noah Cuatro's, highlighted the failings of Los Angeles County DCFS, as well as man...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Zaiden Javonovich, a toddler from Wichita, Kansas, who was beaten are starved to death by his parents, Patrick Robert Javonovich and Brandi Kai Marchant, and left to decompose in his Pack'n Play.  Support Our Patreon For More Unreleased Content:  https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal:  https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine Join Our Faceboo...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the horrifying story of Isaiah Torres, a 6-year-old boy from Arkansas who died in horrific pain after his father, Mauricio Alejandro Torres, shoved a stick inside his rectum and forced him to do squats in a corner. When he wasn't squatting fast enough, his mother, Cathy Lynn Torres, forced his body down onto the stick, piercing his bowels. Isaiah languished in p...

This week, Yergy and Drewby discuss the story of Kylr Yust, a man from the Kansas City area that managed to get away with the murder of two young women for a decade and a half. During this time, 7 different people reported Kylr for bragging about the murders - including his own half-brother, but nothing was done about it.  Support Our Patreon For More Unreleased Content:  https://www.patreon.com/t...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head back to Detroit to discuss the emerging case of Ethan Belcher, a little boy who was beaten, starved, and made to stay in a sewage-filled basement by his mother and her new boyfriend. But when little Ethan finally succumbs to his maltreatment, he can't even be laid to rest in a timely fashion because his own father can't be bothered to sign release papers so that hi...

This week, Yergy and Drewby discuss the case of Shaniya Nicole Davis, a little girl from Fayetteville, North Carolina, who was sold by her mother to a man to cover a $200.00 debt.  Support Our Patreon For More Unreleased Content:  https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal:  https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine Join Our Facebook Group to Request a Topic:  https://t.co/DeSZIIMgXs?amp=1 Insta...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Zaria Burgess, a 15-year-old girl from North Carolina who was raped and tortured for over 22 hours by her father, Joshua Burgess, before having her throat slit from ear to ear.  Support Our Patreon For More Unreleased Content:  https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal:  https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine Join Our Facebook Group to Request...

This week, Drewby and Yergy head over to Wisconsin to tell the tale of three childhood friends: Peyton Leutner, Morgan  Geyser, and Anissa Weier. Everything was as copacetic as it could be for 3 school-aged girls - that was until Anissa and Morgan discovered Slender Man...  Support Our Patreon For More Unreleased Content:  https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal:  https://www.paypal.me/the...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the story of Amora Bain Carson - this is the case that made us no longer want to cover kids. Amora was just a baby when she was killed by her mother's fiance, Blaine Milam. After smoking meth, Blaine convinced Amora's mother, Jessica Carson, that her daughter was possessed by a demon. She died during the botched exorcism, but after learning about what that littl...

This week, Drewby and Yergy go on location in their hometown to discuss the case of Albert Flick, a man in his 70's that a judge believed would "age out" of violent behavior towards women. After doing 21 years for stabbing his wife to death in front of her daughter in the 70's, and a subsequent string of violent attacks against women in the early aught, Albert Flick was let loose on the streets of...

This week, Drewby + Yergy discuss the case of Tristyn Bailey, a 13-year-old cheerleader from the town of St. Johns, Florida. After turning up missing on Mother's Day 2021, residents of the Durbin Crossing neighborhood searched high and low for young Tristyn, only to find her deceased - she had been stabbed 114 times. But when neighbors check their security cameras, it becomes all too obvious who k...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the tragic case of Kamarie La'Nell Holland, a 5-year-old girl from Georgia that was found dead in an abandoned house just across the border in Alabama. However, Kristy Marie Siple-Hoskins, her grieving mother, wasn't all that she seemed to be - in fact, she sold her little girl to her killer. Even more bizarre? Her killer, Jeremy Tremaine Williams, was a person...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Emma Jane Walker, a cheerleader from Knoxville, Tennessee who was killed while she slept in her bed by her jealous ex-boyfriend, Riley Gaul. The couple shared a tumultuous two-year relationship, after which Emma broke it off her junior year. But if Riley couldn't have Emma, then no one could... Support Our Patreon For More Unreleased Content:  https:...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Mary Collin, a beautiful 20-year-old girl with 22Q Deletion Syndrome living in Charlotte, North Carolina. On March 28th, 2020, Mary lost her life at the cruel hands of those who claimed to be her friends, and the authorities ignored her family's pleas for help. She was discovered days later, wrapped in trash bags, and stuffed inside of a mattress.  S...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of 10 year old Emani Moss of Lawrenceville, Georgia, who was beaten and starved to death by her stepmother, Tiffany. Instead of reporting his little girl's death, Emani's father, Eman, attempted to cremate his little girl in a metal garbage can in the middle of the night with her two younger half-siblings present.  Support Our Patreon For More Unrelease...

Jennifer Lee Daugherty was born on November 8th, 1979, in Latrobe, Pennsylvania to parents Denise and Richard Daugherty. Jennifer’s parents ultimately divorced, with Denise remarrying a man named Bobby Murphy of Mount Pleasant. Jennifer grew up just an hour southeast of Pittsburgh, where her father ultimately relocated. She had two sisters, Joy and Jamie, and a stepbrother named Dave.  Although sh...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Julissa Thaler, a mother from Minnesota who shot her 6 year old son, Eli Hart, 9 times at close range with a shotgun while he sat in his car seat. When purchasing the ammunition that ultimately killed her little boy, Julissa asked the store clerk for the shells that would "blow the biggest hole."  Support Our Patreon For More Unreleased Content: http...

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Maggie May Trammel, a 10 day old baby girl from Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Maggie May was killed after her 26 year old mother, Lyndsey Fiddler, went on a 3 day meth fueled bender and threw the newborn into her washing machine with the dirty laundry. She then proceeded to take a nap while her little girl spent the next 40 minutes inside of the machine. S...