Suffer the Little Children

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What's Suffer the Little Children about?

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.

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Suffer the Little Children episodes:

04.16.2024
Bonus Episode: 10 Days of Jacob
In episodes 35 and 36, back in late 2020, I told you the story of 9-month-old Jacob Landin, a tiny boy with a big laugh and an even bigger personality. Jacob died in April 1987 from a severe traumatic brain...
04.14.2024
Episode 170: Arabella Parker, Retold (Part 2)
In the last episode, I told you the first part of the story of three-year-old Arabella Parker, who was rushed to the hospital on October 10, 2019, reportedly suffering from a seizure. Because medical staff wasn’t told that the seizure...
04.06.2024
Episode 169: Arabella Parker, Retold (Part 1)
Four years ago, in episodes 16 and 17, I told you the tragic story of 3-year-old Arabella Parker. Because that was so early in my podcasting journey, I’m not satisfied with my coverage of her story, so I’m revisiting it...
03.15.2024
(Re-Release) Episode 110: Ger'mya Alexander
(This episode was originally released in April 2022.)On the morning of Wednesday, March 18, 2020, police in Bakersfield, California responded to an apartment on a report of an eight-year-old child not breathing. Although Ger’Mya Alexander was rushed to the hospital,...
03.03.2024
Episode 168: More Judah Morgan Updates
In episodes 87 and 88, I told you the story of four-year-old Judah Morgan. Judah lived for most of his life in a foster care kinship placement with the family of his second cousin, Jenna Hullett. In April of 2021,...
02.26.2024
Episode 167: Childhood Torture (with Ali Davis)
On this podcast, I’ve told you the stories of many children whose deaths came at the hands of parents or guardians after extended periods of what can only be described as torture. Intra-familial child torture is a disturbingly common occurrence,...
02.15.2024
Episode 166: Serenity Robinson
On February 17, 2020, police in Fort Myers, Florida responded to a horrific single-vehicle accident in which a minivan carrying two women and a three-year-old girl veered off the road, hit several palm trees, and flipped over. The little girl,...
02.07.2024
Episode 165: Joan D'Alessandro (Part 2)
Last week, I told you about the abduction and murder of seven-year-old Joan D’Alessandro. On April 19, 1973, Joan was delivering Girl Scout cookies when her neighbor, Joseph McGowan, a high school science teacher, lured her into his basement, sexually...
01.30.2024
Episode 164: Joan D'Alessandro (Part 1)
On April 19, 1973, seven-year-old Joan D’Alessandro left her family’s home in Hillsdale, New Jersey to deliver her last two boxes of Girl Scout cookies. She never returned. After a massive search and an intensive investigation, police zeroed in on...
11.01.2023
(Re-Release) Episode 65: Lucas Call
**This episode was originally released in June of 2021. I am re-releasing it due to the recent arrest of Lisa Jo Vanderlinden, the woman who spent less than a year in jail for Lucas's murder, on charges of abusing another...
10.25.2023
Episode 163: Underwater Daughter
As a child, Antonia Deignan believed that her father’s nighttime visits to her bedroom showed the special love he had for her. Still, some part of her knew that what he was doing to her was wrong. She began to...
10.23.2023
Episode 162: Serenity Rabbit (Part 2)
In the last episode, I told you about the death of four-year-old Serenity Rabbit, whose mother fought for months to protect Serenity and her siblings from the abuse she felt they were enduring in kinship care at the hands of...
09.28.2023
(Re-Release) Episode 102: Fallon Fridley
*Fallon Fridley should have turned 5 yesterday. I'm re-releasing this episode in her honor.*On December 9, 2020, in Sandy Springs, Georgia, two-year-old Fallon Fridley was spending the night at the home of her babysitter, who was also a good friend...
09.21.2023
Episode 160: 936 Miles for Mercy
Since I started making this podcast, I’ve told the stories of a number of children that have involved the failures of the family court system. So many names pop into my head when I think about it: Thomas Valva. Nakota...
09.18.2023
Listen Now: The Apology Line
For fifteen years you could call a private number in Manhattan and anonymously apologize for anything. It was called The Apology Line. This is the story of the phone line and the man at the other end who became consumed...
09.15.2023
Episode 159: Jessica and Alexia Reale
In 1997, a pair of sisters in Elk Grove, California endured the unthinkable. Their mother and stepfather, Barbara and Larry Carrasco, abused methamphetamine and somehow became certain that Barbara’s daughters, 13-year-old Jessica and five-year-old Alexia, were possessed by demons and...
09.07.2023
Episode 158: Christian Crossland
Christian Crossland spent most of his short life in the care of family friends, Brittany and Trevor Easton, who took Christian into their Indiana home and loved him like their own. In January of 2022, Christian’s biological mother, Chelsea Crossland,...
09.01.2023
Episode 157: Alex Hurley (Retold)
In episode 7, I told you the first part of the story of 12-year-old Alex Hurley. I provided updates on Alex’s case throughout the next three years. This past week, the last family member charged in Alex’s death was finally...
08.21.2023
Listen Now - Over My Dead Body: Gone Hunting
When Mike Williams vanishes on a hunting trip, the authorities suspect he was eaten by alligators but the true predators who took Mike may lurk much closer to home. The mystery of Mike’s disappearance might have faded from memory, if...
08.01.2023
Episode 154: Averylee Hobbs (Mega Episode)
In episodes 47 and 48, I told you the story of 4-year-old Averylee Hobbs. Avery was not even a month old when her mother, Britney Roll Mayes, fractured Avery’s skull and spent time in prison. After Britney was released, she...
07.21.2023
Episode 153: Hot Car Deaths
Since 1990, well over 1,050 children in the United States have died after being left in hot cars. An untold number of additional kids have been left with permanent brain damage and other long-term injuries. The largest percentage of these...
07.17.2023
Listen Now: Suspect "Five Shots in the Dark"
Leon Benson spent 24 years in an Indiana state prison for the 1998 murder of a young man named Kasey Schoen. His conviction hinged on the testimony of two eyewitnesses – but what if their memories turned out to be...
07.14.2023
Episode 152: Jazmine Robin
Baby Jazmine Robin weighed under three pounds when she was born 11 weeks premature, and she spent nine weeks in a Houston hospital’s NICU before being taken home on July 3, 2018 by her parents, Jason Robin Jr. and Kat...
07.04.2023
Episode 151: The Kendzia Children Updates
Over the course of a seven-part miniseries that began last September called Groomed to Die: The Kendzia Children, I told you about the countless alleged crimes committed by Susan Lee, formerly known as Susan Stevenson, Susan Cook, and Susan Kendzia....
07.02.2023
Minisode 4: Stevie Osborn Update
In episode 138, I told you the story of two-year-old Stevie Osborn, whose death on December 23, 2019 went all but unreported by the media. Stevie’s mother, Abigail Osborn, and Abbey’s boyfriend, Joseph Chilson, were investigated by the Missouri Department...
06.23.2023
Episode 150: Gracie Buss
On May 30, 2015, first responders arrived at a townhouse in Waterloo, Iowa, where they found four-year-old Gracie Buss unresponsive. Gracie’s mother, Kristi Buss, and her boyfriend, Chad Little, told police and medical staff that Gracie suffered a seizure and...
06.15.2023
Episode 149: Thomas Valva (Mega Episode)
In episodes 5 and 6 of this podcast, I told you the story of 8-year-old Thomas Valva. Thomas and his two brothers were unjustly taken from their mother’s custody in 2017 and spent the next three years living with their...
06.09.2023
Episode 138: Stevie Osborn
(This is a re-edit of an episode released in March, which was taken down shortly after release.)On December 23, 2019, two-year-old Stevie Osborn was rushed to the hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, suffering from bruises all over her body, two...
06.07.2023
Episode 148: Alexavier Pedrin (Part 3)
Over the last two episodes, I told you the story of Alexavier Pedrin, whose six years were marred by family turmoil, alleged abuse and neglect, and CPS involvement. On February 11, 2023, Alexavier was found dead in his family’s rented...
06.03.2023
Episode 147: Alexavier Pedrin (Part 2)
In the last episode, I began telling you the story of six-year-old Alexavier Pedrin, whose short life was filled with constant family turmoil and frequent involvement by various CPS agencies in his home state of Wisconsin and others. After Alexavier’s...
05.31.2023
Episode 146: Alexavier Pedrin (Part 1)
In 2011, 19-year-old Josie Dikeman was accused of child neglect after her boyfriend’s one-year-old daughter suffered a skull fracture and a brain injury in her care. That charge was dropped. Two years later, she was convicted in a separate child...
05.19.2023
Episode 145: Answering Listener Questions
For this episode, I asked my listeners for questions they wanted answered about the podcast, about me, or anything else. Across several platforms, I received a lot of great questions! In this episode, I’ll answer those questions with the help...
05.12.2023
Episode 144: Case Update Special #11
Whenever possible, I like to provide updates on as many past cases I’ve covered as possible. In this episode, I will provide updates on the cases of Frankie Gonzales, Marion Jester-Montoya, Damian Sutton, Zaiden Javonovich, Jaxson Love, Tesslynn O’Cull, Moko...
05.06.2023
Episode 143: Jack and Jennifer Edwards (Part 2)
In the last episode, I told you the first part of the story of 15-year-old Jack Edwards and his 13-year-old sister, Jennifer. I told you about the multiple romantic partners and children their father, John Edwards, abused and manipulated over...
05.02.2023
Introducing: Nobody Should Believe Me
Note from Laine: Today, I'm proud to bring to you the first episode of an incredibly important podcast called Nobody Should Believe Me.Novelist Andrea Dunlop is looking for answers. When her older sister was first investigated for Munchausen by Proxy...
04.29.2023
Episode 142: Jack and Jennifer Edwards (Part 1)
On July 5, 2018, 13-year-old Jennifer Edwards got off the bus and walked eight minutes to get to her home in West Pennant Hills, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. Jenny had no idea that her father, 67-year-old John Edwards, was...
04.20.2023
Episode 141: Cali Anderson
On May 15, 2018, police responded to a self-storage facility in Sacramento, California, where, in one of the storage units, sat a box containing a blue plastic barrel, inside which was a duffel bag. In that bag were the remains...
04.13.2023
Episode 140: Judah Morgan Updates
In episodes 87 and 88, I told you the story of four-year-old Judah Morgan, who spent the first three-and-a-half years of his life in a foster care kinship placement with his second cousin, Jenna Hullett, and her family. Despite multiple...
04.06.2023
Episode 139: Erykah Taylor
On March 21, 2020, three-year-old Erykah Taylor arrived at Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, unresponsive. Shortly after her arrival, she was pronounced dead. Based on her injuries, which included bone fractures and multiple bruises, police did not believe...
03.29.2023
(Re-Release) Episode 80: Christian Paz
(This episode was originally released on September 29, 2021.)On January 26, 2020, San Antonio mother Sareh Lang was at work when she received the phone call every parent dreads: her three-year-old son, Christian Paz, was being rushed to the hospital,...
03.15.2023
Episode 137: Bradley McGee (Part 2)
In last week’s episode, I told you about two-year-old Bradley McGee, who was returned to his biological mother and stepfather, Sheryl and Tom Coe, even though they abandoned him in a shopping mall as an infant and failed to comply...
03.08.2023
Episode 136: Bradley McGee (Part 1)
In 1987, four-month-old Bradley McGee was abandoned at a shopping mall and placed into foster care. He spent most of his life thriving and happy in the Lakeland, Florida home of his foster family. In 1989, despite reports of abuse...
03.02.2023
Episode 135: Case Update Special 10
In today’s episode, I’ll provide updates on several cases I’ve covered previously on the podcast. The stories I’ll be updating today include those of Keaton Boggs, Kerrigan Rutherford, Maxwell Schollenberger, Nakota Kelly, Scotty McMillan, Caliyah McNabb, and Dawson McKinney.This is...
02.22.2023
Episode 134: Investigating Medical Child Abuse
My guest on the podcast today is highly esteemed Tarrant County Sheriff’s Investigator Michael Weber, who specializes in investigating cases of medical child abuse, also known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Detective Weber is also a member of the American...
02.16.2023
Episode 133: Case Update Special #9
Like I did last week, in this episode, I will provide updates on some of the cases I’ve covered in early episodes of the podcast.The cases discussed in today’s episode include those of AJ Freund, Treyanna Summerville, Sereniti Sutley, Josias...
02.09.2023
Episode 132: Case Update Special #8
From time to time, I try to provide updates on the stories I’ve covered in the past. In this episode, you’ll hear updates on the cases of Raylee Browning, Thomas Valva, Alex Hurley, Noah Tomlin, Logan Cline, Amari Boone, Eduardo...
02.01.2023
Episode 131: Dante Mullinix Revisited
In episodes 76 and 77, I told you the heartbreaking story of two-year-old Dante Mullinix, who died just six days before his third birthday. Tyree Bowie, who was seeing Dante’s mother, Leah Mullinix, told police he thought Dante had choked...
01.31.2023
(Re-Release) Episode 77: Dante Mullinix (Part 2)
*This episode was originally released on September 8, 2021.*In episode 76, I told you the story of two-year-old Dante Mullinix of York, Pennsylvania, who died in the hospital on September 15, 2018. Dante’s death was ruled a homicide caused by...
01.31.2023
(Re-Release) Episode 76: Dante Mullinix (Part 1)
*This episode was originally released on September 1, 2021.*Two weeks before his third birthday, two-year-old Dante Mullinix was rushed to the hospital, unresponsive. His mother’s boyfriend claimed Dante choked on animal crackers. Several days later, on September 15, 2018, Dante...
01.25.2023
Episode 130: Santina Cawley (Part 2)
Last week, I told you about two-year-old Santina Cawley, a happy little red-haired Irish girl who lit up her family’s lives. I also told you about Santina’s tragic and brutal death and the intensive gardaí investigation that led to the...

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Suffer the Little Children episodes:

Bonus Episode: 10 Days of Jacob

Episode 170: Arabella Parker, Retold (Part 2)

Episode 169: Arabella Parker, Retold (Part 1)

(Re-Release) Episode 110: Ger'mya Alexander

Episode 168: More Judah Morgan Updates

Episode 167: Childhood Torture (with Ali Davis)

Episode 166: Serenity Robinson

Episode 165: Joan D'Alessandro (Part 2)

Episode 164: Joan D'Alessandro (Part 1)

(Re-Release) Episode 65: Lucas Call

Episode 163: Underwater Daughter

Episode 162: Serenity Rabbit (Part 2)

(Re-Release) Episode 102: Fallon Fridley

Episode 160: 936 Miles for Mercy

Listen Now: The Apology Line

Episode 159: Jessica and Alexia Reale

Episode 158: Christian Crossland

Episode 157: Alex Hurley (Retold)

Listen Now - Over My Dead Body: Gone Hunting

Episode 154: Averylee Hobbs (Mega Episode)

Episode 153: Hot Car Deaths

Listen Now: Suspect "Five Shots in the Dark"

Episode 152: Jazmine Robin

Episode 151: The Kendzia Children Updates

Minisode 4: Stevie Osborn Update

Episode 150: Gracie Buss

Episode 149: Thomas Valva (Mega Episode)

Episode 138: Stevie Osborn

Episode 148: Alexavier Pedrin (Part 3)

Episode 147: Alexavier Pedrin (Part 2)

Episode 146: Alexavier Pedrin (Part 1)

Episode 145: Answering Listener Questions

Episode 144: Case Update Special #11

Episode 143: Jack and Jennifer Edwards (Part 2)

Introducing: Nobody Should Believe Me

Episode 142: Jack and Jennifer Edwards (Part 1)

Episode 141: Cali Anderson

Episode 140: Judah Morgan Updates

Episode 139: Erykah Taylor

(Re-Release) Episode 80: Christian Paz

Episode 137: Bradley McGee (Part 2)

Episode 136: Bradley McGee (Part 1)

Episode 135: Case Update Special 10

Episode 134: Investigating Medical Child Abuse

Episode 133: Case Update Special #9

Episode 132: Case Update Special #8

Episode 131: Dante Mullinix Revisited

(Re-Release) Episode 77: Dante Mullinix (Part 2)

(Re-Release) Episode 76: Dante Mullinix (Part 1)

Episode 130: Santina Cawley (Part 2)