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This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the tragic case of Lacey Fletcher - a young woman who suffered from a severe disability known as locked-in syndrome, who died as a result of years of medical neglect at the hands of her two parents, Clay and Sheila Fletcher. 

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Source Material:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughter,_Louisiana

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10783477/Lacey-Fletcher-seen-public-15-years-death-neighbors-reveal.html

https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/locked-in-syndrome/#:~:text=Locked%2Din%20syndrome%20is%20a,the%20movements%20of%20the%20eyes.

https://technotrenz.com/entertainment/lacey-ellen-fletchers-cause-of-death-was-unknown-glued-upright-on-her-parents-couch-is-a-paralyzed-woman-1860768.html

https://usanewstoday.in/colleague-of-lacey-fletchers-dad-reeling-over-gruesome-neglect-case-that-left-her-melted-into-couch/

https://www.yourtango.com/crime/lacey-fletchers-parents-indicted-murder-charges

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/lacey-fletcher-body-found-parents-b2066340.html

https://blacksportsonline.com/2022/05/dead-body-of-lacey-ellen-fletcher-found-melted-into-sofa-at-her-parents-house/

https://6park.news/louisiana/photos-expose-lacey-ellen-fletchers-agony-despite-parents-house-filled-with-cleaning-products.html

https://www.the-sun.com/news/5231248/lacey-fletcher-feces-covered-couch-recluse-death/

https://deathobits.com/2022/05/05/ellen-fletcher-obituary-slaughter-la-death-clay-sheila-to-face-a-grand-jury-investigation/

https://vimbuzz.com/who-was-lacey-ellen-fletcher-dead-body-of-louisiana-woman-found-melted-into-sofa-parents-may-face-charges/

https://www.mixedarticle.com/lacey-fletcher-autopsy-photos-from-reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeDiscussion/comments/ujo95o/lacey_fletcher_was_last_seen_by_a_neighbour/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10786339/Horrifying-evidence-photos-revealed-extent-Lacey-Fletchers-ordeal.html

https://meaww.com/horrifying-photos-of-autistic-lacey-fletchers-tragic-agony

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/authorities-push-for-grand-jury-in-sickening-alleged-neglect-case-where-woman-sat-on-couch-for-years-and-died-covered-in-feces-and-maggots/

https://meaww.com/lacey-ellen-with-locked-in-syndrome-was-discovered-sitting-upright-and-glued-to-her-parents-couch

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10769793/Co-worker-Louisiana-dad-accused-murdering-daughter-locked-syndrome-shocked.html

https://mindinghearts.com/2022/04/29/assistant-prosecutors-daughters-death-ruled-a-homicide-by-medical-neglect/

https://ww.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/lacey-fletcher-body-found-parents-b2066340.html?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability_abuse

https://unfilteredwithkiran.com/grand-jury-indicts-parents-after-disabled-daughter-left-to-die-on-couch-for-12-years/?fbclid=IwAR1nJB48AaZRpxbCi7SvorQOx5CJOaqz7Gw8pVyR1VgV-heZ4il8cCZprCo

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the story of Stephen Marshall - a young man from Nova Scotia, Canada, who decided to take the law into his own hands, and hunt down known predators that he found listed on the Maine Sex Offender Registry, whilst visiting his father in Northern Maine. Also discussed at the cases of Patrick Drum and Cain Velasquez, who decided to take this same path. We also touch on YouTube's censorship of channels who make it a point to expose predators, and the challenges faced by creators in this genre. 

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Source Material:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Marshall_(murderer)

https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/marshall-stephen.htm

https://medium.com/friday-night-crimes/vigilante-justice-maine-ac2b48663a0c

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scotbradeen/

https://bangordailynews.com/2006/04/18/news/shooters-motive-sought-in-sex-offender-slayings/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5876149/Disturbing-truth-Britains-growing-army-self-appointed-paedophile-hunters.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/the-vigilante-of-clallam-county/281968/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain_Velasquez

https://www.mmafighting.com/2022/5/6/23060161/cain-velasquez-granted-new-bail-hearing-in-may-plea-hearing-pushed-back-to-june

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/exclusive-video-captures-incident-involving-mma-legend-cain-velasquez/2827556/

https://www.facebook.com/guardiansofthenorth/

https://registryreport.org/2018/05/25/vice-sex-offender-registries-result-in-vigilante-murder/

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss a tragic case of Banita Jacks, a Washington, DC mother who held her four daughters hostage, believing them to be demons. This case highlights the failure of DC social services agencies that had reasonable suspicion and urging from a caseworker that the girls were in danger, but ultimately did nothing.

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Source Material:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58314704/nathaniel-fogle

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130867786/brittany-marie-jacks

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36687562/tatianna-mecca_danielle-jacks

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100426368/n'kiah-fogle

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100426702/aja-fogle

https://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/09/bodies.found/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/10/bodies.found/index.html

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/480081/jacks-prosecutor-calls-mothers-home-a-prison-of-torture/

https://dcist.com/story/09/07/29/banita-jacks-found-guilty-of-murder/

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/banita-jacks-found-guilty-of-murder/1853920/

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/483283/banita-jacks-case-breakdowns-lies-and-laziness/

https://www.hsinvisiblechildren.org/2013/05/04/brittany-and-tatianna-jacks-and-nkiah-and-aja-fogle/

https://murderpedia.org/female.J/j/jacks-banita.htm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/2013/05/31/408788fa-ca42-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html

This week, Yergy and Drewby discuss tha case of Andrea Yates, a woman from Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001. She had been suffering for some time from severe postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and schizophrenia.

Her case placed the M'Naghten rules, along with the irresistible impulse test, a legal test for sanity, under close public scrutiny in the United States. 

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Source Material:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Yates

https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/25/us/andrea-yates-fast-facts/index.html

https://allthatsinteresting.com/andrea-yates

https://abc13.com/andrea-yates-rusty-george-parnham-clear-lake-texas/10802560/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bcgyeKHeV8&t

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the tragic death of Karvell Stevens, an adorable six year old boy from Kansas City, Missouri, who met his fate in February of 2022, at the hands of his mother, 35 year old Tasha Haefs. Even more troubling? Tasha thought little Karvell was the devil. 

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Source Material:

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/mo/kansas-city/crime

https://www.kcpd.org/media/3981/41522-daily-homicide-analysis.pdf

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/missouri-mom-decapitated-6-year-old-son-and-family-dog-told-911-the-devil-was-trying-to-attack-her-police/

https://www.kshb.com/news/crime/mother-charged-with-murder-in-6-year-old-sons-death-tuesday-in-kansas-cityhttps://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article258567118.html

https://fox4kc.com/news/hearing-rescheduled-for-kc-mom-charged-with-killing-son/

https://www.wric.com/news/kansas-city-mother-charged-in-horrific-killing-of-6-year-old-son/

https://www.kmbc.com/article/kansas-city-police-investigate-death-of-young-child-1645051089/39113230#

https://www.kmbc.com/article/kansas-city-mother-tasha-haefs-accused-of-killing-son-refuses-virtual-hearing-then-changes-mind/39211289

https://www.kshb.com/news/crime/mother-charged-with-murder-in-6-year-old-sons-death-tuesday-in-kansas-city

https://people.com/crime/kansas-city-mother-charged-with-killing-decapitating-6-year-old-son/

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/tasha-haefs-accused-of-decapitating-son-will-undergo-mental-tests

https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/mental-exam-ordered-for-kc-woman-charged-with-killing-6-year-old-son/

https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/postpartum-psychosis-overview

https://www.facebook.com/tasha.haefs

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008442820315&comment_id=Y29tbWVudDo4MTk0NjYyODgxNTE4NjJfODE5NzkzNDA4MTE5MTUw

https://fox4kc.com/news/uncle-of-6-year-old-boy-killed-in-kansas-city-says-it-feels-like-a-bad-dream/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/homegoing-for-me

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100072034116844

https://www.facebook.com/cherie.haefs.7

https://www.facebook.com/cherie.haefs.9

https://www.facebook.com/haefscherie

https://www.facebook.com/cherie.haefs.58

https://www.facebook.com/cherie.haefs.3

https://www.facebook.com/cherie.haefs.94

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011870749562

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu370urVXak&ab_channel=KMBC9

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the heartbreaking case of Adrian Jones, an 8 year old boy that was severely abused by both his father and stepmother, and failed by social services in both Kansas and Missouri.

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Source Material:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Yy_WvebFE&t=464s&ab_channel=KimberlyFlower

https://www.change.org/p/kristy-barnes-charge-willie-flowers-justice-for-adrian

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4477594/Horrific-images-tortured-Kansas-boy-Adrian-Jones.html

https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/father-of-tortured-kck-boy-to-be-sentenced-to-life-in-prison

https://www.kshb.com/longform/grandmother-of-tortured-kck-boy-wants-records-unsealed-seeks-truth-about-his-death

https://www.fosterfocusmag.com/articles/horrific-story-boy-who-was-fed-pigs

https://kansasreflector.com/2021/05/21/governor-signs-bill-honoring-memory-of-abused-kansas-boy-fed-to-hogs-by-father/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172756895/adrian-alexander-jones

https://www.facebook.com/justiceforadrianjones/photos/?ref=page_internal

https://www.facebook.com/AlwyzHisPrtyBaby/

https://www.facebook.com/MikeJonesBailBondsLlc

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004636205274

https://www.facebook.com/PaperChasePromotions/

https://heavy.com/news/2015/12/heather-michael-adrian-jones-murder-7-year-old-body-fed-to-pigs-kansas-city-charges-arrest/

https://www.crimeonline.com/2017/05/23/adrian-jones-stepmom-describes-child-abuse-on-facebook-claims-7-year-old-was-psychopath/

https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/investigations/adrians-law-faces-opposition-by-kansas-police-too-restrictive?fbclid=IwAR1tNXr1HxerzOsdLIuLU0kCqyKErUVl3bCdwZj0saWUSX1PZumBb074HEQ

https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/father-of-tortured-kck-boy-to-be-sentenced-to-life-in-prison

https://www.chillingcrimes.com/blogs/news/adrian-jones

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/7-life-lessons-you-will-take-away-from-my-story

This week, Drewby & Yergy discuss the tragic story of Cherish Perrywinkle, a beautiful 8 year old girl from Jacksonville, FL, who met her fate at the hands of a convicted sex offender, Donald Smith, who posed as a kindly old man who wanted to help Cherish's mother. We also discuss how the state of Florida allowed Smith to go free despite numerous offenses and reviews from doctors declaring that he was beyond rehabilitation.

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Source Material:

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/exclusive-secret-recordings-of-donald-smith/77-bca5515c-7bf5-4b71-99e8-b2f9462a89dc

https://www.chillingcrimes.com/blogs/news/cherish-perrywinkle

https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/gruesome-details-cherish-perrywinkle-murder-revealed-court

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2013/07/10/sisters-cherish-perrywinkle-removed-mothers-home/987225007/

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/reflecting-on-the-cherish-perrywinkle-case/77-ce04e41a-3538-498a-83c8-ff1b8d6ea135

https://safeatlast.co/blog/child-abduction-statistics/

This week, Drewby and Yergy step back in time and discuss the case of Mary Bell, an English girl, who at the age of 11 years old started her reign of terror in Scotswood, an inner suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1968.

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Source Material:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bairn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_prison

https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/mary-bell

https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/bell-mary-flora.htm

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mary+Bell+tells+her+daughter%3A+I+killed+two+kids%3B+TRUTH+AT+LAST+AS...-a060685300

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/mary-bell-killings-50-years-14702293

This week, Yergy and Drewby discuss the case of Amber Bobo, a New Jersey mother who left her 23 month old daughter, Ariana Smyth, alone with her boyfriend of 2 weeks, Michael Disporto - and of course, tragedy ensues. But did Amber help her daughter? Or did she find going shopping at the mall more important?

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Source Material:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2956185-Disporto-Probable-Cause.html?embed=true&responsive=false&sidebar=false

https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/crime/2016/07/08/local-man-charged-killing-girl-2/86859902/

https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/amber-bobo

https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/michael-disporto

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6657981/Father-testifies-trial-man-raped-beat-death-toddler-daughter.html

https://www.nj.com/camden/2017/11/no_early_release_for_mom_who_didnt_get_help_for_ch.html

https://www.nj.com/camden/2019/03/jury-deadlocks-on-whether-man-raped-killed-his-girlfriends-toddler-prosecution-vows-to-retry-him.html

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amber-bobo-a08371102/

https://www.nj.com/south/2019/03/thank-god-prosecutors-want-suspect-retried-in-nj-toddler-killing-feedback.html

https://www.nj.com/news/2021/04/nj-agrees-to-pay-almost-21-million-to-settle-sexual-abuse-claims-at-womens-prison.html

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/07/1004075024/new-jersey-is-closing-its-only-womens-prison-after-rampant-abuse-by-guards#:~:text=New%20Jersey%20Is%20Closing%20Its%20Only%20Women's%20Prison%20After%20Rampant%20Abuse%20By%20Guards,-Facebook&text=via%20Getty%20Images-,N.J.%20Gov%20Phil%20Murphy%2C%20seen%20above%20on%20Dec.,abusive%20incidents%2C%22%20he%20said

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viLXnNRWy2k&ab_channel=News12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usR0m-lzFaE&ab_channel=Jerseylife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu3f74tQyMM&ab_channel=BrianKushner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-JcbPSJAXQ&ab_channel=BrianKushner

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Peter Scully, and Australian man that fled to the Philippines to avoid prosecution for fraud. While living in the island nation, Scully formed an evil video empire through the dark web, and created films so horrific, that those who ultimately captured Scully for his crimes lobbied for the reinstatement of the death penalty for him - which had been abolished years earlier. 

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Source Material:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/peter-scully

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-14/australian-peter-scully-convicted-in-philippines/9868958

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narre_Warren_North,_Victoria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagayan_de_Oro

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/17/17/another-suspect-linked-to-australian-sex-fiend-arrested

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scully

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurtcore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10296609/Josh-Duggar-sought-Daisys-Destruction-worst-hurtcore-porn.html

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news-print/108980/Aussie-child-sex-predator-and-Filipina-jailed-for-life-for-abusing-infant,-rapes

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2840885/woman-accused-of-torturing-her-victims-alongside-a-suspected-paedophile-posted-glamorous-photos-while-evading-police/

https://www.facebook.com/bahayaurora.org/posts/liezyl-margallo-at-23-years-old-looks-like-any-normal-filipina-you-meet-in-the-s/1555978414442243/

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2018/09/human-trafficking-in-southeast-asia-caballero.htm

https://humantraffickinghotline.org/