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This week, Yergy and Drewby discuss the horrific story of Takoda Collins, and ten year old boy from Dayton, Ohio, who lost his life after he was horrifically tortured by his father, his father's girlfriend, and her sister. 

RIP Takoda

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Source Material:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21071102-takoda-collins-court-docs

https://www.wdtn.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/2021/09/Takoda-Collins-Court-Docs.pdf

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1934-Kensington-Dr_Dayton_OH_45406_M34882-26866

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsjkGg47hIE

https://dayton247now.com/news/local/takoda-collins-father-sentenced-for-childs-death

https://www.whio.com/news/local/sentencings-underway-3-people-involved-death-takoda-collins/XV6GURZUBFCX5NHHRIH65BPDKE/

https://www.channel3000.com/death-is-too-good-wisconsin-grandmother-of-murdered-boy-says-fathers-sentencing-brings-little-relief/#:~:text=Takoda's%20story%20began%20in%20Wisconsin,he%20was%20still%20a%20baby

This week, Yergy and Drewby discuss the local case of 27 year old Chad Gurney, who in early summer of 2009, killed his partner, 18 year old Zoe Sarnacki, in one of the most horrific ways possible. 

The case horrified the city of Portland and the local music scene due to the graphic and ritualistic nature of the killing. But was this due to pure psychopathy? Or severe mental illness brought on by injuries suffered in an automobile accident?

This case hits close to home as we both knew Chad to varying degrees, and both have different takes on him. Either way, Chad needlessly took the life of a beautiful and innocent soul, who's life was cut short by his actions. 

Rest in Peace, Zoe.

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Source Material:

https://law.justia.com/cases/maine/supreme-court/2012/2012-me-14.html

https://bangordailynews.com/2011/01/12/news/slaying-of-zoe-sarnacki-chad-gurney-told-police-a-monster-took-over/

https://bangordailynews.com/2012/01/11/news/beheading-video-evidence-in-murder-case-illustrates-legal-gray-area-attorneys-say/

https://www.pressherald.com/2011/02/04/maine-portland-chad-gurney-guilty-murder-sarnacki/

https://www.deseret.com/2011/1/9/20165885/maine-man-goes-on-trial-in-decapitation-murder#file-in-this-may-27-2009-file-photo-chad-gurney-appears-in-cumberland-county-superior-court-for-arraignment-on-murder-and-arson-charges-for-the-killing-of-18-year-old-zoe-sarnacki-in-portland-maine-theres-no-debate-that-gurney-strangled-his-girlfriend-in-a-rage-cut-off-her-head-and-set-her-body-on-fire-but-the-question-remains-whether-gurney-was-insane-at-the-time-of-the-killing-gurney-goes-on-trial-monday-jan-10

http://archive.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2011/02/05/judge_rejects_insanity_defense_in_maine_decapitation_case/

https://www.sunjournal.com/2012/01/11/attorney-beheading-video-permissible-murder-conviction/

http://www.returntothepit.com/view.php?formid=60698

https://tattooparlorreviews.com/maine/portland/142-high-street-223/just-good-tattoos/7116

https://www.pressherald.com/2011/02/05/guilty_2011-02-05/

https://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/07/news/appeal-rejected-for-man-convicted-of-decapitating-girlfriend-setting-her-on-fire/

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/life-sentence-not-an-option-in-maine-decapitation/article_a203ad22-7504-52af-8715-0a874e74f411.html

https://www.insideprison.com/state-inmate-search.asp?lnam=gurney&fnam=chad%20thomas&county=&st_abb=ME&id=2026008856

https://www.centralmaine.com/2012/02/07/maines-high-court-upholds-decapitation-conviction/

https://www.centralmaine.com/2012/01/11/court-hears-appeal-in-decapitation-conviction_2012-01-10/

https://www.wmtw.com/article/convicted-killer-loses-bid-for-new-trial/1988508

https://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/07/news/appeal-rejected-for-man-convicted-of-decapitating-girlfriend-setting-her-on-fire/

https://bundysbitch.tumblr.com/post/145479620645/truecrimehothouse-the-murder-of-zoe-sarnacki-is

https://thebollard.com/2011/07/08/letters-31/

https://ballotpedia.org/Justice_Roland_Cole_rejects_insanity_defense_in_decapitation_murder_case

https://thekaveclub.proboards.com/thread/141/umm-chad-gator?page=1

https://newsadvance.com/news/local/chad-gurney/image_4d66b86e-9b86-5ceb-91ff-4b58466df760.html

https://secret-salt.livejournal.com/74468.html

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/a-perfect-circle/3-libras

https://www.deseret.com/2011/1/9/20165885/maine-man-goes-on-trial-in-decapitation-murder

https://www.pressherald.com/2011/01/11/prosecution-killers-claim-of-insanity-is-just-deception_2011-01-11/

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/mainetoday-pressherald/name/zoe-sarnacki-obituary?id=24161137

https://www1.maine.gov/cgi-bin/online/mdoc/search-and-deposit/detail.pl?mdoc_number1=116250

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss 5 chilling cases of parents killing their young children by another unlikely weapon - a kitchen stove. Why are parents killing their kids in such a horrific manner? 

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Source Material:

https://confidentinformer.com/lamora-williams-case/

https://heavy.com/news/2017/10/lamora-williams-video-children-oven-stove/

https://fcsoga.org/inmate-search/

http://justice.fultoncountyga.gov/PAJailManager/JailingSearch.aspx?ID=400

http://justice.fultoncountyga.gov/PAJailManager/JailingDetail.aspx?JailingID=1317212

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mother-put-two-tots-in-oven-turned-it-on-killed-them-authorities-say/

https://www.ajc.com/news/local/mother-indicted-murder-charges-her-sons-found-with-heads-oven/Q2o1bPRWc6D3UDwUxnYihI/

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2018/11/02/what-happened-inside-shaw-ms-home-where-royalty-floyd-died-oven/1761550002/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6318607/A-baby-girl-alive-baked-inside-oven-grandmother.html

https://www.gofundme.com/f/homecoming-of-royalty-floyd?fbclid=IwAR3hl2KvDPa_kGNsqSlNLIe6VwwvUPk2B91eEA2b4ioFfWZNCuIpQ6tsk6Y

https://wreg.com/news/father-of-baby-who-was-stabbed-burned-in-oven-speaks-i-lost-my-little-girl/

https://rollingout.com/2018/10/25/update-autopsy-results-for-toddler-killed-by-grandmother-are-unsettling/

https://nypost.com/2018/10/19/mom-of-girl-found-dead-in-oven-speaks-out/

https://murderpedia.org/female.R/r/robinson-terrie.htm

https://themississippilink.com/2012/04/12/mom-gets-life-for-putting-baby-in-oven/

https://deadlywomen.fandom.com/wiki/Terrie_Robinson

https://krazykillers.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/son-in-the-oven-the-tragedy-of-tristan-robinson/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7951231/Grandparents-jailed-incinerating-11-month-old-grandson-stove-Russia.html

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1080639/russia-news-baby-burned-oven

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/houston-toddler-killed-after-sibling-put-her-in-oven-court-docs/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3343451/I-m-not-bad-person-Man-charged-connection-death-Texas-toddler-burned-alive-oven-defends-himself.html

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2016/08/28/mother-boyfriend-charged-in-death-of-toddler-burned-in-oven/9804928007/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/houston-toddler-killed-after-sibling-put-her-in-oven-court-docs/

China Arnold wasn't the first... and she wasn't the last...This week, Drewby and Yergy continue their coverage of infanticide by microwave - a horrific phenomena that's been taking place over four decades. The perpetrators? The children's own parents.

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Source Material:

https://murderpedia.org/female.Y/y/yang-ka.htm

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-03-13/the-microwave-as-a-murder-weapon-a-brief-history

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2993140/joshua-royce-mauldin-v-state/

https://www.smh.com.au/world/satan-made-my-husband-microwave-our-baby-20070522-gdq6xw.html

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Dad-gets-25-years-for-burning-baby-in-microwave-1763314.php

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/sept99/baby25.htm

https://buffalonews.com/news/infants-death-in-microwave-brings-five-year-prison-term/article_c9c1906e-1cf2-5008-9c12-c623cacd1df3.html

https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95637&page=1

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/10/05/A-mother-who-pleaded-no-contest-to-neglect-charges/6208465796800/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Vzuz2u0b8&ab_channel=AssociatedPress

This week, Drewby & Yergy discuss the case of China Arnold, a Dayton, OH mother of four who did the unthinkable with a very unusual weapon of choice - something I’m sure you too have in your own home.

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Source Material:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_P._Arnold

https://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/arnold-china.htm

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-arnold-update-ohio-mom-who-microwaved-baby-wants-new-trial-her-fourth/

https://casetext.com/case/state-v-arnold-248

https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/photos/look-back-the-china-arnold-trial/DkNUN5V9NBZ6DOUKO1qvIL/

https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/crime--law/dad-takes-witness-stand-microwaved-baby-case/gqAU7chMEg0w6HkjZ2naQI/

This week, Drewby and Yergy focus on the state of Rhode Island - a state we very much love to visit. But behind the quaint façade lurks something more sinister than anyone could even imagine. Why are Rhode Island parents killing their kids? And why isn't child protective services doing more to prevent this?

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Source Material:

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/courts/2021/08/25/michele-rothgeb-admits-manslaughter-death-daughter/5584212001/

https://www.tauntongazette.com/story/news/2020/09/03/rhode-island-man-allowed-grieving-mother-to-stay-on-his-property-months-later-he-learned-she-was-cha/114536442/

https://warwickpost.com/rothgeb-sentenced-to-18-years-for-9-year-olds-death/

https://turnto10.com/news/local/warwick-woman-to-be-sentenced-in-daughters-death

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/west-bay/woman-gets-18-years-in-prison-for-death-of-adopted-daughter/

https://turnto10.com/news/local/9-year-old-ri-childs-death-due-to-inaction-by-dcyf-report-notes

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rhode-island/articles/2021-12-22/rhode-island-woman-gets-18-years-in-daughters-death

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/west-bay/woman-gets-18-years-in-prison-for-death-of-adopted-daughter/

https://www.wpri.com/news/politics/house-panel-to-review-bombshell-dcyf-report-thursday-night/

https://www.wpri.com/news/child-advocate-dcyf-mistakes-contributed-to-babys-death/

https://turnto10.com/news/local/baby-with-broken-bones-has-died

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rhode-island/articles/2021-05-05/authorities-mother-in-child-abuse-case-has-left-the-country

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2021/05/04/both-parents-tobi-olawusi-now-run-charges-abuse/4937848001/

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/29/metro/2-month-old-baby-rhode-island-state-custody-dies/

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/dcyf-neglect-contributed-to-deaths-of-2-young-sisters-in-providence-fire/

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Otty Sanchez, a 33 year old mother from San Antonio, Texas, that did the unthinkable. 

When police responded to the Sanchez family home just before dawn, they discovered a scene so gruesome that they were left shaken. Sanchez was found screaming that the devil made her kill, mutilate and eat parts of her only child, including his brain. She had butchered her baby boy using a steak knife and two samurai swords while her sister and two nieces, ages 5 and 7, slept in another room.

Otty Sanchez was brought to the hospital to recover from self-inflicted cuts to her torso, and an attempt to slice her own throat. The former home health care worker was charged with capital murder, and was held on $1 million dollar bond.

In the days leading up to the death of baby Scott, Sanchez says she was paranoid, fearing that people were spying on her and plotting to take her baby from her. Her paranoia became worse when the voices began to get worse. For days, Sanchez says, the voices told her that the devil was in her son. She said that she would avoid looking into his eyes for fear of seeing the devil.

Otty Sanchez was found not guilty by reason of insanity on June 30, 2010, less than a year after the death of baby Scott. She was sent to the North Texas State Hospital in Vernon, Texas  where she will receive a yearly evaluation of her mental capacity by the court.

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Source Material:

https://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/sanchez-otty.htm

https://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/sanchez-otty-photos.htm

https://www.postpartum.net/learn-more/postpartum-psychosis/

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

https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-8603/celexa-oral/details

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32185637

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zr-XoJmLr8&ab_channel=CBSNews

This week, Yergy and Drewby discuss the case of Skylar Neese, a teenage girl who disappeared from her home in Star City, West Virginia, around midnight on July 6, 2012. Her body was found on January 16, 2013, in Wayne Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania.

Skylar was kidnapped and murdered by two of her high school best friends, Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf. On January 3, 2013, Shoaf told authorities that she and Eddy planned and carried out Skylar's murder.

Skylar's disappearance led to new West Virginia legislation that made changes to the AMBER Alert missing child alert system.

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Source Material:

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

https://allthatsinteresting.com/skylar-neese-murder

https://skylarneesemurder.com/

https://www.vizaca.com/skylar-neese-story-case/

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-murder-of-skylar-neese-stabbed-55-times-fe77b3b0f9d3

https://www.grunge.com/382849/the-tragic-murder-of-skylar-neese/

https://www.ranker.com/list/skylar-neese-facts/amandasedlakhevener

https://abcnews.go.com/US/teenage-killers-eerie-tweets-stabbing-friend-death/story?id=64541231

https://www.voxbliss.com/shelia-eddy-now/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfU9SWKk9Dg&ab_channel=wroueshowpre

Gabrielle "Gabbiee" Swainson  disappeared without a trace from her family home in Columbia, SC on August 18th, 2012 during a 3 to 4 hour period when her mother was at work. Her mother returned home that morning to find Gabbiee's beeping alarm clock, but no sign of her daughter. From the very beginning of the case, there was one lone suspect - 53 year old Freddie Grant, the onetime boyfriend of Gabbiee's mother, who still possessed a key to the family home. Furthermore, how does Gabbiee's disappearance tie into the disappearance of Adriana Diana Laster? Find out.

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Source Material:

https://www.wistv.com/story/23088103/sheriff-says-they-immediately-suspected-grant-in-gabbiees-kidnapping/

https://stromlaw.com/gabrielle-swainsons-body-found-after-kidnapping-and-murder-suspect-confessed/

https://www.postandcourier.com/aikenstandard/news/attack-on-s-c-teen-carefully-planned/article_00ae7ab2-0314-5f10-89c9-f47de6c4ce26.html

https://www.wistv.com/story/23137035/court-documents-reveal-gabbiee-swainson-died-of-asphyxiation/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141707588/gabrielle-chloe-swainson

https://www.wistv.com/story/23137483/freddie-grant-gets-30-years-for-killing-gabbiee-swainson/

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sc/pr/freddie-grant-resentenced-10-years-prison-federal-ammunition-charge

https://www.waff.com/2021/02/23/south-carolina-police-need-help-huntsville-community-solve-cold-case/

https://charleyproject.org/case/adriana-diana-laster

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

https://www.facebook.com/Help-Find-Adriana-Laster-367811763295598/photos/?ref=page_internal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxmZ4al1kMQ&ab_channel=ALLin4K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCiYsqW6DmQ&ab_channel=NickJohnson

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gabrielle-swainson-freddie-grant_n_1847222

In December of 2021, police in the city of Manchester, NH received a missing person complaint by the Division for Children, Youth & Families regarding a 7 year old girl by the name of Harmony Montgomery. According to an affidavit, Manchester Police initially received a call from Harmony’s mother, Crystal Sorey regarding her whereabouts on November 18th, 2021. The police contacted DCYF to obtain previous addresses for Harmony’s father, Adam Montgomery, but none of those leads panned out, and both father and daughter were unable to be located. The most bizarre part? Harmony was last seen in October 2019, when she was just 5 years old.

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Source Material:

https://meaww.com/where-harmony-montgomery-blind-girl-reported-missing-two-years

https://www.facebook.com/crysrenee.sorey

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/police-search-home-as-investigation-into-missing-7-year-old-nh-girl-continues/2603826/

https://www.wmur.com/article/police-search-manchester-nh-property-in-connection-to-harmony-montgomery-investigation/38651802#

https://wgme.com/news/local/where-is-harmony-montgomery-police-seek-help-finding-new-hampshire-girl-missing-since-2019

https://www.boston25news.com/news/25-investigates/police-search-home-manchester-2-days-after-announcing-2019-disappearance/XPU7IGK4DJFLLHAIVIRKM3YU6Y/

https://people.com/crime/harmony-montgomery-missing-girl-new-hampshire/

https://heavy.com/news/harmony-montgomery-missing-parents-father-mother/

https://bangordailynews.com/2022/01/03/news/new-england/7-year-old-nh-girl-hasnt-been-seen-in-2-years-officials-say/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/adam-montgomery-the-father-of-missing-7-year-old-harmony-montgomery-was-just-arrested

https://twitter.com/victoriapricetv

https://www.boston25news.com/news/massachusetts/boston-25-washington-correspondent-blair-miller-shares-his-personal-connection-missing-girl-nh/XBI6WMMENRER3CGJPH4MBQ7INY/

https://mobile.twitter.com/BlairMillerTV/status/1477690891326349313

https://www.crimeonline.com/2022/01/04/bio-mom-of-missing-girl-not-seen-in-2-years-claims-she-tried-countless-times-to-get-help-adoptive-dad-says/

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