This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to discuss the case of Canny Ong, a beautiful young woman who returned to her home country with her husband, Brandon, after her father was seeking treatment for cancer. But what should have been a a trip filled with memories of family and friends quickly turned into a case of mistaken identity that turned deadly... Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine Join Our Faceb...
May 01, 2025•19 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head down to Texas to discuss the case of Massail and Mirena Vega, two twin baby girls who never had a chance. The twins' great aunt, Sarah Calderon, sat down with us to talk about her great nieces, the dysfunctional families they were born into, and her mission to make sure these two baby girls are never forgotten. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine Join Our Facebook Group: https://t.co/DeSZIIM...
Apr 28, 2025•28 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head down to Florida to discuss the case of Austin Harrouff - a troubled young man who had a serious break from reality. Unfortunately, his struggles with his mental health had dire consequences for a retired couple who just wanted to hang out in this garage and have a few drinks with friends... Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine Join Our Facebook Group: https://t.co/DeSZIIMgXs?amp=1 Instagram: ...
Apr 24, 2025•36 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head back across the pond to the coastal village of Banks to discuss the case of Axel Rudakubana, a teenage boy who went on a stabbing spree at a local Taylor Swift dance class. In the wake of the attack, three little girls were killed: Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe, and Alice da Silva Aguiar. In addition, riots popped up all around the UK due to the belief that Axel was a Islamic terrorist... but he wasn't. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachi...
Apr 21, 2025•37 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head back to Ohio to discuss the case of 98-year-old Margaret Douglas, a widow who was still living independently in the home she shared with her late husband for decades. That was until a deranged teenager named Gavon Ramsay broke into her house to videotape her while she slept for "cheap thrills." But when she awoke, Gavon did the unthinkable. But if that wasn't horrible enough, wait until you hear about what police found on his cell phone... Support Our Patreon: ht...
Apr 17, 2025•21 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Ethiopia to discuss the horrific case of Heaven Awot, a 7-year-old girl that was sexually assaulted so severely that her spine was visible from outside of her body. In addition, we discuss TikTok's war on Heaven, her mother, and anyone who wanted justice for this little girl - as well as the disgusting "crimes of opportunity" committed against women and girls at times of war. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.pay...
Apr 14, 2025•26 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Augusta, Georgia, to discuss the case of 16-year-old LaTania Janell Carwell - a beautiful young lady who had her whole life ahead of her. That was until her mother, Tanya, married a violent felon that she'd been corresponding with while he was still behind bars. LaTania should have been celebrating her sweet 16, but instead, she was strangled and abandoned in a shallow grave. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.pay...
Apr 10, 2025•21 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss two heartbreaking tragedies that took place over 1,200 miles apart… The similarities are shocking… And while these two cases aren’t directly connected, it highlights two different, but critical, ways we’ve seen CPS fail children: Not taking reports of harm seriously from witnesses, and not doing proper due diligence before placing a child in the home of a dangerous person. They serve as examples not only of ways CPS needs to do better, but ways in which we all...
Apr 07, 2025•25 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Euclid, Ohio, to discuss the case of 4-year-old Aniya Day Garrett, whose cries for help fell on deaf ears. Nobody... Not teachers, not police, not even CPS took this little girl’s cries for help seriously. Even after she reached out to her father for help, the powers that be didn't take him seriously either. In the end, she fell victim to one of the most common monsters we see here on The Misery Machine... Mom, and her new man. Support Our Patreon: https://www...
Apr 03, 2025•23 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head back to Indianapolis to discuss the case of Kinsleigh Welty, a 5-year-old girl who was starved and locked away in a waste filled closet, only to die at the hands of those who were supposed to protect her. Even worse? Several adults, both inside and outside of the home knew what was going on, and no one stepped in to help Kinsleigh. In fact, her own grandmother helped cover up her abuse from CPS. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal...
Mar 31, 2025•23 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Derbyshire to discuss the case of Finley Boden, a 10-month-old baby boy who was doomed from the very beginning. Finley was taken away from his parents, Stephen Boden and Shannon Marsden, at birth... only to be returned to their care in the fall of 2020. Baby Finley should have been enjoying his very first Christmas with his parents. But, that’s not what happened… Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themis...
Mar 27, 2025•15 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Kentucky to discuss the case of Miya Rudd - a beautiful baby girl who was essentially born into a family of lowlife petty criminals. After her parents, Tesla Tucker and Cage Rudd, allow their buddy, Brodie Payne, to run a meth operation out of the family home, it's discovered that little Miya was nowhere to be found. Except, she hadn't actually left the house... Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themise...
Mar 24, 2025•27 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Hyderabad, India, to discuss the case of Dr. Priyanka Reddy, otherwise known as "Disha" and "Hyderabad Nirbhaya" in the media. Dr. Reddy was a veterinarian living in the southern Indiana city, who met a brutal fate on November 27th, 2019. After leaving her scooter at a toll plaza and taking a taxi into the city, she was ambushed by 4 drunk men who'd flattened one of her tires. The 4 mean took turns assaulting her, before eventually smothering her to death, and...
Mar 20, 2025•23 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to St. Petersburg, Florida, to discuss the case of Taylen Mosley and his mother, Pashun Jeffery. After some sort of dispute after his 21st birthday party, Taylen's father, Thomas, stabbed Pashun in excess of 100 time in her back and head, leaving her to die in her apartment. Taylen, however, was nowhere to be found. When he was eventually located a few days later, it was the last place anyone expected... Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachi...
Mar 17, 2025•36 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head back over to the other side of The Pond to discuss the case of the Barrass Family. When mother, Sarah, become paranoid that social services are catching onto the fact that the father of her children is none other than her half-brother, Brandon Machin, the disgusting couple hatch a deadly plot to avoid the consequences of their relationship... one that resulted in the murder of their two eldest sons, Tristan and Blake. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/...
Mar 13, 2025•30 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head west to Medford, Oregon to discuss the case of the Criado family. This story draws a lot of parallels to many other family annihilator cases we've seen where Dad is the assailant... He begins to lose control, snaps, and murders his entire family. We saw this most recently with Rowan Baxter, who murdered his estranged wife, Hannah, and their four kids. This story, sadly, is no different. These are the stories of Tabasha, Elijah, Isaac, Andrew, and Aurora Criado. S...
Mar 10, 2025•25 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the tragic case of Skylar Gardner, an adorable toddler who lived in Indiana with her older brother and her mother, Chantell, who cared more about her rap career than for being a mom. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine Join Our Facebook Group: https://t.co/DeSZIIMgXs?amp=1 Instagram: miserymachinepodcast Twitter: misery_podcast Discord: https://discord.gg/kCCzjZM #themiserymachine #podcas...
Mar 08, 2025•27 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Paris, France, to discuss the case of Mia McQuillin, an American teen who was harboring a secret... After embarking on a high end gap year program that was supposed to take her around the world, Mia gave birth in a Paris hotel room. Rather than seeking help, Mia did the unthinkable... She threw her newborn baby boy from a second story window and into the trash. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themiser...
Mar 03, 2025•21 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to sunny Chuluota, Florida, to discuss the case of Grant Amato, a young man living with parents just outside of Orlando. When Grant's nursing and streaming careers failed, he set his sights on something new... a high end Bulgarian cam girl named Silvie. Soon, Grant developed a full blown addiction, stealing more than $200,000 from his family, and taking out a fraudulent $65,000 mortgage... all to pay for time with his new love interest. Soon, his family's attempt...
Feb 27, 2025•26 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy revisit two cases that have come to resolutions, albeit very different ones. The first is of Georgia mother, Lamora Williams, who cooked her two sons in an oven after her boyfriend broke up with her, and the second is of California mother, Ka Yang, who cooked her infant daughter in the microwave after experiencing a seizure. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine Join Our Facebook Group: https://t.c...
Feb 24, 2025•24 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head back to Kansas City, Missouri, to discuss the case of Za'Riah Thomas, and adorable baby born to mother Mariah Thomas on December 14th, 2023. Sadly, Za'Riah would never see her first birthday because her mother "accidentally" put the little girl in the oven and turned it on... Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine Join Our Facebook Group: https://t.co/DeSZIIMgXs?amp=1 Instagram: miserymachinepo...
Feb 20, 2025•20 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Central Florida to discuss the case of Giselle Glover, a beautiful little girl living with diabetes. Giselle had her whole life ahead of her until her mother, ex-CPS worker Kelsey Glover, began neglecting her medical needs. After a fight with her roommate over how Giselle was being medically neglected, Giselle tore out her daughter's insulin pump and drowned her in the bathtub. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.p...
Feb 18, 2025•18 min
Many people have heard of the cases we are about to talk about, but there’s a couple of important pieces of information that people often get wrong when they talk about them. The first is the belief that a horrific murder of a child under CPS oversight with a detailed history is an anomaly, that’s sadly not the case. Now, many people recognize that the amount of people who tried to help the poor boys we are discussing today are more than you could comfortably fit in the room we're sitting in, as...
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr 36 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Brisbane, Australia, to discuss the tragic case of Hannah Clarke and her three children, Aaliyah, Laianah, and Trey Baxter. After leaving her abusive husband, Rowan Baxter, Hannah lived in fear due to her ex's frequent stalking. But no one expected what would occur on that fateful morning in February, when Rowan decided to light his entire family on fire. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachi...
Feb 10, 2025•32 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head back over to the UK to discuss the many updates in the Sara Sharif case... There's A LOT. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine Join Our Facebook Group: https://t.co/DeSZIIMgXs?amp=1 Instagram: miserymachinepodcast Twitter: misery_podcast Discord: https://discord.gg/kCCzjZM #themiserymachine #podcast #truecrime Source Material: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Feb 06, 2025•25 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Winooksi, Vermont, to discuss the case of Peighton Geraw, a toddler who fell through the cracks of DCF. After presenting with unusual bruising, Vermont DCF Investigator John Salter paid a visit to the family home. At that time, little Peighton was possibly already dead, but the Investigator had no clue as he failed to conduct a physical inspection of the little boy. He was just 14 months and 25 days old. According to the autopsy findings, Peighton showed signs...
Feb 03, 2025•20 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss a bizarre case out of California that began with a dog, credit card fraud, and case of mistaken identity. These events resulted in the horrific murder of Pamela Vitale, which shook the city of Lafayette to it's core. But instead of focusing on the victim, the news media spotlighted her flamboyant killer - Scott Dyleski. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine Join Our Facebook Group: https://...
Jan 30, 2025•24 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to New Castle, Pennsylvania, to discuss the case of Markie Mason, an 8-year-old boy who was murdered by his mom's new boyfriend, 43-year-old Keith Lamont Burley Jr, whom she had met on the prison pen pal website, WriteAPrisoner.com. After a headed argument, Keith kidnapped Markie and his younger brother, and brought him to a trap house, where he proceeded to stab Markie 146 times in front of his little brother. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themise...
Jan 27, 2025•20 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Wisconsin to discuss the case of Elijah Vue, an adorable little boy who never had a chance. After his mother, Katrina Baur, began leaving him with her boyfriend, Jesse Vang, little Elijah was subjected to punishments for simply existing. On February 20, 2024, Jesse called 911 to report Elijah missing. Into wouldn't be until autumn that Elijah's skeletal remains would be discovered by a hunter. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPa...
Jan 23, 2025•19 min
This week, Drewby and Yergy head to Fresno, California, to discuss the case of Marcus Wesson, a mass murderer and child rapist, convicted of nine counts of first-degree murder and 14 sex crimes, including the rape and molestation of his underage daughters. His victims were his children, fathered through incestuous sexual abuse of his daughters and nieces, as well as his wife's children. Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine J...
Jan 20, 2025•28 min
