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Suffer the Little Children is a true crime podcast giving voices back to the victims of child abuse and shining a harsh spotlight on the parents, guardians, and caretakers who silenced them.

Episodes

20 of 245 episodes

Bonus Minisode #13: Tazmir Ransom

*This formerly Patreon-exclusive bonus minisode was originally released on April 23, 2022. On April 15, 2020, less than a week after his sev...

8:25Jan 31, 2026

(Re-Release) Episode 148: Alexavier Pedrin (Part 3)

Note: This episode was originally released on June 7, 2023. Over the last two episodes, I told you the story of Alexavier Pedrin, whose six...

71:28Jan 28, 2026

(Re-Release) Episode 147: Alexavier Pedrin (Part 2)

Note: This episode was originally released on June 2, 2023. In the last episode, I began telling you the story of six-year-old Alexavier Ped...

52:16Jan 28, 2026

(Re-Release) Episode 146: Alexavier Pedrin (Part 1)

*Note: This episode was originally released on May 30, 2023. In 2011, 19-year-old Josie Dikeman was accused of child neglect after her boyfr...

46:33Jan 28, 2026

Episode 206: Marion Jester-Montoya, Retold (Part 2)

In the last episode, I told you the story of Marion Jester-Montoya, a joyful little girl with sparkling brown eyes and a ready smile, who tr...

56:04Dec 17, 2025

Episode 205: Marion Jester-Montoya, Retold (Part 1)

In my thirteenth episode, I shared the story of 10-month-old Marion Jester-Montoya, an adorable and joyful little girl with a head full of d...

53:27Dec 1, 2025

Bonus Minisode #12: Ryan Buttery

(FYI: I'm still here, and new episodes are coming! See today's Facebook post.) Stacey Schuchart was nine months pregnant with her seventh ch...

16:25Nov 16, 2025

Bonus Minisode #11: Jordan Roberts

Around 6:00 PM on Friday, May 1, 2020, a woman named Maranda Alford burst into a police station in Little Rock, Arkansas, to notify authorit...

14:45Oct 23, 2025

Bonus Minisode #10: Kendall Doss

In this bonus minisode, which was originally released for Patrons only in February 2022, you’ll hear the story of 18-month-old Kendall Lynn...

22:50Sep 27, 2025

Episode 204: Long-Term Effects of Child Abuse (with Kate Russell)

Research has long shown that child abuse and neglect can and often do lead to a wide range of negative effects on a person’s life, including...

40:35Sep 23, 2025

Episode 203: Child and Survivor Advocacy (with Dale Margolin Cecka)

If you’ve listened to this show for any length of time, and most likely even if you haven’t, you know the US legal system all too often fail...

63:25Aug 31, 2025

Episode 202: Dennis "Boo" Vaughan Jr. (Part 3)

Over the last two episodes, I’ve told you the story of five-year-old Dennis Vaughan Jr., known affectionately as “Boo,” who died in his gran...

49:18Aug 11, 2025

Episode 201: Dennis "Boo" Vaughan Jr. (Part 2)

Young mother Danielle Vaughan knew her children were being abused in the home of her mother, Sherry Connor. She spent years pleading for som...

39:34Jul 26, 2025

Episode 200: Dennis Boo Vaughan, Jr. (Part 1)

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40:26Jul 21, 2025

Episode 199: Baby Lawrence Noxon (With Jim Overmyer)

Lawrence Swift Noxon was born in March 1943. At five months old, he was diagnosed with what we now call Down syndrome. Three weeks later, on...

49:56Jul 11, 2025

Episode 198: The Good Girl (with Morrene Hauser)

My guest in this episode, Morrene Hauser, spent decades repressing traumatic memories from her childhood. When she finally cracked open that...

50:31Jun 22, 2025

Episode 197: Quortney Kley Updates (with Gretta Morgan)

Back in 2021, both episode 49 and minisode #3 featured the story of 20-month-old Quortney Kley. On February 25, 1997, Quortney was sexually...

52:40Jun 1, 2025

Episode 196: Savayah Mason

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47:37May 24, 2025

Episode 195: The Innocent (with Nate Lewis)

The Innocent is a nonprofit organization made up of active or retired law enforcement. Their mission is to train law enforcement agencies ac...

68:32May 8, 2025

Episode 194: Dakota Levi Stevens (Part 2)

In the last episode, I told you the story of ten-year-old Dakota Levi Stevens, a smart, creative, charming kid who was dealt a bad hand in l...

52:15Apr 30, 2025