The Boy in the Lake – The Murder of Mason Cuttler By Emily Thompson Mason Cuttler was just 3-years-old when he was drowned by his aunt's boyfriend to "make room" for his new baby. Dec 30, 2021 • 5 min read
The Unsolved Murder of Siphamandla Madikane By Emily Thompson In November of 2013, 10-year-old Siphamandla Madikane was found brutally murdered in a bush in the Ramaphosa informal settlement in South Africa. Despite a plethora of evidence at the crime scene, the killer has never been caught. Dec 23, 2021 • 3 min read
The Grim Crimes of Jesse Joe Hernandez By Emily Thompson In April of 2001, Misty Leverett made a decision that she would regret for the rest of her life. She left her two young children home alone with Jesse Joe Hernandez, a registered sex offender. Nov 4, 2021 • 4 min read
The Disturbing Death of Mirabelle Thao-Lo By Emily Thompson In 2011, six-week-old Mirabelle Thao-Lo was discovered inside her mother's home, suffering from third-degree burns and deep tissue burns that were consistent with being placed inside a microwave. Oct 21, 2021 • 4 min read
Morbidology the Podcast – 122: Logan Tipton By Emily Thompson In December of 2015, Versailles, Kentucky, was preparing for Christmas. Residents had decorated their homes in preparation for the festivities. In the quiet neighbourhood of Gray Street, there was one family home which had lit up in celebration, with decorations a plenty and a Snoopy wearing a Christmas hat standing out front. One morning, however, the community would awake to the terrifying news that somebody had crept into this family’s home armed with a knife. This person’s actions inside that family’s home would strike fear into parents across the world. Oct 18, 2021 • 5 min read
Morbidology the Podcast – 119: Felecia Williams By Emily Thompson Temple Terrace is a city located in northeastern Hillsborough County, Florida. The most frequent crime in the primarily suburban area are burglary and theft. Murders in Temple Terrace are extremely rare and between 2000 and 2014, only ten murders took place in the city. In 2014, the local police department would investigate an extremely horrific and confusing murder case, quite unlike anything the city had ever seen before. Sep 27, 2021 • 6 min read
The Tragedy of the Bowman Sisters By Emily Thompson On 26 September, 2008, the police of Lusby, Maryland, received multiple phone-calls from worried citizens that reported seeing a young girl running down the street. She was semi-naked and appeared to be covered in faeces and blood. The little girl, who was 7-years-old, was taken to a local hospital where an examination revealed that she had been the victim of violent abuse and neglect. Sep 5, 2021 • 4 min read
When Worlds Collide – The Sad Case of Jamarion Lawhorn & Connor Verkerke By Emily Thompson In 2014, 12-year-old Jamarion Lawhorn took some "red little pills" he had found in his home & stabbed another child to death. He expected that when police arrived at the scene, they would shoot him dead. He told them: "I want to die. I don't want to be on this earth anymore." An investigation revealed Jamarion had been the victim of extreme physical abuse & neglect at the hands of his mother & stepfather. Aug 30, 2021 • 8 min read
The Drowning of Steven Flanagan By Emily Thompson It was 1 July, 2012, when guests at a Best Western hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, heard a woman screaming as she ran down the hallway. The woman was 33-year-old Sharon Flanagan from Inwood, West Virginia. In the bathtub inside her hotel room, a guest found the lifeless body of her two-year-old son. Aug 25, 2021 • 6 min read
Morbidology the Podcast – 114: AJ Freund By Emily Thompson In April of 2019, police in the Chicago Suburb of Crystal Lake were informed of a missing five-year-old boy. According to his parents, he had vanished at some point in the middle of the night. However, it quickly became apparent that the family were well-known to child protective services and for many years, police had been trying to get them to take action and remove the children from the home. Their pleas had always fallen on deaf ears and child protective services had refused to intervene. The disappearance and outcome of the disappearance would lead to the community questioning: How... Aug 23, 2021 • 7 min read
