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Episode 193: Dakota Levi Stevens (Part 1) Apr 26, 2025

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On April 25, 2024, 10-year-old Dakota Levi Stevens was rushed to the hospital in Valparaiso, Indiana, unresponsive. He was placed on life support, but his brain had been deprived of oxygen for too long, and after two days, Levi died. His foster mother, Jennifer Lee Wilson, admitted to police that in an attempt to control his behavior, she had laid her 341-pound body on top of the 91-pound boy. Surveillance camera footage proved that Levi lay motionless under Jennifer for over eight minutes before she moved, asking if he was faking.
This is the story of a joyful, creative, lively little boy who loved Pokemon, Minecraft, bugs, and his little sister. It’s also the story of a broken-hearted family who wanted only to protect Levi but weren’t given the chance by a state system that has failed far too many children.
This is part one of the heart-wrenching story of Dakota Levi Stevens.
Honoring Dakota Levi Stevens on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3953712874915112/
Change.org petition to remove Robert Wilson as middle school principal: https://www.change.org/p/demand-the-removal-of-principal-robert-wilson-from-lake-ridge-new-tech-middle-school
Change.org petition to hold DCS accountable for failing Indiana’s vulnerable children: https://www.change.org/p/hold-the-department-of-children-and-family-services-accountable-for-foster-child-deaths
Levi’s Law petition: https://www.change.org/p/let-s-get-levi-s-law-started?recruiter=295397157&recruited_by_id=d285ea50-f8dd-11e4-8573-5be613050eb0
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Bonus Minisode #6: Harper Littell Mar 29, 2025

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*This formerly Patreon-exclusive bonus minisode was originally released on September 28, 2021.
A young North Carolina couple lost a baby in what appeared to be a tragic case of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). When their second infant died less than two years later with multiple suspicious injuries, authorities began looking harder at father Zachary Lee Littell.
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Bonus Minisode #5: Aidan Leonardo Mar 29, 2025

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*This formerly Patreon-exclusive bonus minisode was originally released on August 19, 2021.
In January 2020, a Tennessee mom stepped away for ten minutes of "me time," leaving her two young children alone in the bathtub, and returned to find her 11-month-old son, Aidan Leonardo, floating in the water, unresponsive.
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Episode 192: Operation Mei Mei Mar 19, 2025

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In 2022, 15-month-old Isabella Kuykendall attended the United States Navy’s Ford Island Child Development Center, a daycare at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for three days. During those three days, Bella went from a happy, bubbly baby to alternately crying hysterically and becoming quiet and withdrawn. Then her parents noticed a distinctive pinching bruise on Bella’s thigh. An investigation turned up hours of CCTV footage from inside the daycare, showing three workers abusing the baby, including pinching, shoving, crushing, slapping, shaking, and smothering her.
Bella’s parents, JD and Kaitlin Kuykendall, assumed their baby’s abusers would immediately face consequences, but instead, officials seemed hell-bent on sweeping the incident under the rug. The daycare workers responsible remained working at the CDC for months. Only when Bella’s parents went public with her story were any charges pressed, and those were woefully inadequate.
In this episode, you’ll hear my conversation with Kaitlin Kuykendall about what Bella endured, how it continues to affect her to this day, and why Kaitlin and her husband went public with her story.
This is the inspiring story of Operation Mei Mei.
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Episode 191: Raylee Browning, Retold (Part 4) Feb 19, 2025

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Over the last three episodes, I’ve told you the story of 8-year-old Raylee Browning, a little girl who died from abusive, neglectful, callous treatment in the home of her father, his girlfriend, and the woman’s sister. This has been the most comprehensive telling to date of Raylee’s story, with details you haven’t heard anywhere else.
In this episode, you’ll hear my conversation with Janice Wriston, Raylee’s only mommy, who fought tooth and nail for Raylee and begged various government agencies for help that never came. Janice has been to hell and back since meeting Marty Browning Jr. in 2008. Now, six years after her daughter was cruelly ripped away, Janice is finally ready to tell the world her truth, and Raylee’s.
This is the conclusion of the harrowing story of Raylee Browning, retold.
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Bonus Minisode #4: Emmy Chambers (Updated) Feb 15, 2025

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A Virginia family is shattered, a precious five-month-old baby dead, a mother permanently injured, and a husband to blame for their vicious attack.
This is the horrific story of Emmy Chambers.
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Episode 190: Raylee Browning, Retold (Part 3) Jan 30, 2025

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https://www.magicmind.com/LAINEJAN In parts 1 and 2, I told you about Raylee Browning, a sweet, gentle, loving 8-year-old girl whose father, his girlfriend, and the girlfriend’s sister made Raylee their scapegoat for years, putting her through horrific abuse and neglect, all because she had a different mommy than the other three kids in the home.
In this episode, I’ll finish telling you Raylee’s story, going into detail about the testimony given during the criminal trial of Raylee’s father, Marty Browning Jr.; his then-girlfriend, Julie Titchenell; and Julie’s sister, Sherie Titchenell. I’ll tell you about the outcome of that trial. I’ll also share with you a little about who Raylee JoLynn Browning was, mainly through her loving mommy’s recollections of her.
This is part three of the harrowing story of Raylee Browning.
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Bonus Minisode #3: Shae Styhl Jan 26, 2025

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On June 8, 2019, police in Muncie, Indiana responded to the YWCA women's shelter on Charles Street on a report of an unresponsive child. There, they found 3-month-old Shae Anna Marie Styhl covered in bruises, burns, and blisters, and an autopsy revealed extensive skeletal trauma, including fractures in both arms and legs. Her mother, 32-year-old Sarah Styhl, was arrested.
This is the heartbreaking story of Shae Styhl.
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Episode 189: Raylee Browning, Retold (Part 2) Jan 18, 2025

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Last week, I started telling you the story of eight-year-old Raylee Browning, who died in the home of her father, his girlfriend, and the woman’s sister after years of unthinkable abuse. Raylee’s death was infuriatingly preventable if only CPS and the family court judge hadn’t ignored countless abuse complaints from Raylee’s mom and school staff.
In this episode, we’ll go over the results of Raylee’s autopsy and the shocking number of medications she was prescribed. I’ll talk about how and why Marty Browning Jr., Julie Titchenell, and Sherie Titchenell put just Raylee, one of four kids in the home, through years of abuse and neglect. I’ll go through the shocking statements one of Julie’s children made to a counselor, cementing the three adults’ criminal charges. Finally, I’ll also discuss proposed legislation that would protect many homeschooled kids from abuse and why, almost four years after its proposal, it still hasn’t been passed by the West Virginia State Senate.
This is part two of the harrowing story of Raylee Browning.
Links discussed in this episode:

The Coalition for Responsible Home Education (CRHE): https://responsiblehomeschooling.org
Homeschooling’s Invisible Children summary of 2024 findings: https://www.hsinvisiblechildren.org/findings/

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Episode 188: Raylee Browning, Retold (Part 1) Dec 31, 2024

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In Episode 4, I told you about Raylee Browning: a little girl who died on December 26, 2018. Although she was covered with injuries from head to toe, her cause of death was a septic infection from untreated pneumonia. The three adults in the home—Raylee’s father, his girlfriend, and her sister—were charged in her death.
That episode barely scratched the surface. Now, I’m retelling Raylee’s full story with the help of her mom, Janice Wriston, who fought for Raylee’s entire eight years to protect her daughter from the girl’s own father, Marty Browning Jr. The way the press told the story, Marty was a negligent father who merely failed to protect his daughter. The truth about Marty is far darker than that.
This is the story of a sweet, loving little girl whose mom called her Sunshine. It’s also a story about the horrific abuse Marty inflicted on first Janice and then Raylee, and how he managed to become entwined with a pair of sisters just as narcissistic and abusive as himself, ultimately leading to his only child’s painful and unnecessary death.
This is part one of the harrowing story of Raylee Browning.
Links discussed in this episode:

2011 study in the Journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3883081/
2023 study in the Journal of Family Violence: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9838333/
CDC page, “About Intimate Partner Violence”: https://www.cdc.gov/intimate-partner-violence/about/index.html
National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) 2016/2017 Report on Intimate Partner Violence: https://www.cdc.gov/nisvs/documentation/NISVSReportonIPV_2022.pdf

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