114: AJ Freund
Morbidology
Morbidology
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🗓️ 23 August 2021
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| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Morbidology. I'm your host, Emily G. Thompson, author of Unsolved Child |
| 0:35.0 | Murders, called Uncovered, Mysteries Uncovered, and co-author of Unsolved Murders, |
| 0:40.5 | Treecrime Paces Uncovered. Join Morbidology on Patreon for exclusive |
| 0:45.3 | episodes of Morbidology Plus, exclusive merch, ad-free, and early release |
| 0:50.1 | episodes, and much more. |
| 0:51.9 | In April of 2019, police in the Chicago suburb of Crystal Leigh were informed of a missing |
| 1:03.7 | five-year-old boy. According to his parents, he had vanished at some point in the middle |
| 1:08.9 | of the night. However, it quickly became apparent that the family were well-known to child |
| 1:14.9 | protective services, and for many years, police have been trying to get them to take action |
| 1:19.8 | and remove the children from the home. Their pleas had always fallen on deaf ears, and |
| 1:25.8 | child protective services had refused to intervene. The disappearance, and the icon of the |
| 1:31.4 | disappearance, lead to the community questioning, how could this happen? And why was this |
| 1:37.6 | allowed to happen? |
| 1:51.0 | On Thursday, the 18th of April 2019, police in the Chicago suburb of Crystal Leigh were |
| 1:57.2 | informed of a missing child. According to the parents of five-year-old AJ Front, 36-year-old |
| 2:03.2 | Joanne Cunningham, and 60-year-old Andrew Front, when they woke up in the morning he |
| 2:07.4 | had vanished from their home. They said that their last seen him at around 9pm at their |
| 2:13.4 | home on Dool Avenue the night before when they both tucked him into bed, following a bath. |
| 2:19.6 | While usually AJ and his four-year-old brother Parker would sleep together, Joanne said that |
| 2:25.1 | on this occasion, Parker had slept with her. It was Andrew who had called 911 to report |
| 2:31.6 | his son missing. |
| 2:35.0 | We met with missing child, woke up this morning, and he wasn't, wasn't he? |
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