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Serialously with Annie Elise

122: Shanda Vander Ark: Mother Who Tortured, Starved & Murdered Her Son

Serialously with Annie Elise

Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios

Documentary, True Crime, News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.710.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In July of 2022, a 15-year-old boy was found dead. The police were called to his home, and when officers arrived, what they found was a horrifying scene. The 15-year-old boy was emaciated, weighing only 69 pounds. He was also showing signs of malnutrition, and hypothermia. 

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Sources:
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Audio Credits:
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0:00.0

This is hours before he dies, right?

0:02.0

Yes, sir.

0:04.0

You look like that when you put him in the bathtub? Hey True Crime Besties, welcome back to an all new episode of serialistly. And the Hey everybody welcome back to an all-new episode of Serialistly. It's me, Annie, your true crime bestie,

0:47.0

here to talk all things true crime with you.

0:49.6

Oh, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, okay. The case we're talking about today is one that has been very, very highly requested.

0:58.1

I haven't seen this many requests for a singular case, come singular for a single case I guess could either work either way for a single case come in

1:07.5

for a really long time and there are so many requests for this case and it's actually one that I've been seeing kind of

1:13.8

pop up all over my YouTube feed more of like the trial footage of it. Some

1:18.6

creators covering it, maybe I'm missing a ton, I don't know, but anyways I wasn't sure if I was going to cover it because I had been seeing it come up in my feed

1:26.1

but then I kept getting requests I'm like I hate being redundant I hate doing cases everybody else has already covered like not for any reason other than like I feel like you guys are probably bored hearing them

1:37.1

But I don't know there's something about this one. It's stuck and again with all the requests, I was like,

1:44.0

I am gonna cover it because even I was,

1:46.6

even though I was seeing trial footage too,

1:49.0

in my mind I was like, I don't really know

1:50.9

a lot about this case, which kind of shocked me because I felt like it was everywhere.

1:54.3

Sorry guys you're probably like okay any get to the point tell us what we're talking about today.

1:58.6

So let me just set the stage for you a little bit and then I'm going to tell you what we're going to cover.

2:04.4

So it takes us back not very long ago to July 6 of 2022 and it was a pretty average and normal

2:11.9

day for first responders in Norton Shores, Michigan.

2:14.8

There were a mix of calls coming in, they were all varying in the severity of them all,

2:19.0

but nothing too crazy that they hadn't really seen before, right?

2:22.4

That is until they arrived at one specific that is

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