137: Most Evil “YouTube Mom” Who Adopted & Abused 7 Kids Before FORCING To Perform in Videos – Machelle Hobson

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🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. I hope you're all doing so well and welcome back to the criminal makeup podcast. Each episode, we dive into the minds of some of the worst criminals in history.
0:19.7	Prepare yourselves for today's case.
0:22.1	This is a very dark and disturbing case.
0:25.3	And truly, I do not even know how this case happened.
0:28.6	Because back in 2019, a YouTube channel called Fantastic Adventures was blowing up.
0:34.5	And I mean blowing up.
0:36.0	Every single video was getting millions of views. The channel
0:39.2	had 800,000 subscribers, so we are talking a very large YouTube channel here. However, there was a very
0:46.1	dark, sick and twisted secret behind this YouTube channel. The main stars of this YouTube channel
0:52.4	were seven young children, and every single one of their YouTube videos, it would show these children going on some sort of adventure, going on some sort of like challenge or task.
1:02.6	And each one of these children were vulnerable in their own way.
1:06.2	Most had a disability of some sort, and they were all soon either adopted or fostered by a woman
1:13.2	called Michelle Hobson, who to the outside world seemed like an incredible human being because
1:18.8	she was taking in all of these children, all of these vulnerable children, and she turned
1:22.8	these children into YouTube stars, and these children were living their dreams. But was that
1:27.3	the reality? Of course not.
1:29.4	Because behind the camera, behind closed doors, Michelle Hobson was a monster. And what she put these
1:35.8	children through is absolutely despicable. And she did it all to make money. So that is what we are
1:41.5	talking about today. So just prepare yourselves for today's case because it is a very heavy case. Most of this was going to be very difficult to listen to. So that is what we are talking about today. So just prepare yourselves for today's case
1:44.3	because it is a very heavy case. Most of this was going to be very difficult to listen to,
1:48.2	so just be mindful of that. And let's jump in. Michelle Hobson was born in June of 1971. We don't know her exact date of birth, so she is either a cancer or a Gemini.
2:07.8	And we actually don't really know anything about Michelle's background, which is incredibly frustrating.
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