Hey True Crime Besties, welcome back to an all new episode of Serialist Lee. Hey everybody welcome back to an all new episode of serialistly with me

Annie Elise now I want to warn you guys today's case is a difficult one. It is absolutely gut-wrenching and

it's one that so many of you have been requesting for I want to say almost six weeks now but truthfully I haven't had the stomach to do it.

None of these cases are ever easy but sometimes oftentimes there are specific cases that hit home, especially as a parent.

And it takes me a while to really just kind of like recalibrate,

feel like I can hopefully do the case some justice and get through it personally without taking the weight of it home with me.

And as we go through, you'll understand what I mean.

I think that any story about children is very tough to hear especially as a parent

but today's story it really stands out because some of the most graphic parts of it were

actually caught on video and that video has also gone viral all over social media.

It's why it's taken me a little bit to get here and you've probably already heard a little bit about this case.

If you have spent any time online in the past

month or so you've probably seen the video you've seen the clips you've read up on the

trial and this trial literally just wrapped up right before I recorded this

but if you're looking for somebody to really put all of the pieces together and give you an overview of everything, then this is the video for you.

If you haven't guessed it by now, guys, is the story of Corey Machello, the treadmill

murder.

In 2021, Corey Machella was just six years old.

He had dark hair, these really big eyes and it looked like he was always kind of just

taking in the world around him with his eyes wide open, just excited. And since he moved around

a lot throughout his childhood, he had lots of opportunities to learn and experience new things, but not enough opportunities for reasons which I'll get into later.

He was quite the little artist as well. His mother said that he was always painting, he was always drawing, and if he wasn't doing either one of those two things, he would have a book in his hand.

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