185: Autumn Pereira

Stolen Lives True Crime

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The heartbreaking murder of 2-year-old Autumn Pereira

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0:00.0	Here on Stolen Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children.
0:05.4	Themes may include child murder, torture, and sexual domestic and child abuse.
0:10.8	I do try to my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories
0:13.9	and leave out unnecessary details that honestly, none of us need to know to understand the
0:18.9	frustration of why and how this ever happened. However,
0:22.9	if you find any of these themes triggering this podcast may not be for you. Listener, discretion is advised.
0:40.2	This week's story is a listener suggestion.
0:44.0	Thank you to Chantel for bringing Autumn's story to my attention.
0:49.1	According to the Centre for Legal Excellence, which is a California-based non-profit, in the 2008 report that discovered about 700 children were killed by their parent during divorce or separation
0:56.0	in the United States in that one year period.
0:59.1	This is one of those stories.
1:02.0	May 2019, Queens, New York.
1:05.5	A car comes to an erratic stop in flames with its driver also on fire.
1:10.4	A good Samaritan passing by stopped to help
1:12.7	the men, confused as to what was happening. The men stopped the Samaritan to tell him that a small
1:18.1	child was still in the car. This is a story of a man whose hatred for his former partner ran so deeply
1:24.4	that he took his revenge to tragic levels, resulting in him killing the one person
1:29.8	his former partner loved more than anything, their daughter.
1:33.5	This is Autumn's story.
1:35.9	Despite Coleman's claims that Pereira was mentally unstable, he was allowed to take Autumn
1:40.6	a second weekend.
1:42.2	The little girl's mom had braided her hair and recorded her
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