189: Michael Smedley
Stolen Lives True Crime
Stolen Lives True Crime
4 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here on Stolen Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children. |
| 0:05.5 | Themes may include child murder, torture, and sexual domestic and child abuse. |
| 0:10.8 | I do try my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories |
| 0:14.0 | and leave out unnecessary details that honestly, none of us need to know to understand |
| 0:18.8 | the frustration of why and how this ever happened. |
| 0:21.9 | However, if you find any of these themes triggering this podcast may not be for you. |
| 0:27.3 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:35.9 | This week's story is a listener suggestion. |
| 0:39.1 | Thank you to Kate for bringing Michael's story to my attention. |
| 0:42.5 | I'm always grateful when I get suggestions for stories that are underreported for minority |
| 0:47.0 | communities. Michael was an Indigenous Australian boy, whose mother wasn't given the resources |
| 0:52.9 | and support that may be allowed to others. |
| 0:55.7 | A mother that thought she was making the right decision by her son by giving him to family |
| 1:00.0 | friends, only for tragic consequences. |
| 1:03.7 | July 2012. Alice Springs, Northern Territory Australia. |
| 1:08.6 | A teenage mother left her baby in the care of trusted family |
| 1:11.9 | friends, only to tragically be found dead six weeks later. Their family friend saying that death |
| 1:17.3 | was an accident after the baby fell from a change table. But what the evidence would show was far more |
| 1:23.0 | sinister. This is Michael's story. |
| 1:37.2 | Michael Paul Keith Smedley was born February 8th, 2012 in Alice Springs Northern Territory to teen mother Taylor Smedley. |
| 1:40.2 | It is unclear who Michael's father was. |
| 1:43.1 | The man named on the birth certificate. |
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