Here on Stolen Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children.

Themes may include child murder, torture, and sexual domestic and child abuse.

I do try my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories

and leave out unnecessary details that honestly, none of us need to know to understand

the frustration of why and how this ever happened.

However, if you find any of these themes triggering, this podcast may not be for you.

Listener discretion is advised.

This week's story is a listener's suggestion.

Thank you to Hunter for bringing Dmitric's story to my attention.

This story has its twists and turns.

And I think my view of what happened in this story is the unpopular opinion,

which I will keep to myself at this time.

Maybe for the entire episode, I haven't decided.

But it is a polarising case in online

true crime and unsolved mysteries forums, where people are really passionate about their

theory of what happened to Dmitrig. April 1995, New Smyner Beach, Florida. An eight-year-old boy

goes out for an afternoon with his best friend only to never return home.

He would be found the next day in the trunk of his mother's car, naked and beaten.

This is a case of a mother's worst nightmare realised, yet she is not above suspicion.

A case where acting calm was seen as guilty behaviour.

And police closed the case has solved, despite a jury's decision to

acquit. This is Dmitric's story. Dmitric Alexander Moore was born March 28, 1987 in Miami, Florida,

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