215: Raina Thaiday
Stolen Lives True Crime
Stolen Lives True Crime
4.0 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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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. |
| 0:10.7 | 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 frustration |
| 0:19.4 | of why and how this ever happened. |
| 0:21.7 | However, if you find any of these themes triggering this podcast may not be for you. |
| 0:27.2 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:36.9 | This week's story is a listener's suggestion. |
| 0:39.8 | Thank you to Christy for bringing Raina's story to my attention. |
| 0:43.1 | This is an absolute tragedy. |
| 0:45.5 | There are no other words for it. |
| 0:47.5 | The mental health services are lacking. |
| 0:49.8 | Not only in Australia where this story takes place, but all over the world. |
| 0:54.0 | The Decker sisters' story comes to mind that we have covered recently. |
| 0:57.6 | If only there were more and more effective mental health help for those struggling. |
| 1:02.1 | Then tragedies, such as the Decker sisters and the one we talk about today, they possibly |
| 1:06.4 | wouldn't have happened. |
| 1:08.2 | Now, I'm not excusing those responsible for the murders of children, |
| 1:11.6 | but there needs to be some accountability taken by those who could have stood up and intervened. |
| 1:17.0 | There needs to be some accountability taken by those who could have stood up and intervened. |
| 1:22.1 | Will we learn from these tragedies? I would like to think so. But given this story happened a |
| 1:27.3 | decade ago, and the |
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