Hi, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Binge. Now, before we jump into it, two things.

Number one, again, if you listen to Binge and you enjoy it, please go leave us a five-star review,

rate the podcast, it seriously helps us out so much, and I really appreciate it. Second,

this case should probably come with a trigger warning. As you can tell by the title,

this is Kids Murdering Kids, and our victim this week is pretty young. Now, I'm not going to go into

a ton of detail, but I did want to say, I almost didn't cover this case. It is so heartbreaking,

and I've heard a lot of listeners with children themselves say that child cases are particularly

hard to listen to, so I really want to make sure that we're being mindful of honoring the victim

as you listen. Remember that this was a child whose life was unfairly and unjustly taken away.

My sole purpose here is to remember who he was while sharing his story. Now, we dropped a hint at

the end of last week's episode about what case we'd be covering this week, and some of you guessed

correctly, so shouts out to Carrie Marley and Gabby Pena, you girls know your true crime.

In fact, Carrie wrote that she was in close proximity to the killer in today's case, only a week

before the murder will be covering when she was only nine years old. This week's case takes place

in the village of Savona, New York exactly 30 years ago this summer. Now, Savona is a small

community, so serious crime was and still is rare, and this is a case that's still remembered there

and talked about today. Derek Robbie didn't live long enough for much to be said about him,

and if that's not a heartbreaking sentence, I don't know what is. He was a little boy who loved

frogs. He loved baseball and played on a tea ball team coached by his dad. He loved playing

basketball and soccer. He liked to sit on his bike in front of his house and wave at cars that

went by. People in the neighborhood called him the unofficial mayor of Savona, but he just never

had a chance to develop any of the richness that takes shape in human being as they move through

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