Here on Stollen Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking cases 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. Please keep sharing his beautiful smile, beautiful face.

He's out there somewhere and we need him home.

Don't forget about him.

These heartbreaking words were said by one desperate mother in the days following her

five-year-old son's disappearance. A little, playful and trusting kindergartner, who took advantage of a busy

and distracted father to leave the safety of his home, desperate to find a playmate. But instead of being

chastised by panicked but relieved parents, that wasn't

meant to be. His parents would never find their sweet monkey again. Michael Vaughn has been missing

for almost two years now, believed to have been abducted, murdered, and then crudely buried in a

backyard by several violent men.

Will we ever get the answers as to what happened to Michael that day?

That remains to be seen.

But Michael, monkey's parents deserve justice for their only son,

so they can give him a proper burial and say goodbye to their cheeky,

smiley and beautiful five-year-old boy.

This is Michael's story.

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