Coney Island Mom, Sentenced For Drowning Deaths Of Her Three Young Children
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🗓️ 30 May 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
It’s a heinous story that shocked the New York community, 34-year-old Erin Merdy drowned her 7, 4 and 3 month old children in the Atlantic Ocean. Merdy left their bodies along the Coney Island shoreline where it took authorities hours to find them. A judge showed leniency to Merdy, going against prosecutors who wanted her sentenced to life without parole. Once you hear how her life turned upside down, from a young woman with hopes of a health care career to a hopeless single mother suffering from postpartum depression, his lesser sentence may be more understandable.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Friday, May 29th, and a 34-year-old woman has just been sentenced for killing not one, |
| 0:16.1 | not two, but three of her own young children. And she did it in one of the most iconic and famous |
| 0:26.5 | places in all of New York. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. presents |
| 0:33.1 | a heinous crime that quite frankly, we only see a few of these types of stories in our |
| 0:42.2 | lifetimes and the ones we have seen have made international headlines yeah truly the other |
| 0:47.8 | women who have been convicted of this type of and yes you the word heinous, heinous crime have gone down in |
| 0:57.8 | American history. We're talking the likes of Susan Smith, Andrea Yates. Those two women both convicted |
| 1:06.7 | of drowning their own children, and that is exactly what 34-year-old Aaron Murty was convicted of as well, |
| 1:14.6 | drowning all three of her children. |
| 1:17.3 | And you mentioned at an iconic landmark here in New York along the shoreline of Coney Island. |
| 1:24.1 | A lot of people know Coney Island, and you know Coney Island and probably the first thing that'll come |
| 1:29.3 | out of a lot of people's mouths is |
| 1:31.0 | the boardwalk. Everybody knows the boardwalk |
| 1:33.1 | at Coney Island. Well, she |
| 1:35.2 | did this and she's accused of, no, convicted |
| 1:37.4 | now, pled guilty to doing |
| 1:39.2 | this along those waters, |
| 1:41.5 | robes, essentially within |
| 1:43.3 | sight of the boardwalk. |
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