Warning. The following podcast is not suitable for all audiences.

We go into great detail with every case that we cover and do our best to bring viewers even deeper into the stories by utilizing disturbing audio and sound effects.

Trigger warnings from the stories we cover may include violence, rape,

murder, and offenses against children.

This podcast is not for everyone.

You have been warned.

There are few. You have been warned.

There are few true crime cases out there that bring me to tears. Many make me upset or even angry.

But when my daily job is to research and write about gruesome crimes across the country,

it's easy to become desensitized to stories of murder, but it's impossible to become desensitized towards this case.

This is the case that brings me to tears every single time.

A story about an innocent nine-year-old child who is savagely taken from this world by another

child.

There are no winners in this story, no satisfying guilty verdicts, no relief from grieving family members just a story about a senseless murder and a loss of innocence

But if you stick around to the end you'll see that our story takes a turn for the better.

And hopefully your faith in humanity will be restored.

You're listening to Murder in America. Oh, Oh, you know, you.

You know,

you know, you, you You,

Ooh, Ooh, Ooh, Our story starts on the west side of Michigan in a city called Kentwood.

Kentwood is a suburb of Grand Rapids, Michigan, with a population of around 50,000 people

and is located fairly close to Lake Michigan.

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