Episode 187: Arianna Starkey (Part 2)
Suffer the Little Children
Suffer the Little Children Pod
4.6 • 993 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Arianna’s death hit her family hard, and it’s taken some time for her maternal grandmother, Christina Justice, to be ready to tell her story. In this episode, you’ll hear my conversation with Christina, who told me about how she and her daughter, Arianna’s mom, Kassie, have dealt with their loss, as well as the questions that remain unanswered about the case and who their precious Ari was.
This is part 2 of the harrowing story of Arianna Starkey.
Links discussed in today’s episode:
- Episode 164: Joan D’Alessandro (Part 1): https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-164-joan-d-alessandro-part-1--58506508
- Episode 165: Joan D’Alessandro (Part 2): https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-165-joan-d-alessandro-part-2--58599551
- Joan’s Joy website: https://joansjoy.org
- Parents of Murdered Children: https://www.pomc.org
- Episode 102: Fallon Fridley: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-102-fallon-fridley--48918746
- Episode 183: Fallon Fridley Updates (with Kristin Fridley): https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-183-fallon-fridley-updates-with-kristin-fridley--62532513
- Episode 95: Darisabel Baez: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-95-darisabel-baez--48262363
- Carrying Darisabel documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R_HUJWf6cU
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains descriptions of violence against children and adult language and is not suitable for all audiences. |
| 0:06.9 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:31.4 | Hi everyone and welcome to suffer the little children, the podcast giving voices back to the victims of child abuse murder and their families. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm your host, Lane, and this is episode 187, Arianna Starkey, Part 2. |
| 0:46.0 | Last week, I told you the story of two-year-old Ariana Starkey, whose father, Austin Starkey, |
| 0:52.1 | failed to protect her from his homicidal girlfriend, Destiny Neal. Both Austin and Destiny were sentenced to prison for their roles in Ariana's brutal death. |
| 0:56.8 | Ariana's death hit her family hard, and it's taken some time for her maternal grandmother, Christina, Justice, to be ready to tell her story. |
| 1:05.7 | In this episode, you'll hear my conversation with Christina, who told me about how she and her daughter, |
| 1:11.7 | Arianna's mom, Cassie, have dealt with their loss, as well as the questions that remain |
| 1:16.6 | unanswered about the case and who their precious Ari was. This is part two of the harrowing |
| 1:22.9 | story of Ariana Starkey. And here is my recent conversation with Ariana's Nana, Christina Justice. |
| 1:37.1 | There's nothing really, as far as the case goes that you can't discuss now. Yeah. Well, that must be a |
| 1:42.6 | relief. Yeah, it is. |
| 1:44.6 | It is. |
| 1:46.2 | It's been super hard. |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah, I can only imagine what you guys have gone through and it got, I'm just so sorry, |
| 1:52.9 | you know, it's not fair in any way. |
| 1:55.8 | No, but this podcast helps a lot. I was listening to a podcast earlier and I was like, wow, there's so many more people out here doing the same thing |
| 2:02.3 | or have went through the same thing that we have. Yes, yeah, a lot. In one of my last episodes, |
| 2:08.3 | I think it was the one before, the one you just listened to. The mom goes to a conference every year. |
| 2:13.5 | It's for the group called Parents of Murdered Children. I guess they have like a big |
| 2:18.6 | symposium every year or something like that. So that might be something to look at too. I have to |
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