Episode 33: Nakota Kelly
Suffer the Little Children
Suffer the Little Children Pod
4.6 • 993 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This is a story of a boy failed by DCS and the family court system, and a mother and teenage sister left devastated.
This is the horrific story of Nakota Kelly.
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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. |
| 0:07.0 | Listen or discretion is advised. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, |
| 0:27.0 | ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Hi guys and welcome to suffer the little children the true crime podcast giving voices back to the victims of child abuse and shining a harsh spotlight on the parents guardians and caretakers who silenced them. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm your host Lane and this is episode 33, Dakota Kelly. Upon hearing from his |
| 1:07.2 | mother that he was to spend the upcoming weekend in his father's custody, |
| 1:10.4 | 10-year-old Dakotaakota Kelly told her, |
| 1:12.6 | my father is going to kill me. |
| 1:15.0 | Due to a very specific court order, |
| 1:16.8 | his mom had no choice but to take him on Friday |
| 1:19.0 | to spend the weekend with his father, Anthony Debeya. |
| 1:22.6 | On Saturday evening, Anthony called a cousin in Texas screaming, |
| 1:25.6 | I killed my son. |
| 1:27.7 | In Anthony's Indianapolis apartment, police discovered a crime scene straight out of a horror |
| 1:31.9 | movie and several hours later Anthony a |
| 1:34.4 | convicted criminal who was in the United States illegally was arrested two |
| 1:38.4 | states away by the Missouri State Highway Patrol. This is a story of a boy failed by D.C.S. and the family court system, and a |
| 1:46.2 | mother and teenage sister left devastated. This is the horrific story of |
| 1:51.2 | Nakota Kelly. My sources for this week are The the endi star |
| 1:59.0 | the story of Dakota Kelly. My sources for this week are The Indie Channel, Wish TV Crime Watch 8, |
| 1:58.4 | The Indy Star, Fox 59, Facebook, Indiana Inmate Look Up, Indiana My Case Portal, 13 WTHR, and The Chronicle Tribune. |
| 2:11.2 | All of the cases I cover are difficult for a variety of reasons, but once in a while a story comes along that is just so disturbing and egregious that it could be the plot of a TV crime drama or an over-wrought Hollywood movie. The details are so graphic and |
| 2:24.7 | grisly that they're almost unbelievable. This is one of those stories. I think |
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