(Re-Release) - Episode 26: James Biel
Suffer the Little Children
Suffer the Little Children Pod
4.6 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Illinois mother Kara Witkowski, who joins me on today’s episode, spent months trying to protect her two young children from harm while in the care of their father. Thomas Biel had confessed to raping and abusing Kara and was under investigation for possessing child pornography. His father, Jerry Biel, was being investigated for allegedly molesting Kara’s 3-year-old daughter. Despite months of warnings from Kara, meticulous documentation backing up her claims, and the repeated hospitalization of her toddler son for a prolapsed rectum so severe that even surgery didn’t correct it, a family court judge granted full custody to Thomas Biel.
Soon afterward, Kara’s 2-year-old son, James, died under suspicious circumstances while in the care of his father’s family, but police announced after less than 24 hours, even before an autopsy was performed, that there had been no foul play. Even though an independent second autopsy proved that spinal trauma caused James’s death, there has still been no investigation.
This is a story of corruption and injustice in Kane County, Illinois. This is the infuriating story of James Biel.
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:05.9 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her |
| 0:09.6 | oversized tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.0 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.0 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.0 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.0 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group. a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.6 | All aboard Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. |
| 0:25.5 | Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us. |
| 0:28.0 | P and O'Ferees, there is another way. |
| 0:31.6 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:40.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him him sounds like an elephant with a chest infection |
| 0:46.0 | Well they call him a dreamer and now they're right all aboard mister I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
| 0:53.0 | Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge. |
| 0:56.0 | Piando Ferries, that is another way. |
| 0:59.0 | This podcast contains descriptions of violence against children and adult language and is not suitable for all audiences. |
| 1:07.0 | Listen or discretion is advised. 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, oh, oh, oh, oh Hi guys and welcome to suffer the little children the true crime |
| 1:51.5 | podcast giving voices back to the victims of child abuse and shining a harsh |
| 1:55.2 | spotlight on the parents, guardians and caretakers who silence them. |
| 1:59.8 | I'm your host Lane and this is episode 26, James Beal. |
| 2:05.4 | Illinois mother Kara Wittowski who joins me on today's episode, |
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