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Nobody Should Believe Me

S06 E02: “How Could Someone Do That to a Child?”

Nobody Should Believe Me

True Story Media

True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.32.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Lisa’s second child, Angellyn, was born prematurely and in a medically fragile state. Mishelle and her aunt Sabrina recount a troubling pattern: just as Angellyn would be cleared for hospital discharge, doctors would abruptly reverse course, warning that she might not survive the night. Andrea speaks to a nurse, “Judy”, who was working in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at the time of Angellyn’s hospitalizations. Judy walks us through the medical team’s growing suspicions and their decision to install surveillance cameras in Angellyn’s hospital room. The footage reveals deeply disturbing behavior by Lisa and Carey’s utter compliance, prompting an investigation into the parents. Ultimately, custody of both Mishelle and Angellyn was revoked, and the children were placed with their maternal grandparents. *** Andrea’s June 28th event with Lisa Jewell: https://townhallseattle.org/event/lisa-jewell/ Andrea’s August 1st event with Gregg Olsen: https://www.libertybaybooks.com/event/west-sound-crime-con-2025-local-authors-gregg-olsen-and-andrea-dunlop Order Andrea's new book The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy.  Click here to view our sponsors. Remember that using our codes helps advertisers know you’re listening and helps us keep making the show!   Subscribe on YouTube where we have full episodes and lots of bonus content.  Follow Andrea on Instagram: @andreadunlop Buy Andrea's books here.  For more information and resources on Munchausen by Proxy, please visit MunchausenSupport.com The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children’s MBP Practice Guidelines can be downloaded here.  *** This season covers sensitive subject matter involving allegations of child abuse, medical child abuse (also known as Munchausen by proxy), and the death of a minor. All information presented is based on court records, first-person interviews, contemporaneous documentation, and publicly available sources. The podcast includes personal statements and perspectives from individuals directly involved in or affected by these events. These accounts represent their experiences and interpretations, and some statements reflect opinions that may be emotionally charged. Where appropriate, the reporting team has verified claims through official records or corroborating sources. Nothing in this podcast should be interpreted as a legal conclusion or diagnosis. All subjects are presumed innocent unless convicted in a court of law. This podcast is intended for informational and public interest purposes. This podcast contains audio excerpts from two phone conversations recorded in the states of Georgia and Alabama, respectively. Both recordings were obtained by a third-party source, who acted in accordance with the relevant one-party consent laws of those states, which allow for the lawful recording of a conversation with the consent of one participant. These recordings were subsequently shared with the producers of this podcast after the fact, and were not made by or at the direction of the podcast team or its parent organization. The podcast producers have made good-faith efforts to confirm the legal compliance of the original recordings, and are presenting these materials in the context of public interest reporting. The inclusion of this audio is intended for journalistic, educational, and documentary purposes in alignment with the principles of fair use and First Amendment protections. Listeners are advised that the views expressed in the recordings are those of the individuals speaking and do not necessarily reflect the views of the producers or affiliated entities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

True Story Media

0:05.4

Before we begin, a quick warning that in this show, we discuss child abuse, and this content may be difficult for some listeners.

0:14.7

If you or anyone you know is a victim or survivor of medical child abuse, please go to munchausensupport.com to connect with professionals who can help.

0:26.0

So I am currently on my way to tell my mom and dad about the podcast, and that I'm going to sit down and do it.

0:38.3

Um, and I feel like my fighter flight has kicked in.

0:44.3

I feel like I'm going to throw up.

0:46.3

Um, and I don't know, I've, I've been putting it off for a while.

0:52.3

I have made dates that I planned on doing it and then I changed it for one reason or another.

1:00.0

Um, but I'm just, I'm just tired of feeling like I'm hiding it.

1:07.0

Um, and something my therapist and I have talked about and I've tried to really work

1:13.6

on something she said that just like stuck with me was I have put so much thought and process

1:23.6

and energy into worrying about how this whole thing was going to impact my mom and how it was going to impact her life and what it could potentially do or not do or how she was going to handle it or not handle it.

1:39.3

And my therapist was just like, do you think she honestly stopped to think about the,

1:48.9

with the same amount of care, the number of podcasts that she's been on to tell your brother's story

1:56.0

and to be able to tell her side of things.

2:00.0

Not that she's publicly spoken about anything to do

2:03.0

with my sister or anything to do with like much other than my brother. Lisa McDaniel has done

2:08.0

plenty of interviews about her work at the Guthey Jackson Foundation, but no one's exactly asking her

2:13.3

tough questions. The media coverage of Lisa, in fact, paints her as heroic. As a caregiver,

2:19.8

I feel like you have lost part of the life you knew beforehand, before your loved one got sick,

2:25.3

because your life changes. So that grief is really real. A caregiver mourns their whole way of living,

2:31.6

and I think that grief is very, very real. That's such a great point. It's just so selfless, the work that you do. You put yourself

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