The Misery Machine - The Case of Big Lurch

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Antron Singleton, more commonly known as Big Lurch, an up-and-coming figure in the horrorcore and gangsta rap scenes. In April 2002, while under the heavy influence of PCP, Big Lurch murdered his 21-year-old roommate, Tynisha Ysais, in her apartment in Los Angeles, California. Police found Big Lurch naked and covered in blood, wandering the street, while Tynisha's body was discovered with her chest torn open and her right lung removed. In addition, medical examiners found human flesh in Big Lurch's stomach that did not belong to him.Support Our Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PayPal: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join Our Facebook Group: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://t.co/DeSZIIMgXs?amp=1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram: miserymachinepodcastTwitter: misery_podcastDiscord: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/kCCzjZM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠#themiserymachine #podcast #truecrimeSource Materials Available Upon Request.

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but eventually changed it to Big Lurch. This was a tribute to the towering butler from the Adams family, as Antron grew to be about six and a half feet tall. We will go between calling him Antron and Lurch throughout this video. Poor girl. Lurch. Was she in there before you baked? Lurch became a father in April of 1995, naming his son after him. didn't stop his dreams of becoming famous. He didn't believe he could make it as a rap artist in Texas, so he moved to California as the West Coast rap scene was in a very pivotal moment, and Lurch hoped to capitalize on that. He partnered with two other artists, Marvin Selman and Ricardo Thomas, also known as Dooney Baby and Rick Rock, respectively. Together, they formed the music group

Cosmic Slop Shop. They released one album in 1998 called The Family. The group disbanded in 1999, and Lurch immediately worked towards a solo career. He had said that he had said that, he constantly believed that superstardom was just out of reach for him. Lurch signed to the record label Stress Free Records along with Black Market Records in some sources and claims to have had a professional relationship with Death Row Records and its CEO, Marion Shug Knight. Stress Free Records was owned by lawyer Milton Grimes, who represented Rodney King in the early 1990s. Milton Grimes was somewhat of a celebrity himself, and he will become a very important part of the story later in the video.

In 2000 on his 24th birthday, a drunk driver rear-ended Antron. He suffered many injuries, including a broken neck. The hospital gave him a cocktail of medicine to ease his pain, but when he was discharged, he was still in so much pain that he couldn't walk. Now, in his younger years, he had smoked PCP, which gave him a numbing feeling. PCP can have a numbing effect, but as you might be aware, it can make you hallucinate. So on September 16th, I had a car accident. A drunk driver hit my car, I broke my neck.

When I got out, you know, I couldn't walk or nothing. I was really feeling a lot of pain. So what I did was, you know, I started smoking PCP. I smoked it two or three times when I was younger and got that numb and feeling. So I was using PCP as an anesthesia. Antron hallucinated while he was high, and he was high often, with some claiming that it was all the time. When the highs subsided and the world went back to the way it was,

he felt disoriented, over-stimulated, and ravenous. At the time, Antron was acquainted with a couple in southeast L.A., Thomas Moore and Tenetia Sias. Thomas is sometimes referred to as Forrest, depending on who's talking about him. Lurch and Thomas knew each other from the music scene. Anisha wanted to become a professional model. One of her most striking features was her smile. Her friends nicknamed her Pocahontas, and one said about her, no matter what was going on in her life, she knew how to keep smiling. She was a mother of two children.

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A woman was brutally murdered and only one man was officially held accountable. But it's upon closer inspection that pieces don't exactly. fit, and so many people speculate to fill in these blanks. Some things were amended retroactively. For example, Tanisha is more often than not described as Antron's roommate and friend. However, other timelines describe how Antron visited Tynisha's boyfriend Thomas to get high together. It gets confusing pretty quickly when so many sources describe conflicting details.

Despite this, we'll try to describe as many accounts as possible in an effort to be impartial, objective and thorough. The 2011 documentary Rhyman Punishment says Lurch was living in a dope house with gang members in Los Angeles, though other accounts say he lived alone. Here, the Rhyman Punishment documentary say the gang members encouraged him to get high to the point of a blackout. This is something that Lurch claims as well. You know, the guys who I thought was my friends, you know, they start passing the PPP around. You know, we start smoking the PPP, and they just kept feeding it to me and feed it to me. But in the same thing I remember, I woke up in jail with a murder.

When the police got, I'm not going to say it wasn't. Do I know what happened, no, because I was really that high? But in the timeline described in court, Lurch and Thomas smoked PCP together either late at night on April 8, 2002, or in the early morning of April 9th. The next morning, his high wore off. His chronic pain came back and he was desperate for another fix. There wasn't anything in his apartment, so he drove back to Thomas and Tunisia's apartment to get his hands on more PCP.

Tanisha was alone. Thomas was out and her children were in school and her pit bull was stuck in the bedroom. Lurch either high or coming down from a high or believing the devil was in Tanisha. Some combination of the three led to him attacking her. He unfortunately will never truly know what was the motive or the exact details of what happened. But the official story is that he snatched a knife from the counter, stabbed her, tore out one of her lungs and took a bite out of it. A woman named Alyssa Allen was friends with Tanisha, and she lived close by. Alyssa looked out the window and saw a naked, blood-soaked man running down the street, coming from the same direction as Tanish's apartment.

Melissa reported what she saw to the police. She then went straight over to the apartment to check on her. She was heard screaming when she walked in to see her friend dead and brutally mutilated. Police found a naked, big lurch running down the street. He had Tanish's blood on him. He was carrying one of her organs. in some accounts. When officers approached him, he was staring at the sky and barking. He thrashed and growled as they placed him in handcuffs. Medical professionals found flesh and blood in his stomach

that was not his own. It was comatose for two weeks, which is a side effect of high doses of PCP. He came to, he seemed to have no memory of what happened. There's a rapper one moment and a murder defendant the next. Tanisha's autopsy revealed the blade of a knife lodged near her left shoulder. She had a fractured eye socket, a broken neck, and a broken jaw. One of her lungs was missing. One of the detectives later testified that Tenicia had bite marks on her face and lungs. They matched these bite marks to Antron. Now, it is worth noting that forensic bite mark analysis is under the umbrella of pseudoscience

and does not provide accurate data. The National Institute of Standards and Technology describes why in this case. patterns of anterior teeth or the front teeth are not unique enough person to person. Since human skin is so fragile, any movement can distort a bite mark and therefore affect the accurate readings. Wounds, even when inflicted post-mortem, can disfigure from a multitude of factors like swelling, temperature, or blood circulation, even to composition. In the rhyme and punishment documentary, Tunisia's mother, Carolyn Stinson said, They wouldn't let me see the body, but I had a cousin that was going to be a corner, and she was down there, and she was saying, Carolyn, you don't need to come down here. You don't need to see this because it's worse than they say it. As part of his legal defense, Big Lurch said death row records gave him illegal drugs to make the marketable gangster rapper persona.

After this, Tanish's mother, Carolyn Stinson, filed a wrongful death suit against stress-free records and death row records. Carolyn believed what Antron... Have no fear. Chosen Foods is here to defend your favorite foods from the forces of seedy oils and sketchy ingredients. With cooking oils, salad dressings, and mayo

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Part of what makes a gangster rap artist marketable is the fact that the artist is a current ongoing participant in violent gang activities. Antron met this criteria and was even more marketable because his songs were as violent as his lifestyle and included murder and ended with him eating his victim's body organs. Shug Knight himself, the then CEO of Death Row Records, wasn't shy about offering comments. He denied having ever met Big Lurch, much less having a professional relationship with him. He said in part, I don't know this guy.

Nobody from our company knows this guy. I never even heard this guy rap. They're just looking to get paid. It's not only just slander, it's fraud. He continued, not only is this slanderous, I think it is criminal to lie to shake somebody down for money. Big Lurch's record label didn't comment publicly on the lawsuit. Carolyn dropped the lawsuit shortly after initially filing it,

perhaps due to a lack of resources. However, she has never walked back her statements. She made her beliefs known once again in rhyme and punishment. This time, she blatantly named who she thought was responsible. As far as her boyfriend, he was a gay member. I believe he didn't want to set all this up. He was beating on her. She had all her stuff packed, ready to leave the day all this happened.

She got hit in the back of the neck with one of the little kid's scooters because a handprint was on the scooter, bloody hamprint. But they said they didn't know who that was. But it wasn't his. She didn't smoke the PCP. it was like somebody pulled it down, you know, the bottle was pulled down her throat because she had so much in her system,

they said ain't no way she could have smoked that much. There was evidence there like footprints, fingerprints, fingerprints on doors, you know, bloody fingerprints, you know, shoe at the back door, you know, and it's like where all this evidence go. It was DNA, who DNA was? They said DNA came up lost. Then the police said they caught big lurchy,

running down the street, bud naked covered with her blood. But when they showed it on TV, he wasn't covered with blood. You know, it was just, you know, like from him knowing on her lung, it was like, you know, drops of blood like on here and he had a little, the tissue on his beard. They saying he was high, she was high. So they made it look like he did all this work to her. There's no way he could have done that work because the way she was messed up,

hatred had to be in there and like he said he didn't hate her prosecution did not believe that Antron was too inebriated to know what he was doing there were multiple witnesses who stated Antron asked them to leave and he waited until after he was alone with

Tunisia to strike Antron's lawyer was Milton Grimes his boss and the owner of one of his record labels he argued that Antron's history with mental health and addiction were mitigating factors he detailed how Antron was hospitalized for a drug-induced psychosis, which gave him hallucinations and left him out of his mind. Milton Grimes told the jury, PCP affects the brain to where people go back to their primal state.

You can do the acts of a beast because you don't have the conscience of a human being. And that's where this man was when he took this woman's life. Alyssa Allen testified for the prosecution during the preliminary hearing near tears as she described how she found Tanisha. Carolyn Stinson was in the back of the courtroom when the detective described her daughter's body. She said, they told me not to believe the rumors, but they were true. Thomas Moore testified that he and Antron smoked PCP the night before Tanisha died. One of the defense's witnesses, a psychiatrist who evaluated Antron, said his mental capacity had diminished due to his PCP use.

When the trial began, the prosecution did not accept that Antron Singleton wasn't mentally sound when Tanisha died. Drew Jossfen, the deputy district attorney, cited a law from the 1990s that stated a defendant could not use the insanity defense if their mental state was caused by drug use. Antron tried to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, but the jury was not swayed. They only deliberated for an hour before they returned their guilty verdict for aggravated mayhem, first-degree murder, and torture. Judge Jack W. Morgan handed him two life sentences served consecutively and without the chance for parole. Antron tried appealing in 2005, but the courts upheld their previous decision.

There was some conflicting evidence that was never mentioned in court. For example, there was a bloody hamprint on a scooter that didn't match lurches, and there was DNA at the scene that didn't match Lurch or Tynisha. It's been alleged that Tynisha was hit in the back of the head with that scooter. Also, Tynisha allegedly had a very high amount of PCP in her system. Not only was she not smoking PCP that night, but the amount she had in her system was more than could have possibly entered her system through smoking.

Tanish's mother Carolyn believes that somebody poured it down her throat, somebody who wasn't big lurch. Carolyn has been adamant that the real killer was not lurch, but her boyfriend Thomas Forrest Moore, who Tynisha was preparing to leave due to a DV situation. It was also alleged that the house they were living in was full of guns and drugs, but that everything illegal was cleaned out the day Tanisha was killed,

well before the incident happened. Doing so would have taken hours and hours to do so. something that Tanish's mother points to as suspicion that the killing was planned by someone other than Lurch. None of this was ever mentioned in court. What's also interesting is that Big Lurch claims that his lawyer of Milton Grimes advised him to admit to what happened and plead insanity, that this strategy would ensure he would do the least amount of time in prison. Stay with me because the case gets even weirder from here. To be clear, Milton Grimes wasn't some day one public defender.

He's actually a very reputable attorney dating as far, back as the 90s where he represented Rodney King and the later two dismissed panelists for the OJ Simpson trial, Jeanette Harris and Willie Craven. He also represented five defendants in capital punishment cases. There's also a regular on Larry King Live as well as made TV appearances on Oprah and Phil Donahue. Opinions on him were polarizing, but this was a lawyer who was no stranger to the spotlight and knew what was at stake if he handled the trial improperly. This is why his strategy to have Big Lurch plead not guilty by reason of insanity, is really surprising. To quote California Penal Code Part 1, Title 1, 29.4a,

no act committed by a person while in a state of voluntary intoxication is less criminal by reason of his or her having been in that condition. Evidence of voluntary intoxication shall not be admitted to negate the capacity to form any mental states for the crimes charged, including, but not limited to, purpose, intent, knowledge, premeditation, deliberation, or malice of forethought, with which the accused committed the act, with 29.4C clarifying, voluntary intoxication includes the voluntary ingestion, or taking by any other means of intoxicating liquor, drug, or other substance. 29.4 is the only section I could find that addressed voluntary intoxication as it relates to being

liable for punishment of a crime. To be clear, I'm not a lawyer, but based on my layman's understanding of the California Penal Code, Big Lurch could not have been found not guilty by reason of insanity due to his PCP intoxication, especially since it was clear that he had taken it of his own volition. There are people who debate whether or not he was coerced, but there was no known evidence that it was forced upon him that night. I'm sure Milton Grimes was clear on this, so why did he push for a defense that was, in all likelihood, destined to fail?

He was even aware of Big Lurch's bipolar disorder diagnosis years before the murder, which could have been a useful thing to mention in a court case where the defense's strategy involves mental health. However, he never brings it up once during the trial. Big Lurch claims that Milton Grimes had picked him up from being released from a mental institution twice, and if that's true, then there's no way he could have forgotten this. It should also be noted that Milton Grimes lost a malpractice lawsuit in 2004 to his former client, Lorraine Harris. Grimes had taken over a wrongful death lawsuit against the Gardena Police, where Harris's son, Dexter Herbert, was killed in a raid.

Jurors ruled that Attorney Grimes was negligent in his duties by allowing the case to be dismissed and also failing to appear for a hearing. In an article I found from 2004 also mentioned that Milton Grimes had been suspended twice from practicing law. One time was for not paying his dues to the California state bar, and the second was for undisclosed disciplinary reasons. Apparently, it's pretty hard to be disbarred in the state of California, I guess. This wasn't the last time that Milton Grimes would be in hot water either, and we'll get to what happened to him in 2025 later in the video. Now, as far as Big Lurch is concerned, he said he was put on the medication Haldol for the trial.

This is quite commonly a treatment for acute psychosis. And having talked to medical professionals, it's not exactly out of the ordinary to have a defendant on Haldol during the treatment. But usually the justification is the fear that the defendant will get violent in the courtroom. And given the crimes Lurch was accused of, I can see why this wouldn't have been. a hard sell. However, Lurch said the trial was a blur for him and feels that him being medicated to the extent that he was made him look very bad to the jury. His chances for public redemption were not very promising, and after his sentence, they were made worse. His record label Black Market Records released his first and only solo album. Lurch originally called it the puppet master,

but the label published it under the title, It's All Bad, which was completely against his wishes. They also photoshopped a picture of Lurch holding a silver platter with a skull, on it, also against his wishes, which you'll see on screen right now. Clearly, this was an attempt to capitalize on the controversy of this. One of these songs was titled, I Did It to You. It was also played in the courtroom for the jury during the trial. Big Lurch currently has a page on Spotify. The earliest activity dates back to 2022, with most of the activity occurring in 2025. The album's copyright belongs to 3XL Entertainment, which seems to be a label belonging to his son, Antron Singleton, Antron Jr., who calls himself a man, was a young child when his father was arrested,

but the two maintained a connection as he grew older. Today, he is one of his father's most vocal supporters. He believes Big Lurch was framed and that Tanish's boyfriend plotted to kill her and got away with it. Antron Jr. acquired the rights to his father's music and established the label 3XL entertainment. He often pleads his father's case on his social media, along with sharing his childhood photos and links to Big Lurch songs. In April of 2025, Milton Grimes was arrested and tried for two decades' worth of tax evasion. Grimes used cashier's checks and took funds from his IOLTA account, his client's trust account,

and his law firm's bank account to hide what he owed from the IRS. He was given 18 months in a federal prison and was told to pay more than $7 million to the IRS in the California franchise tax board. Tyler Hatcher of L.A.'s criminal investigations said about Milton Grimes, and I quote, as a successful attorney and owner of a law practice, Mr. Grimes was well aware of his income tax obligations, which he repeatedly chose to evade. Despite multiple attempts by the IRS to help him settle his tax obligations, Mr. Grimes continued to obfuscate his income. Unfortunately for him, IRS criminal investigation special agents are the best financial investigators

in the world. And now he will feel the repercussions of his actions. In February of 2024, a petition on change.org was created to spread awareness about the free Big Lurch movement. The movement is led by his son Antron Jr. The description of the change.org petition alleges many things such as inconsistent evidence and mistreatment while behind bars. Recently, in September of 2025, he created a GoFundMe fundraiser called Support Antron Singleton Jr. in preserving Big Lurch's legacy. Similarly to the petition, the fundraiser makes some claims about Big Lurch's mistreatment,

though it focuses on black market records allegedly profiting from his music. Today, Antron Singleton Senior is still incarcerated. He is not eligible for parole. It's been two decades since his sentence and there are no indications of him ever getting a retrial anytime soon. Despite his incarceration, he has been very responsive to interviewing queries and mail. I want to give a very special shout out to Maddie Balls, was kind enough to share some things with us that he found in his research that we were unable to find.

If you want to see his coverage of Lurch's case or see other well-researched videos on controversy surrounding music and pop culture, his channel will be in the description and the pin comment. When I was researching this case, I couldn't help but think of one of our first videos that we ever did, and that was on Joe Methany. Joe claimed he had a double-digit body count in that he not only cannibalized some of his victims, but also serve their remains to customers at his burger stand in Baltimore. What we were able to find in our research is that Joe was able to operate for as long as he was due to organized crime. If you'd like to see that video, please click here to see it.