The Misery Machine - These Parents Put Their Children In The Oven... Alive

Starting point is 00:00:00 A beautiful and innocent little girl was repeatedly stabbed and put in a hot oven alive. Her body so badly burned, she had to have a closed casket at her funeral. Her family members told us at the time that Williams felt overwhelmed as a single mother of four. And she remained quiet in court today as all 14 disturbing charges were read aloud. She's a great mom, a great person, a great sister. We just don't know what happened. On March 2nd, 2011, Greenfield, Mississippi Police responded to an emergency call at a first floor apartment around midnight. Inside, they found the charred remains of 3-year-old Tristan Robinson.

Starting point is 00:00:42 Although the coroner pronounced the toddler dead at 102 a.m., he hadn't been dead long. With his actual time of death possibly being around 10 p.m., authorities stated that Tristan's body was still warm when he was removed from the oven, and that he had severe burns on his body as well as head trauma. Tristan's sister was also found at the residence and was removed from the home by the Department of Human Services during the investigation. Tristan's 24-year-old mother, Terry Johnson, was charged in his death after she admitted to placing her son in the oven and turning it on. Her bond was set at $5 million by the Greenville City judge Michael Pruitt. Washington County coroner Methyl Johnson said that she had hoped that Tristan had died from her. head injuries prior to being placed in the oven.

Starting point is 00:01:31 Autopsy results a few days later, however, proved otherwise. According to Johnson, quote, His cause of death was thermal injury as the result of the heat from the stove. We cannot relate if he was conscious or unconscious at the time or not, but the head injury may have indirectly or directly come from him rolling over in the oven, end quote. Johnson said during her many years as coroner, Tristan's case was particularly disturbing. Quote, this is a really sad moment for me.

Starting point is 00:02:05 I've seen a lot of things, but this is one that will stick in my memory for a long, long time. End quote. On April 11, 2012, Robinson was sentenced to life in prison. During her trial, her twin sister Sherry Robinson told new sources that people should not judge her sister. before they know all the facts. She said, quote, she's a great parent, a good person. We don't know what's wrong.

Starting point is 00:02:33 We don't know what happened. Do not sit there and call her a bad mom because that's not what she is, end quote. According to the investigation discovery series Deadly Women, as well as a WordPress site that we found, Robinson was finding it hard to find a father figure for Tristan and didn't have much money, and that she was doing her best to survive on welfare

Starting point is 00:02:53 and learning about the difficulties of motherhood. According to the series, Robinson was living with her best friend, Veronica Chilis, and was battling mental illness. After Veronica moved away, Robinson went to church to seek some assistance. A preacher prayed for her and reassured her that God will help her get through the rough times in her life. Robinson's condition worsened as a result of not getting the proper care that she desperately needed.

Starting point is 00:03:21 The next day, the voices in her head told her that Tristan was the son of Satan who must be defeated. So she put her toddler in the oven to put an end to Satan's malevolent ways. Horrified by what she had done, she called 911 and tried to tell the police that her boyfriend committed the crime. Consumed by remorse, Robinson agreed to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty. So we don't really know how factual that is because investigation discovery tends to embed. bellish stories. And this is the problem with investigation discovery. They will make up details of the story because it's good television. Or they'll change names. Unfortunately, the information we provided you is all that we could dig up from official news sources and court transcripts.

Starting point is 00:04:09 On November 16, 2015, a Houston toddler died from suffering severe burns after she was put in the oven by one of her two three-year-old siblings after their mother, 25-year-old, Raquel Thompson, who was eight and a half months pregnant, and her boyfriend, 21-year-old Cornell Malone, left them alone in their apartment to go get pizza and then visit Malone's brother. The couple had left them unattended for two hours. When Thompson and Malone returned home, they could smell something burning, and the three other kids, the two three-year-olds and a five-year-old, were allegedly crying and pointing to the kitchen. In the kitchen, the oven had tipped over with the oven's door face down on the floor.

Starting point is 00:04:52 Malone uprighted the stove, and the next thing the couple noticed was Josiah Lane on the floor, burned and deceased. The oven had been turned all the way up. Raquel Thompson tried performing CPR when she arrived home, but it was too late as her daughter had already succumbed to her burns. Although not immediately arrested, Thompson and Malone were eventually charged with four counts of endangering a child

Starting point is 00:05:16 and were held on a combined $36,000 bond. The three other children who were living in the apartment were taken into CPS custody with the agency saying it was concerned that the children were often left home alone without adult supervision. The two siblings told investigators with the Texas Child Protective Services that one of them put 19-month-old Josiah Thompson in the oven and the other turned it on and that they made the oven hot and that the baby was kicking the oven door a while inside. The even more tragic part, Desira's grandmother lived in the same apartment. complex and could have watched her, at the very least, checked up on her grandchildren, had she been notified. On October 13th of 2007, Jameel Penn phoned 24-year-old Lamora Williams, the mother of his two boys, two-year-old Kianti and one-year-old Jakarta. The two had separated three months prior after years of tension within their relationship, and Penn hadn't seen his boys in about a month. He

Starting point is 00:06:14 normally got to see them every weekends. Penn had stated that the two of them had clicked when they first met in their late teens. But the relationship got a bit rocky after the birth of their first child. Williams had suffered from mental illness since birth, and after her father was found dead in 2014, things only got worse and worse. William's father was her backbone. He had done everything for her, and when she lost him, she lost the world. Her family described her as a slow learner, who had to be pulled out of public schools and subsequently homeschooled. When she was younger, Lamora Williams exhibited disturbing behavior, such as self-harm, harm directed at her siblings, and removing the heads from her dolls. This behavior followed her into her adulthood.

Starting point is 00:06:59 She would routinely leave her kids home alone and even attempted to cut her own wrists. In fact, Williams' own mother contacted DFACS after the death of her father in order to gain custody of her sons as they were not being fed properly or cared for. Williams, like many mothers, also suffered with some degree of postpartum depression. Recently, Williams had been going through further hardships and had to leave her job the month prior if she could not find a babysitter for her two youngest and also her three-year-old Jamil Jr. However, on that night in October, things took a grim turn. During Penn's phone call with Williams, she told the father, they're dead. After asking who was dead, Penn received a video call initiated by Williams.

Starting point is 00:07:47 She then began to pan her cell phone camera across the room, revealing a gruesome scene in her apartment. Two-year-old Kiante and one-year-old Jakarta were laying on the kitchen floor in front of a tipped-over stove with both their heads inside of the oven, dead. Penn then phoned the police, but Williams didn't stop there. After hanging up with Penn, Williams contacted her friend Nessa Smith and told her that she couldn't do it anymore and that her boys were dead, to which Smith advised her to contact the police. Williams did call 911, and her biggest concern was not the death of her sons. It was the fear of getting into trouble.

Starting point is 00:08:30 More than two minutes and 20 seconds passed before she told the dispatcher where she was located. The dispatcher tried to call Williams and promised to send help, But Williams repeated herself saying it wasn't her fault. Ma'am, I can't even talk. This is so serious. I'm so scared. I don't want to get locked though because I was at work. Okay, ma'am.

Starting point is 00:08:51 I understand that you're scared. I completely understand, but I need to get some help out there to you now. Can you tell me where you're located? I understand that, but can you please help me? Can you please tell me, like, I don't want to get locked up because this is not my fault. I had just came home for work. I just came home for work.

Starting point is 00:09:11 Yes, ma'am. I just came home for work. Eventually, emergency services were dispatched to Williams' Oakland City, West, and apartment on Howell Place in Atlanta. When police arrived at the scene at around 11.30 p.m., Williams advised them that she left her three sons home for 11 hours with a cousin watching them. However, after speaking with Williams' neighbor, it was believed that they were, in fact, left home alone. Williams went on to claim that she arrived home. at 11 p.m. to find both her son's dad. Neighbors also claimed the apartment smelt like death,

Starting point is 00:09:44 indicating that their bodies may have been inside for a few days. The kitchen's oven was seized and entered into evidence for further forensic analysis, and Williams was arrested and held at the Fulton County Jail and was put on 24-hour surveillance to monitor her for self-harm or attempts on her life. Three-year-old Jamil Jr. was also found at the scene unharmed, but it was thought that he may have witnessed what happened to his siblings. Williams was charged with six counts of murder, making a false statement, two counts of aggravated assault, three counts of cruelty to a minor, and concealing a death. The medical examiner could not determine the exact manner of homicide and cause of death, attributing the deaths to violence of unknown causes.

Starting point is 00:10:27 The medical examiner also couldn't rule out that the boys had been strangled before being placed in the oven, but neither of the boy's bodies had broken bones or any blunt force trauma. The boys were not burns, but their bodies were damaged by the electrical oven. According to autopsy reports, quote, these thermal changes appear to be entirely from dry heat and changes from prolonged exposure to that heat. It would require an extensive amount of time for it to get to this degree, end quote. So where does this case stand now? Unfortunately, there hasn't been any update in this case at all. Per jail records, we were able to obtain from the Fulton County Jail,

Starting point is 00:11:06 Lamora is still an inmate in their facility, which means she has yet to be tried and sentenced. It also appears that she's being held on a $19,500 surity bond. In addition to her other charges from the Atlanta Police Department, Williams has also racked up two additional charges while in jail, battery with substantial physical harm and obstruction of a law enforcement officer. And the last news clipping I read on this said she was set for trial. sometime in January of 2019. We are over three years later now. I don't have much sympathy for this person at all,

Starting point is 00:11:46 but this is definitely violating her right to a speedy trial. It seems that's the way with a lot of these cases. Unfortunately, this isn't the only case where we see something like this. So in October of 2018, tragedy struck once again in Mississippi, this time in a small rural town called Shaw. when 48-year-old Carolyn Jones stabbed her 20-month-old granddaughter, Royalty Marie Floyd, and placed her in a hot oven while she was still alive.

Starting point is 00:12:15 The Shaw Police Department stated that Jones's brother came home and made the gruesome discovery and called the police around 7 p.m. on October 15th. According to autopsy reports, royalty died from sharp stab wounds and inhaling heated air, further confirming that she was still alive when she was placed. inside the hot oven. According to police reports, royalty was burnt beyond recognition. According to royalty's mother, Veronica Jones, she's still coming to terms with the fact her own mother is allegedly responsible. According to a post she made on Facebook, quote, Royalty Marie Floyd was the best thing that ever happened to me. She's my one and only daughter,

Starting point is 00:13:02 my first love. The hardest thing that I was the best thing that I, ever had to go through in my life. My heart has been ripped out of my chest. I'm being told that my mother stabbed my daughter and baked her in the oven. But my mother loved my daughter. She always treated royalty like royalty, and everybody that knows us knows that. To my daughter royalty, mommy will always love you, and you will live on in all of our hearts forever, end quote. At the time of royalty's death, Veronica and her partner John Floyd were working and living in Memphis, about a two-hour and 15-minute commute away. Carolyn Jones had offered to watch royalty so the couple didn't have to utilize a daycare provider. Authorities said they had no immediate information about the circumstances leading up to royalty's death.

Starting point is 00:13:53 Police tapes surrounded part of the home in the days after royalty's body was found, and authorities confirmed that Jones was the only person in the home with royalty at the time. A stroller, high chair, and a trash barrel of toys, including a scooter, sat near the curb in front of the house, all of which belonged to royalty. And neighbors have stated that these items had been there at least a week prior to her death. According to Sheriff Calvin Williams, who responded to the Jones home, quote, I've been doing law enforcement for 25 or 26 years now. This is one of the most horrible things I've seen in doing law enforcement, end quote. Carolyn Jones is currently being held at the Boulevard County Jail on a $500,000 bond. A go-fund me set by Veronica Jones raised $6,023 to pay for royalty's funeral expenses.

Starting point is 00:14:47 Now, this next one did not happen here at the States, but it proves that sometimes these things can happen worldwide as well. In January of 2019, 21-year-old Victoria Zagalakova left her 11-month-old son, Maxim Segalikov in the care of her parents, 43-year-old Zana Miyagashava, and her husband, 48-year-old Alexander Miyagashov. The grandparents often watched young Maxim in their home in the Karoy village, located in the Kakasya region, while their daughter worked. But one evening, the grandparents began to drink and became annoyed with Maxim's cries. Rather than comfort the boy, Zana suffocated Maxim until he went silent. And Alexander

Starting point is 00:15:31 placed his lifeless body into the home's wood-burning stove, incinerating him. When Victoria returned home, the young mother found Maxim's remains in the wood stove and immediately contacted authorities. Zana and Alexander were arrested and charged with murder. During their trial, the couple both tried to point the finger at one another. Alexander denied putting his grandson in the stove and told the judge, quote, Your Honor, I did not kill. She killed.

Starting point is 00:15:59 I smoked, went to sleep, then went to the toilet. She told me, I killed our grandson, end quote. Zana claimed that she was heavily asleep, and the last time she saw Maxim, he was alive and well. However, Alexander had a history of doing things similar to this. It was alleged in court that Alexander had previously burned puppies and a cat alive in the same wood stove. According to forensic experts,

Starting point is 00:16:26 Maxim still had a heartbeat before being placed in the stove, and that he had died from 100% burns to his body and exposure to carbon monoxide poisoning. And the penalty for such an act? Alexander was sentenced to 15 years in prison, in Zana 9. On social media, Maxim's mother, Victoria, penned an emotional message,

Starting point is 00:16:48 quote, rest in peace, my beloved son, my dear little son, my pain does not ease even for a minute. How will I cope with it that you are not with me? I can't hug you. Only your photograph is here with your kind and tender look. I look at your picture and you are smiling to me.

Starting point is 00:17:07 I miss you so much, my son. Please come to see me just for one second. Come to see me in my dreams. I know that you see everything now because you are flying so high." End quote. There is one other case that we want to talk about. However, it will be its own episode, and it happens not even 10 minutes.

Starting point is 00:17:29 from us. So that's the case of Angela Palmer. It happened in 1984. I was one years old at the time. And I just remember growing up this idea in my head that I could possibly end up in an oven. It was talked about constantly. Yeah, so many people's parents around here was like, well, if you're not careful, you'll end up like that girl in the oven. And it's just been treated as such a normal thing now. There's not a ton of national coverage on it. But we have quite a bit of information here. And we we were putting an episode together. With the microwave cases, it was important that we found every case possible as you all requested. And I feel as if we found every case that was available online.

Starting point is 00:18:09 But it really made me upset when we were looking into these oven cases, as you guys asked us to do. And there was no mention of Angela Palmer. We are going to try to do this case justice. So that way Angela's story can be told. I will say if you're listening and it's about the end of March or April, wait to the end of this video, there will be a link to the Angela Palmer case and you can listen to our full episode on it. If you appreciate this video, know that we have put a lot of time and effort into it. We put in the amount of time that one would spend at their full-time job every week on one

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The Misery Machine - These Parents Put Their Children In The Oven... Alive

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