The Misery Machine
The Misery Machine
The Misery Machine
The Case of Erika Murray
24 minutes Posted Aug 15, 2023 at 2:26 pm.
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This week, Drewby and Yergy travel to Blackstone, Massachusetts, to discuss the case of Erika Murray, a  mother of seven with a dark secret. After delivering two children, her partner, Ramon Rivera, didn't want any more kids. But after finding herself pregnant five more times, Erika gave birth to the babies in her bathroom at night, hiding the deceased infants in a closet and pretending the two surviving ones were children she was babysitting. But her secret was revealed to the public on  August 27th, 2014, after a neighbor entered the Murray home... 

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