The Misery Machine
The Misery Machine
The Misery Machine
The Horrifying Case of Alianna DeFreeze
47 minutes Posted Sep 24, 2026 at 1:23 pm.
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This week, Drew and Yergy head back to Northeast Ohio to discuss the case of Aliana DeFreeze, a 14-year-old schoolgirl with a developmental disability who was tragically kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and brutally murdered in Cleveland, on January 26, 2017. On her way to E Prep & Village Prep Woodland Hills, Alianna boarded an RTA bus but was followed and abducted near East 93rd Street and Kinsman Road. Her body was discovered three days later inside an abandoned home on Fuller Avenue. Christopher Whitaker, a registered sex offender with an extensive criminal history, was linked to the scene via DNA evidence. In March of 2018, he was convicted of aggravated murder, kidnapping, rape, and gross abuse of a corpse. He was sentenced to death. In 2021, Christopher's legal team appealed to change the sentence to life without parole. Alianna’s father, Damon DeFreeze, publicly agreed with a life sentence, stating that death was "too quick" and that he deserved to "sit there and think about what he did."


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