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The Case of Tonia Miller
📻 Episode #478
🎙️ Hosted by Maggie Freleng
📅 Sep 23, 2024
About This Episode
Shortly after 18-year-old Tonia Miller brought her newborn home in Calhoun County, MI in 2001, she noticed something was off. Her baby wouldn’t eat much and she’d often gasp for air. Tonia asked doctors for help to no avail. “I don't know if it was because I was a young, unwed mother of two children…
The Case
Shortly after 18-year-old Tonia Miller brought her newborn home in Calhoun County, MI in 2001, she noticed something was off. Her baby wouldn’t eat much and she’d often gasp for air. Tonia asked doctors for help to no avail. “I don't know if it was because I was a young, unwed mother of two children on Medicaid,” Tonia says. “They didn’t take me serious at all.” Despite Tonia’s efforts to get her baby help, she would die at only 11-weeks-old, and Tonia would spend 18 years in prison for her murder.
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00:04:38“Speaker 4: I was just drawn to her as a person, as Speaker 4: like her energy, and I was like, I want to Speaker 4: hang out with her. You know, she was the older Speaker 4: cool kid to me. Speaker 1: And she kept Wit around even if it annoyed Tanya's”
00:17:01“Speaker 1: Wit was thirteen during Tanya's trial, and she remembers every Speaker 4: Honestly. To sit there and listen to how they portrayed Speaker 4: this person that I've known for so long on a Speaker 4: daily basis, it broke my heart. Speaker 1: What were some of those things that they were saying”
00:29:25“Speaker 5: One line on page seven of the autopsy report, which Speaker 5: was the very last page of the report. The forensic Speaker 5: pathologist who did the autopsy on Alicia after she died, Speaker 5: and he actually noted that Alicia had a cute bronchial Speaker 5: pneumonia pneumonia.”
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