Suffer the Little Children21 Heinä 2020

Episode 22: AJ Freund: Revisited

*Note: The original version of episode 1 has been replaced with Episode 123: AJ Freund (Mega-Episode).

On April 18, 2019, JoAnn Cunningham and Drew Freund of Crystal Lake, Illinois reported their 5-year-old son, AJ, missing. Days later, police discovered AJ’s bludgeoned body in a shallow grave. JoAnn and Drew were arrested and charged in their son’s murder.

Last week, JoAnn Cunningham, who pleaded guilty in her son’s death, was sentenced to a paltry 35 years in prison despite mountains of evidence that she scapegoated, tortured, berated, and abused little AJ right up till the night he died, when she beat him so viciously with a shower head that the swelling of his brain caused his vital functions to cease. In this episode, you will hear riveting testimony, shocking revelations, and audio presented at the sentencing hearing.

This is the tragic case of AJ Freund, revisited.

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This podcast is written, hosted, and produced by Laine.

AJ’s story was originally featured on Suffer the Little Children Blog.

Music for this episode was created by Laine using sounds from AudioJungle.net.

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