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“No one could hear them scream.” The babysitter from hell - Christine Falling

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Christine said she heard voices chanting, 'kill the baby, kill the baby.'

1. Murder, Mystery & Makeup covers Christine Falling, the babysitter from Perry, Florida, whose case centers on infant deaths from 1980 to 1982. 2. Bailey Sarian hosts the episode and narrates the case while doing her makeup, using a true-crime format with commentary and side notes. 3. The episode asks how Christine Falling was able to harm children repeatedly while doctors, police, and families missed the pattern. 4. Christine Laverne Slaughter was born in 1963 in Perry, Florida, to 16-year-old Anne and 65-year-old Thomas. 5. Thomas was described as a woodsman who was inattentive and violent, and Anne repeatedly disappeared for months at a time. 6. Christine and her sister Carol were later adopted by Jesse Falling after neglect and poverty in their birth home. 7. Christine and Carol said Jesse Falling physically and sexually abused them, and Jesse was arrested twice on sexual abuse allegations involving Carol. 8. A church pastor noticed problems in the Falling home and sent the sisters to Great Oaks Village in Orlando, a group foster home for abused and neglected children. 9. Christine said she liked Great Oaks, but caretakers described her as a habitual liar, a compulsive thief, and someone who broke rules for attention. 10. Bailey says Christine killed small animals, including cats, by dropping them from heights and strangling them. 11. Christine was also described as developmentally disabled, obese, epileptic, and limited to developmental skills beyond a sixth-grade level. 12. After one year at Great Oaks, Christine and Carol were sent back to the Falling family, where the abuse continued. 13. Christine later ran away after Jesse Falling beat her badly and forced her to wear shorts to school so other people could see the bruises. 14. At 14, Christine married a man in his 20s, and the marriage ended in about six weeks after daily beatings and a fight involving a 25-pound stereo. 15. Between those years, Christine was hospitalized 50 times for hallucinations, red dots in her eyes, menstrual concerns, and claims of snake bites. 16. At 17, she became a babysitter, and the first child discussed was Cassidy Johnson, who later died after hospital staff could not reconcile the story with the autopsy findings. 17. Jeffrey Davis, Joseph Springer, Kyle Summerlin, Charles, Jeffrey Heil, Jennifer Daniels, William Swindle, and Travis Coleman are all named as people who died or were hospitalized in her care. 18. Bailey emphasizes that several deaths were initially classified as myocarditis, viral infection, SIDS, heart attack, or natural causes, while one note warning police about Christine was lost. 19. The episode is conversational, heavily narrated, and uses Bailey’s commentary, repeated reactions, and quoted phrases like 'five youngins' and 'kill the baby.' 20. People interested in Florida true crime, childcare abuse cases, and case failures will get the most from it; listeners wanting a non-narrated procedural case may skip it.

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