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Bailey Sarian (0:00)
Hi, friends. How are you today? I hope you're having a good day. Are you? My name is Bailey Sarian, and today's Monday, which means it's Murder Mystery and Makeup Monday if you're new here. Hi, my name is Bailey Sarian, and on Mondays, I sit down and I talk about a true crime story that's been heavy on my noggin. And I do my makeup at the same time. Let's get into today's story. The babysitter from hell. Oh, there's kids in today's story, so just a little heads up. All right, here we go with this one. Because I was like, how did this go on for so long? And nobody, like, said anything. And I'm always surprised. And it's like, why am I still surprised? But I'm always still surprised. Today we are covering the case of Christine Falling. Who from the years of 1980 to 1982, she had killed five infants and one elderly man. She attempted to murder three other infants during this time. Luckily, she was unsuccessful. But this crazy ass bitch got away with so much. So much. So here we go. Great. So Christine Laverne Slaughter later should be falling, but her last name was Slaughter. Already not off to a great start. Okay. She was born in 1963 in Perry, Florida. Now, Christine did not have a great life and upbringing. So Christine's mom, her name was Anne. Well, she was only 16 at the time of Christine's birth. By the time Christine was born, Ann already had another daughter named Carol, who was Christine's older sister. So, okay. Young. Yes. And it doesn't make it better that Christine's father, Anne's husband, his name was Thomas. And Thomas was 65. Yep. So not great. Sure, we can all agree on that. Not great. 65 and a 16 year old. Wow. Thomas, he worked as a woodsman and he did things in the wood. He did things in the woods. And he was known to be inattentive and violent. Okay. Christine's early childhood was marked by, like, persistent poverty and neglect. And despite Ann having two young daughters at home, she would go missing for like, months at a time. Yeah, she would just up in Leith. Sometimes Ann would return pregnant, and sometimes she just wouldn't return at all. In the two years following Christine's birth, Ann would go on to have two more children, two boys, Michael and Earl. Earl, A name you don't hear too often. Earl. So of all four of the children, the dad, Thomas, he. He would only claim that Earl, the youngest of all four of them, was his actual biological son. So with that being said, like, he treated all the other kids like shit, and that was his excuse that they weren't his. So even after she had her two young sons, Ann, she would still disappear. She would go missing. You know, it is what it is. And I guess during her absence, Thomas, the dad, would take the children with him out in the woods where he worked and, like, make them help him with the work. I guess there was one day when Thomas was out working with the kids and he suffered from, like, a major back injury, something like that. But because of this injury, Ann was forced to come back and, like, rejoin the family because he needed help and he couldn't take care of the family alone. But instead of it being, like, good that Anne was around more, it only resulted in just more, like, constant conflict in the house. Everyone was fighting all the time, and everyone was just angry. So not great. So when Christine was four, Ann and I guess Thomas could no longer afford to care for her. So Christine and her sister Carol were adopted by the Falling family. So the Fallings, they were a religious bunch, you know, but Christine's time with them, I guess, was just filled with more pain and more suffering. Both Christine and Carol would say that they were subjected to physical and sexual abuse by their adopted father. His name was Jesse Falling. So they came out, the two girls, they spoke out saying that they were being abused and assaulted. And the Fallings, they denied the allegations, you know, saying that the girls were lying. Jesse ended up getting arrested twice for sexually abusing Carol. But the allegations, they were dropped. And I guess, like, one had gone to trial, and it ended with a hung jury. And the second charge resulted in just, like, it was just dropped. So, like, nothing came from it. So the Falling family still had the two girls, and, like, their home was just very toxic. It was said that they would go to church, right? And the local, like, church pastor noticed something was going on, and then he finally stepped in and intervened. And as a result, Christine and her sister Carol were sent to Great Oaks Village in Orlando, Florida. And this was like a group foster home specifically designated for neglected and abused children. Christine would later comment on how much she enjoyed her time at Great Oaks. Her caretakers, though, they had something else to say. They described Christine as a habitual liar, a compulsive thief, and as someone who would often break rules to get attention. I guess Christine's relationship with the other children at the foster home, I couldn't, like, find too much. But what was said was that people that encountered her said that she was horrific. Yeah, I Guess Christine was known for her violent behavior. And I mean, I'm talking violent because she would literally kill animals. Small animals. Oh yes, she would. Which we all know is not a great sign. But she would take cats. Yeah. And she would drop them from like super high up from I don't know how many, how many stories this building was, but she would go to great heights and then she would drop them because she wanted to test the cat's nine lives. She was also caught a handful of times strangling cats because that's how she showed them her quote, unquote love.