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Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Episode 04: Parents Who Kill: Teghan Skiba
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
She was just four years old when she was locked in a sweltering shed behind a rural trailer, where she was tortured, bitten, whipped with cords, and left to sleep on the floor beside soiled rags. Ten days later, covered in bruises and barely clinging to life, she was carried into an emergency room by the very man who’d caused her cries for mercy.
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Citations:
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Bowen, Janine, and Chad Flowers. “Mother Sentenced in 2010 Death of 4-Year-Old Smithfield Girl.” WRAL.Com, WRAL, 6 Mar. 2019, www.wral.com/story/mother-sentenced-in-2010-death-of-4-year-old-smithfield-girl/18239825/.
JoCoReport.com, Editor. “Judge Sentences Mother to Prison for Role in Death of 4 Year-Old Daughter.” JoCo Report, 8 Mar. 2019, jocoreport.com/judge-sentences-mother-to-prison-for-role-in-death-of-4-year-old-daughter/.
Jurors in Child Abuse Case Shown Photos of Injuries, www.wral.com/video/news/local/video/13479964/. Accessed 3 June 2025.
Mims, Bryan, et al. “Trauma DOC Details Teghan Skiba’s Injuries for Jury.” WRAL.Com, WRAL, 28 Feb. 2014, www.wral.com/doctor-who-treated-teghan-skiba-testifies-/13438387/.
Mims, Bryan, et al. “Trauma DOC Details Teghan Skiba’s Injuries for Jury.” WRAL.Com, WRAL, 28 Feb. 2014, www.wral.com/doctor-who-treated-teghan-skiba-testifies-/13438387/.
NC DAC Offender Public Information, webapps.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1019362&searchLastName=richardson&searchFirstName=Jonathan&searchDOBRange=0&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1. Accessed 3 June 2025.
NC DAC Offender Public Information, webapps.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1019362&searchLastName=richardson&searchFirstName=Jonathan&searchDOBRange=0&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1. Accessed 3 June 2025.
“State v. Richardson.” Justia Law, law.justia.com/cases/north-carolina/supreme-court/2023/272a14.html. Accessed 2 June 2025.
“Teghan Alyssa ‘Teggy’ Skiba (2006-2010) - Find a...” Find a Grave, www.findagrave.com/memorial/210627773/teghan_alyssa-skiba. Accessed 3 June 2025.
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