On May 2nd, 2001, Mary Jean Pearle dropped her two daughters, Faith 6, and Liberty 9, off for their weekly visit with their father, even though they didn’t want to go, Wednesday was his visitation night as stated in their divorce decree. Their father, John Battaglia, was a man who had a long list of domestic abuse charges on his record and probably some jail time was looming over him, several days following this visit.If you would like to support the show, you can buy me a coffee to keep me going!https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Crimeatorium (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Crimeatorium)

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