Premium Episode #30 - The Windross Family
Added 2024-09-28 06:19:26 +0000 UTCFor Melbourne couple Dee and Jay Windross, saying goodbye to their terminally ill baby, Amiyah Windross, was the hardest thing they thought they’d ever have to do. But in Amiyah’s final moments, they learned the worst was yet to come.
Team:
Anonymous Host - narration
Eileen Ormsby - research, writing
Milly Raso - creative direction
Mike Migas - production, music
Andrew D.B. Joslyn - music
Comments
A mother to a mother 💔 how could she
Marie Gough
2024-10-02 08:51:29 +0000 UTCCan I ask what you mean please?
Marie Gough
2024-10-02 08:50:07 +0000 UTCAbsolutely heartbreaking 💔
Marie Gough
2024-10-02 08:49:26 +0000 UTCNever underestimate the depravity of a scammer or a thief. All of you saying “I can’t believe…” believe it. People are shit! No scruples. No qualms. No conscience! My heart breaks for Dee and Jay. Rest easy sweet angel, Amiyah.
B-randy D
2024-10-01 14:40:00 +0000 UTCI can’t help but feel like this episode is ragebait and really unnecessary.
Ira Finn
2024-09-30 07:06:54 +0000 UTCCan’t believe that whoever took the phone didn’t hand it back after knowing what it contained. How could someone be that heartless? What’s the most you could make from selling a second hand Samsung? Surely not enough to make adding misery inti an already horrible situation worthwhile.
Shannon
2024-09-30 04:32:15 +0000 UTCSo, lots of people can have low or even no empathy-- it's a common symptom of mental illness as well as autism spectrum disorder, among others. Lacking empathy does NOT mean someone doesn't know the difference between right and wrong, or have no morals, it just means that they can't "feel" how another person feels (not they don't CARE what someone else feels, which is lack of sympathy). Putting aside the bafflingly cruel decision to try to blackmail grieving parents, I can only imagine that woman had some messed up risk/reward values, maybe because of severe trauma and/or intellectual disability. Imagine seeing a candy bar laying on the highway and running into traffic to get it. The complete lack of fear of social ostracization makes me think EXTREME long term neglect as a child, like "locked in a closet" neglect. Maybe jail is the best place for her to learn how to follow social rules like "don't see dying infants as money making opportunities."
Suicide Sauce
2024-09-30 01:46:50 +0000 UTCThis was absolutely depraved and unforgivable. I can’t even comprehend that kind of cruelty.
Mandy G
2024-09-30 00:08:04 +0000 UTCCmon are you serious? That’s ridiculous she deserved everything she got; especially with her history of other scams that weren’t on her record.
will schasser
2024-09-29 22:36:26 +0000 UTCI don’t understand this world we live in. What she did was beyond cruel. Playing on people emotions. The only thing I don’t get though is, why would you even be holding your phone and responding to this woman while you are with the final moments with your child? That would have been the last thing I’d have been doing.
fiona liston
2024-09-29 22:35:55 +0000 UTCWe don’t know that for sure. She has the advantage of not having a record in Australia when she could have committed more serious crimes in her home country. If she had been Australian she probably would’ve been slapped with more charges due to her previous fraudulent activities.
J. Chips
2024-09-29 21:11:04 +0000 UTCThe sentence seems extremely excessive. While her actions were *extremely* cruel… almost four years in prison is way too much, especially since no money was exchanged.
Olive
2024-09-29 17:24:44 +0000 UTCTrue, but these things are only obvious in hindsight. At the time, I think they can be forgiven for overlooking this.
Drew Sturgiss
2024-09-29 12:06:06 +0000 UTCThis was one of the most heartbreaking stories I've ever heard. There's no limit to how callous people can be...
Emma G
2024-09-29 10:06:23 +0000 UTCMy god this made me so mad. She’s crying about letting her children down?? At least she has a child!!!
brock305miller
2024-09-29 02:57:46 +0000 UTCHow unbelievably cruel. This one unnerved me.
Kazza
2024-09-28 23:48:03 +0000 UTCIt's such a scary thought that people like this with no empathy exist.
Cassidy
2024-09-28 23:12:12 +0000 UTCI can’t help feel but these parents put their grief and rage towards this woman and that had she been a white woman the trial would have gone very differently.
Megan
2024-09-28 20:02:14 +0000 UTCWhat a terrible thing to do - this is unbelievable I’m glad this was an episode
Maria center
2024-09-28 19:38:09 +0000 UTCNever had this opinion before, but this didn't really need to be an episode
Abigail Treis
2024-09-28 19:17:45 +0000 UTCGlad she got a harsh sentence. This is the first case I've heard that would not have happened if cloud photo services were utilized
Rich
2024-09-28 18:58:18 +0000 UTCI love that you began and ended the episode talking about Amiyah ♥️ Jay was rightfully worried people would forget about her but now thousands more will hear all about her through Casefile. Great writing Eileen, it was beautifully and respectfully done. May Amiyah rest in eternal peace 🕊️
Monica
2024-09-28 17:53:39 +0000 UTCThis was one of the worst Casefile episode for me, in the sense that it made me feel absolutely awful, I will think about it for a long time. How can people be so cruel? I really hope they get their phone back one day.
Starbucks_Lover
2024-09-28 17:23:27 +0000 UTCOh this one hit me hard. I lost my own baby girl four years ago to a de novo genetic issue. I can't imagine someone invading our last hours with her like this. I listened to it while out walking with my 8mo daughter. Just incredibly sad what that couple went through.
Joan Moore
2024-09-28 15:19:31 +0000 UTCWhat a heartless, immoral and heinous thing to do to anyone, let alone a family battling the worst sort of grief imaginable. I’m sad that this even had to be a story.
Zac
2024-09-28 07:14:40 +0000 UTCPosting early so I have something to listen to straight after the granny? Good one Casey!
SalBee
2024-09-28 06:47:33 +0000 UTC
