AJ Friend
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Five‑year‑old victim, son of Andrew and Joanne
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentNarratorTrue Crime with Rachel Shannon · His Cries for Help IGNORED: How MONSTER Parents BRUTALLY Mur... · 37:33 · May 2025
…and what police would discover in the weeks after this missing person's report is absolutely horrendous. By April 24th, 2019, six days after he was reported missing, the body of five-year-old little AJ Friend was discovered. He was found in Woodstock, about seven miles away from his home in Crystal Lake, Illinois. He was found buried in a shallow grave wit…
NarratorTrue Crime with Rachel Shannon · His Cries for Help IGNORED: How MONSTER Parents BRUTALLY Mur... · 15:38 · May 2025
…After that started, a judge ordered that Andrew and Joanne could see AJ once a week under supervision. During those visits, a caseworker reported that they were loving and appropriate towards AJ. Then both Andrew and Joanne completed an intensive outpatient drug treatment program. After that, they went to ongoing individual and group counseling sessions.…
NarratorTrue Crime with Rachel Shannon · His Cries for Help IGNORED: How MONSTER Parents BRUTALLY Mur... · 15:14 · May 2025
…She said that she would do whatever it took to get AJ back, so she agreed to do drug treatments, counseling, random drug testing, and parenting classes. This was the start of the process for working with DCFS to get AJ back. The goal was that within a year, AJ would be reunified with his biological family given that they could provide him a happy, safe home…
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