True Crime with Rachel Shannon
Chained, Tortured, and Starved: The WORST Case of Abuse That Will Make you Cry: Malinda Hoagland
20 May 2025
This is the tragic and infuriating story of Malinda Hoagland, a 12-year-old girl who was subjected to unimaginable abuse and torture at the hands of those she was supposed to trust the most. We'll delve into the details of the case, revealing the numerous red flags missed that allowed the horrific abuse to continue.Go watch my other episodes on Spotify: The Disturbing Case of Stephanie ParzeShe Tried to Warn Them About her Son, Then he was MURDERED. THE CASE OF GUNNAR SCHUMACHER7 Year old’s Strange Death Reveals Mom’s DISGUSTING Secret: Did She Starve her for Attention?!Thank you guys for watching, hope to see you next time!
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Today's case involves the story of two low-life pathetic excuses for human beings who never should have had the chance to be around an innocent 12 year old little girl. Melinda Hoagland experienced things straight out of a nightmare and even though there were so many red flags, so many adults in her life who could have stepped in, no one did.
And as a result of this inaction, these adults turning their cheek away from the signs that were right in front of them, Melinda is no longer with us. Melinda Hoagland was born on July 4th, 2011, to Rondalyn Smith and Rendell Hoagland in Strudesburg, Pennsylvania. Melinda had three older half-siblings, Emily, who is 15 years older, Abby, 11 years older, and Jamie, who is 10 years older.
I believe they all had the same father, but different mothers. According to her sisters, Melinda lived her early years with her father in the Poconos in Pennsylvania, while her sisters lived with their mothers. Melinda was always known as a bright, bubbly child who absolutely loved springtime in the Poconos, always catching butterflies and lightning bugs.
She saw her sisters on a regular basis, especially on holidays and during the summer months. Melinda loved her sisters so very much, and they loved her just as much. However, it seemed that the close relationship Melinda had with her sisters all changed once Rendell got a new girlfriend, Cindy Warren, who he met through Facebook dating in 2019.
As soon as Cindy entered their lives, the sisters felt that something was off, so they looked into her past and what they found was concerning, to say the least. They found that about 10 years prior, in 2009, Cindy Warren and her then-husband pleaded guilty to charges of child abuse regarding their then-three-year-old son, Isaiah.
In this case, it was reported that they would lock Isaiah in his bedroom for hours on hours at a time as punishment. When he wasn't locked away, they would beat him with a belt or force him to walk up and down the stairs repeatedly with his hands over his head.
Cindy eventually told the courts that her husband, McKinley, was the one doing most of the abuse, but she watched it happen and never did anything about it. I'm not sure exactly what her punishment for this was, but it appears that Cindy did eventually regain custody of Isaiah. but that's not all these people were involved with.
It was reported that once investigators looked into Isaiah's case, they were able to gather more evidence regarding a prior case involving McKinley's then two-year-old daughter, Jessica, who he had from a previous relationship, but who was living with McKinley and Cindy when they were together. Back in 2000, McKinley had beat his
After charging him with child abuse from Isaiah's case, there was enough evidence to charge him with little Jessica's death as well. McKinley pleaded guilty to both charges and is currently serving 25 to 30 years for little Jessica's death. But from this, we can already see that this woman is bad news.
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