Bonus Minisode #6: Harper Littell
Suffer the Little Children
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🗓️ 29 March 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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A young North Carolina couple lost a baby in what appeared to be a tragic case of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). When their second infant died less than two years later with multiple suspicious injuries, authorities began looking harder at father Zachary Lee Littell.
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| 0:52.9 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to suffer the little children, the true crime podcast, giving voices back to the victims of child abuse, and shining a harsh spotlight on the parents, guardians, and caretakers who silenced them. |
| 1:04.5 | I'm your host, Lane, and this is Patreon exclusive bonus minisode number six, Harper Lattel. |
| 1:11.6 | A young North Carolina couple lost a baby in what appeared to be a tragic case of sudden |
| 1:16.3 | infant death syndrome. When their second infant, Harper, died less than two years later, |
| 1:21.8 | with multiple suspicious injuries, authorities began looking harder at Father Zachary Lee |
| 1:26.2 | Letell. |
| 1:35.7 | On August 4, 2016, Ava Marie Lattel, daughter of 23-year-old Zachary Lee Lattel, and 23-year-old Abigail Niger Bickham, died tragically at the age of eight months. |
| 1:40.1 | Ava's maternal grandmother, Jennifer Niger, told reporters the baby died of sudden infant death |
| 1:44.9 | syndrome, or SIDS, which is possible, even though most SIDS deaths occur in infants between |
| 1:49.9 | one and four months of age, and 90% of these tragic, unexplained deaths occur before babies |
| 1:55.1 | are six months old. Still, SIDS could be the cause of Ava's death, because a child can die |
| 2:00.7 | of SIDS any time within her first year. |
| 2:03.6 | When an autopsy was performed on Ava, the medical examiner noted that some recent lethargy was reported in the history. |
| 2:10.6 | A diagram included in the report described a purple-red bruise on the back of the baby's head. |
| 2:16.3 | The report also made note of scalp contusions, |
| 2:19.1 | describing them as of varying ages, but one was acute, occurring during the period of time |
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