When a Child Breaks — The Tragedy of Carly Gregg and Ashley Smylie

Send us Fan Mail This is not an episode about a killer. This is an episode about a 14-year-old girl, a grieving family, a mother who will never come home, and a mental health system that failed everyone in that house on Ashton Way. Ashley Smylie was a dedicated teacher and a mother who loved her daughter. Carly Gregg was a child struggling with dissociation, auditory hallucinations, and medication changes that her family was desperately trying to manage. We are not here to excuse what happened. We are here to ask the harder question — what did we miss, who missed it, and what does justice actually look like when the perpetrator is a mentally ill child who cannot even remember committing the act? Support the show866.910.7499 [email protected]