The death of Christian Andreacchio

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21-year-old Christian Andreacchio always had a love of the water & in February 2014, he was on track to becoming one of the youngest towboat captains on the Mississippi River when he suddenly died of a gunshot wound to the head. After a forty-five minute police investigation, it was determined that his manner of death was suicide while his family remain convinced that he was murdered & continue to fight for justice.

Christian was born on November 4, 1992 to parents Todd & Rae & he grew up along Dalewood Shore Lake in Lauderdale, Mississippi with two brothers & a sister, Josh, Shelton & Alexa.

His family described Christian as a considerate person who often sent his mom pictures of the sunrise or sunset while he was away on the boat for work just to share the beauty with her. He was a loyal friend & a family-oriented person who fought for what was right. A co-worker said Christian would set his boots on fire to get a smile out of people. He worked hard but played harder, he was the life of the party, the center of the fun & he loved spending time at his family’s lake house, riding Jet Skis, dirt bikes & being outside with his friends.

Since the age of 18, Christian had been working on a towboat, making good money & was well on his way to fulfilling his dream of becoming one of the youngest captains at Magnolia Marine by age 27. Not only was he driven, but according to Rae, their son had an immense joy for life.

Christian’s line of work, however, was not meant for the faint of heart since over the course of 12 months, he was working 9 months of the year & only off only a total of 3 months. Not only was he working on a towboat, but as was his brother Josh. As part of their job, they would go on what’s known as a hitch, a 30-day work trip along the Mississippi where they each worked as a first mate on their respective boats.

Being away for long stretches of time put a strain on Christian’s five-year relationship with his high school sweetheart, Avery. Because they were in two very different places in life at the time with Avery focusing on school while Christian was working toward becoming a captain, they made the decision to break-up.

It was only shortly after this relationship ended when Christian began dating a much younger girl who was from his same friend circle, 17-year-old Whitley Goodman.

According to Rae & Todd, Whitley initially came off as a sweet, cute, blond girl, but as time went by, they quickly grew concerned about the relationship. They got the feeling that their son wanted to take care of Whitley since her childhood was described as very chaotic.

For a time, Rae & Todd allowed Whitley to move into their family home, but after a few weeks into this living arrangement, Rae was relaxing in her room when Whitley marched in & handed her a photo saying, That’s what I think of it. Confused, she began to look more closely & was stunned to realize that Whitley had defaced a photo they had out in their home of Christian & his ex-girlfriend, Avery; she stabbed their faces out in a fit of jealousy. This incident left Rae & Todd feeling very unsettled, but the final tipping point was when they discovered she’d given Christian’s younger sister a Xanax after they found her alone in the basement, very much out of it. This was the point they asked her to move out.

Christian, being loyal to his girlfriend, told his parents that if Whitley wasn’t welcome in their home, then neither was he. The couple moved into unit 801 of the Willow Ridge Apartments where Christian’s brother Josh lived. Since Josh had recently gone through a divorce, he had an extra room in his 700 square foot apartment.

Initially, Josh was under the assumption that Christian was moving in by himself & Whitley would come by to stay when Christian was home, off the boat, but he soon realized she was living there full-time. When Josh & Christian were both gone during a hitch, Whitley had the apartment to herself.

This living arrangement made Rae very uneasy since she knew that her son was not only funding their apartment, but also the BMW Whitley drove as well as her clothes, makeup & anything else she needed. Rae worried that Whitley may have been using Christian since she was jobless after she dropped out of high school to become a hair & makeup artist.

At one point during their six-month relationship, Whitley questioned if she was pregnant. This was right around a time when Christian fell overboard while he was working, only months before his death. Since his line of work was dangerous, it wasn’t unusual for someone as young as Christian to have a life insurance policy, something his company paid for.

After this incident, Whitley began talking to Christian about being the beneficiary of his policy so she could be sure that she & their baby would be taken care of in the event that something happened to him. When Christian discussed this idea with his parents, they strongly advised him not to do this.

After his death, Rae discovered that Christian’s life insurance policy named her as the primary beneficiary while Avery was still listed as the secondary, something she suspects Whitley found out about & got angry. In the end, Whitley wasn’t pregnant & Christian never listed her as a beneficiary.

Those close to Christian described his relationship with Whitley as one that was obsessive. When Christian was out on the boat, they talked on the phone constantly & when he was home, they were often holed up in the apartment, on the couch, playing Xbox. This was very unlike Christian, who was typically out & about with friends when he wasn’t working. Despite the fact that their relationship was perceived to be toxic & the fact that there were major trust issues, each having cheated on the other, based on their text messages, they did discuss getting married.

Meanwhile, in the days before his death, Christian had been texting with his brother Josh about wanting to break up with Whitley & move away to Jackson, Mississippi for a fresh start. He’d also recently asked Josh to pick up a drug test for Whitley to take; if it was positive, he wanted her to move out. When Josh came back with the test, she refused to take it, saying she would fail it. When she did finally take it, Josh believes she failed for marijuana & benzodiazepines so she put her things in a trash bag & left with no emotion.

Regardless, it wasn’t long before Whitley made her way back into the apartment.

The last time Rae spoke with her son, she was on her way to work on the morning of Wednesday, February 26, 2014. Christian was four days into a 30-day hitch after he boarded the boat on Saturday, February 22 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Since Rae & Christian shared a love of music & movies, she asked him if he wanted her to get tickets for the Rihanna & Eminem concert. He told her he needed to look at his work schedule & before they ended the call, they said they loved each other & they would talk soon. According to Rae, the conversation was completely normal, casual & there was nothing concerning his tone whatsoever.

Only hours after Rae ended the call with her son, she & Todd were out at a restaurant when they got a phone call from Todd’s dad. He explained that they needed to come home immediately since there’d been a tragedy. They couldn’t understand what the tragedy could be since Christian was at work, Alexa was at church, but they wondered if something could have happened to Josh since he was newer to towboats.

A detective soon broke the devastating news that Christian had died from a gunshot wound to the head, however, they were initially convinced that someone was misinformed since they knew that their son was working out of town & Rae had only just spoken to him that morning. However, things became much more real when they were shown their son’s driver’s license.

When Todd & Rae were told that Christian’s death was likely a suicide, they were incredibly confused since he had never struggled with any sort of depression. According to Rae’s brother & Christian’s uncle, Chris Thompson, his 21-year-old nephew was well on his way to fulfilling his professional goals, he owned two cars, Jet Skis, had plenty of money in the bank & everything in the world to live for. But of course, we don’t always know what demons a person might silently be struggling with, but Christian’s family didn’t think this was the case.

Rae asked her brother if he could go down to the station for more information as her mind grappled to understand what was going on. Chris went by Christian’s apartment first & found crime scene tape blocking the front door while an officer instructed him to go down to the station.

As Chris entered the Meridian Police Department, it was confirmed that Christian was, in fact, deceased. They explained that the two people who found him at his apartment with a gunshot wound to the head, Whitley & Christian’s friend, Dylan Swearingen, who were each speaking with officers to give their statements.

Todd & Rae came to learn that their son chose to leave his towboat in the midst of his hitch to go back home to end his relationship with Whitley. According to Christian’s co-worker, Cheryl, who was on the towboat with him during this hitch, on Tuesday night, February 25, he was getting a lot of phone calls from his friend, Dylan Swearingen. After Dylan told Christian that Whitley was driving around in his BMW with another guy named Matt Miller, he decided he wanted to go back to Meridian to kick her out & take his car back. Since Josh was also on a hitch, Whitley was alone at their apartment. After Christian’s death, Matt Miller confirmed that he & Whitley had sex that night at this place.

As the calls continued, Christian spoke with the boat’s captain & came up with a story in order to be allowed off the boat; he explained that his dad was kicking his mom & sister out of the house & they needed to get access to his apartment so he needed to be there to help them. He said he’d be back the following day at 5:30 pm.

Since the boat was docking in St. Rose, Louisiana & his Jeep was parked back in Vicksburg where he boarded the boat, Christian needed a ride back to Meridian. He initially called a friend from work for a ride, but ended up deciding that Dylan would make the 3.5 hour drive over to St. Rose.

Since Christian is no longer here to speak for himself, moving forward, the versions of events leading up to his death are according to Whitley & Dylan.

According to Dylan, he got a call from Christian at 1:37 am on Wednesday about picking him up. He left around 3:45 am & arrived at about 8. They stopped for gas, got some drinks & when they got back on the interstate, Christian explained that he was coming back so he could take care of things with Whitley.

They were back at the apartment at 11:30 am & once inside, Christian began asking Whitley where she’d been the previous night since they both had trackers on each other’s phones. She spent the night at Matt Miller’s house & mentioned that the details of the night were hazy since she was using Xanax.

At this point Dylan said he went upstairs to give them privacy, but stuck his head over the stairs & he could hear Christian repeatedly asking her, Do you love me? Then Christian pulled his gun out, cocked it & pressed it to the side of his head & asked again if she loved him. Whitley said yes & tried to grab the gun from him.

Things eventually calmed down & Dylan asked if he should run out & pick up some food which would give them a moment to be alone. Christian told him to go to Chick-fil-a; he handed over his debit card & told Dylan to take all of his money out of his account at the credit union. When Dylan asked him if he was sure, Christian said he was.

Since Christian broke Whitley’s phone during an earlier argument, Dylan said he took her phone to see if he could get it fixed.

Dylan stopped off for the food, then went to the bank where he was unable to withdraw all of Christian’s money since he wasn’t the account holder. He said that when he came back to the apartment, all was calm & they just watched a movie together.

When he noticed that Whitley & Christian were getting ready to leave, he asked them where they were going & they said they were going to take a little ride. He fell asleep for about two hours & when he woke up, Whitley was asleep on the couch while Christian was sitting on the couch smoking a cigarette, acting completely normal.

Dylan told Christian he was going to run out to Best Buy to look at speakers & asked him if he needed anything, but he told him he didn’t. Earlier in the afternoon when Christian was pointing the gun at his head, Dylan said he took the gun away from him & hid it behind the curtain, but as he was leaving, he gave the gun back to his friend & told him to unload it & please don’t touch it.

When Dylan came back from Best Buy, he noticed that Christian was no longer on the couch so he walked around calling his name, but got no answer. As he went up the stairs, he noticed the light was on in the bathroom so he assumed Christian was taking a shower. When he knocked on the bathroom door & asked him if he was alright, he got no response so he went back downstairs & told Whitley about the situation, but she quickly went back to sleep.

Dylan went back upstairs & once again, he knocked on the door & called out to him & when he again didn’t answer, he opened the door & this was when he found Christian laying face down across the bathtub with blood in it. He yelled out to Whitley that Christian was dead & they needed to call 911. She began screaming, ran upstairs & held Christian in her arms while Dylan called 911.

Dylan told investigators that Christian had voiced thoughts of suicide in the past, but he never though he was serious & believed he was only using it as a scare tactic.

Dylan was seen on surveillance at 12:29 pm at the credit union, about four hours before he called 911 & a receipt found in the apartment proved he went to Chick-fil-a at 1:06 pm. The Meridian PD, however, never confirmed if Dylan actually went to Best Buy as he said he did in order to confirm his alibi & by the time the private investigators hired by the Andreacchio family went back, the footage was gone.

According to Whitley’s version of events, when Christian boarded the boat for his hitch on Saturday, she attended a Mardi Gras party with her family & he stopped talking to her for two days because of his trust issues. He told her that because of their past issues, he’d rather her be at home missing him than out. She considered breaking up with him, but talked herself into trying to make it work because she loved him.

When they talked on Tuesday night, Christian told Whitley that he was quitting his job while she assured him they could talk it out. When they took their ride together on Wednesday afternoon, they drove to Bonita & Christian told her he felt like he couldn’t make anyone happy. When they got back, she laid down with her dog in their bedroom until Dylan woke her up. When she went upstairs she said, I found the love of my life face down, swooshed up in a puddle of blood.

During the 911 call, Dylan gave the dispatcher the apartment’s correct unit number of 801, but provided the wrong address when he told her they were at the Woodland Apartments rather than the Willow Ridge Apartments. Because of this, officers & EMTs were late in arriving.

When an officer did arrive, he found Whitley crying downstairs; when he went upstairs, he located Christian’s body in the bathroom, leaning facedown over the bathtub that was filled with blood with a gunshot wound to the right side of his head. While his head, shoulders & chest were leaned over the tub, his arms were to his side outside the tub & he was in a kneeling position.

With these findings, the officer called in a detective who arrived with EMTs at 5:08 pm while the coroner arrived at 5:25 pm. They located a de-cocked gun, something that is highly unusual for a suicide with a semi-automatic pistol, wedged between his left thigh & the bathtub.

There are inconsistencies as to whether the chief of police, Chief James Lee, who lived in the same apartment complex, was at the scene that day. There’s no documentation of him being there & he wasn’t on duty at the time though multiple people at the scene indicated that he came by & after a 45 minute investigation, he instructed them to shut it down.

Todd & Rae learned that because authorities quickly jumped to the conclusion of death by suicide, little to no investigation had been done. Police spent only 45 minutes at the apartment & once they left, it wasn’t sealed off as a crime scene. Very few photos were taken & those taken were poor quality since a cell phone was utilized rather than their department issued cameras. Since Dylan & Whitley were never photographed, it’s unclear if there was blood on either one of them.

Because a suicide was concluded almost immediately, Whitley & Dylan were never considered suspects, they were never interrogated & only provided brief statements regarding their version of events leading up to finding Christian’s body.

Even more alarming, when both Whitley & Dylan were checked for gunshot residue (GSR), they both tested positive which suggested that they were in the room when the gun was fired. Christian also tested positive for GSR.

Even before she was tested for GSR, Whitley told investigators that she would test positive since she was out shooting guns in a nearby field just the night before with cousins, Matt & Jett Miller as well as another boy named Zach.

However, there were questions as to whether or not Whitley actually fired the gun on Tuesday night since both Matt & Jett initially indicated that she hadn’t shot the gun. However, Jett later said that she took maybe four shots while Matt maintained that he was sure she hadn’t.

According to Matt, Whitley was terrified of guns & while they were out shooting, she was sitting on his lap & he had his hands over his ears the whole time. When he confronted his cousin about his statement, Jett admitted he was drunk & could have been wrong about Whitley actually shooting.

Had she tested positive for GSR because she actually did shoot the gun on Tuesday night, it would mean that she hadn’t washed her hands or showered over the course of at least 12 hours.

When Matt spoke with Crime Watch Daily, he said, She knows she didn’t get out & shoot that gun. She knows she didn’t. Matt was also bothered by the fact that Whitley’s version of events regarding Christian’s death changed over time. When he first spoke with her after Christian’s death, she told him she woke up to the sound of a gunshot, ran upstairs & found Christian. However, a week or so later, she said it was Dylan who found him.

When Matt confronted her about this via text he wrote, You said nothing about Dylan! You said YOU found him! Whitley replied, Dylan didn’t ever even go upstairs. Dylan told me to check on him & I did & he was dead.

When Matt gave a statement to police, he described Whitley as a compulsive liar, a cheater & sneaky. It’s his opinion that either Whitley or Dylan killed Christian for the money, believing he put her on his life insurance policy.

There was no explanation as to how or why Dylan had GSR on his hands since according to his story, he wasn’t even in the apartment when Christian shot himself yet this fact was never investigated.

When Chris Thompson was at the station on the night his nephew died, Rae wanted him to get Christian’s phone as well as the keys to the BMW back from Whitley. At the time, Dylan & Whitley were giving their statement to officers. Chris was given the car keys, but Whitley indicated she had no idea where Christian’s phone was. Chris made it clear that he wasn’t leaving the station without the phone & this is when she reached into her purse & pulled it out.

Texts were found on Christian’s phone that suggested he was suicidal, however since Whitley & Dylan had Christian’s phone, Todd & Rae believe that the message could have been planted, the dates could have been manipulated. Dylan was known to be a tech guy who could jailbreak phones, however, because Christian had an iPhone 4, it didn’t even need to be jailbroken to manipulate text messages or times.

There were also glaring inconsistencies in the case; when Whitley was asked if Christian ever voiced suicidal thoughts, she said I don’t think so. This is despite the fact that the text messages found on Christian’s phone to Whitley were threatening suicide as well as the fact that she & Dylan reported that Christian held a gun to his temple that afternoon.

She indicated that she was asleep & it was Dylan who found Christian & explained that she hadn’t heard the .45-caliber handgun discharge inside the 700 square foot apartment because she was on Xanax. According to Benny Dubose, who became Meridian’s Chief of Police in June 2014, a .45-caliber handgun would be exceptionally loud & could have been heard two to three apartments away, not to mention, according to Dylan’s statement, when he came back, he was able to easily wake Whitley.

Two weeks after Christian’s death, the responsibility of going back into the apartment to clean things up fell on Josh’s shoulders. Right off the bat, things didn’t seem right & Josh began taking photos. He found a bloody shirt stuffed behind the toilet that was coated in dirt & dog hair that looked as if it had been used to wipe up blood. He also found two knives, one appeared to have blood on it which he handed over to investigators in addition to the bloody shirt. None of these items were mentioned in any of the reports as they were never considered evidence & the family never received follow-up as to what happened to them.

Rae realizes that no parent would ever want to believe that their child was at such a low, desperate point in their life that they would commit suicide. However, she reflects on a time when someone in their community did take their own life. Naturally, it was something that truly bothered Christian & several times he told his mom, If anybody ever says I killed myself, you come looking because I wouldn’t do that.

After Christian’s death, the coroner ruled that his cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head, his time of death was 3:45 pm while his manner of death was undetermined. However, by the following day, the medical examiner completed the autopsy & determined that his manner of death was a suicide, therefore no further investigation was done.

Todd & Rae went on to hire their own private investigators & eventually assembled a team of supporters & experts that included a forensic pathologist, former Washington D.C. medical examiner, Dr. Jonathan Arden, who has performed somewhere around 3,000 autopsies & testified in high-profile cases.

As Dr. Arden began to examine Christian’s case file, he immediately noted glaring issues & ultimately concluded that Christian’s manner of death was homicide, not suicide, something he would confidently stand by & testify to.

Despite the fact that Christian was strictly right-handed, investigators on the scene found Christian’s handgun pressed between his left thigh & the front of the bathtub, something that didn’t add up since had he leaned over the tub & fired, the gun would have fallen to the right side especially with a powerful recoil.

The bathroom where Christian’s body was found was also strangely clean; the bullet entered the right side of his head & exited the left side though no blood spatter was present on the left wall of the tub which suggested that the crime scene had been cleaned. Christian’s family immediately considered the bloody shirt that Josh found wedged behind the toilet & wondered if this was used to clean the blood. Oddly, blood was found on the outside of the bathroom door.

When Christian’s gun was sent to the crime lab, there wasn’t a single print found on it, meaning the gun had been wiped down since had Christian actually killed himself, his prints would have been on the gun.

As mentioned before, since Christian’s gun was a .45-caliber semiautomatic, when the trigger is pulled, the gun fires & reloads, ready for the next shot. In this case, the gun at the scene had been manually de-cocked. Had he simply fired the gun & shot himself, the hammer would have been back or cocked, which it wasn’t.

During the 45 minutes at the scene, investigators did no luminol testing so the Adreacchios hired Knox & Associates to do a crime scene reconstruction. Their luminol test in the bathroom located a large amount of blood spatter that was not originally found by investigators & appeared to have been cleaned. They agreed with Dr. Arden’s conclusion that Christian’s death was a homicide.

A bullet casing was found inside the bathtub while a bullet hole is depicted in the crime scene photos under an outlet next to the sink that was situated directly behind the bathtub where Christian’s body was draped over. With the positioning of his body with the bullet exiting his left temple, impact would be expected on the left-side of the tub, but this was not the case. There is no evidence that the bullet struck the inside of the tub to suggest it could have ricocheted & hit the wall under the outlet behind Christian.

The coroner placed Christian’s time of death at 3:45 pm, one hour before Dylan called 911, however, Dr. Arden believes that Christian died hours sooner than this since based on the advanced state of rigor mortis depicted in the photos of his body. These photos also showed lividity, specifically at the top of Christian’s right calf that suggested Christian’s body had been moved & the scene had been staged.

Rigor mortis is the stiffening of muscles caused by the lack of ATP, which gives energy to the muscles. After death, the muscles freeze in the position they’re in; there are six stages of rigor mortis which begin within two hours of death & peak at about 12 hours.

Lividity is the postmortem settling of blood which occurs because the heart is no longer pumping blood which allows gravity to pull the blood down to the lowest point in the body. This begins 30 minutes to four hours after death, but is most pronounced at twelve hours after death. However, because Christian’s calves were face up when he was found, lividity would not be expected in this area of the body.

Based on the degree of rigor mortis, Christian was likely dead for at least several hours & may have even been dead at 12:30 pm when Dylan went to the credit union to empty Christian’s account.

Todd believes that his son was dead & Dylan was trying to steal his money. Even before their son’s death, Rae commented to Todd that she viewed both Whitley & Dylan as leeches; while their son was working many hours on the towboat, neither of them had a job. After Dylan borrowed Christian’s truck, he wrecked it, yet Christian was the one paying for the repairs.

Since Christian’s death, Dylan has been in & out of jail for unrelated charges & a tip came through from someone who was in jail with him; a text message said: D set some cat up for some money he & another dude shot him & made it look like a suicide while his b*tch was tripping on bars but they f**ked up & they couldn’t even get any money.

This information was provided to MPD but was not included in Christian’s case file. Did Dylan lure Christian off the boat with stories about what Whitley was doing in order to get money from the life insurance policy?

Three years after Christian’s death, police chief Dubose assigned Captain Jay Arrington, a 30-year veteran detective of the Meridian PD, to review the case with a fresh set of eyes.

Arrington combed through Christian’s case file & like Dr. Arden & Knox & Associates, came to the conclusion that his death was a homicide. He has no doubt that his body was moved sometime after his death & he had died several hours before Dylan dialed 911, allowing time for the scene to be cleaned up.

With his confidence that the death scene had been clearly altered from its original state, Arrington wrote arrest warrants for Whitley & Dylan with the charge of manslaughter by culpable negligence, meaning unintentionally causing a death while acting with disregard for the person’s safety.

However, these warrants were never served as the case was handed over to the Mississippi State Attorney General’s Office in February 2017; the prosecutor did present the case to a grand jury in October 2017. Jay Arrington wasn’t allowed to present his investigative report at the grand jury, this being the only time in his career he wasn’t allowed to be there. In late 2017, the grand jury returned their decision not to indict Dylan or Whitley.

In 2018 Kassie Coleman became the new district attorney, taking over for Bilbo Mitchell mid-term. The Andreacchio family felt that from the beginning, she was unwilling to work with them & told them they would need new evidence in order to present it to a grand jury again. This is despite the legitimate opinions based on solid forensic evidence from renowned experts that the family hired. This included Dr. Arden’s report as well as the report from Knox & Associate that Christian’s time of death was hours before 3:45 pm & the fact that luminol proved that blood had been cleaned from the bathroom.

According to Kassie Coleman, from the grand jurors she’s spoken with, they didn’t feel there was sufficient evidence to prove either Dylan or Whitley guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of either manslaughter or homicide, something that utterly crushed Todd & Rae. They believe that somebody got away with murder.

Despite the fact that D.A. Kassie Coleman indicated lack of sufficient evidence as well as the fact that she was told that investigators presented all of the facts of the case to the grand jury, an unnamed grand juror came forward & indicated that this was untrue. She said she never heard Jay Arrington’s name before nor was she presented with the major findings of his report. The juror is disturbed to realize that there was more detailed information in his report than what they were presented with. Jay Arrington wrote that until either suicide, homicide or accidental death is established, the death should be classified & investigated as a homicide.

Christian’s family faced another blow in November 2019 when Kassie Coleman was re-elected into office after she beat Democrat Michael Grace by 600 votes. Because Grace said he would reopen the investigation into Christian’s death, his election into office was going to be their fresh start with hope of getting justice for Christian.

When the podcast, Culpable began covering the case in June 2019, listeners became enraged by the injustice & targeted their anger at D.A. Kassie Coleman. Fuel was only poured over the fire when Jay Arrington’s investigative report from 2017 was made public for the first time in August 2020.

With Arrington’s report now released, Todd & Rae hold on to hope that they might someday have justice for Christian & feel exceptionally confident that if the information is presented fairly, people will be indicted which will lead to a trial.

Nearly three years after Captain Arrington completed his report, he was indicted in federal court after he was accused of utilizing city funds for his personal use. His attorney, J. Stewart Parrish, insists these are false allegations that have risen from someone either intentionally or maliciously misleading others.

Determined to keep their son’s case alive, Todd & Rae created the Justice for Christian Facebook page.

In the meantime, Whitley Goodman’s attorney has filed a $47 million lawsuit against the Andreacchio family as well as the podcast Culpable as well as others for defamation & emotional distress. The suit also seeks an injunction to shut down the Justice for Christian Facebook page which & end their public accusations.

Each time Rae & Todd requested the case files, they were denied until one day it was suddenly released online in a downloadable file that anyone could access including the autopsy photos, something that devastated Rae inside & made her relive her son’s death.

Todd & Rae went on to sue Mississippi authorities due to the fact that their son’s autopsy photos & case file was released to the public without their consent. Christian’s Law or Senate Bill 2270 passed in 2021 which aims to protect the privacy of autopsy photos, videos & audio recordings by making them confidential.

Meanwhile, Todd & Rae Andreacchio know that Whitley & Dylan have what Christian no longer does; the opportunity to wake up each morning & decide what they’re going to do with their day. They can travel, get married & have children.

There is a petition to encourage the Department of Justice to participate in a fair & thorough investigation to get justice for Christian; please take a moment to sign: Click here

For more in-depth information about this case, check out the Culpable podcast or part 1 & 2 of Apartment 801 by Kendall Rae.

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