True Crime with Elli Mac

May 7th, 2017 was an ordinary Sunday in the town of Bellaire, Ohio. For the Kinney family, it was a day to run errands. David Kinney, along with his wife Cheri and her 13-year-old daughter, had to make a quick stop at his best friend, Brad McGarry’s house to drop off an electric weed trimmer for him to borrow. But the ordinary task turned into something far more sinister when they arrived and noti...

In the early hours of Monday 9 May 2022, in Ballymun, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland, a woman looked out of her window and saw a man in her neighbour's back garden. It was around 2am. She watched him load three bags into the back of a dark jeep, which then drove away. The house belonged to 52-year-old Lisa Thompson. For the next day and a half, no one heard from her. On the Tuesday aftern...

On the evening of May 8, 2008, in the northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada, 57-year-old Sharon Randolph and her husband, 53-year-old Thomas Randolph, went out together. It was the Thursday before Mother’s Day. They had dinner at a steakhouse, spent some time in the casino, stopped for fuel, and drove home to their house on Rancho Santa Fe Drive. Sharon went into the house first. A short time later, Thom...

On November 11th, 2022, a woman in Salisbury, Massachusetts, called 911 and asked for an ambulance for her boyfriend. She told the dispatcher he couldn't stand. His nose was bleeding. And, she said, he must have ingested something. It was his 55th birthday. When emergency crews arrived, they found Leroy Fowler on his bedroom floor. He was in obvious distress, unable to stand, moving constantly...

On Sunday the thirty first of May 2009, nineteen year old Noelle Washington walked into a police station in Cincinnati and made a statement against her boyfriend. That afternoon she was examined at hospital. By the following night, she was dead. So was her nine month old son, Anthony. So was three year old Sha'railyn Wright, who was only staying over. All three had been shot in the head. Why had M...

On the morning of August 20, 2016, a family in a small Minnesota town woke up to find their five-year-old daughter gone. She had been put to bed a few hours earlier, carried from the couch to her own room, still asleep. Her blanket was also missing. So was her father’s truck. So was his phone. And so was the man who had spent the night in their house. By lunchtime, an Amber Alert had gone out acro...

On March 31, 2020, 64-year-old Barbara Waite sat playing her piano at her home in Squamish, British Columbia. It was an activity that the adoring mother of two loved to do. But as she played her melodies, Barbara had no idea that this would be her last moment on Earth. Because quietly standing behind her, her 21-year-old son, former child actor Ryan Grantham, had a rifle pointed right to the back...

00:00 Case 1 - Tia Hernlen 17:20 Case 2 - Scott Amedure 45:54 Case 3 - Tyler Hadley 01:07:01 Case 4 - Maribel Ramos 01:41:04 Case 5 - Monica Botello 01:58:17 Case 6 - Zanesville Zoo Massacre 02:26:17 Case 7 - Daniel Luke 02:42:23 Case 8 - Penelope Jackson 03:13:21 Case 9 - Joanna Simpson ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com

On the afternoon of Sunday 12 July 2020, 38-year-old Kerry Woolley was found dead inside her own flat, in the West Midlands of England. It was her new partner who raised the alarm. A man she had been seeing for a matter of weeks. He stood outside the building, and he called 999. And when officers arrived, he was distraught. The grieving partner, who had come to check on her — and walked into somet...

PART 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Rf3QTJ2LDK8Uhp9MiqaNP?si=Nggc6OMpQOqQe2a9lz-5bQ&utm_source=copy-link ============================================= In December 2022, police arrested a twenty-eight-year-old criminology PhD student for the murders of four University of Idaho students. Charging him was one thing. Convicting him was going to be another. What followed was two and a half ye...

PART 2: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4bCIKB6IAb0AcMavKk59aI?si=ANK7fA4KSfe77S_hoBkOKQ&utm_source=copy-link ============================================= In the early hours of November 13th, 2022, four University of Idaho students were found dead inside their off-campus home on King Road, and the small college town of Moscow, Idaho would never be the same again. No suspect. No weapon. No mo...

On the morning of February 6, 2021, a 999 call came through to police in South Wales. "I have just killed the wife, police… I have just killed my wife." The caller was David Maggs, a 71-year-old retired accountant. When the operator asked what had happened, he said that he had just lost it. Minutes later, officers arrived at the house. On the bottom step of the stairs lay two red kitchen knives. I...

On the morning of Sunday 24 April 2016, a group of tourists were exploring the rugged coastline of the Munmorah State Conservation Area on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, when something caught their attention below the lookout at Snapper Point. As the powerful surf surged through the blowhole, the object repeatedly surfaced before disappearing beneath the white foam. At first, the...

On 29 January 2017, Gillian and her husband, Norbert, left their home in Birmingham to carry out what should have been a routine evening of home visits for the care business they ran together. But by the end of the night, one of them would be dead. As Gillian sat in the passenger seat of their car, Norbert reached for a hidden axe and struck her more than 40 times, leaving her body strapped into h...

On the evening of 18 May 2012, in a quiet gated condominium community in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, a seventeen-year-old boy dialled 911 from inside. He was bleeding. He told the dispatcher his grandmother had shot him, and that he was going to die. Before help could reach him, more shots rang out. The woman who fired them was not a stranger, she was Sandra Layne, his grandmother. When po...

In Australia in the early fifties, one man had created his own superhero. Leonard Keith Lawson was barely in his mid-twenties when he gave the country The Lone Avenger — a masked Wild West vigilante, riding out of the fictional town of Redrock to make things right. Children swore the Lone Avenger's Code. They wore the replica gun belts. They queued at newsagents for the next issue. At its peak, th...

On the morning of February 8th, 1997, Kelly Gissendaner began making frantic phone calls from her home in Auburn, Georgia. Her husband, thirty-year-old Douglas Gissendaner, had never come home the night before. At first, the possibilities seemed endless. Maybe his car had broken down. Maybe he had been involved in an accident. Maybe he was lying injured somewhere, unable to get help. But thirty-si...

00:00 Case 1 - Lam Luong 28:34 Case 2 - Stanley Metcalf 46:39 Case 3 - Ronald Clark O’Bryan 01:03:12 Case 4 - Nubia Barahona 01:33:57 Case 5 - Mick Philpott 02:14:19 Case 6 - Karl Bluestone 02:27:22 Case 7 - Darcey Freeman 02:53:58 Case 8 - Corey Micciolo 03:37:52 Case 9 - Darren Sykes ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com

On the morning of October 9th, 2020, a Texas state trooper spotted a woman driving erratically, close to the Texas–Oklahoma border. When the trooper pulled the vehicle over, the driver was frantic. She was screaming for help, claiming she had just given birth on the side of the road. Sitting in her lap was a newborn baby girl who wasn't breathing. The baby's umbilical cord was still attach...

In the early hours of March 11th, 2025, residents in a neighbourhood on the eastern edge of Belo Horizonte in Brazil, called the police after witnessing a woman and a young man, dragging what appeared to be a body into a nearby wooded area. When officers arrived, they found the remains of a man in a clearing. Partially burned. Mutilated. And with a trail of blood that led them away from the trees,...

On the morning of July 31, 2022, at 5:34 a.m., a surveillance camera on Pearl Road in Strongsville, Ohio captured a black Toyota Camry making a slow, controlled turn onto Progress Drive. What happened next, in the space of less than two minutes, would shock a community, and divide a nation. The car accelerated. And it kept accelerating. Past every point where a driver would naturally slow down, pa...

On the night of February 5th, 1986, a desperate phone call sent police rushing toward a family home on Simmons Road in Montgomery, Alabama. Jeannie Bui had just received a terrifying threat from her husband, Quang Ngoc Bui. According to Jeannie, he told her she had fifteen minutes to get home if she wanted to see their children alive again. During the call, she could reportedly hear one of the chi...

When a 999 call came in at 8:22pm on the evening of May 14, 2018, the man on the other end, his voice shaking, told the operator that he had just returned home to find his house had been broken into and his wife had been attacked. Inside, he said he had found her lying on the living room floor, bound in duct tape and unconscious, as the operator immediately began asking questions, trying to establ...

When police arrived at a rural home on Furman Fendley Highway in Jonesville, South Carolina, on July 22, 2013, they found a husband and wife lying in their living room, both shot and stabbed. There were no signs of forced entry. No witnesses. And no immediate answers. But outside the house, cameras had been recording. Within hours, investigators would know exactly who had been there. Had this been...

00:00 Case 1 - Jessica Dishon 23:15 Case 2 - Janet Chandler 59:21 Case 3 - Shani Warren 01:22:16 Case 4 - Daniel Holdom 01:54:31 Case 5 - Jodine Serrin 02:18:22 Case 6 - Kristin Smart 03:27:34 Case 7 - Gretchen Harrington ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com