True Crime with Elli Mac

On the evening of June 8th, 2009, in Lockport, New York, 24-year-old Renee Greco sat at a table playing cards with a group of teenagers she was responsible for caring for. Within the hour, she would be dead — killed by two of the boys sitting at that same table. When one of them stood in court to face the consequences, he didn't express remorse. He just denied his actions and hurled insults at...

On the night of 26 June 1992, in the quiet town of Masterton, New Zealand, a brutal attack unfolded inside a family home. Inside were children, a teenager, a young couple, and a woman just weeks away from giving birth. By the time the night was over, all of them were gone. The man responsible was not a stranger. He was someone they knew. Someone who had lived in that house, who had been part of th...

On April 22, 1985, in East Anchorage, Alaska, three members of the same family were murdered inside their own home. It was a controlled, deliberate and brutal attack, carried out in a place where they should have been safest. Weeks later, those responsible were caught — a fourteen-year-old girl and her nineteen-year-old boyfriend. The case shocked the community, not just for the brutality of the c...

On July 10, 2022, just after 5 p.m., police were called to a home on the 800 block of Orange Avenue in Helena, Montana, after a man dialled 911 and told dispatchers he had just opened fire on people inside his own home, claiming they had been trying to attack him. Within moments, a second call came in from the same address, this time from another person inside, reporting that a woman had been shot...

When six-year-old Teresa Cormack didn’t return home that afternoon, it quickly became clear that something was wrong. Her mother, Kelly Pigott, soon discovered that Teresa hadn’t been at school that day at all. Panic set in. Kelly went out searching immediately, walking the route to the school, checking the streets, calling her name—hoping she would find her daughter nearby. But there was no sign...

On 6 February 2018 , in the Govan area of Glasgow , 47-year-old Julie Reilly was captured on CCTV inside an Aldi supermarket. Julie was a mother of four , known by those around her as a caring and trusting woman. After leaving the store, Julie disappeared. When days passed without any contact, her family reported her missing. Then, two months later, the investigation took a shocking turn. Human re...

On the evening of March nineteenth, 2013, Ashlee Smith was halfway through her shift at Pizza Hut when her phone rang. Just hours earlier, she had walked out the door after leaving her two young children in the care of her sixteen-year-old boyfriend, Dylan Schumaker . At that time, both boys were unharmed. There were no bruises. No signs of distress. Nothing to suggest that anything was wrong. Now...

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When a 911 call came in at 12:34 a.m. on October 4th, 2012, from seventeen-year-old Jake Evans in Aledo , the dispatcher wasn’t met with panic. She was met with calm. On the other end of the line, Jake, speaking clearly, admitted to the unthinkable. He told her he had just shot his mother. And his sister. How could someone so young sound so composed after committing such violence? What could possi...

When 85-year-old William and 63-year-old Patricia Wycherley vanished from their home in the quiet village of Mansfield, no one seemed to notice or question their disappearance. Their bills were being paid on time, the house appeared to be looked after, and their family continued to receive postcards signed by the couple, which assured everyone they were alive and well. Fifteen years passed without...

​​This is a difficult case to tell. To protect the victims, no names are used, and some identifying details are withheld. Even so, it is important to tell this story carefully and truthfully, because what happened did not occur in isolation. This case exposed profound failures across child protection, healthcare, and safeguarding systems—and led to significant changes in how such cases are now han...

00:00 Case 1 - Mary Bell 17:40 Case 2 - Tyler Hadley 38:47 Case 3 - Alex & Derek King 01:03:22 Case 4 - Eric Smith 01:35:38 Case 5 - Brenda Spencer 02:03:49 Case 6 - Zander Lyda 02:38:01 Case 7 - Noah Crooks 03:03:38 Case 8 - Corey Breininger

​​On a quiet September afternoon in 2003, in a small New Zealand town, Jeanna stood waiting at the bus stop for her children. The doors opened, but only one child stepped off. Storm was there. Six-year-old Coral was not. Coral-Ellen Burrows had not come home from school. As it would soon emerge, she had not even made it there that morning. What followed were ten days of unanswered questions and gr...

In Christchurch, on the South Island of New Zealand, 22 August 2011, 15-year-old schoolboy, Hayden Miles, disappeared after drinking with older people in the city. That night, he never came home. For 111 days, police searched while his family waited for answers. Then the tragic discovery was made. Hayden had been killed, dismembered, and sealed inside bin bags. His body parts were found buried in...

It was the final days of the year, that quiet stretch between Christmas and New Year’s when the city usually slowed down. Instead, Edmonton was about to face one of the worst crimes in its history. On the evening of Monday, December 29, 2014, police were called to a home in southwest Edmonton for a weapons complaint. Inside, they found a woman dead. At first, it appeared to be a single homicide. B...

When David Cass arrived to collect his daughters, Ellie, three, and Isobelle, just 14 months old, it seemed like a normal custody visit. Kerrie Hughes kissed them goodbye, never imagining it would be the last time she saw them alive. The following day, he called Kerrie, out of breath, and said: “They’re sleeping.” When she asked what he meant, he replied: “They’re sleeping forever.” Moments later,...

This family photograph, taken just days before Christmas, appears ordinary at first. A father stands among his children. A mother holds her baby. Everyone dressed up, wearing new dresses, and all arranged perfectly for the camera. Nothing seems out of place. On the day the picture was taken, no one except Charlie Lawson knew why he had suddenly spent money he could barely afford. Just days later,...

Christmas in rural Oklahoma had always been a magical time for Jack and Elaine. Their little home on Iron Post Road glowed with decorations, and a small wooden manger stood proudly in the yard. Inside, on December 23rd, 2007, Elaine spent the day doing what she loved most: cooking. Fresh loaves of her holiday bread cooled on the counter, and batches of her famous peanut brittle waited to be gifted...

In December 1997, police arrived at the Daniels family home on Dasher Street, in the tiny Christmas-themed town of Santa Claus, Georgia. The front door was ajar. Inside, the house was pitch dark and eerily silent. Deputies called out, but no one answered. When they reached the master bedroom, the deputies froze. Forty-three-year-old Danny Daniels lay sprawled beside his thirty-three-year-old wife,...

On the morning of December 21st, 2015 — just four days before Christmas — neighbours in the quiet village of Rupperswil, a small community in the Swiss canton of Aargau, noticed smoke rising from a single-family home on Hintergasse. At first, people assumed it was just a kitchen fire or some kind of accident. But when firefighters forced their way inside, what they found shocked even the most seas...

On Christmas Eve 2001, in the quiet suburb of Pleasant Grove, Texas, Kevin Butler was getting ready to meet a friend for dinner. But he never arrived. When his friend went to his home to check on him, he walked into a nightmare—Kevin had been bound, beaten, stabbed, and brutally murdered. When police arrived, it was immediately clear that a violent struggle had taken place. Feathers were scattered...

On November 3rd, 2003, a 911 call came from Mark Center in Defiance County, Ohio. The caller was 10-year-old Corey Breininger. Corey was hysterical and told the dispatcher that his father had been shot in the head after a gun went off accidentally. He said he didn’t know there was a bullet in the chamber. Corey then confirmed that his stepmother, Judith, wasn’t home and that he hadn’t contacted he...

It was December 2020 — deep in the middle of France’s COVID lockdown — when 33-year-old Delphine Jubillar vanished from her home in the small town of Cagnac-les-Mines. Her husband, Cédric, said she had simply disappeared in the night. But investigators quickly began to suspect otherwise. But there was no body. No blood. No confession. No witness. Just a husband who insisted he was innocent. By Oct...

When a parcel was fished from the River Thames in the spring of 1896, no one expected what was inside. Wrapped in brown paper, tied with white tape, and weighted with a brick… was the tiny body of a baby girl. The discovery would set detectives on the trail of a woman once known as kind, gentle — even motherly. A trained nurse and midwife who dedicated her life to caring for others. Her name was A...

When 32-year-old Joanne Hill finished her day at work in Chester, England, her mind was already set on what she was going to do. After leaving the office, she collected her four-year-old daughter, Naomi, from the childminder in Connah’s Quay and drove them home. Once inside, she poured herself a glass of wine and drank it. A few minutes later, Joanne ran her daughter a bath while little Naomi sat...