True Crime with Elli Mac

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...

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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...