True Crime with Elli Mac

On February 23, 1991 Dan Willoughby and his wife Trish Willoughby arrived in Mexico with their three children for a family holiday. Later that afternoon, Dan and the children headed off to the nearby museum, whilst Trish stayed behind to have a nap as she said she was very tired. When the family arrived home, 2 hours later, the children excitedly ran into their mothers room to tell her what they h...

When 3-year-old Ryan, 2-year-old Hannah, 1-year-old Lydsey, and 4-month-old Danny were supposedly kidnapped on the 7th of January 2008, their parents Lam Luong and Kieu Phan, reported them missing. The following day, however, in a horrible turn of events, their father Lam Luong told investigators that they wouldn't find the children as they were all dead. When they asked Lam Luong, to take them to...

When Dru Sjodin, mysteriously vanished from the Columbia Mall parking lot, after her shift at work on the 22nd November 2003, the community immediately jumped into action to try and find her. Hundreds of members of the community, police officers and the FBI spent months looking for her, but sadly, five months later, her body was found in a ravine. The police already knew who was behind her kidnapp...

When 23-year-old Linda Fleming disappeared in West Yorkshire on the 22nd of January 1993, the community immediately stepped up and began looking for her.6 days into the search, there was still no sign of Linda or any clues to her whereabouts, so her boyfriend, Stuart Williamson, her father Derek, and her brother, also named Stuart, appealed for information before press and television cameras. Duri...

On the 9th of January 2008, Sophie Elliott was excited and ready for a new stage in her life. She had recently ended an on and off again relationship with her abusive ex-boyfriend Clayton Weatherston, and was looking forward to a free and happy future. She was packing up her life in her bedroom as she had just gotten her dream job 500 miles away and was due to leave shortly. But her ex-boyfriend C...

When 36-year-old Army Veteran Maribel Ramos didn't show up to her softball game on the 3rd of May, 2013, her family immediately began to worry. Her roommate KC Joy, had also reported her missing at around 10:40am, saying that she had not come home that previous night. Her family made several attempts to contact her but when this failed, they immediately sprung into action and started searching for...

On January 27th 2008 at around 8:35 pm, in Bridgwater, a town in Canada, the Police Department received a report of a missing 12-year-old girl, Karissa Boudreau. The report came in from her mother Penny Boudreau. Penny claimed that she had left her daughter sat in the car in the supermarket’s shopping centre, as she went inside to shop for groceries. On Penny’s return to the vehicle, Karissa was n...

When Chad Hebert heard that his 2 children, Camille and Braxton Hebert, had not arrived at school that day, and his ex-wife had also not gone to work, he immediately panicked and contacted the police. When police arrived at Amy’s house, they found the doors deadlocked and no response was coming from inside, so they broke in. When they reached the master bedroom, they found Amy Hebert in bed with h...

On the 23rd January 2014, 5-year-old Garnett Spears sadly passed away in hospital due to swelling in his brain. He had been fatally poisoned by the one person who was meant to love him and protect him, the person in whose care he ought to feel the safest, and the person he should call family - his own mother, Lacey Spears. Why did Lacey Spears murder her own son in such a cruel and evil way? How c...

On June 15th 1990, Rosie Alfaro went to a friend's house in Anaheim, California as she desperately needed some money and planned to break in and steal some valuables. When she got to the house, she knocked on the front door, and her friends 9-year-old little sister Autumn answered. Little Autumn Wallace recognised her older sister's friend Rosie and let her inside as Rosie told her she needed to u...

On February 11, 2011, police found 10-year-old Nubia Barahona, wrapped in a plastic garbage bag in the back of her adoptive step-father Jorge Barahona’s pickup truck along Interstate 95 in Palm Beach County. Her twin brother Victor, was also found inside the vehicle, severely injured but alive; he was suffering seizures due to being covered in chemical burns and inhalation of toxic gas. Their adop...

On the 18th of April 1987, Easter Weekend, 26-year-old Shani Warren’s body was found face down in Taplow Lake in England. Her wrists were tied with a car jump lead, and her ankles were tied by a tow rope. Her car was found abandoned nearby, with her personal items everywhere. Outrageously, a theory was suggested by a forensic pathologist that Shani had done this to herself, based on the looseness...

On the morning of 27th January 2015, police arrived at the doors of 12 Goske Street after receiving a strange call stating that intruders had broken into a house in one of the most exclusive estates in Stellenbosch, South Africa and attacked and killed the whole family with an axe. The call had come in just after 7am, from one of the survivors of the attack, 20-year-old Henri Van Breda, who strang...

"Grandad shot me mummy" were some of six-year-old Stanley Metcalf's last words. No one could foresee the tragedy that would occur in the village of Sproatley in Hull, England, on the 26th of July, 2018, when Stanley was shot in the abdomen by with own great-grandfather. As Stanley’s family mourned the loss of his innocent young life, questions were raised about how such a terrible event could have...

In the early hours of New Year’s Day 2013, tragedy struck young parents Jordan Monaghan and Laura Gray when their three-week-old baby, Ruby, was found dead in her Moses basket. Merely eight months later, their 21-month-old son, Logan, was also found dead in his pushchair after a trip to the swimming baths with his father. Six years after that, Jordan Monaghan’s new partner Evie Adams died from an...

On March 6th 1995 Scott Amedure and Donna Riley took their friend Jonathan Schmitz on The Jenny Jones talk show and planned to drop a bombshell on Jon. In front of a live studio audience, Scott told Jon that he had a gay crush on him. In a shocking twist of events, three days later, one would end up dead. On March 9th 1995, Scott Amedure was shot and killed in his trailer home in Lake Orion, Michi...

On the evening of the 26th of January 2018, Georgia Hooper aged just 14, was sitting in the car just inches away from her mother Cheryl Hooper. Suddenly a familiar ominous presence filled with jealousy and rage appeared out of nowhere and shot Cheryl twice through the windscreen at point-blank with a double-barrelled shotgun. With her daughter being the prime witness and there during the gruesome...

When Carol Jarvis, a loving mother of 4 disappeared, her concerned children questioned their father Harry, about her whereabouts. After telling his children that she was in Dundee and would be back soon, they knew he was lying and hiding something. They reported Carol missing to the police, and after getting a search warrant to gain access to the family home, the police made a disturbing discovery...

In 2009 on Valentine's day, Tiana Notice’s life was brutally taken away from her by her ex-boyfriend James Carter. In the months leading up to her murder, Tiana went to the police station over 33 times to report multiple violations of the restraining order she had against him, only to be sent away and told by the officers “it was a long weekend and they were short-staffed.” When James Carter left...

On March 13th, 1964, while walking back to her apartment in the Kew Gardens district of Queens, New York, Kitty Genovese was brutally attacked and killed.   "For more than half an hour 38 respectable, law‐abiding cit­izens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks in Kew Gardens"   These were the words the New York Times would release about the attack. Kitty’s mur...

On Monday, August 2nd, 1993, in the quaint village of Savona, New York, four-year-old Derrick Robie was found dead in a small patch of woods just half a block away from his home. An entire week would pass before his parents, Doreen and Dale Robie, and the rest of the village would get any answers. Derrick was only four years old. He had been lured away from the path he was walking and brutally bea...

When 17-year-old Je'Rean Blake was shot dead outside a store in May 2010, the police found themselves with a suspect, Chauncey Owens. In a raid to arrest their suspected killer, the police stormed a house at Lillibridge, and a gunshot was heard; They would then discover that an innocent young girl had been shot. Her killer would try to justify his actions, claiming it was a mistake triggered by Ai...

When Devi Unmathallegadoo split from her husband, Ramanodge Unmathallegadoo, it was not long before she found love again. After marrying her new husband, Imtiaz Muhammed, Devi would become Sana Muhammed and would have high hopes of moving on, ready to start a new life filled with love and happiness... Her ex-husband, Ramanodge, however, would be filled with anger and jealousy, and he would do anyt...

On Christmas morning in 2002, a policeman entered the Wholaver household to find all three Wholaver women dead. Jean Wholaver and her two daughters, Victoria and Elizabeth. All the phone lines had been cut, and the only survivor found inside was 9-months-old baby Madison, who was left in the arms of her deceased mother, Victoria Wholaver. Law enforcement immediately knew that the murders had been...

Just five days after Christmas in 2017, at 10:19pm, Suffolk police received what they later described as one of the most bizarre 999 calls they had ever received. Stephen Searle calmly explained to police that he had killed his wife in their suburban house in the sleepy Suffolk town of Stowmarket. When paramedics arrived, 62 year old Anne Searle was found unresponsive and despite their best effort...