True Crime with Elli Mac

It was a cold and gloomy Sunday afternoon in Beckton, East London, on the 2nd of October, 1994.  Daniel Handley, a helpful nine-year-old, had returned home after earning a few coins at the local supermarket, where he often helped out customers to load their cars with their shopping. As he always did in his free time, he had then asked his mother, Maxine, if he was allowed to go to play at Alan's h...

On April 2nd 1993, Ellie Nesler took the law into her own hands in a Northern California courtroom, by shooting to death Daniel Driver in the head and neck 5 times. 35-year-old Daniel Driver was a Christian camp employee who in the summer of 1988 allegedly abused the then 6-year-old son of Ellie Nesler, Willie Nesler. Ellie Nesler was praised by some as a protective mother, driven to act by the pr...

On the evening of the 11th September 1994, a gang of at least three men, one wearing a clown’s mask and a boiler suit, brandishing a knife, broke into Carol and Gordon Wardell's home in Bonneville Close, Meriden. Only Carol was home during the break-in. When her husband Gordon returned home from the pub later that night, he was attacked and drugged. He was overpowered and knocked unconscious with...

When 22 year old Janet Chandler was abducted whilst working her Night Shift at the Blue Mill Inn, detectives first believed it to be part of a robbery. However, when her naked body was found at 1am (2am?) in a wooded area buried in the snow, it would become clear to investigators that foal play was involved. Janet had died of strangulation, with clear evidence she had been bound and gagged for lon...

Terry King loved being a dad and always wanted to be a good father to his two sons, Derek and Alex, but the family was destroyed when Terry died in a mysterious fire and the boys went missing. Who bludgeoned Terry King to death and then set the house on fire to cover it up? And were his two missing sons safe? Were they in danger, or even worse also dead? As the case would unfold, a twisted world o...

All week, Tyler had been telling his friends that he was going to throw a house party, but nobody believed him. He had never thrown a party before and there was no way his strict parents, Blake and Mary Jo would give their consent. However, the hours leading up to the party, Tyler confirmed that It was indeed happening over Facebook, saying that his parents would be out of town.  Where exactly wer...

One of Britain's youngest killers walks among us today, completely anonymous. After serving only 11 years in jail for the brutal manslaughter of 4-year-old Martin Brown, and 3-year-old Brian Howe, she was released at the age of 23. No one will ever know the whereabouts of a woman who, at the tender age of 11, took the lives of 2 young boys. This is the story of child killer Mary Bell.

17-year-old Jessica Dishon is missing, and all that’s left behind at the scene are her mobile phone, purse, backpack and 1 of her shoes. Who abducted and killed Jessica Dishon? Unfortunately, the world would have to wait fifteen years for her case to be solved due to issues such as police misconduct, contamination of evidence and false accusations... This is the story of the tragic murder of Jessi...