True Crime with Elli Mac

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September 30 · 1 hr 58 min
Thomas Randolph: The Full Story Of The Black Widower
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, Thomas called 911. His wife had been shot. And there was a man inside their home, a man Thomas said he had just shot. When police arrived, Sharon was dead in the hallway. In the garage lay the body of the man Thomas had shot. He had been wearing a mask, Thomas said. But he wasn’t a stranger. He was 38-year-old Michael James Miller, a man who had been doing odd jobs around the Randolphs’ home. At first, there appeared to be an explanation. A burglary had gone wrong. An intruder had killed a woman in her own home, and her husband had killed the intruder. But as detectives began looking more closely at Thomas Randolph, they discovered something extraordinary. Sharon was not his first wife. She was his sixth. And she was not the first of his wives to die… ============================================= DISCLAIMER - This video contains themes of violence. I do not intend to cause any disrespect to anyone I talk about in this video. This is purely a factual and educational piece that I have put together with information I have found on the internet. Rest in peace, Becky Rae Gault, Frances Randolph, Leona Stapleton, Sharon Causse Randolph. ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bBn9Y8QAMEglqoW-skt2XlmDZ284OQ9O/view?usp=share_link
September 22 · 1 hr 6 min
Leroy Fowler: Death by Antifreeze
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, and barely able to speak. He was taken straight to hospital. Two days later, he was dead, and what doctors had found in his system would turn his death into a murder investigation. So why had the woman who had been with him for ten years taken his life, and taken it so cruelly? Was this about the twisted love triangle the three of them were caught in? Or was it as simple as this: if she couldn't have Leroy, no one could. ============================================= DISCLAIMER - This video contains themes of violence. I do not intend to cause any disrespect to anyone I talk about in this video. This is purely a factual and educational piece that I have put together with information I have found on the internet. Rest in peace, Leroy Fowler. ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h_TvGGMz3OWS2ADVLyiOjQ07sLU1VrDH/view?usp=sharing
September 15 · 1 hr 1 min
A Triple Homicide In Cincinnati, Ohio
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 Mark Pickens killed Noelle Washington so violently? Was it as simple as keeping her quiet?And if it was, why did two small children have to die with her? ============================================= DISCLAIMER - This video contains themes of violence. I do not intend to cause any disrespect to anyone I talk about in this video. This is purely a factual and educational piece that I have put together with information I have found on the internet. Rest in peace, Noelle Washington, Anthony Jones III and Sha'railyn Wright. ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NrKmCGAqMwF7GkGYBvhqS5hrcyecK-x2/view?usp=sharing
September 8 · 43 min
Taken From Her Bed: The Murder Of Alayna Ertl
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 across the entire state of Minnesota. By late afternoon, police were eighty miles north of Watkins, standing at the edge of a swamp in Cass County. And by six o’clock that evening, the search for Alayna Ertl was over… ============================================= DISCLAIMER - This video contains themes of violence. I do not intend to cause any disrespect to anyone I talk about in this video. This is purely a factual and educational piece that I have put together with information I have found on the internet. Rest in peace, Barbara Waite. ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ViDwlT_UsP6oRZE9RdBD4WVLRdAJ7q2m/view?usp=sharing
September 1 · 28 min
Ryan Grantham: The Child Star Who Murdered His Mother
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 of her head. Before she could finish the song, a shot rang out, ending her life. What followed was hours of planning and driving — Ryan building Molotov cocktails, loading his car, and setting out for a target nearly 5,000 kilometres away: the Ottawa home of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. ============================================= Special thanks to Jessica Kwazz for her writing and research help on this episode. ============================================= DISCLAIMER - This video contains themes of violence. I do not intend to cause any disrespect to anyone I talk about in this video. This is purely a factual and educational piece that I have put together with information I have found on the internet. Rest in peace, Barbara Waite. ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NnOKT9bJkG6FFTz68TVh_qZTMfK9R5E5/view?usp=sharing
August 25 · 4 hr 1 min
CRAZY 911 CALLS - 4 HOUR TRUE CRIME COMPILATION | 9 Cases
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
August 19 · 40 min
The Senseless Murder Of Kerry Woolley
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 something no one should ever have to see. Word went round that street fast, and the neighbourhood was shocked. This was a quiet, ordinary place, and no one believed someone could have done this. But in the days that followed, investigators found something suspicious. Footage of a man. Standing at a canal bridge not far from her home. Throwing something into the water. And when that canal was dredged, they pulled out the weapon that had been used to kill her. So who was the man in that footage? And who was he to Kerry Woolley? ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zrDEHDvnEnKRXvbIWH8s9sAf3VxkDS9S/view?usp=share_link
August 13 · 2 hr 21 min
Will Bryan Kohberger Get A New Trial? | The Idaho Student Murders (Part 2)
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 years of legal warfare. The state wanted the death penalty. And Bryan Kohberger, was going to make them work for every inch of it.He fought the DNA. He fought the phone records. He fought the car, the eyewitness, the indictment itself. He fought to move the trial three hundred miles. He fought to have the death penalty ruled unconstitutional in his case.But everything was Denied.By the summer of 2025, he was out of arguments, out of appeals, and weeks away from a trial that could have ended with him in front of a firing squad.And then, with almost no warning, he told an Ada County courtroom. This is the full legal journey of Bryan Kohberger. Every motion, every ruling, the deal that stopped the trial, and the four families who had to sit and listen to it.And then, in July 2026, from a maximum security prison, he surprised everyone once again.He said he wanted to take it all back. That he had been lied to. That he was innocent.So how does a man confess to four murders, and then, a year later, say he never did it?And will Bryan Kohberger get the trial he now says he wants? ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ht1nWObTQDXejYpIIvTY01fb3f7afnJa/view?usp=share_link
August 4 · 2 hr 7 min
Bryan Kohberger: The FULL Story of the Idaho Student Murders (Part 1)
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 motive. For seven weeks, investigators chased a single, chilling lead: a white sedan, caught on camera, speeding away from the scene at 4:20 in the morning. This is Part 1 of the full story behind one of the most shocking true crime cases of the decade, the Idaho student murders, the manhunt that followed, and the case that would eventually lead to Bryan Kohberger. ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eYI5InM1E6VJNAQMRrqEc3pQirnqUKTX/view?usp=share_link
July 28 · 43 min
The Murder Of Linda Maggs
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. In the living room, they found David sitting in an armchair, subdued, and seemingly defeated. Upstairs, in her own bed, lay his wife of nearly two decades, Linda Maggs, dying from wounds inflicted just moments before. David didn't run and He didn't deny it, and he was arrested at the scene. What could drive a husband to turn with such sudden, savage violence on the woman he had shared almost thirty years of his life with? ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U5rrITKZaeteLG6tOps6cVcf1L27CHJD/view?usp=share_link
July 21 · 36 min
Who Brutally Murdered Michelle Leng?
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, they couldn’t tell what they were looking at. Then it rolled over, and the horrifying truth became unmistakable. It was the naked body of a young woman, floating face down as the waves dragged her violently across the jagged rocks. Police were called immediately, and a dangerous recovery operation began along the slippery coastline. A rescue helicopter went down to retrieve the body. Detectives quickly ruled out any possibility of an accident. The young woman had been stabbed almost 40 times, with the fatal wound to her throat. They believed she had been deliberately left there, not carried in by the sea. She had no identification, no phone, no bag, and nothing to reveal who she was or how she had ended up on a stretch of coastline. It would take homicide detectives days just to learn her name and to find out who had murdered her. And when they finally did, the answer was far closer to home than anyone could have imagined. ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13sl8HgJyPmexcuUXWkemOjJ4RXOdMLdO/view?usp=share_link
July 14 · 14 min
Consumed by Jealousy: The Murder of Gillian Zvomuya
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 her seat. How had a husband and wife who had built a life, a family, and a business together reached this point? And what drove Norbert to commit such a brutal and senseless act? ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Iq9A097PJCxoY7Ws9fGFXzXRINIcRSWy/view?usp=sharing
July 7 · 54 min
Killer Grandma? The Case of Sandra Layne
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 police arrived at the scene, she told them: "I murdered my grandson." What had happened inside that home? Was this the act of a frightened, elderly woman defending herself against a troubled and volatile teenager? Or was it something else entirely? ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XcoDYOh9JpHPJEGOGjSQGbAdVCAWrwoS/view?usp=sharing
July 1 · 1 hr 16 min
Leonard Lawson: The Comic Book Killer
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, the comic was selling seventy thousand copies an issue across Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. He was twenty-six years old, married with three children, and one of the most recognised names on Australian news-stands. But underneath all of it, something dark had been growing. Something that had been there for a long time — waiting. And on the morning of the seventh of May, 1954, it finally got out. Five young women drove into the bush with Leonard Lawson that day. What happened in those trees would change everything — and would end with Leonard standing in a courtroom, a death sentence hanging over his head. But the sentence didn't hold. After seven years, he walked free. He was out for just five months, and In that time, he would take two young lives — and set in motion a chain of events that would claim a third. This is the story of Leonard Keith Lawson. The comic book killer. ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J6vSx1GsVzts1o-ZT_-MKMYGmesaTZ2g/view?usp=share_link
June 23 · 1 hr 32 min
Did Kelly Gissendaner Deserve To Die?
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-six hours later, deep in the woods of Gwinnett County, investigators discovered a burned-out vehicle. The car belonged to Douglas. Then, less than two weeks later, Douglas Gissendaner’s body was found face down in the dirt, still on his knees. He had been kidnapped, driven to a remote stretch of road, and brutally stabbed to death.Initially, investigators believed it may have been a robbery gone wrong. But as police began digging deeper into Douglas’s marriage, they uncovered a months-long affair, dozens upon dozens of secret phone calls, a carefully constructed alibi, and what prosecutors would later describe as a cold, calculated, and meticulously planned murder plot. And at the centre of it all… was Douglas’s own wife. ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zZ_wUbLyVHqbuA9J2CXHsNRPb7V8dpTB/view?usp=share_link
June 16 · 4 hr
DEADLY DADS - 4 HOUR TRUE CRIME COMPILATION | 9 Cases
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
June 10 · 2 hr 30 min
Taylor Parker: The Monster Who Stole a Baby
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 attached, and blood covered the woman's clothing. Everything about the scene suggested that she had only just given birth. An ambulance was called immediately, and both the woman and the infant were rushed to a hospital in Idabel, Oklahoma. But once doctors began examining the woman, something didn't make sense. Despite her claims, there were no signs that she had recently given birth. As medical staff tried to understand what was happening, investigators began piecing together a far darker picture. Because around 70 miles away, in New Boston, Texas, 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock had been found dead inside her home. Reagan was 35 weeks pregnant when she was brutally attacked, and her unborn daughter, Braxlynn, had been cut from her body. The woman back at the hospital, claiming the baby was hers and that she had just given birth was Taylor Parker. This is the tragic case of Taylor Parker, and how her actions stole two innocent lives and shattered a community forever. ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/143wiGM2ZGe18jHHObKxxg1QSRKPlb2kE/view?usp=share_link
June 2 · 29 min
She Cut Off His Genitals & Walked Free
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, back along the street, and straight to the front door of a house nearby. They knocked. At the door stood forty-two-year-old Erica Pereira da Silveira Vicente. She did not run. She did not deny what had happened. Instead, she handed police the knife and told them exactly what she had done. But then she told them why. And one year later, in a courtroom, seven jurors listened to the full story. They heard the evidence, heard Erica's confession, and heard what she said had happened before the killing. Then, they found her not guilty, and the next day she walked out of prison a free woman. This is the case of Erica Pereira da Silveira Vicente… and the question of how far a mother will go to protect her child. ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yghACV7nKx6v1BiDrFiLVlg3Hi-zg8Ge/view?usp=share_link
May 27 · 3 hr 22 min
Mackenzie Shirilla: The FULL Story of "Shirilla the Killa"
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, past every turn, past every reason to stop — until it was travelling at close to a hundred miles per hour down a quiet industrial road with nowhere to go but a brick wall at the end of it. Two of the three people inside that car never came home. Twenty year old Dominic Russo and nineteen year old Davion Flanagan were pronounced dead at the scene. The driver — seventeen year old Mackenzie Shirilla — survived. Had this been a tragic accident? A medical episode? Or had this been something far darker — a deliberate, premeditated act of murder carried out on a road she had visited just three days before? This is the full, deep dive into everything you need to know about the Mackenzie Shirilla case — and the tragic, devastating deaths of Davion Flanagan and Dominic Russo. ============================================= https://www.gofundme.com/f/recreate-dominics-gravesite https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-dominic-russos-memorial-advocacy https://www.gofundme.com/f/davion-flanagan https://shorturl.at/HmTge https://www.youtube.com/@TheBigSisterUnhinged ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pcd3f7-A3TMeuyCmiEJWijJT7AmvhSPM/view?usp=share_link
May 18 · 34 min
He Gave His Wife 15 Minutes To Save Her Children
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 children crying in the background. But there was no way she could make it there in time. Fearing the worst, she immediately called the Montgomery Police Department and begged officers to go to the house before it was too late. When police arrived in the early hours of February 6th, they discovered a devastating scene inside one of the bedrooms. Lying on a bed beside his three children was Quang Bui. Eight-year-old Phi. Seven-year-old Julie. And four-year-old April. All three children had been killed. But how had this family reached this point? How had a Vietnamese refugee who had escaped the fall of Saigon and spent years building a new life in America ended up accused of murdering his own children? ============================================= 📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com ============================================= 📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EwVz4Y-KXdCF4vRmldD4xggZf8l04S9i/view?usp=share_link

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