True Crime with Elli Mac

Elli Mac
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This is a True Crime podcast with me, Elli Mac.

  1. 5d ago

    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

    Who Brutally Murdered Michelle Leng?

  2. Jul 14

    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

    Consumed by Jealousy: The Murder of Gillian Zvomuya

  3. Jul 7

    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

    Killer Grandma? The Case of Sandra Layne

  4. Jul 1

    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

    Leonard Lawson: The Comic Book Killer

  5. Jun 23

    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

    Did Kelly Gissendaner Deserve To Die?

  6. Jun 16

    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

    DEADLY DADS - 4 HOUR TRUE CRIME COMPILATION | 9 Cases

  7. Jun 10

    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

    Taylor Parker: The Monster Who Stole a Baby

  8. Jun 2

    She Cut Off His G******s & 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

    She Cut Off His G******s & Walked Free
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This is a True Crime podcast with me, Elli Mac.

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  • Creator
    Elli Mac
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    135
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