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True Crime with Elli Mac
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This is a True Crime podcast with me, Elli Mac.
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She Cut Off His Genitals & Walked Free
2d ago00:29:02Tap to summarizeIn 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
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Mackenzie Shirilla: The FULL Story of "Shirilla the Killa"
1w ago03:22:30Tap to summarizeOn 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-gravesitehttps://www.gofundme.com/f/support-dominic-russos-memorial-advocacyhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/davion-flanaganhttps://shorturl.at/HmTgehttps://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
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He Gave His Wife 15 Minutes To Save Her Children
2w ago00:34:47Tap to summarizeOn 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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He Murdered His Wife & Fled To His Boyfriend
3w ago00:44:28Tap to summarizeWhen 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 establish whether she was still breathing, who he was, and who his wife was.As Mitesh struggled to remove the duct tape from her body, his breathing became heavier and more panicked, and while the operator quickly called for an ambulance and assured him it was on its way, he also tried to keep him calm, continuing to gather information about what had happened inside the house and the condition his wife was in.But as the call went on, his performance intensified. He became increasingly breathless, at one point begging the operator to contact his father. The operator kept him talking, asking questions, gathering details. Mitesh obliged — painting a picture of their home life, their routine, his voice catching and breaking on cue.Eventually, he told the operator he had managed to remove the tape, continuing to repeat that someone had come into the house and tied her up, as the operator, sounding slightly uncertain, pressed him for more detail about how she had been found, prompting him to describe the scene in increasingly graphic detail.Towards the end of the call, with the ambulance now just moments away, Mitesh appeared to break down completely, sobbing and asking again for his father to be contacted, while the operator continued trying to reassure him, telling him help was almost there.But when paramedics arrived at the semi-detached Victorian house on The Avenue in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, they found 34 year old Jessica Patel lying on the living room floor.Devastatingly, she was already dead. Why had he done this? Why had a man taken the life of his own wife in such a brutal, calculated way — a woman who had loved him, supported him, and spent years trying to give him the family she had always dreamed of?=============================================📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com=============================================📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AYJOCstdMj6HhLEEvVl0DiRW_vZun322/view?usp=sharing
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Vigilante Justice… Or Cold-Blooded Murder? | Jeremy & Christine Moody
May 400:28:12Tap to summarizeWhen 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 a calculated, vigilante-style killing?Were the people responsible, acting on some kind of twisted belief system?And when they stood in court, claiming remorse… was any of it real?Or was it all just a cover?=============================================📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com=============================================
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COLD CASES... SOLVED? - 4 HOUR TRUE CRIME COMPILATION | 7 Cases
Apr 2704:00:36Tap to summarize00:00 Case 1 - Jessica Dishon23:15 Case 2 - Janet Chandler59:21 Case 3 - Shani Warren01:22:16 Case 4 - Daniel Holdom01:54:31 Case 5 - Jodine Serrin02:18:22 Case 6 - Kristin Smart03:27:34 Case 7 - Gretchen Harrington=============================================📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com
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The Brutal Murder Of Renee Greco
Apr 2000:26:15Tap to summarizeOn 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 the judge.The judge looked straight back at him and said: "I have very rarely in my life looked into the eyes of a monster."This is the story of Renee Greco — and how the system put her alone in a room with teenagers she was afraid of.=============================================📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com=============================================📚 Sources for this episode: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LQuhvtKE61p_pAH5plQtCIxyJ22SdW2F/view?usp=share_link
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The Masterton Family Massacre
Apr 1300:24:31Tap to summarizeOn 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 that family, and who, just days earlier, had been asked to leave.What followed was not a moment of chaos, but a sustained and deliberate attack that would become one of the most devastating family killings in New Zealand’s history.And more than thirty years later, the questions surrounding that night still haven’t gone away.Because this case is not just about what happened inside that house……but why?=============================================📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com
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The 14-Year-Old Sentenced To 297 Years… Then Released
Apr 600:40:40Tap to summarizeOn 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 crime, but for the age of those responsible.At just fourteen years old, she was sentenced to two hundred and ninety-seven years in prison, one of the longest sentences ever given to a juvenile in Alaska.But how was it that decades later, in 2025, she would walk out of prison a free woman?=============================================📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com
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100 Years for Killing His Own Daughter
Mar 3000:13:17Tap to summarizeOn 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 officers arrived, they stepped into a scene that was already unravelling, with multiple people inside the property and clear signs of violence having just taken place.Seven people had been in the house at the time, four of them under the age of 18.Among them was eight-year-old Arianna Frankie Louise Valez.And her mother, Heather Hall.As first responders moved through the home, they found Arianna suffering from a gunshot wound to her back, having been struck as she tried to get away from the chaos unfolding around her, while Heather was also found injured nearby.Both were rushed for emergency medical treatment as officers worked to secure the scene and understand what had just happened inside that house.Because at that moment, all they had was a 911 call from a man claiming self-defence… and a home filled with victims.=============================================📩 For business inquiries: ellimacproductions@gmail.com
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