True Crime with Elli Mac

Quick favour from me—Listener’s Choice voting is now open for the True Crime Awards. If you’ve been enjoying the podcast, I’d be so grateful if you could take a few seconds to vote. Just click the link and type in True Crime with Elli Mac:https://truecrimeawards.co.uk/truecrimeawards2026/en/page/listenerschoiceIt really means a lot, thank you so much.=============================================When six-year-old Teresa Cormack didn’t return home that afternoon, it quickly became clear that something was wrong.Her mother, Kelly Pigott, soon discovered that Teresa hadn’t been at school that day at all. Panic set in.Kelly went out searching immediately, walking the route to the school, checking the streets, calling her name—hoping she would find her daughter nearby. But there was no sign of her.As the hours passed, police were called, and what began as a missing child search quickly escalated. Officers and more than 600 volunteers combed through Napier, searching streets, alleyways, and open land, desperately hoping Teresa would be found safe.But she wasn’t. Not that day. Not the next.It would be eight days later when a woman walking her dogs made a devastating discovery—Teresa’s small body, half-buried at the bottom of a bank beneath a tree on Whirinaki Beach……what had happened to Teresa, who had committed such a horrific act against a defenceless child, and how long it would take before justice was finally served.=============================================📩 For business inquiries: [email protected]

On 6 February 2018, in the Govan area of Glasgow, 47-year-old Julie Reilly was captured on CCTV inside an Aldi supermarket. Julie was a mother of four, known by those around her as a caring and trusting woman.After leaving the store, Julie disappeared. When days passed without any contact, her family reported her missing.Then, two months later, the investigation took a shocking turn. Human remains were discovered.Two thigh bones were found in different locations across Glasgow, and DNA testing confirmed they belonged to Julie Reilly.But the rest of her body was still missing. What had happened to Julie? Who had done this to her? And would investigators ever find the rest of her?=============================================📩 For business inquiries: [email protected]

On the evening of March nineteenth, 2013, Ashlee Smith was halfway through her shift at Pizza Hut when her phone rang.Just hours earlier, she had walked out the door after leaving her two young children in the care of her sixteen-year-old boyfriend, Dylan Schumaker.At that time, both boys were unharmed. There were no bruises. No signs of distress. Nothing to suggest that anything was wrong.Now, on the other end of the line, Dylan’s mother was telling Ashlee she needed to come home immediately — that an ambulance was already on the way for her toddler son.Her twenty-three-month-old son, Austin Smith, was in critical condition.By the time she reached the house, an ambulance was already pulling away, rushing Austin to hospital without her.What had unfolded during those few short hours inside the home — and would Austin survive?=============================================📩 For business inquiries: [email protected]

00:00 Case 1 - Karissa Boudreau19:50 Case 2 - Amy Hebert45:32 Case 3 - Garnett Spears01:09:37 Case 4 - Rekha Kumari-Baker01:23:23 Case 5 - Jailyn Candelario01:52:27 Case 6 - Patricia Ripley02:07:45 Case 7 - Joshlin Smith02:50:43 Case 8 - Ayesha Ali03:18:44 Case 9 - Naomi Hill=============================================📩 For business inquiries: [email protected]

When a 911 call came in at 12:34 a.m. on October 4th, 2012, from seventeen-year-old Jake Evans in Aledo, the dispatcher wasn’t met with panic. She was met with calm.On the other end of the line, Jake, speaking clearly, admitted to the unthinkable. He told her he had just shot his mother. And his sister.How could someone so young sound so composed after committing such violence? What could possibly lead a seventeen-year-old to turn a gun on his own family?=============================================📩 For business inquiries: [email protected]