True Crime with Elli Mac

When Chad Hebert heard that his 2 children, Camille and Braxton Hebert, had not arrived at school that day, and his ex-wife had also not gone to work, he immediately panicked and contacted the police.When police arrived at Amy’s house, they found the doors deadlocked and no response was coming from inside, so they broke in.When they reached the master bedroom, they found Amy Hebert in bed with her 2 children and the family dog.What had caused Amy Hebert to do this to her children and the family dog?Was she suffering from a psychotic disorder? Or was she purely acting in a state of revenge and hatred towards her ex-husband?This is the heartbreaking story of how and why Amy Hebert took the lives of her young children.

On the 23rd January 2014, 5-year-old Garnett Spears sadly passed away in hospital due to swelling in his brain.He had been fatally poisoned by the one person who was meant to love him and protect him, the person in whose care he ought to feel the safest, and the person he should call family - his own mother, Lacey Spears.Why did Lacey Spears murder her own son in such a cruel and evil way? How could she do something so unspeakable to her own child?As the investigation unfolded, the true horror of what happened to Garnett and his mother’s motives behind his murder was revealed.This is the tragic tale of young Garnett Spears, whose life was untimely snatched from him by his own mother, all in a desperate attempt to gain sympathy and attention in the era of social media.

On June 15th 1990, Rosie Alfaro went to a friend's house in Anaheim, California as she desperately needed some money and planned to break in and steal some valuables.When she got to the house, she knocked on the front door, and her friends 9-year-old little sister Autumn answered. Little Autumn Wallace recognised her older sister's friend Rosie and let her inside as Rosie told her she needed to use the bathroom.As Autumn returned to what she had been doing – colouring paper dolls with crayones – Rosie Alforo took a knife from the kitchen and then went to the bathroom. Rosie knew she couldn’t leave any witnesses to the theft, so she called little Autumn Wallace over to help her with something in the bathroom.Trusting and helpful, Autumn got up from her colouring and headed over to help her sister’s friend.Rosie’s actions in the bathroom that day, led her to become the first woman in Orange County to get the death penalty.

On February 11, 2011, police found 10-year-old Nubia Barahona, wrapped in a plastic garbage bag in the back of her adoptive step-father Jorge Barahona’s pickup truck along Interstate 95 in Palm Beach County.Her twin brother Victor, was also found inside the vehicle, severely injured but alive; he was suffering seizures due to being covered in chemical burns and inhalation of toxic gas.Their adoptive father, Jorge Barahona, was found passed out nearby.How had Nubia died? And who had hurt her twin brother Victor? Had they been hurt by the two people who had vowed to love and care for them?This is the tragic and heartbreaking case of Nubia Barahona and how she was failed by so many people.

On the 18th of April 1987, Easter Weekend, 26-year-old Shani Warren’s body was found face down in Taplow Lake in England. Her wrists were tied with a car jump lead, and her ankles were tied by a tow rope. Her car was found abandoned nearby, with her personal items everywhere.Outrageously, a theory was suggested by a forensic pathologist that Shani had done this to herself, based on the looseness of the ties on her hands and that no other footprints were found alongside her stiletto heelprints at the scene.With the first 48 hours critical in her murder investigation now lost, a murder investigation was finally launched 4 days later after her body was found, when a postmortem examination found she had died by drowning, with the press quickly dubbing Shani as the Lady of The Lake.Despite the case gaining a lot of publicity, due to the lack of evidence and not enough advancement in DNA testing, police were unable to charge anyone with her murder. And so, 34 years passed and the case went cold until it was finally solved in 2021…

On the morning of 27th January 2015, police arrived at the doors of 12 Goske Street after receiving a strange call stating that intruders had broken into a house in one of the most exclusive estates in Stellenbosch, South Africa and attacked and killed the whole family with an axe.The call had come in just after 7am, from one of the survivors of the attack, 20-year-old Henri Van Breda, who strangely sounded very unphased…

"Grandad shot me mummy" were some of six-year-old Stanley Metcalf's last words.No one could foresee the tragedy that would occur in the village of Sproatley in Hull, England, on the 26th of July, 2018, when Stanley was shot in the abdomen by with own great-grandfather.As Stanley’s family mourned the loss of his innocent young life, questions were raised about how such a terrible event could have happened during a close-knit family gathering.Why would a 78-year-old fire towards his own great-grandson?Had he intentionally shot little Stanley Metcalf, or was it a horrible accident?

In the early hours of New Year’s Day 2013, tragedy struck young parents Jordan Monaghan and Laura Gray when their three-week-old baby, Ruby, was found dead in her Moses basket. Merely eight months later, their 21-month-old son, Logan, was also found dead in his pushchair after a trip to the swimming baths with his father.Six years after that, Jordan Monaghan’s new partner Evie Adams died from an overdose of prescription medication.How could one man suffer such misfortune, losing three loved ones in seven years to tragic, untimely deaths?Was the tragic loss of these three precious lives truly an unfortunate tragedy, or could one man be responsible for all three deaths?

On March 6th 1995 Scott Amedure and Donna Riley took their friend Jonathan Schmitz on The Jenny Jones talk show and planned to drop a bombshell on Jon.In front of a live studio audience, Scott told Jon that he had a gay crush on him.In a shocking twist of events, three days later, one would end up dead.On March 9th 1995, Scott Amedure was shot and killed in his trailer home in Lake Orion, Michigan.Just minutes after his death, Jonathan Schmitz called 911 to confess.When asked by the 911 operator why they had killed Scott, the Jon answered, ‘because he played a very bad (profanity) thing on me, he took me to The Jenny Jones show.’What had set Jonathan Schmitz off and caused him to shoot and murder his so-called friend? Scott Amedure?