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True Crime with Elli Mac - KIDS WHO KILL - 4 HOUR TRUE CRIME COMPILATION | 8 Cases
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KIDS WHO KILL - 4 HOUR TRUE CRIME COMPILATION | 8 Cases

True Crime with Elli Mac

01/26/26

230m

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00:00 Case 1 - Mary Bell

17:40 Case 2 - Tyler Hadley

38:47 Case 3 - Alex & Derek King

01:03:22 Case 4 - Eric Smith

01:35:38 Case 5 - Brenda Spencer

02:03:49 Case 6 - Zander Lyda

02:38:01 Case 7 - Noah Crooks

03:03:38 Case 8 - Corey Breininger

Previous Episode

​​On a quiet September afternoon in 2003, in a small New Zealand town, Jeanna stood waiting at the bus stop for her children. The doors opened, but only one child stepped off. Storm was there. Six-year-old Coral was not. Coral-Ellen Burrows had not come home from school. As it would soon emerge, she had not even made it there that morning.

What followed were ten days of unanswered questions and growing dread. A town stopped everything to search. Farmland, creeks, roadsides, and bush were scoured. Helicopters circled overhead. Volunteers walked until their boots were soaked through. Then came the first chilling discovery. Coral’s backpack, found floating in a creek, had her lunch still inside.

Then, ten days after Coral vanished, she was found, but not in the way anyone had prayed for.

What happened to Coral-Ellen Burrows? Where had she been that day? And who took her?

Next Episode

​​This is a difficult case to tell. To protect the victims, no names are used, and some identifying details are withheld. Even so, it is important to tell this story carefully and truthfully, because what happened did not occur in isolation. This case exposed profound failures across child protection, healthcare, and safeguarding systems—and led to significant changes in how such cases are now handled. In its aftermath, multiple independent inquiries were launched to examine how authorities missed years of warning signs.

The case became known as the Sheffield case, and was widely labelled by the media as the “British Fritzl.” The comparison was drawn to the Austrian case of Josef Fritzl, which had come to light only months earlier and shocked the world. In that case, it was revealed that Fritzl had held his own daughter, Elisabeth, captive for 24 years, resulting in the birth of seven children. The Fritzl case revealed unimaginable abuse hidden behind the façade of an ordinary family home, forcing the public to confront the reality that extreme harm can exist undetected for decades.

The similarities prompted outrage, disbelief, and urgent questions: how could something like this happen again—here, in the UK?

At the centre of this case was the conviction of a 54-year-old Englishman. For more than 25 years, he evaded detection by authorities. He fathered seven surviving children.

What makes this case particularly harrowing is not only the scale of the abuse but the number of times it could have been stopped.

This is the story of how it wasn’t.

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